Co-Founder & CEO @ Plexor.ai

Naveed is an entrepreneur, executive, and early-stage investor. He is the Co-Founder and CEO of Plexor, visual AI to supercharge retail. He started his first company, Rally, after dropping out of grad school, which was used by 60K causes with over $1B in fundraising volume. Naveed's other startups were in the payments, mental health, generative AI, social good, and edtech spaces. Naveed's ventures have been backed by Greylock (Reid Hoffman), Floodgate (Mike Maples), Google Ventures (Kevin Rose), SV Angel (Ron Conway), Naval Ravikant, Tim Ferris, and Silicon Valley Bank. He created the Founder Mental Health Pledge, which now covers 26K+ startups across 600+ investors and leaders, including General Catalyst, Benchmark, Y Combinator, Techstars, Sophia Amoruso, Brad Feld, Eric Ries, and Justin Kan. It's been covered by TechCrunch, Forbes, Fortune, and others. As an executive, Naveed led strategy, growth, partnerships, and revenue for Career Karma (YC W19), Trilogy (Acq. by 2U - NASDAQ: TWOU), Galvanize (Acq. by Stride - NYSE: LRN), and VeroSkills. Naveed served as an advisor to the Thiel Fellowship (fellows include founders of Ethereum, Figma, Oyo Rooms, Scale AI, and Luminar) and on the board of Ismaili Professionals Network, where the portfolio of startup founders he accelerated raised over $1B across 14 countries. He currently curates Global Ismaili Innovators.