# Jafar Owainati

> Jafar Owainati is a pre-seed investor at Barley backing Software. See 1 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: Barley
- Location: Toronto, Canada
- Total investments: 1
- Last investment: Oct 2024
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jowainati

Jafar Owainati is a pre-seed investor at Barley in Toronto focused on Software and Employment. Jafar Owainati is the Co-founder at Barley. He is a former Co-Founder at Loopio. Jafar Owainati attended Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management and Queen's University.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 1 | 100% |
| Employment | 1 | 100% |
| Recruiting | 1 | 100% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Talin | Talin is a company that automates personalized candidate outreach and contact enrichment, streamlining the efforts of recruiters and recruitment agencies. Talin's AI-driven platform is revolutionizing staffing agency recruitment by automating key processes like lead generation and candidate outreach, enabling efficient operation scaling. | $573.7K | Pre-Seed | Oct 02, 2024 |  |

1 of 1 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Cascade Seed Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cascade-angels-fund) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [DMZ Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dmz-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Ontario Centre of Innovation](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/oci-e51e) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Barley

VC Fund · Toronto, Canada

Barley is a compensation management software that makes it easy to structure, analyze, and manage compensation - and keep a pulse on changing salary trends in the market. Barley’s platform gives forward-thinking businesses the tools to make smart, consistent, and fair pay decisions and create an incredibly rewarding workplace.

3 contacts available at Barley.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Jafar Owainati | Co-founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jafar-owainati |
| Jaime Bueza | Senior Software Engineer | — |
| William Mainguy | Co-founder | — |

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## FAQ

### What does Jafar Owainati invest in?

Jafar Owainati invests primarily in Software, Employment and Recruiting startups, most often at Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 1 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Canada. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

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### When did Jafar Owainati last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Jafar Owainati closed in Oct 2024. 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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