Hamiz Mushtaq Awan

Managing Partner @ Plutus21

📍 United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 16 investments📅 5 years investing🗓 Last invested Nov 2025
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Nov 2025
Surgeons and surgical robots increasingly operate through tiny scopes with limited visualization, forcing them to eyeball targets even when precision is critical. Lambda Surgical is building Lida, an intelligent, plug-and-play platform that transforms standard surgical endoscopes into advanced guidance systems. Lida delivers accuracy, precision, and repeatability to diagnostic and therapeutic procedures across conventional and robotic surgical specialties.
Investor, Board Member
Oct 2025
DataFabrIQ helps middle-market companies unify, clean, and organize their data so it can be effectively used for business intelligence, artificial intelligence, and real technology transformation. We are building this platform because we have lived this problem firsthand. After scaling multiple companies across industries, we deeply empathize with how hard it is to make data usable, trustworthy, and actionable. Most organizations have data scattered across systems and teams, and without a single source of truth, even the best technology initiatives fall short. DataFabrIQ creates the foundation that makes your most valuable asset work for you. Built by operators for operators. Our platform unifies data across the organization, automates cleaning and transformation, and delivers enterprise-grade data maturity using modern data warehousing, MCP, and data modeling without needing a technical data engineering team in-house. This unlocks credible and auditable visibility through AI copilots, dashboards, and board-level reporting. DataFabrIQ turns messy business data into an AI-governed intelligence layer that enables mature, AI-ready data and a trustworthy source of business insight.
Investor
Apr 2025
Kollegio leverages AI and data driven solutions to deliver effective college counseling services for free. Our team of in-house college counselors and cutting-edge AI experts have worked together to create a comprehensive platform through that helps students with every aspect of their college application. At Kollegio we strive to emulate a personal college counseling experience tailored to the needs of each student. Kollegio provides every user with a custom experience drawing on a vast database of expert knowledge- without any of the downside of a human counselor. No rushed jobs, no overbooking, no biases. Kollegio is your personal college counselor, at your fingertips- 24/7. Kollegio is the future of college counseling, and the best part? You can join Kollegio today for completely free. https://kollegio.ai/
early stageHigher Education
Investor
Apr 2025
Finding and responding to government RFPs shouldnt be a full-time job. We help contractors discover the right opportunities and turn weeks of proposal writing into hours. Our platform combines smart RFP discovery with automated proposal creation—so you can stop copy-pasting from old documents and start winning more contracts with less effort. Used by SMBs who are tired of missing opportunities and dreading proposal deadlines. One win pays for itself.
Investor & Advisor
Jan 2024
We empower brands, location-based businesses, and consumers with blockchain technology. BIGtoken is revolutionizing brand-to-consumer and storefront-to-consumer relationships with direct, authentic interactions through tokenized rewards and secure blockchain wallets. Our seamless Web3 solutions enable consumers to easily adopt, while brands and physical facility owners optimize and future-proof their marketing strategies.
Investor
Aug 2023
Welcome to the Future of Marketing meets the Future of Rewards and Loyalty. Our Software provides brands and businesses with the keys to turn their customers into their influencers.
Investor
Aug 2023
Athena Intelligence has developed the industrys first artificial employee—a 24/7 Enterprise Data Analyst. Athena functions as both an autonomous agent for handling data tasks and as a platform equipped with a suite of AI co-piloting applications. Leveraging generative AI, Athena streamlines analytical workflows, fosters team collaboration on insights, and facilitates data-driven decision-making, all while seamlessly integrating into your existing data ecosystem.
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Feb 2023
illuno is the leading tech platform in Dallas, Texas, connecting businesses and individuals with verified off-duty law enforcement officers for seamless security staffing. Since 2018, weve transformed a fragmented market into a smart, transparent marketplace—think gig economy efficiency for off-duty hiring, without the headaches of legacy agencies or internal tools. Our innovative app lets clients post shifts in seconds, accessing a network of over 500K professionals nationwide for fill rates more than double the industry average. We handle it all: 100% ID.Me-verified officers, top-tier insurance that eliminates corporate risks from W2 or 1099 setups, compliance, and fast payments—giving you peace of mind to focus on what matters. At illuno, our mission is to rebuild trust between officers and communities through cutting-edge tech and total transparency, empowering officers with flexible income while delivering reliable protection for clients. Join us in making secure connections simple—lets connect today.
