Farhan Thawar
VP Engineering @ Shopify
Toronto, Canada
Farhan Thawar is a seed investor at Shopify in Toronto focused on Software and Information Technology. Farhan Thawar is the VP Engineering at Shopify. Attended University of Toronto - Rotman School of Management.
- Total investments:
- 15
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 0%
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Industries Farhan Thawar invests in
Stages Farhan Thawar invests in
Countries Farhan Thawar invests in
Round sizes
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Round size
- Seed
- $2.4M–$8.5M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 7 (47%)
- Information Technology 5 (33%)
- SaaS 3 (20%)
- Developer Tools 2 (13%)
- Artificial Intelligence 2 (13%)
Stage
- Seed 10 (67%)
- Pre-Seed 2 (13%)
- Angel 1 (7%)
- Series A 1 (7%)
- Series B 1 (7%)
Country
- Canada 10 (67%)
- Israel 2 (13%)
- United States 2 (13%)
Investments
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Mantle
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Mantle is building the next generation of tools to transform how private assets are managed. | $10.5M / Seed / Oct 12, 2023 | |
Ten Key Labs
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Ten Key Labs develops a transparent operating system with the goal of bringing programmable money to businesses. The company provides a next-generation platform for modern entrepreneurs that is powered by AI. | $7.7M / Seed / Oct 03, 2023 | |
Redefine
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Redefine operates as an AI-based CI optimization platform that speeds up dev cycles and cuts cloud costs by optimizing builds and reducing feedback time by over 90%. | $8.5M / Seed / Apr 03, 2023 | |
Aide
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Aide uses AI to automate customer support and analyze conversations to help teams understand issues and make their customers happier. | Pre-Seed / Nov 11, 2022 | |
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Aide
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Aide uses AI to automate customer support and analyze conversations to help teams understand issues and make their customers happier. | Angel / Nov 11, 2022 | |
Vestaboard
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Vestaboard develops an internet-connected display intended to help design and provide information through wall-hanging screens. Vestaboard's product is a smart messaging display that can be controlled from anywhere, it takes automated updates from apps and can support enterprise-level solutions via the API, enabling commercial and residentialcostumers to share massages using a split-flap screen. | $5M / Seed / Aug 23, 2022 | |
Parallelz
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Parallelz builds a platform that enables anyone to instantly create, and share “impossible” versions of their favorite mobile games. | $2.9M / Pre-Seed / Jun 22, 2022 | |
Wilco
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Wilco enables software engineers of all experience levels to upskill by acquiring and honing hands-on skills in an immersive experience. The platform, built to emulate the conditions at a tech startup, sends users on "quests" that cover everyday engineering tasks — from deploying an app to finding the root cause of a production issue —utilizing real-life tech stacks. By providing a safe life-like environment for upskilling at an accelerated pace, Wilco helps developers from all backgrounds unlock their full potential. Wilco was founded in 2021 by On Freund (CEO), Shem Magnezi (CTO) and Alon Carmel (CPO).Wilco was established in 2021 by On Freund in Tel Aviv, Israel. | $7M / Seed / Jun 20, 2022 | |
Hookdeck
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Hookdeck is a fast and reliable event gateway for receiving, processing, and delivering asynchronous messages. It centralizes and streamlines communication between services – external providers (e.g. Shopify), internal endpoints (e.g. APIs), and any combination thereof.Configure Hookdeck platform resources and features such as event routing,filters, and transformations. And let Hookdeck automatically retry failed events for painless error recovery.Our developer tooling enables teams to build, deploy, operate, and observe their event-driven applications with confidence. | $2.7M / Seed / Apr 12, 2022 | |
Shakepay
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Shakepay is a technology company that provides financial applications for building wealth. Through an app, Shakepay allows Canadians to buy/sell bitcoin and pay their friends. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Montreal, Canada. | $35.2M / Series A / Jan 20, 2022 | |
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Co-Investors
About Shopify
Shopify is a cloud-based, multi-channel commerce platform designed for small and medium-sized businesses. Merchants can use the software to design, set up, and manage their stores across multiple sales channels, including web, mobile, social media, marketplaces, brick-and-mortar locations, and pop-up shops. The platform also provides merchants witha powerful back-office and a single view of their business.Shopify offers online retailers a suite of services including marketing, customer engagement, payments, and shipping tools to simplify the process of running an online store for small merchants. They launched an application programming interface (API) platform and App Store that allows developers to create applications for Shopify online stores and then sell them on the Shopify App Store.The Shopify platform was engineered for reliability and scale, making enterprise-level technology available to businesses of all sizes. Shopify currently powers over 800,000 businesses in approximately 175 countries and is trusted by brands such as Tesla, Red Bull, Nestle, GE, Kylie Cosmetics, and many more.
Shopify Contacts
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Bharati Balakrishnan
Country Head & Director, India
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Bram Sugarman
Director of Corporate Development & Strategic Partnerships at Shopify
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Brennan Loh
Director of Marketing Partnerships
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Brittany Forsyth
SVP of HR
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Daniella Bellaire
Head of Global Sales Craft
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FAQ
What does Farhan Thawar invest in?
Farhan Thawar invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and SaaS startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 15 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Canada. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Farhan Thawar's check size?
Farhan Thawar typically joins rounds of $2.4M–$8.5M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Farhan Thawar participates in.
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When did Farhan Thawar last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Farhan Thawar closed in Oct 2023. Shizune tracks 15 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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