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Raja Ghawi

VC investing in the physical world

Brooklyn, New York

Work Experience

  • Partner

    2022

    We invest in founders outcompeting industry incumbents or building new categories. The Era family includes: Passive Logic, Welcome Homes, Sheperd, Latii, Truehold, ViaBot, Honey Homes, Ostrich, Indigo, and Homeward.

2018 - 2022

  • Investment Director

    2019 - 2022

    Select fund investments include: OpenSpace (Series A), Kojo (Series A), EquipmentShare (Series C), Brunt (Seed), nPlan (Series A) Launched Boost: ConTech's premier accelerator. Select participants include: PassiveLogic (Series A), Flex (Seed), Canvas (Series B), Felux (Series A)

  • Analytics Project Manager, Early Stage VC

    2018 - 2019

    We built the industry's very first data lake! We started to run reports off it and also built a safety incident prediction model.

2017 - 2018

  • Senior Business Analyst

    2017 - 2018

    My teams built AI/ML models to predict machine failures and human injuries before they happen. On rotation from McKinsey.

2015 - 2018

  • Senior Business Analyst

    2015 - 2018

    Got to sample a bunch of stuff, including biotech (M&A), finance (blockchain, payments, risk, lending, insurance), and old industries (cars, trucks, alcohol) to name a few

  • Undergraduate Student Researcher

    2013 - 2014

    My research projects explored pulmonary engineering and regeneration, especially vascular regeneration. Published in Nature Biotechnology: https://www.nature.com/articles/nbt.3354

2014 - 2014

  • Summer Business Analyst

    2014 - 2014

    Advised a local bank on growth strategy, in as much as a 21-year-old could advise anyone on anything