Investor
May 2022
Ludis provides a business intelligence platform with ready to use command centers for companies to segment and target their most important asset -- people. In a world where everyone leverages the same data feeds, we created a platform that allows non technical users to leverage ML for more sophisticated insights. Instead of expecting users to BYO everything, we automate the ingestion of data feeds and provide segmentation analysis so teams can make informed decisions without being bottlenecked by the lack of software engineering resources. Many of our early customers are in sports and apply segmentation to help with on-field performance, and were now expanding into large consumer brands who have limited engineering resources and need an easy-to-use platform with out-of-the-box content to understand and group stakeholders for fan and customer segmentation.
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May 2022
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Apr 2022
Mercury is the fintech ambitious companies use for banking* and all their financial workflows. With a powerful account at the center of their operations, companies can make better financial decisions and ensure that every dollar spent aligns with company priorities. Thats why over 300K startups choose Mercury to confidently run all their financial operations with the precision, control, and focus they need to operate at their best. To learn more, visit Mercury.com. *Mercury is a fintech company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided through Choice Financial Group and Column N.A., Members FDIC.
Investor
Feb 2022
Building the future of natural language powered internal tools
Investor & Advisor
Jan 2022
Making the opportunity of Web3 games accessible to everyone. 🌐 Arcade is a revolutionary Web3 platform that gives its community the opportunity to earn meaningful rewards, from various Web3 and Metaverse games, without direct gameplay or ownership of in-game NFTs. Either Arcade or our network of NFT curators owns the in-game NFTs and through the strategic infrastructure of guilds, gamers, contributors, and game developers, rewards are passed along via our revolutionary mission pools concept. Backed by Crypto.com Capital, Solana Ventures, Kucoin Labs & more!
Investor
Jan 2022
Changing how people connect, learn and work. We’re on a mission to accelerate 100 million careers by matching talent to mentors, projects and job opportunities.
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2025
Investor
Nov 2025
Surgeons and surgical robots increasingly operate through tiny scopes with limited visualization, forcing them to eyeball targets even when precision is critical. Lambda Surgical is building Lida, an intelligent, plug-and-play platform that transforms standard surgical endoscopes into advanced guidance systems. Lida delivers accuracy, precision, and repeatability to diagnostic and therapeutic procedures across conventional and robotic surgical specialties.
Investor, Board Member
Oct 2025
DataFabrIQ helps middle-market companies unify, clean, and organize their data so it can be effectively used for business intelligence, artificial intelligence, and real technology transformation. We are building this platform because we have lived this problem firsthand. After scaling multiple companies across industries, we deeply empathize with how hard it is to make data usable, trustworthy, and actionable. Most organizations have data scattered across systems and teams, and without a single source of truth, even the best technology initiatives fall short. DataFabrIQ creates the foundation that makes your most valuable asset work for you. Built by operators for operators. Our platform unifies data across the organization, automates cleaning and transformation, and delivers enterprise-grade data maturity using modern data warehousing, MCP, and data modeling without needing a technical data engineering team in-house. This unlocks credible and auditable visibility through AI copilots, dashboards, and board-level reporting. DataFabrIQ turns messy business data into an AI-governed intelligence layer that enables mature, AI-ready data and a trustworthy source of business insight.
Investor
Apr 2025
Kollegio leverages AI and data driven solutions to deliver effective college counseling services for free. Our team of in-house college counselors and cutting-edge AI experts have worked together to create a comprehensive platform through that helps students with every aspect of their college application. At Kollegio we strive to emulate a personal college counseling experience tailored to the needs of each student. Kollegio provides every user with a custom experience drawing on a vast database of expert knowledge- without any of the downside of a human counselor. No rushed jobs, no overbooking, no biases. Kollegio is your personal college counselor, at your fingertips- 24/7. Kollegio is the future of college counseling, and the best part? You can join Kollegio today for completely free. https://kollegio.ai/
early stageHigher Education
Investor
Apr 2025
Finding and responding to government RFPs shouldnt be a full-time job. We help contractors discover the right opportunities and turn weeks of proposal writing into hours. Our platform combines smart RFP discovery with automated proposal creation—so you can stop copy-pasting from old documents and start winning more contracts with less effort. Used by SMBs who are tired of missing opportunities and dreading proposal deadlines. One win pays for itself.
2024
Investor & Advisor
Jan 2024
We empower brands, location-based businesses, and consumers with blockchain technology. BIGtoken is revolutionizing brand-to-consumer and storefront-to-consumer relationships with direct, authentic interactions through tokenized rewards and secure blockchain wallets. Our seamless Web3 solutions enable consumers to easily adopt, while brands and physical facility owners optimize and future-proof their marketing strategies.
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