# Habib Haddad

> Habib Haddad is a seed investor at Volta Labs (Boston) backing Internet and Non Profit. See 9 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Volta Labs](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/volta-labs-a9c8)
- Location: Boston, United States
- Total investments: 9
- Last investment: May 2024
- Lead investor: 22%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/hhaddad
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/habibh
- Website: http://www.habibhaddad.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/habib.haddad

Habib Haddad is a seed investor at Volta Labs in Boston focused on Internet and Non Profit. Habib is a tech entrepreneur and angel investor, recently turned VC. He is currently the CEO of Wamda.com and the managing partner of Wamda Capital. He founded Yamli.com the Arabic search and transliteration startup that licensed its technology to Yahoo. He also started a number of non-profits including YallaStartup, INLET and ReliefLebanon.In2009, the World Economic Forum recognized Habib as a Young Global Leader and the ArabianBusiness named him one of the top 30 influential Arabs under 30 as well as of the most 500 powerful Arabs. He currently serves on the Global Agenda Council on innovation. He is an advisor to several US and Middle Eastern startups and non-profits. Habib is behind the original idea behind Yamli, and today drives Yamli's vision of empowering the Arabic language and users on the web. His responsibilities span from product strategy and design to business development. The World Economic Forum recently recognized Habib as a Young Global Leader for 2009.Prior to Yamli, he worked as a senior engineer at ATI (later acquired by AMD); and before that he was part of the early engineering team at Mok3 (now Everyscape), a startup out of the MIT CSAIL lab.Habib co-founded INLET (International Network of Lebanese Entrepreneurs and Technologists), an organization geared towards promoting entrepreneurship and leadership for the Arab world in general and Lebanon in particular. He also founded Relief Lebanon, a grass roots effort aimed at supporting the relief operations in Lebanon during the July 2006 war. Relief Lebanon was featured by the "101 Stories to Tell" initiative by the UNDP in February 2009.Habib often speaks about early stage development and entrepreneurship, and has spoken at venues such as the Harvard Business School, Boston College and the American University of Beirut. He currently sits on the advisory board of Meedan, a non-profit startup that aims to enable cross-cultural dialogs online.Habib holds a Bachelor of Computer and Communication Engineering from the American University in Beirut and a Masters in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $340k–$11M |
| Series A | $7.9M–$15M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Internet | 2 | 22% |
| Non Profit | 2 | 22% |
| Agriculture | 2 | 22% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 2 | 22% |
| Apps | 1 | 11% |

23 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 5 | 56% |
| Series A | 2 | 22% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 11% |
| Convertible Note | 1 | 11% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| HoundDog.ai | HoundDog.ai offers an AI-powered code scanner that can help you stop PII data leaks at the source and automate data mapping for privacy compliance. This scanner continuously detects vulnerabilities that are overlooked by SAST scanners, exposing sensitive data (e.g., PII, PIFI, PHI) in plaintext across various mediums such as logs, files, tokens,cookies, or third-party systems. Additionally, it tracks and visualizes the flow of sensitive data at the speed of development, alerts you when new data elements are introduced based on their sensitivity levels, and enables the effortless generation of Records of Processing Activities (RoPA). | $3.1M | Seed | May 22, 2024 |  |
| Ubicept | Ubicept is a computer vision company. They provide machine learning services by combining next-generation image sensors with computer vision algorithms. Their products include photon-counting cameras, edge photon processing, and a private developer portal. | $8M | Seed | Jul 25, 2023 |  |
| OPT Industries | At OPT Industries, we invent material systems to design and manufacture products at the micron-scale. Using vertically integrated machinery, software, and design expertise, we provide our customers precision-engineered products at high volumes and with shortened lead times.OPT Industries was established in 2019 by Jifei Ou in Cambridge,Massachusetts. | $15M | Series A | Mar 01, 2022 |  |
| Augmental | Augmental Tech develops technology that integrates with the human body that enables to access information without the use of hands. The company actively developing discreet hands-free interfaces for people with both situational and severe motor impairment. They want to help others to overcome the physical and sensory limitations of the body and seethe mouth as unexplored real-estate for human-computer interaction.Augmental Tech enabling access to computers and increased autonomy for those living with paralysis of the upper extremities. They allowing interaction with a mobile device when constraints imposed by context prevent the use of hands. Augmental Tech was founded in 2019 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. | $1.2M | Pre-Seed | Aug 25, 2021 |  |
| Guardian Agriculture | Guardian Agriculture has developed an integrated eVTOL (electric vertical takeoff and landing) system for precision application, extending growers’ reach, reducing environmental impact, and minimizing product resistance.Offered as a service, the company’s autonomous, eVTOL, agricultural systems collect and act intelligently on data generatedthroughout the crop protection process. When deployed at scale the systems are capable of eliminating hundreds of millions of pounds of unnecessary pesticide use annually while helping farmers grow healthier, better-protected crops. | $10.5M | Seed | Apr 06, 2021 |  |
| Guardian Agriculture | Kiwi Technologies provides advanced crop protection services using state of the art technology. | $10.5M | Seed | Apr 06, 2021 |  |
| ProBueno | ProBueno (http://www.probueno.com) is a new way to raise money for charity; built for the social web, ProBueno enables anyone to offer his or her talents in exchange for donations. For example, a musician can offer to give a piano lesson to any fan that donates $30 to the Red Cross | $340K | Seed | Mar 11, 2013 |  |
| Rally | RallyPay and Rally.org use innovative payments and data technology to connect donors to causes and companies with their clients. It is an easy to use storytelling platform that's designed to empower technical and non-technical users to fundraise and build social awareness on a large scale. To date, Rally has enabled millions of individuals andorganizations to share, connect to, and broadcast their passions, provide solutions to problems, leverage social networks, and mobilize communities. Rally's users vary in size and scope and address a wide range of topics. The site has been used by everyone from political candidates for campaign fundraising to Jon Bon Jovi's non-profit foundation to help raise money for Hurricane Sandy relief. Others have created Rally campaigns to help cover the cost of medical expenses, pay for tuition, start companies, fund films and everything in-between. | $7.9M | Series A | Jun 26, 2012 |  |
| Circa | More and more people are relying on mobile as their primary source of news yet the content itself continues to be produced in a format that translates very poorly to mobile devices. Rather than trying to shoehorn existing content into a new environment, Circa is creating the first born-on-mobile news experience. It will deliver news in a uniqueformat – native to mobile devices with an experience intuitive to mobile users. Through comprehensive yet to-the-point news updates paired with an engrossing mobile experience, Circa redefines how news is produced, delivered and consumed. Circa is news reimagined.Circa was founded by | $900K | Convertible Note | Apr 27, 2012 |  |

9 of 9 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Cavallo Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cavallo-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
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- [Leaps by Bayer](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/leaps-by-bayer) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Pillar VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pillar-companies-2) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Berkeley SkyDeck Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/berkeley-skydeck-fund) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Volta Labs

VC Fund · Cambridge, United States

Volta Labs is a biotechnology company that develops scalable automation for genetic engineering.

3 contacts available at Volta Labs.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Calvin Chin | Investor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/calvin-chin |
| Habib Haddad | Investor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/habib-haddad |
| Udayan Umapathi | Co-founder and CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/udayan-umapathi |

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## FAQ

### What does Habib Haddad invest in?

Habib Haddad invests primarily in Internet, Non Profit and Agriculture startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 9 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Habib Haddad's check size?

Habib Haddad typically joins rounds of $340k–$11M at Seed and $7.9M–$15M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Habib Haddad participates in.

### When did Habib Haddad last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Habib Haddad closed in May 2024. Shizune tracks 9 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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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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