Invests in
Locations:
Min Investment:
$5,000.00Max Investment:
$25,000.00Target Investment:
$15,000.00
Education
- QU
Lists including Afraj
Investments
Work Experience
2025
President & Co-Founder
2025
Recruited Zown into C100’s Fellowship. Raised capital from Moxxie Ventures and joined to help scale the business and launch the U.S. market. TIME Magazine’s best inventions of 2025. Grateful to be doing my life's work. Come do yours - we are hiring: afraj@zownhomes.com
2017
Co-Founder
2017
We raised from Haystack and Trucks, early backers of Instacart, DoorDash, Joby Aviation, etc., and did a strategic partnership with the world's fourth largest automaker. Drop aims to solve the First-and-Last-Mile problem in the $200B+ public transportation industry. Now profitable and growing in 65+ cities across the United States. I'm proud of the impact we had, the team we built, the staying power of the company, and the team in place that continues to steer the ship towards the vision we built the company on. I remain a large shareholder of the business.
2024
Limited Partner
2024
400+ YC alumni investing in the top YC startups.
2024
Founding Member & Advisor
2024
a16z and Initialized back DAO. Founding Members include Garry Tan, Qasar Younis, Jeff Schneble, Josh Buckley, etc. Advised Michael Ma and team in early days on how to build an enduring community.
2023
Advisor to CEO
2023
Recruited Moment into C100. Helped fundraise and coached founders. Now backed by In-Q-Tel, Amazon, Voyager, Version One and others.
2021
Angel Investor
2021
Founders I have backed at the earliest stages have gone on to raise capital from investors like a16z, General Catalyst, YC & YC Continuity, Lightspeed, Coatue, Penny Jar, In-Q-Tel, KKR, Village Global, Matrix Partners, Lachy Groom, Shrug Capital, Global Founders Capital, and other awesome folks.
2023 - 2025
Executive in Residence
2023 - 2025
Helped founders/CEOs from seed to pre-IPO. Our early-stage program, now in its 14th year, has graduated 20 unicorns, including Ada, ApplyBoard, Wealthsimple, and Sonder. We also run a Growth Program for companies with $10M+ in annual revenue and a scale-up program for those surpassing $100M. I served as a confidant to founders, supporting them in their scaling, fundraising, operating, and personal challenges. Collectively, C100's Canadian founder members have built companies valued at over $100 billion, including Roblox, Cloudflare, and Instacart.
2023 - 2024
Fractional Executive
2023 - 2024
Grateful to have met and supported incredible talent in my brief tour. Recruited Stability into On Deck pre ChatGPT and the explosion in AI.
2021 - 2023
Partner
2021 - 2023
On Deck scaled to 300 employees globally and raised >$100m from Founders Fund and other top investors across a fund/equity. Over 1k startups have been founded and launched at On Deck, collectively raising more than $2b. Our accelerator fund, ODX, invested in over 230 companies worldwide. I served as a confidant and coach to dozens of CEOs on operational scaling, fundraising, and go-to-market, and helped scale the company as one of its leaders.
2020 - 2021
General Manager
2020 - 2021
Leadership role in the ventures arm.