Dana Khater

Angel Investor

2020 - 2024

Over the past few years, I’ve invested in a few early stage startups across the globe as an angel and via Creator Fund. Proteinea: Pioneering the future of biologics to tackle life-threatening diseases SOJO: Making fashion circular through integrated, seamless and scalable clothing alterations and repairs solutions. Open AI: AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. AngelList: Tools for startups, investors, and fund managers to accelerate innovation. PYM: All-natural attention chews that support distraction, procrastination and focus. Metafy: 1-on-1 online coaching from the best players in the world. Base Immune: A data-driven platform specialised in pathogen analysis for antigen discovery and vaccine design Touchlab: Giving machines a human sense of touch. Sakneen: The easiest, fastest, and most enjoyable way to buy or sell a home in Egypt. Behave Candy: Low-sugar candy that doesn’t raise your blood sugar levels. July: A window A/C you’ll actually love. Edulis Labs: High performance, non-carcinogenic hair dyes designed for salons

Building Products for Founders

2022 - 2024

Principal & LP

2020 - 2022

£2.5M fund focused on investing in student-run startups across the UK. Our portfolio includes RecyclEye, Touchlab Robotics, BaseImmune, 3UG, Net AI, Tenyks, Nomad, Suji, Versed AI, Refund Giant, Enso Connect & POCKiT Diagnostics.

VC Investor

2020 - 2020

Founder & CEO

2013 - 2020

Coterique is an omni-channel dropshipping platform that supports & sells emerging fashion brands globally. As the CEO, some of the things I worked on were: -Developing partnerships worth over $500K with Fashion Forward Dubai, Orascom, El Gouna, Flo Water & more. - Hired, built & managed a global remote core team of 7 individuals in NYC, Dubai & Cairo. - Developed playbooks for all aspects of our operations; vendor outreach, city launchers, popup event execution & customer success guidebooks. - Maintained a 30% MOM revenue growth despite 2 revolutions & 1 currency devaluation in our local market. - Crafted a community-driven growth approach (CotiGirls) which allowed us to grow into over 30 countries including South Korea, Australia & Kuwait with $0 online advertising spend. - Executed a go-to-market strategy that focused on global experiential popups in Dubai, El Gouna & Cairo which increased our revenues by 20x compared to online during the popups' duration

MBA Associate

2020 - 2020

Founders Academy is a 9-month alternative-MBA designed to develop adaptable leaders for the world’s most ambitious scale-ups. During my time at FA I: - Increased conversion rates for Series A ed-tech startup Perlego by designing a UX project that utilized the google SPRINT methodology & created prototypes using Figma. - Programmed the front-end & an API for a Journaling App using HTML, CSS, JavaScript & Python. - Performed a regression analysis on a data set of 800 diabetic & non diabetic patients to determine the variables that had a statistical significance when predicting diabetes. - Introduced an insurance product for Series A startup Farewill to diversify their revenue streams - Delivered a GTM & Commercial Strategy for Venture Builder PUBLIC's latest project: Purple (a disposable card for those identified as vulnerable to use during COVID). - Coached bi-monthly by the COO of fintech unicorn Monzo; participated in classes by execs working at Deliveroo, Google, ASOS, Babylon & more tech unicorns.

Associate

2016 - 2016

Seedstars is a Swiss-based firm with the mission to find, connect, and invest in the top seed stage startups in emerging markets. As the MENA & CEE Associate, I was involved with their work in Egypt, Tunisia, Armenia, Georgia, Saudi Arabia & Dubai. This included: -Raising over $100,000 in sponsorship money to cover our on-ground startup events. - Launching Seedstars for the first time in Alexandria, Egypt & Tunis, Tunisia - Developing and managing in-country partnerships with local partner organizations while sourcing new business opportunities & sponsors for future events. -Localizing and delivering Seedstars startup curriculum sessions on topics like how to scale globally, perfecting your pitch, building a marketplace and the unit economics of tech startups. - Sourcing seed stage deal flow as well as market insights & intelligence for 100+ international investors -Working closely with startup founders to improve their pitch decks & gear up for future fundraising rounds. -Partnering with local co-working spaces to grow the "Seedspace" network- an interconnected network of workspaces for tech entrepreneurs

Investment Banking Summer Analyst

2014 - 2014

*Assisted my appointed Associate with the client presentations ahead of a local medical laboratory's IPO. *Researched the market and worked on the due diligence ahead of an IPO for an Egyptian FMCG company we were handling that was to be listed on the London Stock Exchange.

Founder & Editor-in-Chief

2011 - 2014

*Founded the first fashion magazine under the University Press Board to feature and produce original content about fashion from Egypt and the Middle East as a whole as opposed to the redundant content about international fashion. *Drafted club’s bylaws, recruited the initial team and set job descriptions and club managerial structure. *Worked on our boutique partnerships; signed with all available boutiques in Cairo to agree to lend out items for shoots. *Grew our readership and social following by 200% and 350% respectively semester-on-semester.

Sales & Marketing Intern

2013 - 2013

*Worked with a team to develop, market and ship a Windows 8 application to ease the process of volunteering by allowing users to view, rate, sign up and get directions to current and future volunteering events. *Trained in Sales, Marketing and Time Management by LOGIC Consultancy.