# Farooq Abbasi

> Farooq Abbasi is a seed investor at Creative Destruction Lab backing Software and Health Care. See 28 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Creative Destruction Lab](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/creative-destruction-lab)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 28
- Last investment: May 2026
- Lead investor: 25%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/abbasifarooq
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/farooq_abbasi
- Website: https://prefaceventures.com/

Farooq Abbasi is a seed investor at Creative Destruction Lab in San Francisco focused on Software and Health Care. 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 enduringbusinesses 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.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 10 | 36% |
| Health Care | 6 | 21% |
| Analytics | 5 | 18% |
| Cyber Security | 4 | 14% |
| Information Technology | 4 | 14% |

52 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 22 | 79% |
| Pre-Seed | 4 | 14% |
| Series A | 1 | 4% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 16 | 57% |
| Canada | 2 | 7% |
| Brazil | 1 | 4% |
| Argentina | 1 | 4% |
| Costa Rica | 1 | 4% |

7 countries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Benji | Benji is a modern API for loyalty programs. It helps businesses enhance conversion rates and profitability by providing clients with a new way to pay using rewards points. | $6.3M | Seed | May 19, 2026 |  |
| Feroot Security | All-in-One Client-Side Risk Management Platform Feroot is the first way to manage and automate everything you need to protect your data assets on the client-side of your web applications and websites – from credit card data to login credentials, ePHI, and more. All in one, online platform. | $14M | Series A | Nov 18, 2025 |  |
| Benji | Benji is a modern API for loyalty programs. It helps businesses enhance conversion rates and profitability by providing clients with a new way to pay using rewards points. |  | Pre-Seed | Feb 27, 2025 |  |
| Qpoint | Qpoint develops and provides software and online tools that analyzes website traffic in real time. It helps identify errors and outages of various digital upgrades. | $4M | Pre-Seed | Oct 22, 2024 |  |
| Qpoint | Qpoint develops and provides software and online tools that analyzes website traffic in real time. It helps identify errors and outages of various digital upgrades. | $2.1M | Pre-Seed | Dec 21, 2023 |  |
| Qpoint | Qpoint develops and provides software and online tools that analyzes website traffic in real time. It helps identify errors and outages of various digital upgrades. | $2.1M | Seed | Dec 06, 2023 |  |
| alfii | Alfii is a Dubai-based HR tech startup founded by Yousef Albarqawi and Becky Jefferies on a mission to help companies take better care of their people by automating and humanizing HR operations. We’re building a SaaS platform that supports end-to-end automation of HR workflows and allows businesses to manage all employee data through one holisticsolution. By freeing HR owners from convoluted and time-consuming administrative work, we enable them to focus on the more critical workforce challenges. We’re starting by making it refreshingly easy to onboard and pay employees, no matter where they’re located. And after that, we're tackling the rest of the employee lifecycle. It’s designed to be simple and intuitive for both employers and employees to use at every touchpoint, while giving HR owners best-in-class analytics and deep insights to help them take better care of their people. | $2.5M | Pre-Seed | Jul 06, 2023 |  |
| Kibsi | Kibsi is an end-to-end, fully integrated environment designed for building computer vision applications. Our cloud native, low-code platform democratizes computer vision, allowing customers to focus on their business needs, not the complexity. | $5M | Seed | Dec 31, 2022 |  |
| Endor Labs | Endor Labs is the fastest-growing application security company. Founded by seasoned entrepreneurs who previously built category-defining companies, and supported by a world-class R&D team, over a third holding PhDs, Endor Labs delivers a modern Application Security platform tailored for today's software development revolution. It secureseverything from 40-year-old C/C++ code to vibe-coded applications. As teams increasingly adopt AI coding assistants and accelerate code deployment, they're inundated with security alerts lacking context. Endor Labs addresses this by deeply analyzing code execution and dependencies, constructing a comprehensive call graph to identify and prioritize the most pertinent risks, facilitating swift remediation. The company has raised over $163 million from top investors, including Lightspeed Venture Partners, DFJ Growth, Coatue, Salesforce Ventures, Dell Technologies Capital, Section 32, and Citi Ventures. Endor Labs counts among its customers leading technology, AI, and financial services companies, such as OpenAI, Cursor, Robinhood, Dropbox, Peloton, Snowflake, Rubrik, and Citi. | $25M | Seed | Oct 10, 2022 |  |
| Solvemed Group | At Solvemed Group, we believe in challenging the status quo of neurological care. Our founders experienced first-hand the grave consequences of poor diagnostic standards in neurodegenerative diseases. With the primary focus in Parkinson’s disease, we leverage our proprietary machine learning technology to develop novel diagnostic-predictive digitalbiomarkers to enable first-in-class, accurate, early and cost-effective diagnostic and monitoring tools. In everything we do, we put the needs of patients and healthcare professionals first. We also happen to revolutionise drug discovery as our biomarkers enable disease-modifying drugs.We respond to the unmet needs of neurological patients by providing reliable, accurate, early diagnostics and monitoring tools for better quality care and treatment outcomes. Our work has the potential to improve healthcare systems by optimising relevant care pathways and reducing the financial burden imposed by inadequate diagnostics. Through our proprietary medical data repositories, we work with our biopharmaceutical industry partners driving clinical trial efficiency and making first-in-class disease-modifying drugs possible.Everything we do is strongly embedded in world-class science. Our global team of renowned scientists and technology experts works closely with clinical researchers from top research institutions, such as Oxford University, University College London, Harvard Medical School and Duke University, among other. | $3.6M | Seed | Oct 05, 2022 |  |

10 of 28 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Hyde Park Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hyde-park-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [at.inc/](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/at-inc) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Bossa Invest](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bossanova-investimentos) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Carao Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/carao-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Head and Heart Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/head-and-heart-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Actions Capital (fka K50 Ventures)](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/K50Ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Creative Destruction Lab

VC Fund · Toronto, Canada

Creative Destruction Lab (CDL) is a no-fee/no-equity organization that delivers an objectives-based mentoring program for massively scalable, pre-seed stage, science- and technology-based companies. Its nine-month program allows founders to learn from experienced entrepreneurs, increasing their likelihood of success. Founded in 2012 byProfessor Ajay Agrawal at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management, the program has expanded to thirteen sites across seven countries: Seattle, Oxford, Paris, Atlanta, Estonia, Wisconsin, Vancouver, Calgary, Montreal, Berlin, Melbourne and Halifax.

5 contacts available at Creative Destruction Lab.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Daniel Mulet Lind | Associate Director, Quantum Machine Learning | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/daniel-mulet-lind |
| Dennis Kavelman | Founding Partner and Associate | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dennis-kavelman |
| Frederic Bastien | Fellow | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/frederic-bastien |
| Mark Dobbin | Founding Partner and Fellow | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mark-dobbin |
| Nils Herrmann | Stream Lead AgriFood | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nils-arne-herrmann |

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## FAQ

### What does Farooq Abbasi invest in?

Farooq Abbasi invests primarily in Software, Health Care and Analytics startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 28 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 Farooq Abbasi last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Farooq Abbasi closed in May 2026. Shizune tracks 28 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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