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Siraj Khaliq

Investor at Atomico

Switzerland

Invests in

Stages:

  • Min Investment:

    $5,000,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $15,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $10,000,000.00

Education

Work Experience

2016

  • Investment Partner

    2016

    Finding, evaluating and funding new startups that have global ambitions, particularly those deeply-rooted in technology. We invest broadly across sectors, but look for companies that have reached some kind of business model inflection point. Typical investments >= $5m, series A and beyond.

  • Chief Technical Officer

    2007 - 2013

    As technical co-founder, built and scaled the company from two founders to 160 people (> half of which engineering). Broad responsibilities, including creating and maintaining a top-tier engineering culture, hiring, training & managing senior staff, large scale software architecture/design, board and executive level planning on core business questions.

2002 - 2007

  • Staff Software Engineer

    2002 - 2007

    Started as rookie software engineer out of university & progressed to lead engineering roles on several high-profile projects, including Google Book Search (one of the founding engineers), Patent Search and several other search products focused on previously offline content.