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Saad Rizvi

Partner, CPO at SuperLayer

Miami, Florida

Overview 

Saad Rizvi is a seasoned entrepreneur and investor, currently serving as the Co-founder and Director of Delivery Associates in Miami, Florida. With a background in management consulting at McKinsey & Company and experience as a Senior Vice President at Pearson/Financial Times, Saad has successfully invested in various early-stage companies, including Prospa, focusing on sectors such as Web3/Blockchain, E-commerce, and Digital Health. Saad's career highlights include co-founding Mentat. and Delivery Associates, as well as holding leadership positions at prominent organizations like Harvard University and Pearson/Financial Times. His investment focus on emerging markets and sectors like Web3/Crypto and Health IT showcases his expertise in strategic financial planning and business development.

Work Experience 

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SuperLayer

  • Partner

    2021 - Current

    Co-founding, acquiring and incubating companies. Portfolio includes: https://www.unite.io/ https://www.kalashapp.com/ https://www.onjoyride.com/ https://ltv.ai/ https://moxie.xyz/

SuperLayer is a Web3 venture studio that builds and supports new multi-chain, tokenized consumer products powered by the RLY Protocol.

superlayer.io
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Pioneer Fund

  • Venture Partner

    2019

    Investing in the most promising YCombinator startups each batch

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Delivery Associates

  • Co-Founder

    2012

    Driving large scale public outcomes in partnership with governments and social impact organizations. Approach has been successfully applied in 50+ countries across education, health and economic development. Technology products being used by Prime Ministers, Governors, Mayors, Ministers and other senior leaders of 50+ countries.

Various

  • Early Stage Investor

    2016

    Investor in seed/pre-seed companies and funds.

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Meta

  • New Product Experimentation

    2019 - 2021

    Meta's 0-1 product experimental arm. Built and launched stand-alone experiences and made direct investments into early stage companies.

Meta is a social technology company that enables people to connect, find communities, and grow businesses.

Raised $25,607,817,488.00 from ValueAct Capital.

meta.com
HU

Harvard University

  • Faculty

    2014 - 2019

    Working with ministers of finance, health and education to drive rapid, irreversible improvements across their countries. http://ministerialleadership.harvard.edu

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Mentat.

  • Co-founder, CEO

    2015 - 2019

    Enabled thousands of underemployed people land jobs through ML driven CRM product, with 1 million+ profiles on platform. Backed by the YCombinator, Initialized Capital, Switch VC, Tuesday Capital and Liquid2. Acquired by Scale.ai

Mentat is a concierge service for jobseekers, providing a path to better jobs thats faster, easier and more effective than using LinkedIn.

thementat.com

Pearson / Financial Times

  • Senior Vice President

    2012 - 2015

    Started and led a global product team to improve and deliver outcomes and performance across the company's products, services and investments (including venture investments and acquisitions) globally. Worked with the Chief Education Advisor, CEO and the Executive Leadership Team.

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McKinsey & Company

  • Engagement Manager

    2008 - 2012

    Lead strategy and execution teams in the technology and financial services industries.

McKinsey Growth Tech serves leading growth stage tech players, venture capital, and growth private equity

mckinsey.com
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Citigroup

  • Investment Banking

    2006 - 2006

Citigroup is a financial services holding company that provides various financial products and services.

Raised $12,950,000,000.00 from ValueAct Capital and Abu Dhabi Investment Authority.

citigroup.com

Education 

Investments 

Prospa

Pre Seed

Total funding: $81M

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