Ossama Hassanein
Senior Managing Director @ Newbury Ventures
San Francisco, United States
Ossama Hassanein is a Series A investor at Newbury Ventures in San Francisco focused on Mobile and Software. Ossama is an entrepreneur, mentor, and venture capitalist. Over the last 35 years, he has managed over $1 billion of international technology funds in diverse leadership roles including EVP of Berkeley International in San Francisco, Chairman of Technocom Ventures in Paris, President of Newbridge Networks Holding in Canada, and Chairman of theRising Tide Fund in Silicon Valley. In the eighties, he led the mezzanine financing of 80+ Silicon Valley based IT companies that became spectacular successes including: Adaptec; Cirrus Logic; Atmel; PMC-Sierra; LSI Logic; Linear Technologies; and Oracle. Combined market value today exceeds $200 billion.In the last 15 years, he was chairman or co-founder of six leading-edge digital communication startups in the US, UK and France including ACC in Santa Barbara (routers, acquired by Ericsson), Algety in Lannion (soliton transmission, acquired by Corvis), HighDeal in Caen (rating engines, acquired by SAP), Highwave in Bretagne (fiber optic amplifiers, Listed on Euronext), NetCentrex in Paris (VoIP, acquired by Comverse), nCipher in Cambridge UK (encryption, listed on LSE), and Zong in Menlo Park (acquired by eBay). Combined market value at exits: $2.2 billion. Currently, he is director of Bank of the West, and chairman of the Rising Tide Fund in Silicon Valley.He has served on the Board of Advisors of Harvard University Center for Middle Eastern Studies and of UCSF Department of Ophthalmology, School of Medicine in San Francisco. He also served on the Board of Directors of Relief International, a non-profit, focusing his efforts on social entrepreneurship and women development in the Middle-East. He is currently chairman of the board of the Egyptian American Society and of TechWadi, the largest network of Arab American high technology executives in Silicon Valley. He is a charter member of the C-100, a Silicon- Valley based association dedicated to mentoring and angel financing Canadian entrepreneurs. He is also a member of the Board of PSD, an NGO focused on providing one Netbook per child for up to 280,000 Palestinian children in need of education.Dr. Hassanein is the Willard Brown Distinguished Visiting Professor at AUC (American University in Cairo) School of Business, where he is also member of the Board of Advisors. He lectured on Management Science and Engineering at Stanford University and the University of San Diego, and on international business at UC Berkeley and Santa Clara University. Ossama received his B.Sc. (first class honors) in electrical engineering from the University of Alexandria Egypt, his MBA, M.Sc. and PhD requirements in Electrical Engineering at the University of British Columbia.Born and raised in Alexandria, Dr. Hassanein is married, has two children, and resides in Silicon Valley.
- Total investments:
- 2
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 100%
Last updated:
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Industries Ossama Hassanein invests in
Stages Ossama Hassanein invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Mobile 1 (50%)
- Software 1 (50%)
- Web Hosting 1 (50%)
- Infrastructure 1 (50%)
- Telecommunications 1 (50%)
Stage
- Series A 1 (50%)
- Series B 1 (50%)
Country
- France 1 (50%)
- Switzerland 1 (50%)
Investments
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| Founded in 2000, Echovox has built a unique gateway infrastructure offering premium SMS, Bulk and WAP billing in more than 20 different countries, connecting more than 100 mobile carriers worldwide and covering over 500 million subscribers.As an established leader in the mobile monetization space, Echovox enables large media companies, leadingweb players, mobile content providers and application developers to monetize their traffic though mobile transactions. Echovox was venture-backed by Advent Venture Partners and Newbury Ventures and launched Zong, world’s leading mobile payment solution, sold to Paypal in 2011.Strong of a 15 year experience in the mobile payment industry, our platform ECHONECTTM provides the best unified interface to the mobile world. | $5M / Series A / Jul 01, 2005 | ||
| NetCentrex S.A. develops networking products and network-based applications for business communications, customer interactions. | $12.3M / Series B / Dec 14, 1999 |
Co-Investors
About Newbury Ventures
Newbury Ventures is a collegial partnership based in Silicon Valley with roots from across the globe, most notably the US, Canada, Europe and the Middle East. We fund exceptional entrepreneurs, and help carry the founders' vision from creation to realization. Since the early 80s, we have financed 150+ successful ventures that grew to generate in excess of $180 billion in combined shareholders’ value. We deploy early stage capital across diversified market sectors and evolve our strategic focus in a constant dialog with the market. We invest in industry verticals, but take an interdisciplinary view of a company's ultimate potential. We seek to team with visionary companies breaking barriers and creating new markets, especially those leveraging advancements in cloud computing, big data, mobile, and social media. We are stage agnostic, but single-mindedly focused on character, commitments and results.
Newbury Ventures Contacts
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Conrad Lewis
Venture Partners
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Ossama Hassanein
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Tamer Hassanein
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What does Ossama Hassanein invest in?
Ossama Hassanein invests primarily in Mobile, Software and Web Hosting startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 2 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in France. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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