Serious about
staying curious.

I’m from Shiraz, Iran, and now based in Orange County, California. I’ve always been drawn to markets, technology, and uncommon opportunities — especially the question of why some of the most interesting investments, companies, and networks are accessible to only a small group of people.

That curiosity started early. In 2018, while I was still a teenager in Iran, my brother and I raised outside capital and built a Bitcoin mining operation. We ran it, grew the value of the venture, and ultimately sold it. It was my first real exposure to fundraising, risk, technology, ownership, and the responsibility that comes with deploying other people’s capital.

I later came to the United States as an international student and studied at UCI. As a teenager in Iran, I used to read about Silicon Valley founders, venture investors, and technology companies from a distance. In California, I began finding my way into those rooms myself — working around venture capital and commercial real estate, building relationships with founders and investors, and eventually becoming a founder.

I founded DOME to explore a problem I had become increasingly interested in: the gap between private-market investment opportunities and the technology available to access, distribute, and transact them. That led me deeply into private markets, real-world assets, securities regulation, tokenization, investor distribution, fundraising, and market structure. We ultimately decided to wind the company down when I concluded that the market timing and infrastructure were not yet aligned with what we wanted to build, but the experience sharpened rather than reduced my interest in the space.

More recently, I’ve also been building Humming, where I’ve been exploring a very different frontier: physical AI, drones, robotics, and how software can coordinate work in the real world. That experience has made me increasingly interested in technologies that don’t just live on a screen, but change how physical assets and industries actually operate.

Today, the areas I keep returning to are private markets, secondaries, venture capital, fintech, real assets, and emerging technologies. I’m particularly interested in how great companies are financed, how ownership moves, how new financial infrastructure changes access, and how technology can make previously complex systems dramatically more usable.

I tend to learn by going very deep: researching markets, talking to people inside them, building things, and testing my assumptions. I’m still early in my career, and I don’t pretend to know exactly which problem I’ll spend the next decade on. What I do know is that I want to be close to exceptional builders and investors, keep developing real judgment, and eventually build something important at the intersection of capital and technology.