# Hossein Rahnama

> Hossein Rahnama is a startup investor at MIT Media Lab (Toronto). See 0 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [MIT Media Lab](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mit-media-lab)
- Location: Toronto, Canada
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/hosseinrahnama
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/hosinux
- Website: http://www.flybits.com

Hossein Rahnama is a recognized figure in ubiquitous computing and is the founder and chief executive officer of Flybits, a context-as-a-service company, with offices in Toronto and Palo Alto. His research explores artificial intelligence, mobile human-computer interaction and the effective design of contextual services. Rahnama has written 30publications and received 10 patents in ubiquitous computing. He is currently serving on the board of Canadian Science Publishing (CSP), was a council member of The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), and is a visiting scholar at the Human Dynamics Group at MIT Media Lab in Cambridge, Mass.

## About MIT Media Lab

VC Fund · Cambridge, United States

Actively promoting a unique, antidisciplinary culture, the MIT Media Lab goes beyond known boundaries and disciplines, encouraging the most unconventional mixing and matching of seemingly disparate research areas. It creates disruptive technologies that happen at the edges, pioneering such areas as wearable computing, tangible interfaces, andaffective computing.Today, faculty members, research staff, and students at the Lab work in more than 25 research groups on more than 350 projects that range from digital approaches for treating neurological disorders, to a stackable, electric car for sustainable cities, to advanced imaging technologies that can “see around a corner.”The Lab is committed to looking beyond the obvious to ask the questions not yet asked–questions whose answers could radically improve the way people live, learn, express themselves, work, and play.

5 contacts available at MIT Media Lab.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Adam Hanft | Member of the Board of Advisors | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/adam-hanft |
| Andrew Lippman | Sr Scientist | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andrew-lippman |
| Barak Berkowitz | Director of Operations and Strategy | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/barak-berkowitz |
| John Edge | Fellow, Connection Science | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/john-edge |
| Agnis Stibe | Social Engineer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/agnis-stibe |

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