I like tinkering with hard quests. 3 x venture backed founder, 1 exit.
Currently curious about
Orbital infrastructure. Robotic assembly and servicing of the power and cooling systems behind orbital data centers. Extending asset life and adding capacity as launch costs fall.
Enterprise AI onboarding. Infrastructure that turns a customer’s permissions, business rules and acceptance criteria into a repeatable AI deployment, reducing the custom implementation work behind each enterprise contract.
American manufacturing. Pooling recurring orders for low volume industrial parts, then financing domestic production capacity against committed demand. Making fragmented customers large enough, together, to justify a factory.
A few chapters
Niyam AIHardware, data, and a lot of scar tissue.
We built point solutions across the manufacturing value chain before pivoting to data and audit tools, where we found the most success. The product focused on component information systems (CIS) in advanced manufacturing.
We got to work with some of the biggest manufacturers in the world, including Wistron, Acer, and Quanta. Backed by Iterative Ventures, Cherubic Ventures, and NVIDIA.
VSMCOMLoyalty infrastructure. 8 figure revenue. Acquired.
I figured out how to turn unused Skywards miles into reward points from my dorm room at Purdue. One of the world’s largest coffee chains sent me a cease and desist.
I took that as my cue. Dropped out in my junior year, went home to Dubai, and built VSMCOM. We signed clients including Etihad and Vodafone, grew to eight figure revenue, and were acquired.
EzzayoEconomic incentives → tokenomics simulations.
Ezzayo started as a tool for private equity firms to model economic incentives, then became a blockchain tokenomics simulation tool. Backed by Entrepreneur First, OrangeDAO, and Tenity.
We explored how different rules and incentives change the way an economic system behaves.
At 16Won a $1M grant. Life got interesting early.
At 16, I designed the Village Level Entrepreneurship Project for a Gates Foundation sustainability grant challenge and won $1M.
It was the first time I surprised myself with what I could pull off.
GolfThe original career plan. Until my knee intervened.
I was ranked number 3 in GCC under 16 golf. At 17, I tore my ACL and MCL playing basketball, two weeks before an NCAA scout was supposed to watch me.
That ended the college-golf path. I still carry the habit: bad shot, reset, next shot.
About meA third culture kid. A few places called home.
Grew up between Kuwait and Dubai. Went to Purdue, dropped out to build VSMCOM, then moved to Singapore in 2022. Now I’m based between SF and Singapore.
Married, usually making coffee, researching perfume, or squeezing in a lift between building, shipping, and remembering to breathe.