Abdul Abdirahman
Principal at F
Abdul Abdirahman
Principal at F
New York City Metropolitan Area
Overview
Work Experience
Principal
2024 - Current
Early stage (seed-series B) fintech & vertical SaaS investor. Lead efforts to create, launch, upgrade, and maintain the F-Prime Fintech Index. Co-author annual State of Fintech reports. Investments supported include 1upHealth, Canoe Intelligence, Even Financial, Guros, Latchel (board observer), Notabene, Parrot Software (board observer), Snapdocs, Vestwell, and unannounced investments.
Senior Associate
2020 - 2023
Early stage (seed-series B) fintech, proptech & vertical SaaS investor.
F-Prime Capital is a venture capital firm investing in healthcare and technology.
Advocate
2020 - 2022
FinTech Sandbox is a nonprofit that helps startups build great products. We appreciate that the cost and access to data are major challenges for FinTech startups, and we brought together some of the world’s largest data providers and financial institutions to solve this problem through free access to data to develop your applications. Check it out and apply if we have data that can help you.
Enabling FinTech entrepreneurs to build robust products through free access to quality financial data.
Raised $150,000.00 from Global Atlantic.
Venture Partner
2020 - 2021
Invested in pre-seed & seed stage tech startups in Africa & the MENA region. Investments (led or supported): Chari, Marketforce360, OnePipe, WorkPay & Yasir
P1 Ventures specializes in early-stage industrial technology firms in Africa.
Investment Team
2020 - 2020
Emerging markets (LatAm & Africa) fintech
FinTech Collective is a New York-based venture capital fund, focused exclusively on financial services technology companies.
Impact Investing Associate
2019 - 2019
Fintech Deal Team Member
2019 - 2019
Sourced, analyzed, and invested in early-stage fintech startups across the globe for a $250,000 evergreen, student-run fund Supported $50,000 seed investment in Atlas Health, a digital health platform matching patients with aid programs in the U.S. The GSB Impact Fund invests in early-stage, for-profit ventures seeking financial, social and environmental returns. Our Fintech deal team invests in early-stage companies building products and services which increase financial inclusion across the globe.
Impact Investing - Summer Associate
2018 - 2018
Sourced and analyzed fintech, healthtech and agritech investment opportunities for fund by building relationships with entrepreneurs across East Africa & India. Managed due diligence process for investments, culminating to recommendations to Investment Committee.
Business Strategy & Fundraising
2018 - 2018
Number 4 employee to join startup. Worked on strategy, fundraising, partnerships and GTM
Nala is a FinTech company developing a mobile payments application to simplify money transfers and transactions.
Raised $50,210,000.00 from Amplo, Acrew Capital, Alumni Ventures, Vlad Tenev, Nyca Partners, HOF Capital, DST Global, Ryan King and Norrsken22.
Assistant Manager
2015 - 2017
Worked with client C-suite to deliver a variety of financial services to asset management firms in the U.K. and emerging markets.
Associate - Senior Associate
2012 - 2015
Serviced asset management (venture capital, private equity and hedge funds) clients in New York.
Ernst & Young is a provider of assurance, tax, transaction and advisory services.
Horizon Intern, Financial Services Office
2010 - 2010
Worked with internal finance team to develop and improve various reporting tools used for year-end closing and planning for new fiscal year. Collaborated with cross functional team to designed and populated templates that captures key stats from client projects.
Ernst & Young is a provider of assurance, tax, transaction and advisory services.
Education
Master of Business Administration - MBA
2018 - 2020
Triple Major (B.S. & B.A. degrees)
2007 - 2012
Bachelor of Arts - BA
2007 - 2012
Certificate
2010 - 2010
Study Abroad
2010 - 2010