In an interview with Venture Capital Journal, Preface Ventures' Founding GP, Farooq Abbasi, talks about backing repeat founders in enterprise tech, which gears up for further exits, and a focus on diverse founders.

Saad is a Board Partner at Preface Ventures, focused on enterprise software and infrastructure with a particular conviction around vertical SaaS and data network effects. Before Preface, Saad was a Founding General Partner at Titanium Ventures (formerly Telstra Ventures), where he was part of the founding team post-spinout from Telstra and deployed $100M+ across companies including CrowdStrike, Auth0, GitLab, Trifacta, NS1, BuildOps, Alvys, and Incorta.

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Neko Health, co-founded by Spotify’s David Ek and Hjalmar Nilsonne, brings its body-scanning service to New York as it considers expanding across the United States. Its scans screen blood, skin, and metabolism; the company says its global waitlist tops 300,000, and it has raised nearly $1 billion. The one-hour scan costs $500 and is not covered by insurance, while investor Farooq Abbasi sees preventative-care potential; U.S. scaling and regulatory approval remain challenges.

Oct 2026 · TechCrunchNews article

TechCrunch’s Equity podcast host Dominic-Madori Davis discusses Neko Health with Farooq Abbasi, founder and general partner of Preface Ventures and an investor in the company. They compare Neko with other consumer-health startups and examine what must happen for body scanning to become part of the broader healthcare system. The discussion also places investor interest in the category alongside Midjourney’s scanner project and Function Health’s preventative-health platform.

Sep 2026 · TechCrunchNews article

Kibsi raises $9.3 million in pre-seed and seed funding for its no-code computer vision platform. NTTVC leads the $4 million pre-seed round, with GTMfund, Preface Ventures, Ridge Ventures, Secure Octane, and Wipro Ventures also participating. The platform lets businesses reuse existing cameras, run their own or Kibsi’s models, and turn video into business insights; customers include Owens Corning, Whisker, and Woodland Park Zoo.

Jun 2023 · TechCrunchNews article