| Date | Title | Description |
| 07.05.2025 | Launching our Women in Tech Series with iSono’s Shadi Saberi | We’re excited to launch a new series on Women in Tech.
Today, women-led startups receive less than 3% of all venture funding. In VC, women make up only 15% of investors and 2.4% of founding partners. 74% of VC funds have zero women investor... |
| 17.04.2025 | Transform VC Celebrates Women’s History Month | 2024 saw a downward trend in the number of female founded startups being funded. Here, at Transform VC, we are dedicated strongly to changing this trend through our continued commitment to impact-driven, deep tech startups founded largely b... |
| 09.03.2025 | Private Capital Sustains Growth Amid Uncertainty: TVC Fellow Alphaeus Hanson’s Insights from Davos | In January 2025, I attended the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos and came away with salient takeaways relevant for the year ahead. My thoughts are below.
Companies of the future must provide some tangible benefit to society beyo... |
| 26.02.2025 | The Power of Community: Inside the Transform VC Fellowship | One month ago, an ambitious group stepped into the Transform VC fellowship. In just a few weeks, they’ve navigated challenges, built meaningful connections, and expanded their vision of what’s possible.
The real transformation isn’t just ab... |
| 21.10.2024 | Transform VC’s Takeaways from the 2024 Include Impact Conference | This October, Rama Chakaki and Quinn Novels had the pleasure of representing Transform VC at VCI’s Include Impact Conference in Washington, DC. It was an intimate gathering of purposeful impact investors, each driven by a shared mission: to... |
| 16.09.2024 | - | PR INTERN
Here’s What We Need:
Organized, self-starter, takes initiative, is resourceful and likes a challenge
Excellent written, verbal and interpersonal communication skills
Mac proficient, particularly in Adobe Suite platforms and/or CAN... |
| 11.07.2024 | Guilford Dialogues Presents a Data-Driven Approach to Economic Inclusion | Two years ago, we started touring the US, engaging with communities to identify partners, fellows, founders, and investors who align with our social and climate impact strategy. In early June, we revisited Guilford College in Greensboro, No... |
| 25.05.2024 | Investing with Purpose: Rama Chakaki on Driving Impact Through Tech (Part Two) | Investing with Purpose: Rama Chakaki on Driving Impact Through Tech (Part Two)
Watch the full video: https://books.forbes.com/author-podcasts/knowledge-mindfulness-porch/investing-with-purpose-rama-chakaki-on-driving-impact-through-tech-par... |
| 23.05.2024 | Thriving Under Pressure: Mastering Your Mindset | Featuring courage in Venture Capital and more; Every week the entire team participates in sharing lessons learned about the industry and their unique perspectives as interns, fellows, general partners and advisors. The lessons shared invite... |
| 23.05.2024 | Mastering Communication: Insights from the TransformVC Team | Featuring courage in Venture Capital and more. Every week the entire team participates in sharing lessons learned about the industry and their unique perspectives as interns, fellows, general partners and advisors. The lessons shared invite... |
| 02.05.2024 | Insights & Reflections: Journeys, Lessons, and Perspectives | Featuring courage in Venture Capital and more. Every week the entire team participates in sharing lessons learned about the industry and their unique perspectives as interns, fellows, general partners and advisors. The lessons shared invite... |
| 26.03.2024 | Weekly Learnings: From Communication to Impact | Featuring courage in Venture Capital and more. Every week the entire team participates in sharing lessons learned about the industry and their unique perspectives as interns, fellows, general partners and advisors. The lessons shared invite... |
| 26.03.2024 | Weekly Learnings: Vulnerability, Balance, and the Power of Saying No | Featuring courage in Venture Capital and more. Every week the entire team participates in sharing lessons learned about the industry and their unique perspectives as interns, fellows, general partners and advisors. The lessons shared invite... |
| 07.03.2024 | 40hrs@TVC – Courage is the topic of choice | Featuring courage in Venture Capital and more; Every week the entire team participates in sharing lessons learned about the industry and their unique perspectives as interns, fellows, general partners and advisors. The lessons shared invite... |
| 15.02.2024 | Complex System Theory & Investing | Weekly Lesson
In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the fragility and complexity of global systems, including healthcare, have been brought into sharp focus. The disruption to supply chains and the broader economy has underscored the interc... |
| 31.01.2024 | Transform VC’s Investments of 2023: Next Life Sciences | NEXT Life Sciences is a preclinical medical device company that developed Plan A™, the first male birth control that is non-hormonal, long-lasting, and reversible. Plan A™ will finally give the 80% of men who are trying to not have kids at ... |
| 30.01.2024 | Transform VC’s Investments of 2023 – Elite Gaming Live (EGL) | Elite Gaming Live is an EdTech startup that aims to increase engagement of students in low-income communities by merging academia with gaming, impacting student’s attendance as well as academic performance.
