Najam Kidwai
Founder of Crypto 1 ETF
Dubai
Overview
Work Experience
Co-Founder and CEO C1 Group LLC
2024 - Current
Digital Assets Focused Closed End Funds
C1 Fund Inc.
2024
President and CEO
2023
A closed end fund focused on digital asset companies via IPO
Member Board of Directors
2022
Klickl is the MENA region’s 1st All-in One crypto super-app that provides ADGM regulated digital brokerage services as well as trusted custodian solutions to retail, corporates, and institutional investors in a simple, safe, and efficient matter. At the forefront of Web3 open finance in the Middle East and Africa, Klickl offers unparalleled banking and digital payment solutions from its base in Abu Dhabi. Supported by the UAE government and regulatory bodies, Klickl uniquely merges traditional finance with the digital economy within a compliant framework. As the world’s first to deploy a customer-focused risk model, it addresses the crypto industry's unbanked challenge, providing an all-encompassing platform for accounts, custody, payments, and trading. This initiative paves the way for the next billion users to enter Web3, underlining Klickl's commitment to seamlessly integrating the digital and traditional financial realms. Learn more www.klickl.com
Member Board Of Directors
2022
Web 3 Payments for Emerging Markets, learn more at www.transfi.com
Member Board Of Directors
2022
Garage is a distributed Web 3.0 community with a mission to acquire and operate a Formula 1 race team. Garage is en route to delivering the most influential car community to the world, run by engaged and distributed members to fund and manage the greatest automotive experiences in exchange for closer connections to our automotive heroes. We are a modern, distributed community for active automotive enthusiasts - built on the blockchain. Learn more at https://mygarage.xyz
Investor
2020
The Destiny Tech100 is an exchange-listed fund investing in venture-backed private tech companies – providing private market access with the protections and liquidity of the public market. This marks a historic moment for the everyday investor, and I hope you’ll be a part of it. (about tech100: d.xyz/tech100 | disclosure: d.xyz/terms)
Public Access to Private Tech
Raised $5,000,000.00 from Fred Ehrsam, Charlie Cheever, Siqi Chen, Rahul Vohra, Luca Ventures, Streamlined Ventures and Soma Capital.
Board Advisor
2019
Neurable’s vision is to create a world where people live without limitations. Our revolutionary brain-computer interface allows people to control software and devices using only their brain activity. Learn more at www.neurable.com
Neurable is a neurotechnology company focused on developing AI tools for brain signal translation and brain-computer interface technology.
Raised $22,756,543.00 from Pace Ventures, TRAC, Metaplanet, Ultratech Capital Partners and TRAC.
Co-Founder and Board Director
2017
EQUIAM is an asset management company with a specific focus on one of the fastest growing and best performing asset classes, namely privately held shares of late-stage technology companies. Learn more at www.equiam.com
Equiam is a quantitative venture capital firm that consistently makes investments in unlisted markets.
Advisory Board & IC Member
2013
Frontier Ventures is a venture capital fund, established in 2011, to invest in Internet companies in Russia and the CIS. Our goal is to partner with entrepreneurs to build market leading businesses for the Russian language Internet. The Fund’s Partners are "serial entrepreneurs" themselves, with a track record of creating successful businesses from scratch. Investments include www.ivi.ru, www.biglion.ru and www.travelrent.com
Frontier Ventures invests in early stage Artificial Intelligence companies with network effects and connects them to global markets.