Ammar Hanafi

Investing In The Future Of Industries

📍 Palo Alto, California, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 12 investments📅 20 years investing🗓 Last invested Jul 2025𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
VC🌍 United States
12
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6
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0
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Portfolio

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Board Member
Jul 2025
Founded in 1997, Endeavor is a global organization with a mission to unlock the transformational power of entrepreneurship by selecting, supporting, and investing in the world’s top founders. Today, Endeavor’s network spans 40+ countries and supports more than 2,500 entrepreneurs, whose companies generate combined revenues of over $28 billion US, have created more than 3.9 million jobs, and, in 2020, raised over $4 billion US in capital. Endeavor’s unique entrepreneur-first model and network of trust provide a platform for founders to dream big, scale up, and pay it forward to the next generation of entrepreneurs. We select Endeavor Entrepreneurs by searching the globe, identifying founders with the greatest growth potential, and inviting them to participate in our proprietary international selection process. We support Endeavor Entrepreneurs with our unrivaled global network, peer-to-peer community, and demand-driven services. We elevate Endeavor Entrepreneurs as aspirational role models and provide avenues for them to mentor and inspire others to reimagine what is possible. We invest in Endeavor Entrepreneurs through our rules-based fund, Endeavor Catalyst. We are the go-to thought leaders on global entrepreneurship, technology, and innovation in our markets At Endeavor Pakistan we aim to unlock the massive potential of the country by developing the entrepreneurial ecosystem and identifying/selecting high-potential founders to super-charge their growth. 🚀🚀🚀
Investor
Sep 2024
Farmdar uses AI and space technologies at scale for sustainable agriculture.
Investor
Sep 2024
Farmdar uses AI and space technologies at scale for sustainable agriculture.
Board Member
Apr 2022
Aviz Networks is a leading force in open networking, enabling AI-driven, vendor-agnostic solutions for the modern enterprise. Our AI Networking Stack leverages SONiC and advanced LLMs to power Networks for AI and AI for Networks—driving efficiency, scalability, and automation. Founded in 2019 and backed by institutional and strategic investors, Aviz has gained industry-wide validation and support. With a presence in the US, India, and Japan, we serve Fortune 500 customers globally, helping them unlock the full potential of open networking.
Board Member
Jul 2020
Turing software provides a virtual product development platform to help consumer packaged goods companies develop fail-safe products in record time. Turing takes a wide range of product-related data, reduces the need of iterative testing by at least half, and enables product development teams to quickly go from idea-to-commercialization. Turing is backed by Y-combinator, Insight Partners, and few of the world's leading industry experts.
Investor
Nov 2019
The last decade has seen amazing progress in neuroscience, enabling researchers to envision a new generation of brain machine interfaces. These systems will be used to treat chronic diseases like Parkinsons, epilepsy, and Alzheimers. They will restore mobility to the paralyzed and speed recovery from a stroke. They may even allow us to control our mood and enhance our cognition. Rune Labs wants to build the software at the heart of these systems, and help accelerate the next wave of neuromodulation applications.
Investor
Nov 2019
The last decade has seen amazing progress in neuroscience, enabling researchers to envision a new generation of brain machine interfaces. These systems will be used to treat chronic diseases like Parkinsons, epilepsy, and Alzheimers. They will restore mobility to the paralyzed and speed recovery from a stroke. They may even allow us to control our mood and enhance our cognition. Rune Labs wants to build the software at the heart of these systems, and help accelerate the next wave of neuromodulation applications.
Board Member
Aug 2019
Alto makes it easier for people to invest in private markets through self-directed retirement accounts. Alto removes the roadblocks from a historically complex process by providing the infrastructure to allow individuals and organizations to participate in private market investing through retirement accounts. By simplifying administration, reducing paperwork, and offering transparent, competitive pricing, Alto helps unlock retirement capital for investments that are less correlated to public markets and have the potential for differentiated returns. Today, Alto serves as the IRA custodian for nearly $2 billion in assets, supporting over 30,000 self-directed IRA investors, more than 2,500 issuers raising capital, and investment platforms throughout the private markets industry. With support for Traditional, Roth, and SEP IRAs, Alto provides a streamlined path to invest in private markets while maintaining the tax advantages of retirement accounts. At its core, Alto’s mission is to expand access to private markets and help shape the future of long-term investing.
