# Reza Bashash

> Reza Bashash is a seed investor at CoreNest Capital backing Artificial Intelligence and Software. See 8 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [CoreNest Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/corenest)
- Location: Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Total investments: 8
- Last investment: Apr 2024
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bashash/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/rezabashash
- Website: https://corenest.com

Reza Bashash is a seed investor at CoreNest Capital in Dubai focused on Artificial Intelligence and Software. Reza Bashash is based out of Dubai and is the Co-Founder and General Partner of CoreNest. Reza previously worked at Sologenic as a Co-Founder and CTO. Reza Bashash attended King's College London.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Artificial Intelligence | 4 | 50% |
| Software | 2 | 25% |
| Blockchain | 2 | 25% |
| B2B | 1 | 13% |
| SaaS | 1 | 13% |

19 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 4 | 50% |
| Pre-Seed | 4 | 50% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 4 | 50% |
| United Arab Emirates | 2 | 25% |
| France | 1 | 13% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Fleak | Fleak is a serverless API builder tailored for creating AI data workflows effortlessly. It enables users to quickly develop and deploy API backends with a single click. Leveraging a low-code workflow builder, Fleak simplifies request payload manipulation using SQL, integrates seamlessly with LLM or embedding models, and supports invoking AWS Lambdafunctions. Fleak excels in handling parallelization and concurrency, automatically optimizing performance for high throughput across all nodes. This ensures scalable and reliable API deployment without requiring users to manage multithreading or load balancing. Outputs can be delivered directly via synchronous HTTP responses or forwarded to third-party data storage systems like Snowflake and Pinecone, making Fleak production-ready for enterprise applications. | $1.4M | Pre-Seed | Apr 01, 2024 |  |
| Piramidal | Piramidal offers artificial intelligence software that transforms brain activity into easy-to-understand health data to help diagnose neurological diseases. | $500K | Pre-Seed | Mar 01, 2024 |  |
| Opencall.ai | Opencall.ai provides AI call centers for any business. | $6M | Pre-Seed | Feb 27, 2024 |  |
| Avatar Medical | The company generates 3D patient avatars to help surgeons visualize medical images, assess surgical options, train fellows, and engage patients. | $5.4M | Seed | Feb 19, 2024 |  |
| dili | Dili provides an AI-powered compliance automation platform for construction, infrastructure, energy, and manufacturing projects. The platform automates prevailing wage compliance, certified payroll review, apprenticeship tracking, wage validation, compliance reporting, and audit workflows to help organizations manage regulatory requirements forfederally funded projects. | $3.6M | Seed | Feb 19, 2024 |  |
| Coreum | Coreum is a 3rd generation, layer 1 blockchain designed to serve as the foundation for future decentralized applications. In the process of smart contracts, they make use of the modern touring-complete web assembly engine. Contract applications can be written in a variety of languages and then compiled into WASM before being processed. This featureenables rapid expansion of decentralized applications within the ecosystem. |  | Seed | Dec 01, 2023 |  |
| Artisan AI | Artisan AI creates digital workers, called Artisans. The company's first Artisan, Ava, automates the entire outbound sales process and can be set up with a 10-minute conversation. Ava creates TCPs, and prospects with her database of over 270,000,000 contacts, crafts & sends highly bespoke email sequences, and books meetings into yourcalendar. And, you can manage all features & settings by talking to Ava via Slack. | $2.3M | Pre-Seed | Nov 15, 2023 |  |
| Sologenic | Sologenic is disrupting the Asset Trading Industry: Tokenized Securities, Crypto Assets and NFTs.The Sologenic Development Foundation aka SOLO Core team is conformed by independent developers building and expanding a decentralized ecosystem by actively working on various open-source projects and use cases around the SOLO token. The developers arenot directly employed by the Foundation. |  | Seed | Nov 01, 2023 |  |

8 of 8 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Y Combinator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/y-combinator) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [10 BOND](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/10bond) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Rives Croissance](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rives-croissance) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [XFactor Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/xfactor-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Acorn Pacific Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/acornpacific-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Allianz](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/allianz) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About CoreNest Capital

VC Fund · Dubai, United Arab Emirates

CoreNest is a powerhouse for nurturing and funding startups in cutting-edge sectors like AI, Blockchain, and Fintech. With a commitment to shaping a bright future of innovation, CoreNest provides more than just funding. It offers a complete support system, ensuring every new venture grows and thrives. From the early stages to full-fledged growth,startups receive personalized assistance and strategic investment opportunities. At CoreNest, it's not just about funding startups; it’s about ensuring shared growth and helping every innovative idea rise to its peak of success and impact.

4 contacts available at CoreNest Capital.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Bob Ras | Co-Founder & GP | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bob-ras |
| Reza Bashash | Co-Founder & GP | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/reza-bashash-932c |
| Pedro Crespo | Investment Strategy Manager | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pedro-crespo |
| Phillip Pierini | Investment Associate | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/phillip-pierini-adc7 |

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## FAQ

### What does Reza Bashash invest in?

Reza Bashash invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Software and Blockchain startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed 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.

### When did Reza Bashash last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Reza Bashash closed in Apr 2024. 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 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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