Kerwin is a black founder based i... |
| 30.01.2024 | Welcoming Abbas “Eddy” F. Zuaiter to Our Transform VC Community: A Closer Look at His Background | We are thrilled to announce that Abbas “Eddy” F. Zuaiter has joined our Transform VC community. With his impressive background and expertise, he will have a strong impact as a member of our advisory community.. Here are a few highlights fro... |
| 07.11.2023 | GP Q&A: Embark Trucking Post Exit Evaluation | In the VC world, a GP’s track record in selecting investments that yield high returns is crucial. So, it’s equally important to reflect on each investment’s exit and evaluate what went right and wrong. Having become a GP after the Embark Tr... |
| 24.10.2023 | Fueling Any EV Brand in Under 5 Minutes—Bye-bye Pump, Hello Instant Power! Transform VC and Ample: | In a bid to accelerate the transition to mass electric vehicles (EVs) adoption and address the challenges of charging infrastructure, we at Transform VC have made multiple investments in Ample and continue to have deep conviction. Ample, is... |
| 17.09.2023 | Welcoming Saafir Rabb to Our Transform VC Community: A Closer Look at His Background | We are thrilled to announce that Saafir Rabb has joined our Transform VC community. With his impressive background and expertise, he will further enhance our advisory community. Here are a few highlights from Saafir’s career and the reasons... |
| 21.08.2023 | The Emergence of Quantum Computing: a New Era of Problem Solving on the Horizon | Since the beginning of time, humankind’s most defining evolutionary trait is the brain, allowing us to build tools that assist us in all domains of life. One era-defining tool was the computer, a brain machine that relies on a network of tr... |
| 01.08.2023 | Where Silicon Valley West failed, Chicago’s Silicon Valley MidWest will succeed | Reposted from rama.chakaki.com
Doing business while doing good never felt so plausible as it did in my recent trip to Chicago. Through our at Transform VC partner Walter Hughes, I met the West Loop community of black and brown founders, ven... |
| 27.07.2023 | Not all investors are created equal and impact investors are different | Reposted from rama.chakaki.com
After two days, seven meetings and eleven conversation streams, I remembered the importance of focusing on our mission, values and seeking to understand our investors well before inviting them to invest; here’... |
| 27.07.2023 | Welcoming Hon. George Salem to Our Transform VC Community: A Closer Look at His Background | We are thrilled to announce that the Honorable George R. Salem has joined our Transform VC
community. With his impressive background and expertise, he will have a substantial impact as a
member of our advisory community. Here are a few high... |
| 11.06.2023 | Takeaways from the Launch Angel Summit & All-In podcast live taping | This past week, I attended an incredible event; The Launch Angel Summit in Napa led by Jason Calacanis (aka JCal)
Angel Summit attendees consisted of angel investors, venture capitalists (e.g. Mar Hershenson, Christine Tsai and Bill Gurly ,... |
| 09.09.2022 | Tech entrepreneur Rama Chakaki discusses opportunities, challenges for AI in Mideast in Al-Monitor PRO webinar | Entrepreneur, influencer, and Transform Partner Rama Chakaki participated in a live webinar with Al-Monitor PRO Thursday to discuss innovation, artificial intelligence and social impact in the Middle East.
Chakaki is COO of aiXplain inc, a ... |
| 05.09.2022 | Forbes: How Muna AbuSulayman Became A Top Global Influence | Transform Partner Muna AbuSulayman featured on Forbes where she talked about female leadership and her journey as a serial entrepreneur, investor, partner, founder, and philanthropist.
Read full article here: Insight To Success: From Fashio... |
| 23.07.2022 | Investing in women founders, Bloomberg interview with Rama Chakaki | Investing in women founders, Bloomberg interview with Transform VC General Partner Rama Chakaki.
Watch the full video here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gk_Tw9eP3yo |
| 23.05.2022 | Ryan Breslow x Raed Masri, Fireside chat | At the Founder’s Village event, Raed A. Masri and Ryan Breslow had a fireside chat on the lessons learned in becoming a successful founder.