Investor and Board
Oct 2017
The Rafay Platform automates the operations and consumption of compute infrastructure so businesses can focus on innovation and impact. Rafay customers turn siloed, fragmented, and complex compute environments into well-oiled, self-service engines that empower enterprises, cloud service providers and sovereign AI clouds to build and deploy cloud-native applications – including AI workloads –without limitations, to scale without barriers, and accelerate productivity without roadblocks.
Board Member
Aug 2011
Agari is the Trusted Email Identity Company™, protecting brands and people from devastating phishing and socially-engineered attacks. Using applied data science and a diverse set of signals, Agari guards the workforce from inbound business email compromise, supply chain fraud, spear phishing, and account takeover-based attacks, reducing business risk and restoring trust to the inbox. Agari also prevents spoofing of outbound email from the enterprise to customers, increasing deliverability and preserving brand integrity. Learn more at agari.com.
Board Member
Jul 2006
Cortina Systems, Inc. is a leading provider of high-performance communications semiconductor solutions enabling next generation network connectivity and efficient bandwidth from the core network to the home network. Our broad product portfolio includes carrier-class semiconductor devices for next generation optical transport and passive optical network systems, as well as data center connectivity and digital home solutions.
Experience · 15 entries
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Board (7)
2025
Board Member
Jul 2025
Founded in 1997, Endeavor is a global organization with a mission to unlock the transformational power of entrepreneurship by selecting, supporting, and investing in the world’s top founders. Today, Endeavor’s network spans 40+ countries and supports more than 2,500 entrepreneurs, whose companies generate combined revenues of over $28 billion US, have created more than 3.9 million jobs, and, in 2020, raised over $4 billion US in capital. Endeavor’s unique entrepreneur-first model and network of trust provide a platform for founders to dream big, scale up, and pay it forward to the next generation of entrepreneurs. We select Endeavor Entrepreneurs by searching the globe, identifying founders with the greatest growth potential, and inviting them to participate in our proprietary international selection process. We support Endeavor Entrepreneurs with our unrivaled global network, peer-to-peer community, and demand-driven services. We elevate Endeavor Entrepreneurs as aspirational role models and provide avenues for them to mentor and inspire others to reimagine what is possible. We invest in Endeavor Entrepreneurs through our rules-based fund, Endeavor Catalyst. We are the go-to thought leaders on global entrepreneurship, technology, and innovation in our markets At Endeavor Pakistan we aim to unlock the massive potential of the country by developing the entrepreneurial ecosystem and identifying/selecting high-potential founders to super-charge their growth. 🚀🚀🚀
2024
Investor
Sep 2024
Farmdar uses AI and space technologies at scale for sustainable agriculture.
Investor
Sep 2024
Farmdar uses AI and space technologies at scale for sustainable agriculture.
2022
Board Member
Apr 2022
Aviz Networks is a leading force in open networking, enabling AI-driven, vendor-agnostic solutions for the modern enterprise. Our AI Networking Stack leverages SONiC and advanced LLMs to power Networks for AI and AI for Networks—driving efficiency, scalability, and automation. Founded in 2019 and backed by institutional and strategic investors, Aviz has gained industry-wide validation and support. With a presence in the US, India, and Japan, we serve Fortune 500 customers globally, helping them unlock the full potential of open networking.
2020
Board Member
Jul 2020
Turing software provides a virtual product development platform to help consumer packaged goods companies develop fail-safe products in record time. Turing takes a wide range of product-related data, reduces the need of iterative testing by at least half, and enables product development teams to quickly go from idea-to-commercialization. Turing is backed by Y-combinator, Insight Partners, and few of the world's leading industry experts.
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