Investors

September 10,2025

Samir Kumar

Samir Kumar is co-founder and General Partner at Touring Capital. Before co-founding Touring, Samir was a Managing Partner at M12 (Microsoft’s Venture Fund), where he led investment activities in horizontal / vertical AI, deep tech, and hardware-enabled software companies. Samir’s notable investments include Applied Intuition, Psi Quantum, Wandelbots, Syntiant, D-Matrix,…

August 29,2025

Farzad Soleimani

Farzad Soleimani is a Partner at 1984 Ventures, where he leads the firm’s healthcare investments within its $200M portfolio. He has spearheaded early-stage investments in companies including Fay Nutrition, Clarium Health, and HouseRx, and is widely regarded as one of the leading healthcare investors at the seed stage. By day,…

August 27,2025

Susan Akbarpour

Susan is an accomplished entrepreneur and investor with extensive experience in product design and development. She has successfully founded and led start-ups in the advertising, finance, retail, and media industries, driving digital transformation and fostering innovation. Susan holds a Master of Science in Management from Stanford GSB, where she remains…

August 27,2025

Chris Garabedian

Chris Garabedian founded Xontogeny in June 2016 to support multiple promising technologies from early development through clinical proof of concept. In 2017, Chris joined Perceptive Advisors to develop their Venture Fund strategy and is Portfolio Manager of the Perceptive Xontogeny Ventures Fund, which supports early-stage companies with Series A investments…