Uzair Ansari

Corporate Strategy, M&A, Transformation, Startup Advisory and Market Development

📍 Saudi Arabia🔄 Updated October 2026💼 2 investments📅 10 years investing🗓 Last invested Oct 2020
Angel investor🌍 Saudi Arabia
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Investor and Advisor
Oct 2020
Polymer is smart data loss prevention (DLP) that goes beyond violation alerts to automate cloud & AI data security and compliance. Use Polymer to automatically reduce the risk of data exposure and empower employees to make better data security decisions without disrupting workflows. Detect data vulnerabilities • Classify sensitive data automatically with NLP, NER, and REGEX • Scan and continuously monitor your SaaS apps for PII, PHI, and more shared in messages and files • Pinpoint data security risks based on context—channel, user, team, application • Reduce false alerts for your information security and compliance teams with unparalleled data detection accuracy Remediate policy violations • Alert employees of data policy violations in real time • Redact, quarantine, or delete sensitive data in messages and files • Empower employees to make better decisions about how they share data via automatic nudges • Operationalize data security workflows Mitigate ongoing data security risks • Quantify risk and isolate patterns with user and platform risk scores • Use detailed analytics and reports to proactively address areas of vulnerability • Easily configure your data policies and security settings per organizational need • Integrate with legacy DLP solutions and other SaaS apps for comprehensive coverage • Manage DLP centrally by hosting on a single tenant with dedicated KMS keys Fast & easy onboarding Polymer’s low-code platform and pre-built data policy templates (like HIPAA, PCI, GDPR, SOC 2) mean you can start detecting and protecting sensitive data across your SaaS apps in minutes. You can also customize your detection rules using 150+ data elements. Integrations • Slack • Google Drive • Microsoft OneDrive • Microsoft Teams • Box • GitHub • Bitbucket • Zendesk
Canadian AI Start- Up - Investor and Market Development/Funding Advisor
2016
Support our mission to create positive and tangible change in hiring. We’ve helped leading DEI-focused enterprises like IBM, Deloitte, Novartis, Shopify, and Education First reach incredible results: 25% increase in racial and gender diversity 22% increase in quality of hire 60% reduction in time and cost to hire Bonus: candidates love the Knockri experience! ✨How Knockri Works Knockri addresses diversity from the earliest stages of the talent acquisition process. Our platform integrates with your ATS to automatically administer and assess unlimited candidates at scale. Candidates are evaluated solely on their skills, avoiding adverse impact. Knockri is an asynchronous interview assessment tool that shortlists qualified candidates ethically and efficiently. We’ve merged proprietary Ethical AI and I/O Psychology to evaluate candidates during initial screening processes. Knockri is objective by design and fixated on merit, ensuring quality candidates don’t fall through the cracks. Book a demo today to learn more
Experience · 4 entries
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Investments (2)
2020
Investor and Advisor
Oct 2020
Polymer is smart data loss prevention (DLP) that goes beyond violation alerts to automate cloud & AI data security and compliance. Use Polymer to automatically reduce the risk of data exposure and empower employees to make better data security decisions without disrupting workflows. Detect data vulnerabilities • Classify sensitive data automatically with NLP, NER, and REGEX • Scan and continuously monitor your SaaS apps for PII, PHI, and more shared in messages and files • Pinpoint data security risks based on context—channel, user, team, application • Reduce false alerts for your information security and compliance teams with unparalleled data detection accuracy Remediate policy violations • Alert employees of data policy violations in real time • Redact, quarantine, or delete sensitive data in messages and files • Empower employees to make better decisions about how they share data via automatic nudges • Operationalize data security workflows Mitigate ongoing data security risks • Quantify risk and isolate patterns with user and platform risk scores • Use detailed analytics and reports to proactively address areas of vulnerability • Easily configure your data policies and security settings per organizational need • Integrate with legacy DLP solutions and other SaaS apps for comprehensive coverage • Manage DLP centrally by hosting on a single tenant with dedicated KMS keys Fast & easy onboarding Polymer’s low-code platform and pre-built data policy templates (like HIPAA, PCI, GDPR, SOC 2) mean you can start detecting and protecting sensitive data across your SaaS apps in minutes. You can also customize your detection rules using 150+ data elements. Integrations • Slack • Google Drive • Microsoft OneDrive • Microsoft Teams • Box • GitHub • Bitbucket • Zendesk
