Ismaili Tech Angels

An unfair advantage for Ismaili founders and builders.

Capital, mentorship and real connections from Ismaili leaders, founders and operators who have built and scaled significant technology companies.

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Our mission

Support the Ismaili community in creating tech companies with significant scale and impact.

Who we are

Built by leaders who have done it

We are Ismaili founders, operators and executives who have built and scaled significant tech companies.

We back Ismaili founders building real tech companies with real traction.

Who we invest in

A highly selective process

We identify and support only the highest-potential teams and companies that already have proof points of real traction.

  1. 01

    Community

    A founder, executive or leader at the company is affiliated with the Ismaili community.

  2. 02

    Impact

    You're all in: high ambition, high credibility, and unique knowledge and skill in your market.

  3. 03

    Traction

    You have product-market fit, customers, revenue and a model that works.

  4. 04

    Funding

    We don't lead rounds. We join as strategic investors and advisors alongside your lead investors, and help you navigate funding terms, governance and economics as trusted inside partners.

How we help

What founders get

01

Mentorship

Specific advice from people who have done it, and sometimes uncomfortable. The liability clause your contract is missing. How to run your raise. What breaks at the next stage.

Our edge 02

Connections

Our networks are extensive. One introduction from someone with a board seat, or a company they built, can open a door that cold outreach never will.

03

Capital

Your primary capital comes from your lead investor. We add $25K to $100K in seed, Series A or Series B rounds and join you as your unfair advantage.

What founders don't get

We won't build your business for you, or hold your hand.

This is for founders who are already moving and want to move faster with trusted advice. We don't want board seats. We are builders and founders ourselves. We've seen the ups and downs, lived through it all, and we are here to support our community. This is our passion, not our main business.

Team

Who's behind the checks

Kabir Barday

Kabir Barday

Mentor

Founded OneTrust and built it into a privacy and data platform with 10,000+ customers and over $500M in ARR. #1 on the 2020 Inc. 500 list of America's fastest-growing companies.

Asif Ramji

Asif Ramji

Mentor

Grew Paymetric as president and CEO and sold it to Vantiv. Founder and CEO of VentureWorx. TeamSnap board member. Former board member and advisor to Stax, an Ismaili-founded unicorn. Chairman, co-founder and board member of Worth AI, an Ismaili founding team.

Alykhan Rehmatullah

Alykhan Rehmatullah

Mentor

Co-founded and led Altru, a video recruiting platform acquired by iCIMS for a reported $60M. Techstars alum. Now building his next company.

Esfan Daya

Esfan Daya

Operations

Leads screening and diligence. Student at the Wharton School. Incoming at Insight Partners Investment Team. Building.

Arman Ramji

Arman Ramji

Diligence

Master's student at Columbia University; BS from Syracuse's Falk School of Sport and Human Dynamics. Investor in Synaptica and Cloverly. Founder of Hirro.

Case study

AirPLAi Sports

Their mission: give every athlete, coach and league, at every level, the same video intelligence the pros use.

Danish Pradhan, founder of AirPLAi Sports

Danish Pradhan

Founder, AirPLAi Sports. Won the 2025 MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Startup Competition.

What we did

Danish already had capital raised and real traction. Kabir and Asif both took a risk and invested, then did the three things we promise every founder.

Mentored

Advisors to Danish from day one.

Connected

Introductions to customers and partners, including TeamSnap.

Invested

Capital from both, alongside his existing round.

Process

From pitch deck to decision

  1. 1

    Pitch deck

    Send your deck. No AI-created decks or content will be considered.

  2. 2

    Screen

    Our diligence team reviews and builds a shortlist.

  3. 3

    Feedback

    We tell you where you stand.

  4. 4

    Discussion

    We reach out to discuss with the angels.

  5. 5

    Decision

    Approval must be unanimous.

How to apply

Send us your pitch deck

No required format. Show us the team, the traction and what you'll do with the capital. No AI-created decks or content will be considered.

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Inbound applications only.