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About Investor

Shakeel Rashed is a startup mentor and advisor at Capital Factory in Austin, where he works closely with founders as an advisor and investor, including roles with Cerebri AI and Compl.ai. His indicated investment activity covers advertising, retail, AI/data services, energy, IoT, and healthcare/health-IT and cybersecurity from seed through Series B, generally writing $100K–$5.0M checks into technology-driven companies. He focuses on early-stage teams building scalable software and data-centric products in heavily regulated or infrastructure-intensive markets. He brings 20+ years of software-business experience across finance, telecom, healthcare and pharma, consumer goods, advertising, distribution, retail, and oil and gas, giving him a broad view of how emerging technologies commercialize in legacy industries.