Mujtaba Badat
Managing Partner at Belal Badat
Dallas, Texas
Overview
Work Experience
Managing Partner
2022 - Current
Belal Badat is a venture capital firm that was founded in 2022 by Ahmed Belal and Mujtaba (MJ) Badat with the goal of investing in early-stage technology startups. The firm invests $25,000 to $100,000 into pre-seed to seed stage startups based in the U.S. and Canada. Preference is given to teams that have strong founder-market fit and a live product with early traction. Although open to investing in all great founders, the firm specializes in digital health startups.
Mentor
2023
- Techstars Physical Health Fort Worth ('23, '24) - Techstars Columbus powered by The Ohio State University ('25) - Techstars AI Health Baltimore powered by Johns Hopkins University and CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield ('25)
Techstars is an accelerator that provides pre-seed investment and mentoring for various early stage startups.
Raised $108,919,999.00 from SVB Financial Group and Foundry Group.
Investor
2025
Mishe’s enterprise-grade, consumer-centric access platform helps patients, providers and payers collaborate as a unified team. Led by a team of direct access zealots, Mishe’s “integrated adjudication” infrastructure tethers healthcare’s supply chain to simplify transactions and eliminate waste.
Investor
2024
Apprenta builds tools and mechanisms to help employers engage talent pipelines earlier and scale educational sponsorships for hard-to-fill jobs. We're an end-to-end workforce development command center to launch any talent pipeline program. Our mission is to enable greater economic mobility while addressing critical talent shortages in the US.
Investor
2024
Syndicate Bio is a platform biotech driving genomics and precision medicine initiatives across the world’s most diverse regions. We use large scale partnerships with governments and other stakeholders to drive local precision medicine impact while creating powerful datasets that can be used for drug discovery and development.
Investor
2024
TeamOut offers an online platform to help remote teams find the perfect offsite.
TeamOut is the platform that makes retreat planning easy for remote teams.
Raised $3,200,000.00 from Louva Invest, Karman Ventures (fka Moving Capital), Pioneer Fund, Y Combinator and FundersClub.
Investor
2024
Medzoomer is an on demand prescription delivery service platform. We’ve created an app that enables patients to have access to their medications from the convenience of their phone.
MedZoomer is a prescription delivery platform that delivers medications from pharmacies to customers.
Raised $3,418,349.00 from Endeavor Miami.
Investor
2024
Maya AI is a personalized AI solution designed to enhance team performance and improve customer experience
Maya is an workflow automation platform, for teams without an RPA developer.
Raised $120,000.00 from Techstars.
Investor
2024
Angel Investor
2024
Pantheon Design is changing local manufacturing by making 3d printing composites 10x faster and cheaper.
Education
BSc.
2007 - 2013
BC Dogwood Diploma
2002 - 2007