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Rabia Ghafoor

President at INgineering at IU

San Francisco Bay Area

Overview 

Rabia Ghafoor is a Computer Science student at Indiana University Bloomington and a Venture Scout at LvlUp Ventures, with expertise in Java, Product Management, and Entrepreneurship. Highlights of her career include serving as President of INgineering at IU and founding ConTracker, demonstrating leadership and entrepreneurial skills. Currently, Rabia Ghafoor is actively involved in scouting and investing in companies at LvlUp Ventures, focusing on sectors like MarketingTech, Education, and FinTech, showcasing her commitment to identifying and supporting innovative startups.

Work Experience 

  • Venture Scout

    2022 - Current

    If you are a founder and want to get in touch, feel free to email with the pitch deck: rabia.a.ghafoor(at)gmail[dot]com

Lvlup Ventures is a pre-seed to seed stage value-add fund, focused on helping their teams reach the next level.

  • President

    2023

  • President

    2024 - 2024

    • Spearheaded the Luddy Hackathon 3.0 with a 25+ person organizing committee, and led weekly meetings. • Managed the cross-functional teams in marketing, finance, sponsorships technology, and external relations departments. • Organised the largest Hackathon in the history of Luddy Hackathons, and IU Bloomington, IU Luddy combined till date with, 5 corporate and research sponsors, 5 problem cases, 1 food sponsor (Everbowl), 72 teams, and 315 hackers, and guest speaker, Prof. Yuzhen Ye, Computer Science Department Chair, and VIP Attendees (Prof. Haixu Tang and Mr. Joshua Strieff). • Built website for the Hackathon 3.0 using Javascript, Github Pages, later recognized and modified by Luddy School Web Team for Luddy Hackathon 4.0 (Spring 2025)

  • Software Engineering Fellow

    2024 - 2024

Headstarter offers a tech training platform with projects in Full Stack and ML, guided by mentors.

  • Vice President Operations

    2023 - 2023

  • Director of Operations

    2022 - 2022

  • Project Leader

    2023 - 2023

  • Consultant

    2022 - 2022

Net Impact is a nonprofit membership organization for students and professionals interested in using business skills.

  • Product Management Fellow

    2022 - 2022

  • Founder

    2020 - 2021

    Reach out to me if you would like the pitch deck and the demo.

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