# Mahdi Raza

> Mahdi Raza is a seed investor in New York backing Software and FinTech. See 8 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Sep 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 8
- Last investment: Jul 2025
- Lead investor: 25%
- Last updated: Sep 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mahdiraza92/

Mahdi Raza is a Lead at Robinhood. Attended NYU Stern School of Business.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $2.4M–$5.5M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 4 | 50% |
| FinTech | 3 | 38% |
| Sales | 2 | 25% |
| Blockchain | 2 | 25% |
| Apps | 1 | 13% |

20 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 5 | 63% |
| Series A | 1 | 13% |
| Series C | 1 | 13% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 6 | 75% |
| Singapore | 1 | 13% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Volca | Volca is a company that offers an AI-powered marketing platform tailored for home services businesses. Its core product is an SMS-based referral system that utilizes artificial intelligence to automatically communicate via text messages with homeowners, match them to the appropriate business systems within a CRM, and facilitate automated referralmarketing. | $5.5M | Seed | Jul 23, 2025 |  |
| Contribution Labs, Inc. | Contribution Labs, Inc. (dba Megaphone) builds a SaaS platform that lets consumer‑facing Web3 brands design, launch, and measure token‑based marketing programs—airdrop claims, quests, and referral incentives—without writing smart‑contract code. The tools combine off‑chain campaign analytics with on‑chain distribution rails so marketers can targethigher‑quality wallets and reward them with branded digital assets. The company today supports a roster of early‑adopter enterprises including Coinbase, Forbes, Optimism, Alchemy, Farcaster, and more. | $2.4M | Seed | Aug 30, 2022 |  |
| Starlight | Starlight is an all-in-one solution for companies to manage their crypto assets. We offer everything a company needs to operate in the crypto economy from setting up wallets, to buying crypto, to tracking expenses. Starlight helps you manage the details - so you can focus on running your business. | $5M | Seed | Apr 05, 2022 |  |
| Apollo.io | Apollo is the unified engagement acceleration platform that gives reps the ability to dramatically increase their number of quality conversations and opportunities. Reps are empowered do more than just conduct outreach, they learn who to target, how to reach out, and what to say at speed and scale. We help drive growth and success by providing themeans for teams to discover and utilize their organization’s unique best practices. By working in a unified platform, reps and managers alike save hours of time each day, strategy changes are instantly scaled across the whole team, and managers can finally dig into data at each step of their pipeline to continually find new ways to improve. Teams get access to our database of 200+ million contacts with a built-in fully customizable Scoring Engine, full sales engagement stack, our native Account Playbook builder, and the industry’s only custom deep analytics suite. Managers create and enforce order and process with the industry’s most advanced Rules Engine.Apollo is the foundation for your entire end-to-end sales strategy.Join teams like Autodesk, Copper (ProsperWorks), and Snowflake to experience the future of sales today. Ready to join our crew? Email sales@apollo.io. | $110M | Series C | Mar 03, 2022 |  |
| Ascend | Ascend is a modern, all-in-one payments solution purpose-built for insurance. We automate insurance payments end-to-end — from online customer payments including premium financing to the distribution of commissions and carrier payables. We help digital distributors sell more insurance by simplifying operations, reducing payment friction anddelivering the modern checkout experience customers expect. | $30M | Series A | Jan 27, 2022 |  |
| Flint | Flint is a global crypto investment app. Flint leverages the power of crypto to deliver incredibly high returns on idle money. | $5.1M | Seed | Jan 25, 2022 |  |
| Flint | Flint is a global crypto investment app. Flint leverages the power of crypto to deliver incredibly high returns on idle money. | $5.1M | Seed | Jan 24, 2022 |  |
| Finary | Finary is a social investing platform building group chats for Gen Z and Millennials. Finary allows users to chat with friends about their investments, share their portfolio, and make trades. | $3.2M | Seed | Apr 09, 2021 |  |

8 of 8 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [GTMfund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gtmfund) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Nexus Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nexus-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Peak XV Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sequoia-india-2) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [South Park Commons](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/south-park-commons) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Script Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/122-west-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [A*](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/a-capital-4ec5) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Mahdi Raza invest in?

Mahdi Raza invests primarily in Software, FinTech and Sales startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 8 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 Mahdi Raza's check size?

Mahdi Raza typically joins rounds of $2.4M–$5.5M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Mahdi Raza participates in.

### How do I contact Mahdi Raza?

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### When did Mahdi Raza last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Mahdi Raza closed in Jul 2025. Shizune tracks 8 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 Sep 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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