Mahmoud Ali

Security GRC (Former: BitMex, Yahoo, Uber, Airbnb, Reddit)

📍 San Francisco Bay Area, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 20 investments📅 8 years investing🗓 Last invested Sep 2023
VC🌍 United States20+ investments
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Sep 2023
Remy helps teams conduct security and privacy reviews of feature design documents, assessing risks and providing targeted suggestions. Remy helps teams cut down on expensive review meetings, prioritize designs by risk-level, and produce high-quality reviews with less effort.
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Apr 2023
Automated migrations and upgrades for every codebase
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Jan 2023
Build with us, for the five billion fans. Join a team that has exited multiple companies, scaled products to hundreds of millions in revenue, and unrivaled DNA in football and gaming. We are looking for designers, engineers, and game talent to join us at Matchday. If you love ⚽️, email us at careers@matchday.com.
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Aug 2022
Valu is the leading universal financial technology powerhouse offering customers and businesses convenient and comprehensive financial solutions. Valu is also the first fintech company providing consumer finance to become a listed company on the Egyptian Exchange (EGX)
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Jul 2022
Strata is the go-to platform for Identity Orchestration, enabling enterprises to connect any app to any identity service—without the chaos of hard-wiring identity or rewriting applications. The company’s founders created the IDQL (Identity Query Language) standard and Hexa open-source software for multi-cloud policy orchestration and are co-authors of the SAML standard for SSO federation. See how Strata can reduce IAM tech debt, improve security, break vendor lock-in, and minimize code maintenance for your enterprise apps. Use Identity Orchestration to easily migrate IDPs, integrate MFA or passwordless features on non-standard apps, and ensure continuous identity availability.
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Apr 2022
Teleskope automates the protection of your most important asset: data. Existing tools leave your data exposed, with inaccurate classification, excessive false positives, and no remediation support. Built by security engineers to fill this gap, Teleskope automates data protection – from detection to remediation and prevention. Teleskope provides full visibility into your security posture, discovering your data across cloud, on-prem, and third-party SaaS platforms. Our lightweight architecture, powered by small language models, delivers accurate and scalable classification of structured and unstructured data, while surfacing security issues like stale data, overly permissive access, and misconfigurations. Teleskope makes it easy to remediate any risks, with automated actions like redaction, access revocation, and data minimization.
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Mar 2022
Block Tackle is a venture backed, gaming startup building the next generation of world class mobile games. Founded by gaming industry veterans from EA, Kabam, Supercell and more, our first title, SkateX is an extreme sports MMO.
early stageComputer Games
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Jan 2022
About Animoca Brands Animoca Brands Corporation Limited (ACN: 122 921 813) is a Web3 leader that leverages tokenization and blockchain to deliver digital property rights to consumers, helping to establish the open metaverse and its associated network effects. It has received broad industry and market recognition including Fortune Crypto 40, Top 50 Blockchain Game Companies 2025, Financial Times’ High Growth Companies Asia-Pacific, and Deloitte Tech Fast. For more information visit www.animocabrands.com or follow on: Link3: https://link3.to/animocabrands Twitter: https://twitter.com/animocabrands Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/animocabrands Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/animocabrands TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@animocabrands_
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Dec 2021
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Oct 2021
Synchrony is a state of the art decentralized asset management platform utilizing a sophisticated suite of analytics and machine learning algorithms to evaluate and optimize sets of on-chain instruments producing single-click solutions for diversified exposure to an ecosystem's primitives. The core features powered by the platform are copy-trading and composable indices, both facilitated by a friendly Defi Farmer's market - a place to interact with the whole Solana blockchain from one location. It sounds complicated but Synchrony Simplifies Defi with A.I.
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Sep 2021
Borderless helps retail investors in India, Middle East and South-East Asia “globalize” their savings and wealth by saving and/or investing money in mature international markets such as US. Using Borderless, people can, digitally, open, own and operate overseas investing accounts. Additionally, investing on Borderless is backed by big data-based automated research and analysis that helps investors make smarter investing decisions. Borderless helps you manage your portfolio better, keep track of its health, make better investing decisions and discover interesting stocks and investing themes every day so that you dont have to scour through reams of data or depend on unreliable guesswork. Borderless is funded by investors with deep backgrounds, and rich experience, in the global financial services industry.
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Jul 2021
Currently, there are many problems plaguing the top future exchanges: Clawbacks, Broken Liquidation Systems, Poorly Designed Products and Margin Wallets. We are traders. We share your frustrations. In fact, we’ve written countless white papers and given hours of feedback to these exchanges, but to no avail. Like you, we are very excited about the future of cryptocurrency, but immature exchange infrastructure has been holding this space back. This is why we created FTX! Our mission is twofold - to build the best derivatives exchange and to help move this space toward becoming institutional! We are strong believers in education, and we have been actively collaborating and engaging in dialogue with players in the ecosystem.
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2021
NachoNacho is a B2B SaaS + Services marketplace platform powered by Fintech and AI. With NachoNacho, businesses can: 1) Manage all SaaS spend in one place by creating a separate virtual card for each vendor with tight limits. 2) Discover helpful new SaaS tools using AI-powered recommendation tools. 3) Get discounts on hundreds of SaaS products (up to 30% off lifetime). SaaS vendors + Service providers: A new low CAC acquisition channel. No integration is required. Pay on a rev-share basis.
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Mar 2020
Thndr is a digital investment platform that is designed to simplify investing. Thndr facilitates access to the right tools and resources that can empower investors with the means to achieve financial freedom.
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Jan 2020
Taager’s mission is simple – we enable anyone to start and grow their social e-commerce business! We are democratizing the social e-commerce space by enabling budding entrepreneurs to start selling online with no required capital, inventory, or operational experience as we handle their merchandising, warehousing, shipping, and cash collection needs. In just two years, We have served more than 65K social e-commerce sellers from incredibly diverse backgrounds – from students earning a part-time income to highly ambitious digital marketing experts looking to become solo entrepreneurs. The sellers on our platform benefit from access to 2,500+ highly marketable products. We are currently operating in Egypt, KSA, and UAE with additional market launches underway. Our people are driven by our mission and motivated by our desire to deliver the most seamless customer experience to the sellers on our platform. With a continuous focus on quality and execution, we are changing the social e-commerce landscape in the MENA region!
early stageRetail
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Cofounder & Head of Go-To-Market
Jun 2024
We are transforming Governance, Risk, and Compliance for enterprises and professional service firms using autonomous AI agents. Our solution delivers exceptional accuracy, cuts costs significantly, and shortens a months-long process to just minutes. Achieve compliance more swiftly and with reduced manual effort—enhancing both efficiency and precision.
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Sep 2023
Remy helps teams conduct security and privacy reviews of feature design documents, assessing risks and providing targeted suggestions. Remy helps teams cut down on expensive review meetings, prioritize designs by risk-level, and produce high-quality reviews with less effort.
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Jul 2023
A network for entrepreneurs building in stealth. Submit your information here so investors can find you: harmonic.ai/get-discovered
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Jul 2023
A multi-tenant platform offering essential cybersecurity capabilities (compliance, sales enablement, data protection) to early stage companies at 1/10 of the cost
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Apr 2023
Automated migrations and upgrades for every codebase
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