Rand Hindi
CEO & Co-Founder @ Zama
Paris, France
Rand Hindi is a seed investor at Zama in Paris focused on Cryptocurrency and Software. Rand Hindi is based out of United States and is the General Partner of Unit Ventures. Rand previously worked at Naval Group as an Advisor. Rand Hindi attended Singularity University. Rand Hindi has been awarded Rising Star.
- Total investments:
- 40
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 0%
Last updated:
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Industries Rand Hindi invests in
Stages Rand Hindi invests in
Countries Rand Hindi invests in
Round sizes
Round size
- Seed
- $2.6M–$11M
- Pre-Seed
- $125k–$3M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Cryptocurrency 6 (15%)
- Software 5 (13%)
- Machine Learning 5 (13%)
- Information Technology 5 (13%)
- Artificial Intelligence 5 (13%)
Stage
- Seed 21 (53%)
- Pre-Seed 10 (25%)
- Funding Round 3 (8%)
- Angel 1 (3%)
- Series A 1 (3%)
Country
- France 18 (45%)
- United States 8 (20%)
- Germany 2 (5%)
- Switzerland 1 (3%)
- United Kingdom 1 (3%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Brink Therapeutics
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Brink Therapeutics is a Biotechnology Research firm conducting cell therapy research using reprogrammed recombinases. | $4M / Seed / Apr 16, 2025 | |
Optimum
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Optimum constitutes a decentralized, high-performance memory infrastructure tailored for use across various blockchains. | Angel / Feb 28, 2025 | |
Usual
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Usual Labs operates as a decentralized finance(DeFi) protocol. | $7.2M / Apr 17, 2024 | |
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Usual
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Usual Labs operates as a decentralized finance(DeFi) protocol. | $4.2M / Seed / Apr 17, 2024 | |
Twin
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Twin Labs, offer an automated tool for repetitive operations, such as onboarding new staff to all internal systems. | $3M / Pre-Seed / Jan 31, 2024 | |
Giza
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Giza changes this by using zero-knowledge cryptography to bring model inferencing on-chain, unlocking a new depth for smart contract design. | $3M / Pre-Seed / Jul 11, 2023 | |
Kinetix
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Kinetix is a no-code 3D creation tool that leverages artificial intelligence motion capture to convert videos into 3D animations. | $11M / Seed / May 04, 2022 | |
Ready
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Ready is the most simple and secure smart wallet for crypto. It does everything you'd expect from a bank (and more). Without the bank. Earn interest and invest; borrow, store and send. Access DeFi and Dapps in a few taps. Ready was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in London. | $40M / Series B / Apr 28, 2022 | |
Apiday
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SaaS platform for corporate ESG data management: from regulatory compliance and investor reporting to sustainability certifications | $3.1M / Seed / Mar 15, 2022 | |
INTERSTELLAR LAB
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Interstellar Lab is a biotech company founded in 2018 that develops, manufactures and operates advanced bio-farming platforms to help its customer produce the cleanest plant-based ingredients. Its bio-farming technology combines automated farms (Biopods), AI and bioscience with a unique data-driven approach. Its considerably accelerates plantgrowth while optimizing plant molecular composition. Interstellar Lab provides sustainable plant-based ingredient solutions to large health, beauty and F&B companies. Its bio-farming technology has also convinced NASA and ESA, which contracted with the company to adapt the system for space deployment. The company counts 45 engineers, scientists and researchers located between its flagship 65,000SF BioPod Facility and Plant Lab in Ivry-sur-Seine (France), its SpaceLab at NASA KSC Florida (USA) and its Business Hub in San Francisco (USA). | $5M / Seed / Mar 07, 2022 | |
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Co-Investors
About Zama
Zama's mission is to bring end-to-end encryption to AI. Using their homomorphic inference platform, companies can process their customer's data without seeing it, thereby preventing data breaches and surveillance.Zama's solution is based on a breakthrough in homomorphic encryption, which enables evaluating deep neural networks overencrypted data, without changing anything to the network architecture. Zama is open-source by design, as they believe privacy-enabling technologies should benefit the widest possible community of developers and researchers.Zama's cofounders are Dr Pascal Paillier, one of the most renowned cryptography researcher, and Dr Rand Hindi, a serial entrepreneur who formerly founded Snips.
Zama Contacts
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Rand Hindi
CEO & Co-Founder
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Jeremy Bradley-Silverio Donato
Chief of Staff
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Marc Joye
Chief Scientist
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Pascal Paillier
CTO
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FAQ
What does Rand Hindi invest in?
Rand Hindi invests primarily in Cryptocurrency, Software and Machine Learning startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 40 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in France. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Rand Hindi's check size?
Rand Hindi typically joins rounds of $2.6M–$11M at Seed and $125k–$3M at Pre-Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Rand Hindi participates in.
When did Rand Hindi last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Rand Hindi closed in Apr 2025. Shizune tracks 40 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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