Raed A. Masri

Raed Masri is a Founding Partner at TRANSFORM VC, a venture studio and VC investments firm that focuses on startups addressing climate and social challenges. In addition to this role, Masri has co-founded and advised tech startups, provided business development and strategy support, and helped launch Mubadala Ventures as a Venture Partner. Raed has evaluated numerous VC funds and invested in 11 funds in California. Masri has also evaluated over 600 startups and invested in 14. Raed is a speaker on topics related to startups and innovation in Silicon Valley.

Masri is also a Co-founder and Investor at aixplain, inc., which is a no-code/low-code Integrated Development Environment (IDE) with an attached marketplace for AI assets. Additionally, they are an Investor and friend of the firm at Ample, a company that specializes in universal batteries for electric vehicles. Raed is an Investor and friend of the firm at Vectara, a search engine that allows users to search by meaning rather than keywords. Masri also holds investor roles at Claryo, boostsecurity.io, Tonal, Juvena Therapeutics, Reach, and Flip.

Raed Masri pursued higher education beginning in 1996 at Carleton University, where they obtained a degree in Engineering with a focus on Electrical studies in the year 2000. Raed furthered their educational journey by attending the Cornell Johnson Graduate School of Management, earning an MBA in General Management between 2006 and 2008. Additionally, during the same time period, Masri also pursued a Master of Business Administration degree at the Smith School of Business at Queen's University. No specific field of study was mentioned for their MBA at Queen's University. Before their university education, Masri attended Najd Private School and later, Riyadh National Schools, although no degree or field of study information was provided for these institutions.