# Ammar Hanafi

> Ammar Hanafi is a Series A investor at Moment Ventures backing Software. See 32 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Moment Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/moment-ventures)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 32
- Last investment: Nov 2025
- Lead investor: 28%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/ammar-hanafi/0/35/540

Ammar Hanafi is a Series A investor at Moment Ventures in San Francisco focused on Software and Information Technology. Ammar Hanafi joined Alloy Ventures as a general partner in 2005. At Alloy, he focuses on investments in communications and IT infrastructure, as well as internet-enabled consumer and enterprise applications and services.Operating experience:Ammar has over a decade of financial and operational management experience in the communications andtechnology industry. He previously served as vice president of new business ventures at Cisco Systems, where he led new product efforts in the enterprise datacenter market. From 2000 to 2002, he was vice president of corporate business development, and in that capacity, he was responsible for Cisco's acquisitions, acquisition integration, investment, and joint venture activity on a global basis. He joined Cisco in 1997 as a member of the Corporate Business Development Group. During Ammar's tenure at Cisco, he helped the company complete over 100 investment and M&A transactions, including 50 successful acquisitions and over $750 million in venture capital investments. Leveraging his deep industry expertise, he helped lead Cisco into a number of major new businesses, including optical networking and integrated voice and data infrastructure and applications.Prior to Cisco, Ammar held leadership positions at PanAmSat Corp., a global satellite services provider, and the investment banking firms of Morgan Stanley and Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette.Ammar received a BS in Applied and Engineering Physics from Cornell University (1988) and an MBA from Stanford University (1995). Current board seats:Ammar serves on the board of directors of 3Leaf Systems, YouSENDit, Retrevo, Mavenir Systems, GigaOM, Qwaq, Infineta Systems and Moxsie. He also led Alloy's investment in Cortina Systems. Ammar also serves on the board of the Silicon Valley Education Foundation, a non-profit.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 6 | 19% |
| Information Technology | 4 | 13% |
| Events | 2 | 6% |
| Telecommunications | 2 | 6% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 2 | 6% |

35 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 6 | 19% |
| Seed | 5 | 16% |
| Series D | 5 | 16% |
| Series C | 4 | 13% |
| Series B | 3 | 9% |

9 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 10 | 31% |
| Pakistan | 1 | 3% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Farmdar | Farmdar empower farmers with actionable data to lower costs, increase yield, enhance quality, and reduce waste. |  | Seed | Nov 10, 2025 |  |
| Aviz Networks | Aviz Networks is enabling SONiC deployments in Data Center & Edge Networks by delivering platform and ASIC agnostic applications for Network Orchestration, Monitoring, and Enterprise Grade Support. Our vision is to drive open-source networking via disaggregated cloud-native applications and provide data-driven intelligence for multi-vendornetwork fabrics. | $17M | Series A | Nov 21, 2024 |  |
| Farmdar | Farmdar empower farmers with actionable data to lower costs, increase yield, enhance quality, and reduce waste. |  | Seed | Oct 08, 2024 |  |
| Aviz Networks | Aviz Networks is enabling SONiC deployments in Data Center & Edge Networks by delivering platform and ASIC agnostic applications for Network Orchestration, Monitoring, and Enterprise Grade Support. Our vision is to drive open-source networking via disaggregated cloud-native applications and provide data-driven intelligence for multi-vendornetwork fabrics. | $10M | Venture - Series Unknown | Nov 30, 2023 |  |
| Aviz Networks | Aviz Networks is enabling SONiC deployments in Data Center & Edge Networks by delivering platform and ASIC agnostic applications for Network Orchestration, Monitoring, and Enterprise Grade Support. Our vision is to drive open-source networking via disaggregated cloud-native applications and provide data-driven intelligence for multi-vendornetwork fabrics. | $4M | Seed | Apr 26, 2022 |  |
| Turing Labs | Turing is a research and development digital platform that improves speed-to-market for consumer goods. It is built to overcome major challenges shared by the world’s biggest consumer goods companies. It aims to bring the latest technologies and newer approaches to product development, product innovation, or renovation.It was founded in 2019 andis headquartered in New York, United States. | $16.5M | Series A | Jan 19, 2022 |  |
| Laylo | Laylo powers drops for some of the world’s biggest creators and brands. Drops have become the predominant marketing strategy for merch, tickets and content and we're building the leading CRM to power them. The platform combines landing pages, messaging, link tracking, and more to empower musicians, live events, promoters, and brands with thetools to drive more sales and streams around their most important moments.We’re building a next-generation marketing platform complete with drop campaigns, cross-platform messaging, landing pages, and link tracking –giving creators the power to own and activate their fanbase. | $3M |  | Jun 07, 2021 |  |
| Laylo | Laylo powers drops for some of the world’s biggest creators and brands. Drops have become the predominant marketing strategy for merch, tickets and content and we're building the leading CRM to power them. The platform combines landing pages, messaging, link tracking, and more to empower musicians, live events, promoters, and brands with thetools to drive more sales and streams around their most important moments.We’re building a next-generation marketing platform complete with drop campaigns, cross-platform messaging, landing pages, and link tracking –giving creators the power to own and activate their fanbase. | $3M | Seed | Jun 07, 2021 |  |
| Alto Solutions | Alto Solutions delivers an easy-to-use, automated process for investing in alternatives with IRA savings. It aims to democratize alternative asset investing. AltoIRA offers an easy-to-use investing platform that empowers everyday investors to diversify their IRAs by investing in alternative assets such as private equity, venture capital, realestate, loans, and cryptocurrency. Offering Traditional, Roth, SEP, and Crypto IRAs, Alto is bringing alternative investments to the mainstream. Everyday investors can now easily and cost-effectively access their retirement savings to invest in assets once reserved solely for high-net-worth individuals.It was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee. | $17M | Series A | Apr 20, 2021 |  |
| Turing Labs | Turing is a research and development digital platform that improves speed-to-market for consumer goods. It is built to overcome major challenges shared by the world’s biggest consumer goods companies. It aims to bring the latest technologies and newer approaches to product development, product innovation, or renovation.It was founded in 2019 andis headquartered in New York, United States. | $1.8M | Seed | Jul 07, 2020 |  |

10 of 32 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [North Bridge Venture Partners & Growth Equity](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/north-bridge-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Austin Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/austin-ventures) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Sevin Rosen Funds](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sevin-rosen-funds) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Sigma Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sigma-partners) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [True Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/true-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Y Combinator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/y-combinator) — VC Fund, 4 deals together

## About Moment Ventures

VC Fund · Palo Alto, United States

Moment Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm investing in the future of work. The firm invests in early-stage institutional rounds of companies in the future of work and prefers to invest in the logistics, food, oil and gas, education, transportation, and construction sectors.Moment Ventures was founded in 2013 and is headquartered inPalo Alto, California.

3 contacts available at Moment Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Ammar Hanafi | Co-Founder & General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ammar-hanafi |
| Clint Chao | Co-Founder & General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/clint-chao |
| Tony Di Bona | Chief Financial Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tony-di-bona |

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## FAQ

### What does Ammar Hanafi invest in?

Ammar Hanafi invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and Events startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 32 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Ammar Hanafi last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Ammar Hanafi closed in Nov 2025. Shizune tracks 32 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

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