Primary Job Title Founder and General Partner Primary Organization Preface Ventures
Location New York, New York, United States Regions Greater New York Area, East Coast, Northeastern US Gender Male
Investor Type Investor Stage
Website prefaceventures.com/ LinkedIn View on LinkedIn X (Twitter) View on X
Farooq Abbasi is the founder and sole general partner of Preface Ventures. Prior to founding Preface, Farooq was with Costanoa Ventures where he led investments in companies such as Alpha Health, Lively, Auterion, and Leap. Prior to Costanoa, he spent time with DN Capital and Mosaic Ventures on both sides of the Atlantic investing in enduring
businesses such as Remitly (RELY) and Auto1 (A1G). He began investing as a sole VC in companies including but not limited to Redlock (PANW), Truebill (RKT), Armory.io, and Ambient.ai.
In aggregate - he’s invested over $72m across 75+ companies whose cumulative enterprise value is now over $10bn. More importantly, these companies solve important market problems that improve the lives of all stakeholders leveraging scalable, cutting edge (computational science and engineering) methodologies.
Farooq is passionate about diversity of inclusion and founded Diversity.vc in 2016. Farooq speaks Hindi, and Spanish and is learning Arabic. He’s wildly competitive and will challenge you in any sport 1:1.