Ryan Breslow is the founder & chairman of Bolt as well as Transform VC’s equity partner. Watch t... |
| 12.05.2022 | Raed Masri Fireside Chat with Tonal Founder Aly Orady | May 12th, San Francisco Bay Area. Transform VC founding partner Raed Masri led a conversation with Aly Orady (Founder and CEO of Tonal) as the latter shared his story on building Tonal. The 20-year silicon valley veteran Aly was inspired by... |
| 28.04.2022 | Ample featured on Ruwad TV show by Ahmad Al Shugairi | Transform VC portfolio Ample has been recently featured on Al-Ruwad TV show by Ahmad Al-Shugairi. the TV show is highly popular due to the huge fame of its TV personality, the widely-acclaimed Saudi activist is immensely popular in the MENA... |
| 23.04.2022 | Tonal featured on Ruwad by Ahmad Al Shugairi | Transform VC portfolio Tonal has been recently featured on Al-Ruwad TV show by Ahmad Al-Shugairi. the TV show is highly popular due to the huge fame of its TV personality, the widely-acclaimed Saudi activist is immensely popular in the MENA... |
| 01.03.2022 | Transform VC on Bloomberg Al Sharq | Our founder and Managing Partner Raed A. Masri, was interviewed on Bloomberg Al Sharq and shared insights on how to win in Silicon Valley, watch the 6 minute video here: https://youtu.be/permS-Wg9e4 |
| 11.11.2021 | Health tech startup Color raises $100M at a $4.6B valuation | Health tech startup Color has raised $100 million in Series E funding, bringing the company’s valuation to $4.6 billion. This round means Color has now raised a total of $378 million, with this latest round specifically meant to help the co... |
| 06.11.2021 | Content, Communications, & Marketing Analyst | About the role
As a content, communications, and marketing analyst, your role will be to manage Transform’s external communications. Specifically, you will help us with:
Research, strategy development, and execution of digital marketing cam... |
| 30.09.2021 | aiXplain – A place where nothing stands between you and the power of AI | There’s no denying AI’s potential to transform virtually every industry on earth, but the technology remains trapped behind a skills gap of historic proportions. Meanwhile, although a new generation of AI practitioners is emerging on every ... |
| 28.09.2021 | Senior Analyst | About Transform VC
Transform VC is a Silicon Valley firm with a goal to enable 1000 tech founders to impact a billion lives and make billions.
Our focus is on technologies solving climate and social challenges. We remain committed to our co... |
| 01.09.2021 | Flip bags $28M to turn beauty, wellness social commerce on its head | Los Angeles based Social commerce startup Flip is leveraging real customer reviews to improve the “creator” communities customer experience. This week they closed a $28 million Series A led by Streamlined Ventures.
Flip was founded by Nooru... |
| 20.08.2021 | Ample raises $160M to scale its battery swapping service | San Francisco based battery swapping company Ample has raised $160 million in Series C to help scale its service. This is the largest round yet for this 8 year old startup. Ample wants to completely change how we charge electric vehicles.
T... |
| 24.06.2021 | Self-driving truck tech firm Embark to go public via $5.2 bln SPAC deal | Embark Trucks Inc said on Wednesday it will merge with a blank-check firm, in a deal that will give the private equity firm Tiger Global Management backed self-driving truck technology developer a market capitalization of $5.2 billion.
Read... |
| 29.04.2021 | Recursion Pharmaceuticals Jumps in Debut After $436 Million IPO | First investment made by our partners during their tenure at Mubadala Ventures; Recursion Pharmaceuticals Inc., uses machine learning to hunt for new therapies, rose 74% in its trading debut after exceeding goals for its initial public offe... |
| 12.04.2021 | Tonal Raises $250M in Funding at $1.6B Valuation | Tonal, the most advanced strength and personal training platform that combines proprietary digital weight, artificial intelligence, and expert-led coaching, today announced $250M in new funding, valuing the business at $1.6B. This brings To... |
| 04.03.2021 | Flip Fit launches Live Shopping Shows | Flip Fit married Snap Inc. with Amazon to produce a totally new experience never before imagined . Another TRANSFORM VC investment that’s raising eye brows and creating delight never before possible. Noor Agha is making waves!
