Sameer Shalaby
Managing Partner and Co-Founder @ Select Venture Partners
New York, United States
Sameer Shalaby is a seed investor at Select Venture Partners in New York focused on Software and Training. Sameer is a serial entrepreneur, with extensive startup, management and board experience and several successful exits. His early experience includes operating roles at NASA and Oracle. In 1993, Shalaby co-founded TenFold Corporation, helping TenFold to a successful IPO and $1B+ market cap, and Paladyne in 2005 with an $80M M&A in 2011. Sameerhas BS in EE&CS from George Washington University and an MS from MIT in Artificial Intelligence. Sameer has raised over $25M of venture capital in multiple companies.
- Total investments:
- 3
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 33%
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Industries Sameer Shalaby invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 1 (33%)
- Training 1 (33%)
- Hospitality 1 (33%)
Stage
- Seed 1 (33%)
- Series A 1 (33%)
- Series B 1 (33%)
Investments
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| Optii, headquartered in Austin, TX and with offices in London and Brisbane, is a hotel operations solution that leverages smarter technologies such as artificial intelligence, analytics, messaging and mobility to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of housekeeping and service delivery departments. Optii operates in real-time and allows hotelsto streamline operations, reduce costs and enhance the guest experience in proven and tangible ways, without requiring capital expenditure and complex integrations. Optii is a Thayer Ventures portfolio company and is used by hotels around the world including La Cantera Resort & Spa and The Don Cesar in the United States, Okada Manilla Resort & Casino, Doma Hotels, IHG and more. | $4M / Series B / Jun 26, 2018 | ||
| Optii, headquartered in Austin, TX and with offices in London and Brisbane, is a hotel operations solution that leverages smarter technologies such as artificial intelligence, analytics, messaging and mobility to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of housekeeping and service delivery departments. Optii operates in real-time and allows hotelsto streamline operations, reduce costs and enhance the guest experience in proven and tangible ways, without requiring capital expenditure and complex integrations. Optii is a Thayer Ventures portfolio company and is used by hotels around the world including La Cantera Resort & Spa and The Don Cesar in the United States, Okada Manilla Resort & Casino, Doma Hotels, IHG and more. | $2.7M / Series A / Apr 12, 2016 | ||
| Optii, headquartered in Austin, TX and with offices in London and Brisbane, is a hotel operations solution that leverages smarter technologies such as artificial intelligence, analytics, messaging and mobility to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of housekeeping and service delivery departments. Optii operates in real-time and allows hotelsto streamline operations, reduce costs and enhance the guest experience in proven and tangible ways, without requiring capital expenditure and complex integrations. Optii is a Thayer Ventures portfolio company and is used by hotels around the world including La Cantera Resort & Spa and The Don Cesar in the United States, Okada Manilla Resort & Casino, Doma Hotels, IHG and more. | $1M / Seed / Aug 28, 2013 |
Co-Investors
About Select Venture Partners
Who We AreWe are an early stage, post-seed/pre-Series A investment management firm, with an experienced team, all of whom have extensive cross-industry and cross-functional operating experience in software startups. We invest two crucial elements into early stage software companies – money and experience – to launch early stage companiesto the next level.Many great early stage companies, which have raised initial seed capital to build v1 products and are now looking for a “pre-Series A” round, face a trade off between money and expertise. Individual Angel investors typically cannot identify, evaluate or help early-stage companies move forward, and traditional VC’s invest at much later stages in a company’s development.The Select team bridges the funding and expertise gap, with combined personal experience of more than 100 years of operating experience and over one billion dollars of successful exits. We are committed to using our personal resources, time, and network to help early stage companies succeed.
Select Venture Partners Contacts
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Michael Pratt
Managing Partner and Co-Founder
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Adam Slovik
Managing Partner
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Sameer Shalaby
Managing Partner and Co-Founder
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Sol Zlotchenko
Managing Partner
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What does Sameer Shalaby invest in?
Sameer Shalaby invests primarily in Software, Training and Hospitality startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 3 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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