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Badrul Farooqi

Investor at Various

San Francisco Bay Area

Overview 

Badrul Farooqi is a successful Product Leader and Investor based in New York City. With a background in product management at companies like Square and Figma, Farooqi has transitioned into angel investing, focusing on early-stage startups in the enterprise sector and supporting solo capitalists. Highlights of Farooqi's career include his experience as a product manager at prominent tech companies like Square and Figma, as well as his transition into angel investing, where he actively supports early-stage startups in New York City.

Work Experience 

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Cursor Capital

  • General Partner

    2022 - Current

    ComfyUI, Enterpret, Infinite Machine, Knock, Liveblocks, Mach9, Membrane, Narrative, Patina Systems, Play, Playbit, Rive, Row Zero, Runway, Sandbar, tldraw Acquired: Campsite (Notion) Diagram (Figma) Partykit (Cloudflare) Dynaboard (Figma) Scenery (Adobe) Modyfi (Figma)

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Square

  • Product

    2021 - 2022

    I led the team responsible for global product onboarding and our internal developer platform. Our efforts enabled customers to successfully onboard to Square's large product ecosystem. We leveraged machine learning, geo-based heuristics, experimentation, and more, to help business owners find the perfect product in Square's large product portfolio.

Square is a software company that designs and develops omnichannel solutions.

squareup.com
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Figma

  • Product

    2016 - 2021

    I was the first product manager and one of the first 20 employees at Figma. I helped launch Figma publicly and helped scale the company to 350+ people and hundreds of millions in revenue. Specifically, I matured the core design tool and launched the developer/designer platform. Today, Figma is one of the most loved products in the world with millions of customers and a large and growing business.

Figma is a collaborative design tool that enables teams to create, prototype, and test digital products on one platform.

Raised $748,624,736.00 from Thrive Capital, XN, Andreessen Horowitz, Alkeon Capital, Kleiner Perkins, Coatue, Goanna Capital, Eddy Cue, Sequoia Capital and SurgoCap.

figma.com
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Teespring

  • Engineer

    2015 - 2016

    Scaled fulfillment backend capable of responding to holiday season spikes. Launched Teespring in the European market.

Teespring is a social commerce platform that allows people to retail consumer goods such as clothes, shoes, bags, and mobile cases.

teespring.com
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Hook Studios & Hook QA

  • Engineer

    2013 - 2015

    Partnered with Google to launch global brand campaigns for Android, Chromecast, and more.

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Expedia Group

  • Engineer

    2011 - 2013

    Shipped Expedia's first mobile apps on iOS and Android to millions of people worldwide.

Expedia Group is a internet providing company they help people experience the world in new ways and build lasting connections.

expediagroup.com

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