View The futu... |
| 03.03.2021 | This Silicon Valley fund wants pitches from the Middle East | The founder of Transform VC, Mr Masri has built his fund to be a system that identifies and invests in technology entrepreneurs that may have been dismissed by early investors, with an “affinity” for putting its money toward founders with M... |
| 28.02.2021 | Introducing Ample: A New Way to Deliver Energy to Any Electric Vehicle. | Finally out of stealth, what we’ve all been waiting for: a faster more scalable way to deliver energy to electric cars thanks to Ample Khaled Hassounah John de Souza couldn’t be more proud. Ample was an early and very proud investment at TR... |
| 15.12.2020 | The first world’s conference #bridigingthegap | A week ago, we brought our dream to life: we kicked off the first edition of The Bridge: The first world’s conference #bridigingthegap in the funding space by connecting LPs to women GPs. We are beyond grateful to our Selection Committee Li... |
| 10.02.2020 | Transform VC Moderating at Super Return US West in LA | On Monday February 10th 2020, Raed A. Masri of Transform VC is moderating two panels at SuperReturn US West in LA, excited to have a conversation with distinguished panelists Heinz Blennemann, Gary Post, Eric Woo, CFA Jitendra Kavathekar an... |
| 30.01.2020 | Transform VC at the Upfront Summit 2020 | Climate change – a hot topic at the upfront summit 2020 great discussions by Bill Gross Fred Wilson Albert Wenger At Transform VC we have made a bet on Ample Inc that enables the mass adoption of electric cars and we’re always looking at ot... |
| 04.10.2019 | In under 4 months, Ossia receives second FCC certification | Ossia announces another FCC certification for wirelessly powered asset tracking system. We couldn’t be more proud of our portfolio company Ossia, which has demonstrated great execution once again by receiving a second FCC certification in u... |
| 11.07.2019 | Mesmer emerges from stealth to automate mobile app testing | Our portfolio company Mesmer has come out of stealth mode!
Mesmer’s founders sold their last startup for nearly $400m to Citrix. Waheed Qureshi and Ahmed Datoo and their team at Mesmer have developed unique technology that’s able to automat... |
| 11.07.2019 | Mesmer emerges from stealth to automate mobile app testing | Our portfolio company Mesmer has come out of stealth mode!
Mesmer’s founders sold their last startup for nearly $400m to Citrix. Waheed Qureshi and Ahmed Datoo and their team at Mesmer have developed unique technology that’s able to automat... |
| 04.07.2019 | Ossia receives it’s first FCC certification – remote wireless charging | Founded by Hatem Zeine, CTO of Ossia, and run by Mohammad (Mario) Obaidat as CEO, both of Jordanian descent, Ossia is the first in the world to receive FCC approval for delivering energy at a distance using radio frequency.
When we met Hate... |
| 04.07.2019 | Ossia receives it’s first FCC certification – remote wireless charging | Founded by Hatem Zeine, CTO of Ossia, and run by Mohammad (Mario) Obaidat as CEO, both of Jordanian descent, Ossia is the first in the world to receive FCC approval for delivering energy at a distance using radio frequency.
When we met Hate... |
| 30.06.2019 | Transform VC at the World Bank | Had the pleasure of speaking at the World Bank Conference in Jordan before a variety of entrepreneurs, corporates, technologists and industry stakeholders of Technology and innovation. |
| 17.06.2019 | Collective Health Secures $205M in Funding | Collective Health, a San Francisco, CA-based health technology company, raised $205m in funding.
The round was led by the SoftBank Vision Fund.
The company intends to use the funds to accelerate adoption of its enterprise healthcare platfor... |
| 16.05.2019 | Ossia and T-Mobile pilot wireless-charging asset tracker in Walmart warehouses | One of our early bets, Ossia Inc. who were first to invent real wireless power. Another portfolio company doing extraordinary things.
Building on this commitment, the company today revealed that it’s collaborating with T-Mobile to develop a... |
| 03.05.2019 | The top country to thank for this year’s IPOs. It’s not who you think! | Where do the Uber, Slack and SpaceX founders come from? What country is responsible for producing founders accounting for nearly half of 2019’s tech IPO market caps?
Having been a serial founder of this top country’s once thriving tech scen... |
| 15.04.2019 | A Canadian MENA founder doing extraordinary things in Silicon Valley | Our very own Canadian MENA founder Aly Orady of Tonal, doing extraordinary things in Silicon Valley, just closed a $45m in a round led by L Catterton.
Tonal is an entire gym and virtual personal trainer, in your home. Follow world class, ex... |
| 01.04.2019 | Equity Partner in action with our founders | The Transform VC equity partners are executives or founders who are experts in their field. They are a great resource to help us diligence opportunities and be sounding boards to us and our founders. Here’s one such example, with Neil Daswa... |
