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Shervin Ghaemmaghami

Operating Partner

About

Shervin joined F-Prime Capital in 2012 to help start their technology fund. He focuses on investments in start-ups that are building products for technical, scientific and creative communities (‘Maker Tools’). In recent years, this has included start-ups helping Scientists (e.g., Benchling, BenchSci) and Software Developers (e.g., ReadMe, Codeship acquired by CloudBees, Percy acquired by BrowserStack).

He began his career in venture capital with Polaris Venture Partners, and has held operating roles at The Atlantic and various MIT spin-outs/ start-ups. He has also worked for McKinsey and Company in both their US and Middle East offices. Shervin was born and raised in London, England and has undergraduate and masters degrees in Engineering from both the University of Cambridge and MIT.

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Albert Invent’s $7.5M Seed Round
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Retooling the Lab-Software Stack

  • Albert Invent empowers organizations to accelerate innovation with its state-of-the-art R&D platform. Built for chemistry and materials science, and powered by AI and Machine Learning, Albert’s collaborative, secure end-to-end platform delivers data insights and tools throughout the R&D process to accelerate speed to market. Albert is being utilized by some of the largest companies in the industry, along with emerging startups around the world. Learn more at https://www.albertinvent.com/

  • Benchling is the leader in cloud-based informatics for life science R&D. The company offers a unified R&D platform purpose-built for biologics, including solutions for Lab Notebook, Molecular Biology, Bioregistration, Sample Tracking, Requests and Workflow Management. Benchling is used by over 100,000 scientists globally throughout multinational pharmaceutical corporations, emerging biotechnology companies, and major research institutions. Learn more at https://benchling.com/.

    • Category

      • Enterprise IT
      • Health IT/Services

    • Status

      • Private

    • Location

      San Francisco, CA

    • Year Invested

      2018

    • Team

      Shervin Ghaemmaghami, Jon Lim

  • BenchSci exponentially increases the speed and quality of life-saving research by empowering scientists with the world’s most advanced biomedical artificial intelligence to run more successful experiments. Learn more at www.benchsci.com.

  • Cloudant offered a distributed NoSQL database-as-a-service (DBaaS) for developers creating web and mobile applications. Cloudant was acquired by IBM in 2014.

  • Codeship operates a cloud-based platform that helps software developers test and deploy their code more efficiently through continuous integration (CI) and continuous deployment (CD). Codeship was acquired by Cloudbees in 2018. Learn more at codeship.com.

  • Percy works at the intersection of design, development, and deployment. Their product is the world’s first truly continuous visual testing platform, helping enable product teams to ship software faster and with confidence in every visual change to their application. Learn more at percy.io.

    • Category

      • Enterprise IT

    • Status

      • Private

    • Location

      San Francisco, CA

    • Year Invested

      2019

    • Team

      Shervin Ghaemmaghami

  • ReadMe provides an easy-to-configure platform for companies to document and showcase their Application Programming Interface (API), and build loyal, productive developer communities. Learn more at www.readme.io.

    • Category

      • Enterprise IT

    • Status

      • Private

    • Location

      San Francisco, CA

    • Year Invested

      2015

    • Team

      Shervin Ghaemmaghami

  • Recurly, Inc. delivered enterprise-grade subscription management to thousands of SaaS, media, mobile, consumer goods, productivity, and publishing businesses worldwide. Businesses like Sling TV, Asana, Unbounce, and BarkBox were dependent on Recurly’s ability to cut through the complexity of subscription management to drive recurring revenue growth. Since its launch in 2010, Recurly had deployed subscription billing for thousands of companies across 32 countries, making it the most trusted subscription management platform. Recurly was acquired by Accel-KKR in 2020.

    • Category

      • Enterprise IT
      • FinTech

    • Status

      • Acquired

    • Location

      San Francisco, CA

    • Year Invested

      2014

    • Team

      Shervin Ghaemmaghami