Monk's Hill Ventures
Ali is the Head of Corporate Development at Monk's Hill Ventures (MHV) an early-stage SEA tech venture capital fund. Ali has 11 years of corporate development experience focused on consumer, SaaS, and Tech working at both buy and sell-side firms with a total deal/transaction experience of ~US$1bn.
Prior to MHV, Ali was an early employee and Head of Corporate Development at Circles.Life in Singapore. He built the team from the ground up, helping scale the Circles SaaS business globally to become one of Asia's fastest-growing unicorns (raising capital from marquee investors like Sequoia Capital, Warburg Pincus, Founders Fund, and Singapore Government).
He started his career at a leading MENA VC fund (Sawari Ventures) setting up one of MENA's largest tech startup accelerators (Flat6Labs). He moved to Asia in 2013 to work for a global tech MNC based out of Singapore and spent some time in Jakarta working for a boutique private equity firm.
Ali is originally from Egypt and graduated from Business School at Cairo University. He also earned his Master’s degree in SME Economics from the University of Bologna in Italy.
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Monk's Hill Ventures
Founded in 2014 by entrepreneurs Peng T. Ong and Kuo-Yi Lim, MHV is a venture capital firm investing in early-stage tech companies, primarily Series A, in Southeast Asia. Backed by institutional investors and family offices worldwide, MHV works with great entrepreneurs to use technology to improve the lives of millions of people in the region.