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Omid Ashtari is an independent investor and venture capitalist based in the San Francisco Bay Area, California. Before transitioning to the venture capital industry, he held product management positions at prominent technology companies, including Product Hunt, after earning an engineering degree from the University of Waterloo. As an active angel investor, Ashtari has built a portfolio of over 20 early-stage startups, securing early equity stakes in highly valued enterprises such as Notion and Brex. He remains highly active in the Silicon Valley ecosystem, maintaining an audience of over 15,000 followers on X while participating in startup demo days and backing Perplexity AI during its 2024 seed funding round. Today, his current investment strategy focuses primarily on providing capital and operational guidance to early-stage founders developing SaaS, artificial intelligence, developer tools, and consumer technology platforms.
