# Yusuf Bashir

> Yusuf Bashir is a seed investor at Enabling Future (San Francisco) backing Software and Analytics. See 10 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Enabling Future](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/enabling-future)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 10
- Last investment: Sep 2019
- Lead investor: 20%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ybashir
- Website: https://www.enablingfuture.com

Yusuf Bashir is a seed investor at Enabling Future in San Francisco focused on Software and Analytics. Yusuf is part of the investment team at Enabling Future, an early-stage VC focusing on enterprise, consumer and blockchain. His operational experience spans roles at SAP, Informatica and MicroStrategy, before transitioning into VC, launching the $500M CVC at Infosys. He also provides investment banking services (M&A and equity) to early-stagesoftware companies across enterprise data, infrastructure, analytics, and machine learning/MLOps.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 5 | 50% |
| Analytics | 4 | 40% |
| Machine Learning | 4 | 40% |
| Information Technology | 3 | 30% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 3 | 30% |

23 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 3 | 30% |
| Series B | 2 | 20% |
| Series C | 2 | 20% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 20% |
| Series E | 1 | 10% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 7 | 70% |
| Denmark | 1 | 10% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Trifacta | Trifacta delivers an intelligent, collaborative, visual data engineering cloud platform to transform data, ensure quality, and automate data pipelines, enabling consumable data at any scale. With universal data connectivity, Trifacta provides flexibility to connect to any data from any source for any application. Using an AI-assisted, self-serviceapproach, Trifacta users can collaborate to evaluate, correct, and validate data quality, accelerate data transformation, and automate robust data pipelines. Trifacta’s open cloud platform drives increased business value through informed decisions.Around the globe, tens of thousands of users at more than 10,000 companies, including leading brands like Deutsche Boerse, Google, Kaiser Permanente, New York Life, and PepsiCo, are unlocking the potential of their data with Trifacta’s market-leading data engineering cloud platform. Learn more at https://www.trifacta.com | $100M | Series E | Sep 12, 2019 |  |
| Waterline Data | Do you know where your data is? Waterline’s AI-driven Data Catalog uses machine learning and AI to discover, manage and govern enterprise data at scale. Chief Data Officers, Analysts and Data Stewards use Waterline software to enable self-service analytics, data governance – including GDPR and CCPA – and data rationalization/optimization. Byconnecting the right people to the right data, Waterline Data makes Big Data easy to find and use. | $14.5M | Series C | Oct 29, 2018 |  |
| Datatron | Datatron provides an automated Enterprise scale model monitoring and model governance platform for all of your ML, AI, and Data Science models in Production. We are entirely Vendor, Language, and Framework agnostic, including, SAS, H20, Python, R, Sckit Learn, Tensor Flow, and more, via a user-friendly UI. Our offerings primarily include:- ModelDeployment - Model Monitoring - Model Governance - Model ManagementAnd many more features automated to make AI model management easy. | $1.4M | Seed | Jan 29, 2018 |  |
| Unsilo | Unsilo is a collaborative search and discovery platform that helps you see patterns across science and innovation. Our sophisticated semantic-based search engine breaks down silos of information and makes it easy and fast to find relevant knowledge across different content sources hidden in domain-specific terminology.Searching with Unsilo,you'll find thousands of relevant articles, reports and presentations across different industries and scientific fields. Differently from traditional search tools we don’t just present you with an endless list of links. Instead, we cluster your search results into groups of documents, which share a similar approach or solution strategy. This facilitates the discovery of relevant insights from unexpected sources.Your results are visualized based on your personal workflow preferences, and we make it simple for you to share your process with colleagues and peers, to facilitate knowledge generation and improve your speed of innovation. | $2.1M |  | Nov 18, 2016 |  |
| TidalScale | TidalScale has developed a scale-up compute and resource architecture. It specializes in the fields of analytics, cloud infrastructure, information technology, software and data mining. It was founded in 2013 and headquartered in Campbell, California. | $1.5M |  | Nov 11, 2016 |  |
| Cogitai | Cogitai, Inc. develops and commercializes artificial intelligence software that learns continually from interactive experience with the real world. |  | Seed | May 18, 2016 |  |
| Trifacta | Trifacta delivers an intelligent, collaborative, visual data engineering cloud platform to transform data, ensure quality, and automate data pipelines, enabling consumable data at any scale. With universal data connectivity, Trifacta provides flexibility to connect to any data from any source for any application. Using an AI-assisted, self-serviceapproach, Trifacta users can collaborate to evaluate, correct, and validate data quality, accelerate data transformation, and automate robust data pipelines. Trifacta’s open cloud platform drives increased business value through informed decisions.Around the globe, tens of thousands of users at more than 10,000 companies, including leading brands like Deutsche Boerse, Google, Kaiser Permanente, New York Life, and PepsiCo, are unlocking the potential of their data with Trifacta’s market-leading data engineering cloud platform. Learn more at https://www.trifacta.com |  | Series C | Apr 27, 2016 |  |
| Waterline Data | Do you know where your data is? Waterline’s AI-driven Data Catalog uses machine learning and AI to discover, manage and govern enterprise data at scale. Chief Data Officers, Analysts and Data Stewards use Waterline software to enable self-service analytics, data governance – including GDPR and CCPA – and data rationalization/optimization. Byconnecting the right people to the right data, Waterline Data makes Big Data easy to find and use. | $16M | Series B | Jan 28, 2016 |  |
| WHOOP | WHOOP is the performance optimization system that tracks recovery, training, and sleeping hours thus helping elite athletes and teams win.The company provides athletes, coaches, and trainers with a continuous understanding of strain and recovery to balance training, reduce injuries, and predict performance. It creates a product that makesindividuals and teams perform at a higher level through a deeper understanding of their bodies and daily lives. The WHOOP Strap 3.0 collects physiological data 24/7 to provide an accurate and granular understanding of the body. Aurelian Nicolae, John Capodilupo, and Will Ahmed established WHOOP in 2012 and in Boston, Massachusetts. | $15M | Series B | Sep 22, 2015 |  |
| Speck Sensor | Speck is an air quality monitor that detects fine particulate matter in your indoor environment and informs you about trends and changes in particle concentration. Simply plug the Speck into a standard wall outlet to begin measuring your air quality.Speck has Wi-Fi built in, enabling you to optionally connect it to your wireless network. Onceonline, and after registering it with your specksensor.com account, the Speck will continuously upload its data to specksensor.com where you can see its data in real time and explore its full history with your computer or mobile device. | $2M | Seed | Apr 24, 2015 |  |

10 of 10 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Accel](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/accel) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Cathay Innovation](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cathay-innovation-fund) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Greylock](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/greylock) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Ignition Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ignition-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Partech](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/partech) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [500 Global](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/500-startups) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Enabling Future

VC Fund · Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Enabling Future (EF) is a sector agnostic, family office backed Venture Capital firm head quartered in Dubai. EF provides seed and early stage funding to entrepreneurs who challenge conventional wisdom and look to create true disruption. Our goal is to enable entrepreneurs to build companies of the future. We provide our portfolio companies withcapital, experience, strategy and network.

3 contacts available at Enabling Future.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Hubertus Thonhauser | Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hubertus-thonhauser |
| Saad Umerani | Founder & Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/saad-umerani |
| Yusuf Bashir | Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/yusuf-bashir |

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## FAQ

### What does Yusuf Bashir invest in?

Yusuf Bashir invests primarily in Software, Analytics and Machine Learning startups, most often at Seed and Series B stage. Most of the 10 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 Yusuf Bashir last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Yusuf Bashir closed in Sep 2019. Shizune tracks 10 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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