Sohaib Abbasi
Member of the Board of Directors @ Red Hat
San Francisco, United States
Sohaib Abbasi is a Series A investor at Red Hat in San Francisco focused on Artificial Intelligence and Big Data. Sohaib Abbasi is the Chairman of the Board of Directors at Informatica since March 2005. Sohaib joined Informatica in July 2004 as President and Chief Executive Officer and served in that role until August 2015. Under Sohaib's leadership, Informatica grew five-fold to $1 billion in revenue and became the world's number one independentleader in data integration software. Software revenue from new products introduced under Sohaib’s leadership grew by a 10-year compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 50% to expand beyond the traditional ETL category. As a result, Informatica became the number one independent leader in data integration, data quality, MDM and cloud data integration. In addition, international revenues grew by a 10-year CAGR of 19% through global expansion of field operations. Under Sohaib’s leadership, the number of employees grew four-fold to 3,700 and the number of customers grew three-fold to over 6,000. Prior to Informatica, Sohaib served at Oracle Corporation for 20 years, most recently, as a Member of Oracle's Executive Committee and as Senior Vice President of two major divisions, Oracle Tools and Oracle Education. From 1994 to 2000, Shoaib was Senior Vice President of Oracle Tools Product Division. Sohaib joined Oracle in 1982, when it was a 30-person startup, and was instrumental in growing the business from $4 million to more than $9 billion in annual revenues. Sohaib envisioned and launched the Oracle Tools business, which he grew from zero to $3.75 billion in cumulative license revenues. Sohaib graduated with honors from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1980, where he earned Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in Computer Science.
- Total investments:
- 8
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
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Industries Sohaib Abbasi invests in
Stages Sohaib Abbasi invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Artificial Intelligence 3 (38%)
- Big Data 2 (25%)
- Security 2 (25%)
- Analytics 2 (25%)
- Cloud Security 2 (25%)
Stage
- Series A 3 (38%)
- Seed 2 (25%)
- Series D 1 (13%)
- Funding Round 1 (13%)
Country
- United States 6 (75%)
- United Kingdom 1 (13%)
Investments
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DaVinci Commerce
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Jivox is a multi-screen interactive advertising technology company that aims to transform the way the world experiences digital marketing. It connects brands with their audiences in a personalized way by using big data, machine learning, and dynamic creative optimization (DCO) technology to serve relevant messages across all channels, delivering3X the engagement of non-personalized digital marketing. Integrating first-party, audience, and contextual data and Powered by Neuron™ Machine Learning technology, the Jivox omnichannel personalization platform delivers messages to consumers on-the-fly, helping brands deliver, at scale, thousands of hyper-personalized messages. The platform is pre-integrated with over 25 data partners who provide rich data sets for personalization. In addition, Jivox Programmable Personalization APIs significantly simplify workflows and campaign activation through the enablement of easy integration with other marketing technologies. Many global brands including Sony, REI, Toyota, Cars.com, and Xaxis are using Jivox platform. | Jan 12, 2026 | |
SRE.ai
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SRE.ai delivers AI agents that automate Salesforce DevOps workflows, allowing for fast, transparent deployments, back-promotions, and impact analysis. With seamless tool integration, SRE.ai minimizes clicks and maximizes productivity, enabling teams to scale without sacrificing quality or speed. | $7.2M / Seed / Aug 20, 2025 | |
Orbex Space
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Founded in 2015, Orbex is Europe’s leading private launch services company, focused entirely on supporting the needs of the small satellite industry.Orbex has developed one of the most advanced, low carbon, high performance micro-launch vehicles in the world. They launch customer satellites into polar and sun-synchronous low Earth orbits from aunique, modern launch location in the heart of the European continent.They offer a flexible core launch service and a wide suite of supporting services that make life easier for customers. Their European location means shorter supply lines, easier communications and reduced operational costs. Their advanced launch vehicle means higher reliability, more flexible mission profiles and a regular, scheduled launch service. | $28.6M / Series D / Jan 29, 2025 | |
Presidio Identity
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Presidio Identity is a provider of digital identity solutions. Presidio Identity offers a digital-native approach to identity that brings security, privacy, and simplicity to user authentication and digital interactions, eliminating identity theft, financial fraud, and bad user experiences. The company was founded in 2020 by Dennis Moore, TommyLau, and Joshua Moore, and is a fully remote, US-based company. | $3.5M / Seed / Sep 28, 2021 | |
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Presidio Identity
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Presidio Identity is a provider of digital identity solutions. Presidio Identity offers a digital-native approach to identity that brings security, privacy, and simplicity to user authentication and digital interactions, eliminating identity theft, financial fraud, and bad user experiences. The company was founded in 2020 by Dennis Moore, TommyLau, and Joshua Moore, and is a fully remote, US-based company. | $1.6M / Seed / Jul 10, 2020 | |
Upsolver
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Upsolver lets you build continuous pipelines for your cloud data lake using SQL and pipeline automation. No custom coding. No orchestration. No infrastructure maintenance. | $13.3M / Series A / Jun 30, 2020 | |
Securiti
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Securiti is the pioneer of the DataAI Command Center, a centralized platform that enables the safe use of data and GenAI. It provides unified data intelligence, controls and orchestration across hybrid multicloud environments. Large global enterprises rely on Securiti's Data Command Center for data security, privacy, governance, andcompliance. Securiti has been recognized with numerous industry and analyst awards, including "Most Innovative Startup" by RSA, "Top 25 Machine Learning Startups" by Forbes, "Most Innovative AI Companies'' by CB Insights, "Cool Vendor in Data Security" by Gartner, and "Privacy Management Wave Leader'' by Forrester.For more information, please follow us on LinkedIn and visit Securiti.ai. | $31M / Series A / Aug 08, 2019 | |
Palerra
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Founded in 2013, Palerra believes in automating the entire security lifecycle, from threat detection to remediation, in order to effectively combat cyber crime and keep enterprises secure. Palerra is a privately held company backed by Norwest Venture Partners and Wing Venture Partners. The funding represented the first joint Series A investmentmade by Palerra’s board members from Wing and NVP since investing in FireEye (FEYE) in 2005.The LORIC™ platform provides threat visibility and ensures compliance of your cloud footprint by combining threat detection, predictive analytics, security configuration management, and automated incident response into a single solution. LORIC does not require hardware, software or agents and is not deployed inline with cloud services. | $8M / Series A / Feb 20, 2014 |
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About Red Hat
Red Hat is a company dedicated to free and open source software, and a major Linux distribution vendor.The company is known for its enterprise operating system Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and more recently through the acquisition of open source enterprise middleware vendor JBoss. Red Hat provides operating system platforms along with middleware,applications, and management solutions, as well as support, training, and consulting services.
Red Hat Contacts
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Charlene Begley
Member of the Board of Directors
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Chris Wright
Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer
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Micheline Chau
Independent Director
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Sohaib Abbasi
Member of the Board of Directors
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Azhar Sayeed
Global Chief Architect
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What does Sohaib Abbasi invest in?
Sohaib Abbasi invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Big Data and Security startups, most often at Series A and 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.
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