Ari Qayumi
About Ari Qayumi
Ari is Founder and Managing Partner at Mindful Venture Capital. Ari focuses on investments in early-stage technology companies (Pre-Seed, Seed, and Series A; B2B and B2B2C) across infrastructure, healthcare, and financial services. Previously, Ari was Principal at Silicon Valley Data Capital, where she invested in Enterprise AI. Prior, Ari was Director at RBC Capital Markets and Group Product Manager at RBC, where she identified winners, established relationships, designed high ROI use cases, created monetization plays in partnership with strategic technology companies, led global next-gen product development, and was tasked with delivering on digital transformation across capital markets, wealth management, and personal and commercial banking. Ari designed SVDC's and RBC’s first product and investment strategies for: ► Digital Transformation ► Enterprise AI ► Conversational AI / Voice Chatbot / Coaching ► Next-Gen CRM / Cross-Selling ► FinTech / Capital Markets / International Money Transfer / New Payments Infrastructure / Crypto Asset Desk ► Corporate Venture Capital Fund and Innovation Lab ► Healthcare, Home, Auto, and Loyalty Ecosystems ► Identity / Personalization / Alternative Investing Sample of $100M across 21 Preseed through Pre-Series B companies. As of 2021, selection valued at over $4B+, with $2B+ exited. ► Unqork ► DataRobot ► Iterable ► Primer ► Clinc ► Bread ► Onfido ► Gridspace ► Others Prior to RBC, Ari was Interim-COO at IdeaFlow, a collective intelligence platform, and Analyst at Morgan Stanley in Wealth Management and Alternative Investments. Ari was also a Researcher at the Stanford Behavior Design Lab, focusing on habit formation, behavior sequences, and consensual and mindful technology design to facilitate sustainable behavior change at scale. Ari is now Advisor to the Stanford Behavior Design Lab. Ari holds a Bachelor of Science in Symbolic Systems from Stanford University. Ari has been invited to judge/speak on wealth management, technology innovation, environmental, social, and governance (ESG), and sustainable development goals (SDGs) at: Constellation Connected Enterprise Brain Trust and Executive Exchange ('21, '20); CCE The Pitch ('21); HealthByTech ('21); Bitcoin and Blockchain Summit ('21); KNOW Identity (‘20, '19); Digital Wealth Management ('20, '19); Square Climate Change Hackathon (‘19); City National Bank’s Digital Innovation Summit (‘19); RBC Innovation (‘18); MediaX ('17); Persuasive Technology (‘17); Transformative Technology (‘16), among others.