Dr. (H.C.) Najam Kidwai

Co-Founder, President and CEO @ C1 Fund Inc. (NYSE Listed, SEC Regulated, Ticker CFND) Available On Your Investment Platform.

๐Ÿ“ United Arab Emirates, United Arab Emirates๐Ÿ”„ Updated September 2026๐Ÿ’ผ 2 investments๐Ÿ“… 6 years investing๐Ÿ—“ Last invested Mar 2023๐• @upgrade_to_unlock
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Board Member
Mar 2023
Through coded, automated financial services, Chainge is the application thats empowering people to be their own digital bank. With no middlemen, bureaucracy or hassle.
Investor
Dec 2020
Destiny (D/XYZ) is bridging the gap between the public and private markets, broadening access to transformative innovation that โ€“ over the past two decades โ€“ has been limited to a select few. The firms flagship offering, the Destiny Tech100 (NYSE: DXYZ) will be a portfolio of 100 of the top venture-backed private technology companies, providing everyday investors access to these private market leaders for the first time.
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2024
Co-Founder, President and CEO C1 Fund Inc.
Dec 2024
C1 Fund Inc. (NYSE: CFND) is a publicly listed, SEC-regulated closed-end fund that provides investors with access to late-stage private companies building the infrastructure of the digital-asset and fintech economy. Our portfolio focuses on firms developing regulated, institutional-grade solutions across payments, custody, compliance, and blockchain-based financial services. Each investment reflects a disciplined approach grounded in governance, transparency, and long-term value creation. C1 Fund connects public investors to the next generation of regulated financial infrastructure. Unlike traditional venture funds, C1 Fund is publicly traded on the NYSE, giving investors transparent and liquid exposure to private-market opportunities. Headquartered in Palo Alto, C1 Fund is committed to discipline, disclosure, and sustainable growth in the evolving landscape of global finance. The future of finance will be built on infrastructure, not speculation.
2023
Board Member
Mar 2023
Through coded, automated financial services, Chainge is the application thats empowering people to be their own digital bank. With no middlemen, bureaucracy or hassle.
2022
Co-Founder and Board Director
Jan 2022
TransFi helps businesses and individuals access better ways to move money. Combining industry-leading coverage of currencies and payment methods, our platform delivers compliant payouts, collections, and ramp services across Asia, Europe, LatAm, Africa, and North America. In our pursuit to advance economic prosperity through borderless finance, TransFi is making international money movement faster, less expensive, and more reliable than ever.
2020
Investor
Dec 2020
Destiny (D/XYZ) is bridging the gap between the public and private markets, broadening access to transformative innovation that โ€“ over the past two decades โ€“ has been limited to a select few. The firms flagship offering, the Destiny Tech100 (NYSE: DXYZ) will be a portfolio of 100 of the top venture-backed private technology companies, providing everyday investors access to these private market leaders for the first time.
2017
Co-Founder and Board Director
Oct 2017
EQUIAM is a non-traditional, systematic private investment firm. We use deeply researched, proprietary, data-driven algorithms to make our investment decisions. Our firm focuses on finding great firms and capturing the high returns associated with these bets, but we are equally invested in bringing world-class portfolio engineering practices to the private markets, mitigating risk and increasing long-term performance. This focus, along with our proven execution capability, allows us to offer our investors diversified portfolios of private firms designed to outperform in even the most challenging environments. Traditional, network-driven, venture/growth investing is ripe for disruption, as increased competition and the need to write larger checks have degraded value-ad.ย We believe there is space for a new breed of non-traditional capital providers. These players are bringing the same level of rigorous, quantitative analysis that revolutionized the public markets to an otherwise opaque and clubby investment space. Our current data access, combined with the development of more liquid private capital markets allows EQUIAM to be a key disruptor in this space. The EQUIAM team is uniquely equipped to deploy our strategy. We have over 40 years of experience launching and operating investment firms, developing robust quantitative strategies, and executing hundreds of millions of dollars in primary and secondary transactions. EQUIAMs first fund currently grades out in the top 1% of VC funds launched in the 2019 vintage year with a 1.75x DPI (per Cambridge Associates). Our core mission is to deliver outsized returns by modernizing the way people invest in the companies that are modernizing the world.
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