Rami Essaid
CEO, Co-Founder @ Finmark
Damascus, Syria
Rami Essaid is a seed investor at Finmark in Damascus focused on SaaS and FinTech. Rami Essaid is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Finmark, a Venture Partner at IDEA Fund Partners, and an Extended Team Member of Ubiquity Ventures. He was the Co-Founder and Chairman of Distil. Rami helps enterprises embrace the cloud to improve their scalability and reliability while maintaining a high level of security.He attendedNorth Carolina State University where he majored in computer engineering.
- Total investments:
- 6
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 17%
Last updated:
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Industries Rami Essaid invests in
Stages Rami Essaid invests in
Countries Rami Essaid invests in
Round sizes
Round size
- Seed
- $32k–$20M
Investment Focus
Industry
- SaaS 2 (33%)
- FinTech 2 (33%)
- Software 2 (33%)
- Artificial Intelligence 2 (33%)
- News 1 (17%)
Stage
- Seed 5 (83%)
- Pre-Seed 1 (17%)
Country
- United States 3 (50%)
- India 1 (17%)
- Canada 1 (17%)
- Mexico 1 (17%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Kontigo
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We help underbanked gig workers in Latam build credit and access group financing where small groups of family or friends lend and save money together. Users can validate their income from multiple sources such as gig apps, catalog sales, and open finance (Uber, Rappi, Didi, Indriver, Avon, and all major banks). After verifying the income wedirectly offer them group savings and group loans, without leaving WhatsApp, their primary messaging app. | $20M / Seed / Sep 01, 2025 | |
Henry
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Henry is a software company that develops AI-powered workflow automation tools for commercial real estate professionals. Its platform automates underwriting, market research, comparable property analysis, transaction tracking, buyer identification, and pitch deck creation. The platform also builds and maintains proprietary property and transactiondatabases, generates Excel-based underwriting models, and integrates with existing workflows to support investment sales, acquisitions, and brokerage teams throughout the deal process. | $4.3M / Seed / Feb 20, 2025 | |
Pacto
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Pacto is a B2B enterprise software and payments platform focused on small merchants in Latin America. Pacto builds tools and technology to allow banks and financial institutions to empower merchants to move beyond cash payments and accelerate growth in their digital business. Pacto is headquartered in Mexico City, Mexico. | $2M / Pre-Seed / Mar 30, 2022 | |
Esports Daily India
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The latest news from across the e-sports industry covering interviews, event coverage, opinion pieces, reviews and much more from the e-sports world. E-sports is a booming global industry where skilled video gamers play competitively. | $32.4K / Seed / Aug 23, 2021 | |
Propellon Therapeutics
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Propellon Therapeutics is developing and commercializing novel cancer therapies targeting the WDR5 protein, essential for assembly of methyltransferase complexes and proper histone modification. The overexpression of WDR5 and resulting deregulation of epigenetic mechanisms are implicated in various cancers and correlated with poor patient survival.Established by FACIT, Propellon’s WDR5 inhibitor platform arises from discoveries, research and innovations originating from OICR. | $3M / Seed / Mar 22, 2017 | |
Prospectify
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The only Sales Platform to identify and replace inaccurate and decayed data inside your CRM. | $1M / Seed / Mar 09, 2017 |
Co-Investors
Orange Collective
2 deals together
Pioneer Fund
2 deals together
Y Combinator
2 deals together
Alumni Ventures
1 deal together
Arizona Tech Investors
1 deal together
BCF Ventures
1 deal together
About Finmark
Finmark is financial planning software for startups; making it simple for companies to manage their runway, hiring, and cash.The platform takes complex financial concepts and calculations and distills them down into a simple to use interface so companies can easily update, inspect, and share their financial metrics. Companies, from pre-revenue topre-IPO, rely on Finmark to align teams, drive collaboration, reduce costs and resources, and build the next generation of great startups.Greg Lissy, Jeremy Neuberger, and Rami Essaid founded the company in Raleigh, North Carolina in 2020.
Finmark Contacts
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Rami Essaid
CEO, Co-Founder
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Benjamin Soulier
Senior Software Engineer
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Greg Lissy
Co-founder, Chief Product Officer
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Jeremy Neuberger
Co-Founder, Chief Technology Officer
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Julien Denaes
VP of Business Development and Investor Services
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FAQ
What does Rami Essaid invest in?
Rami Essaid invests primarily in SaaS, FinTech and Software startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 6 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 Rami Essaid's check size?
Rami Essaid typically joins rounds of $32k–$20M 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 Rami Essaid participates in.
When did Rami Essaid last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Rami Essaid closed in Feb 2025. Shizune tracks 6 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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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 Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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