2016
Canadian AI Start- Up - Investor and Market Development/Funding Advisor
2016
Support our mission to create positive and tangible change in hiring. We’ve helped leading DEI-focused enterprises like IBM, Deloitte, Novartis, Shopify, and Education First reach incredible results: 25% increase in racial and gender diversity 22% increase in quality of hire 60% reduction in time and cost to hire Bonus: candidates love the Knockri experience! ✨How Knockri Works Knockri addresses diversity from the earliest stages of the talent acquisition process. Our platform integrates with your ATS to automatically administer and assess unlimited candidates at scale. Candidates are evaluated solely on their skills, avoiding adverse impact. Knockri is an asynchronous interview assessment tool that shortlists qualified candidates ethically and efficiently. We’ve merged proprietary Ethical AI and I/O Psychology to evaluate candidates during initial screening processes. Knockri is objective by design and fixated on merit, ensuring quality candidates don’t fall through the cracks. Book a demo today to learn more
2013
Chief Strategy and M&A Officer
2013
Qnbn is committed to being the conduit of Qatar’s advancement as it provides the latest fiber optic broadband infrastructure to help achieve a knowledge-based digital economy. Qnbn is an independent company wholly owned by the government, with the mandate to enable accessible high-speed communications. In line with the National Broadband Plan, Qnbn is building a network that provides open and equal access to service providers to ensure faster internet services, whilst providing end-users with a choice of service providers. Qnbn focuses on the deployment of a passive dark fiber network infrastructure, providing equal and open access to telecommunication service providers, on a wholesale basis, and owners and operators of private networks, on a retail basis, thereby enabling end users to efficiently leverage high speed fiber in Qatar. Qnbn’s fiber optic broadband infrastructure empowers citizens and businesses across the nation. It does so by enabling the delivery the Internet speeds people require to succeed at work, enjoy the capabilities of the Internet at home, education, healthcare, and experience more efficient public services in their everyday life. It will also enable Qatar to consolidate its place as one of the most dynamic, progressive and fastest growing economies in the region. Vision: Make Qnbn the preferred communication partner for broadband infrastructure services in Qatar. Mission: Become a competitive provider of high-speed fiber to Qatar’s communication service providers and closed user groups, on an open and non-discriminatory basis, striving to maximize coverage across the Nation. Values: Empowerment - Empowering our people, our customers and our country. Openness - Ensuring that operators have equal access to our open network. Innovation - Qnbn is the driver of innovation in Qatar and is driven to innovate to that end. Community - Community drives Qnbn and Qnbn is committed to the communitys well-being.
2010
Advisory, Strategy/M&A, TELUS International
Mar 2010
At TELUS, our purpose-driven team works together every day to innovate and do good. From providing technology solutions that make our lives safer and easier, to supporting those who need it most, our inclusive, spirited and giving people are passionate about empowering our customers, communities and each other to thrive in our digital world. A company that helps you be your best self at home and at work: Find a place where you truly belong, your opinions are valued and you can be your best self. A career that ignites your full potential: Get the guidance and support you need to explore your interests, build your skills and get where you want to go. A culture that goes beyond the expected to strengthen communities and the planet: Seize the opportunity to make a difference in our communities and do good for our planet as part of our purpose-driven team. An innovative team committed to solving complex, real world problems: Join a digitally-enabled workforce that’s pushing the boundaries to create sustainable change. Were always building Canada, join us at www.telus.com/careers