Rafiq Ahmed

Rafiq is the Founding Managing Director at Dipalo Ventures.
As a serial entrepreneur and investor, Rafiq has over three decades of experience in innovation, user experience design, product development, management consulting, and early-stage ventures.
His investment focus areas include climate, industrial, manufacturing, and medical devices.
Rafiq’s angel investment portfolio has a 29.23% IRR, 2.33x MOIC with 1 unicorn and 5 exits.
He co-founded the interactive storytelling platform Demibooks and exited to EDC (NASDAQ: EDUC).
He is a Limited Partner in a number of Venture Capital Funds.
Rafiq’s prior work included Motorola Mobility, Publicis Sapient Fannie Mae, and PwC.
Rafiq studied Computer Science and received an MBA from Virginia Tech and a BS in Electrical Engineering from West Virginia Wesleyan.