# Ihab Ilyas

> Ihab Ilyas is a seed investor at Tamr backing Big Data and Infrastructure. See 1 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: Tamr
- Location: Waterloo, Canada
- Total investments: 1
- Last investment: Apr 2025
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ihabilyas
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/ihabilyas
- Website: https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~ilyas

Ihab Ilyas is a seed investor at Tamr in Waterloo focused on Big Data and Infrastructure. Ihab Ilyas is the Head of the Apple Knowledge Platform of Apple and Co-Founder of Tamr. He is a former CEO and Co-Founder at Inductiv. He attended the Alexandria University and Purdue University.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Big Data | 1 | 100% |
| Infrastructure | 1 | 100% |
| Machine Learning | 1 | 100% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 1 | 100% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Bauplan | Bauplan provides Serverless functions + data branches directly over S3. We empower every Python developer to build AI and data applications that are portable, versioned, and reproducible with zero infrastructure management. Enterprise teams already use Bauplan to build analytics and AI applications that serve tens of millions of users daily. -Serverless. Developers can work with zero infrastructure overhead — never deal with provisioning, configuration, containers and dependency management ever again. - Designed for developers. Every developer can script the entire data lifecycle in pure Python without leaving their IDE — ingestion, transformation, modeling, testing, and CI/CD. - Built for S3 on open standards: bauplan leverages native Iceberg support for object storage, ensuring smooth integration with other data platforms and eliminating vendor lock-in. | $7.5M | Seed | Apr 16, 2025 |  |

1 of 1 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Innovation Endeavors](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/innovation-endeavors) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [South Park Commons](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/south-park-commons) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Tamr

VC Fund · Cambridge, United States

Tamr is an enterprise data unification company that is cost-effective, scalable, and accessible to any enterprise.Following the success of initial research at MIT CSAIL, the Tamr team began building a commercial-grade solution designed to tackle the challenge of connecting and enriching diverse data at scale, quickly and cost effectively.Launched in the spring of 2014 and backed by a series of investors, such as Google Ventures and New Enterprise Associates, Tamr is deployed in production at a variety organizations, including information services providers, pharmaceutical firms and retailers. Tamr, based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, was founded in 2013 by database industry veterans Andy Palmer, Mike Stonebraker and Ihab Ilyas with George Beskales, Daniel Bruckner and Alex Pagan.

5 contacts available at Tamr.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Ihab Ilyas | Co-Founder | — |
| Karen Cambray | CFO | — |
| Matthew G. Nerney | Director of Technology & Compliance | — |
| Matthew Holzapfel | Solutions Lead | — |
| Melissa Campbell | Chief Revenue Officer | — |

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## FAQ

### What does Ihab Ilyas invest in?

Ihab Ilyas invests primarily in Big Data, Infrastructure and Machine Learning startups, most often at Seed stage. Most of the 1 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

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### When did Ihab Ilyas last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Ihab Ilyas closed in Apr 2025. Shizune tracks 1 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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