# Tarek Sherif

> Tarek Sherif is a seed investor at Dassault Systemes backing Analytics and Computer Vision. See 1 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Dassault Systemes](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dassault)
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 1
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tarek-sherif-071b2812

Tarek Sherif is a seed investor at Dassault Systemes in New York focused on Analytics and Computer Vision. A founder of Medidata Solutions, Tarek has served as chief executive officer since 2001 and chairman since 2009. Under his leadership, the New York City-based company has grown to become the leading global provider of cloud-based solutions to the life science industry—supporting clinical trials in over 115 countries—while defining the verticalcloud company business model. From inception, Tarek has focused on building the company, including setting Medidata’s growth strategy, driving its innovative business model and helping to attract and inspire the talent that has been the basis of the company’s success. He led Medidata’s successful IPO in June 2009, which has positioned Medidata as one of the best performing companies to go public since 2009 and New York City’s most successful public technology company.Prior to Medidata, Tarek was the managing member of a partnership focused on public and private investments in technology and life science companies. He co-managed a private equity fund specializing in publicly-traded technology companies, including those in the healthcare and information technology fields. Tarek also served as assistant vice president of corporate finance at General Electric Capital Corporation and was a mergers and acquisitions analyst at Brown Brothers Harriman & Company.Tarek received his BA in economics from Yale University in 1984. He graduated from Columbia Business School in 1991, where he earned a degree in business administration and finance. Tarek has received a number of industry accolades, including the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year award for the metro New York area in 2010 and the PharmaVOICE 100 most inspirational people in the life science industry award in 2007. He is a board member of the Partnership Fund for New York City and is chairman of Blue Legacy International, a not-for-profit organization focused on preserving our water resources.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Analytics | 1 | 100% |
| Computer Vision | 1 | 100% |
| Machine Learning | 1 | 100% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 1 | 100% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Dextro | Dextro is a computer vision company whose mission is to power the intelligence behind every video collection, livestream feed, and internet-connected camera. Dextro's products help companies work with mass unstructured video data by identifying and summarizing the contents of each video. Since video is complex and poorly tagged, the machinealgorithms actually "watch" the contents of the videos themselves to form the basis of search. As a product-focused company, Dextro strives help clients derive the most meaning from, and useful application for, all of their video content.Dextro was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in NY, NY. | $1.7M | Seed | Jun 17, 2014 |  |

1 of 1 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [MDC Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kbs-p-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [RRE Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rre-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Dassault Systemes

VC Fund · Vélizy-villacoublay, France

Dassault Systemes provides project lifecycle management solutions that enable businesses to create and share experiences in 3D. The company's solutions including SolidWorks, CATIA, SIMULIA, DELMIA, ENOVIA, 3DVIA, and Exalead empower users to create, share, and experience in 3D.

5 contacts available at Dassault Systemes.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Daniela Jansen | Director Product Marketing | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/daniela-jansen |
| Tarek Sherif | CEO Medidata Solution and Chairman Life Sciences Sector Board, Dassault Systemes | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tarek-sherif |
| Victoria Martinez | Senior Global Marketing Manager | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/victoria-martinez |
| Adrien Mann | Director, Product Management, Data & AI | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/adrien-mann-b285 |
| Kendall Pond | VP, Business Development | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kendall-pond |

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## FAQ

### What does Tarek Sherif invest in?

Tarek Sherif invests primarily in Analytics, Computer Vision and Machine Learning startups, most often at Seed stage. Most of the 1 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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