Ahmad Takatkah
أحمد طقاطقه
At The Intersection Of VC & AI
Ahmad Takatkah is a technical founder turned VC with 15+ years of experience in both venture capital and startup operations. With a background in data science (AI/ML) and engineering, he has worked with leading VC firms and high-growth startups across Silicon Valley and MENA. Ahmad combines a unique blend of technical, entrepreneurial, and investment expertise.
He hosts The VC React Podcast, offering weekly reactions from VCs on market news, and The VC Evolve Podcast, offering conversations about the continuous evolution of the VC model.
Ahmad is the author of three books on venture: VC Evolve, Contrarian Cycles, and Unlocking Liquidity. He has also published two influential white papers: The Great VC Evolution and The Startup-ization of Venture Capital.
Ahmad helped set up and operate multiple VC firms including KingsCrowd Capital (a quantitative VC fund in SF), Arzan VC, and Leap VC.
Ahmad’s investing focus areas include FinTech, DeepTech, AI, SaaS, Media, and Web3, while also developing AI-driven venture tools for deal sourcing, startup evaluation, portfolio management, funding needs prediction, and proactive liquidity through structured liquidity programs and secondaries. He has pioneered internal systems for portfolio performance tracking and knowledge-sharing among founders and teams. His work also includes creating custom AI models for summarizing pitch decks, preparing investment memos, and forecasting valuations and exits.
Ahmad has hands-on startup operating experience with stops at Carta, KingsCrowd, and Revenya, where he led teams to develop data-driven solutions and product analysis tools for employee equity compensation, VC fund returns, quantitative VC investing, equity crowd-funding trends, and underwriting revenue-based financing.
Ahmad is Harvard-trained in VC, a Kauffman Fellow, and holds an MBA from NYiT, and a B.Sc. degree in Electronics Engineering from PSUT.
He is passionate about shaping the future of venture capital through technology and capital innovation, empowering VC firms with the speed, scale, and ambition of fintech startups.
PS:
I am a math and economy lover, I always try and fail in learning musical instruments, and I can't thank my wife enough for making me love hiking and camping!
As a founder, I started e-Traindex, a marketplace for training courses in 2006 (failed), dCap, a robo-advisor for crypto trading in 2019 (failed), and now experimenting on the side with nmbr, a neo-telecom company!
My passion for learning led me to enroll in Udacity's "Data Analyst" & "Data Scientist" Nano Degrees in 2016. And as a continuous learner, in 2023, I enrolled in UC Berkeley FinTech Bootcamp, which included courses on AI/ML in both traditional FinTech & DeFi & Web3.
