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Kareem Mayan
Fouad is one of my favorite VCs, because he also starts companies. He’ll give it to you straight—don’t cry or get mad, thank him for it. And he rocks sweats more often than not – you have to love a VC who wears FUBU!
I Recommend
Otis Chandler
Good reads, bad faux meat tacos!
sundeep ahuja
It takes a real man/entrepreneur to wear a newsie hat in public!
Jon Bischke
Have never met an entrepreneur more suited to do TV interviews. Calm, cool, sweatless – the whole bag.
Also builds cool companies.
Kareem Mayan
Born to wear flip flops – and design beautiful products.
About Me
By day, I work to support entrepreneurs looking to build transformational companies. I am especially interested in consumer web and energy companies. On the web side, I am most passionate about changing the digital media landscape, redefining online gaming as the next generation of social networking, and building sweet online monetization platforms driven by data. On the energy side, I am most excited about technologies that can help us make realistic, near-term leaps in the power generation and transportation fuels spaces.
By night, I enjoy thinking about fun projects and figuring out if I can build them on the cheap to see if they work!
I watch a ridiculous amount of TV, have wasted an absurd amount of time playing video games, am kind of a big deal in the pong community, and remain an unapologetic Mariah Carey fan!
Track Record
Founder, CEO
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Jul '06–Oct '07
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Employee #1
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Joined Pre-money
This is my second venture backed start up! (I don’t count the many lead gen scams I ran while wearing gold jewelry and thanking the Gods for Google and the lack of lead quality screening!)
The original idea for the company is awesome in terms of consumer appeal – imagine a site with every sound clip you can DREAM of! Every movie, tv, video game, commercial, historical, sports quote you could imagine was tagged with boatloads of data and aggregated in a single location where you could play the sound clip and use them to personalize your digital life.
Of course, venture backing means getting real deals done – and bringing in a real CEO and team to take it to the next level. Keep an eye out for the launch of miniRIOT!
Founder, CEO
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Aug '99–Jan '02
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Employee #1
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Joined Pre-money
My first company – I started it with two of my great friends from Dartmouth with the dream of applying gasp MATH to the marketing universe.
MTS has become a leader in the high tech Pharma & CPG marketing space – let’s all hope it gets sold soon; I don’t like to dream about gettin’ paid! (assist: Tha Dogg Pound)
If you’re shopping around for some smart capital definitely pay a visit to Fouad. He’s likely to make you laugh so hard that milk will spurt out your nose (if of course you’re drinking milk in a vc meeting which would be weird) but at the same time he’ll add a good deal more value than the average investor.