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About
Babar Khan is Head of Technology Investments at NEOM Investment Fund, where he leads investments in life sciences and deep tech, having overseen more than $150M in transactions and portfolio governance work. He is co-founder of AI Astrolabe, which provides post-training data, reinforcement learning environments, and evaluations for frontier and enterprise AI systems. Khan began his career as a scientist in therapeutics, diagnostics, and applied biotechnology before transitioning into investing and company building.
Board director at Blue Nalu
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Experience
- NEOM Investment Fund (NIF)Head of Technology Investmentscurrent2019 — presentRiyadh, Saudi Arabia
- AI AstrolabeCo-Foundercurrent2024 — presentUnited States
- ParadromicsBoard Observercurrent2025 — presentUnited States
- Liberation BioindustriesBoard Membercurrent2025 — presentUnited States
- BlueNaluBoard Membercurrent2023 — presentUnited States
- QualSensCo-Founder2016 — 2021Saudi Arabia
- ContraFect CorpManager & Research Scientist2011 — 2014Yonkers, NY
- eMazing GamingCompetitive Esports2005 — 2008New York, United States
Skills & more
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Cross-Border InvestingLife Sciences InvestingBrain-computer InterfacesMultimodal AIDeep TechLanguages Arabic · English · Pashto · Urdu
- Clinical Laboratory Scientist — New York State Education Department
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Frequently asked questions
- Who is Babar Khan?
- Babar Khan is Head of Technology Investments at NEOM Investment Fund, where he leads investments in life sciences and deep tech, having overseen more than $150M in transactions and portfolio governance work. He is co-founder of AI Astrolabe, which provides post-training data, reinforcement learning environments, and evaluations for frontier and enterprise AI systems. Khan began his career as a scientist in therapeutics, diagnostics, and applied biotechnology before transitioning into investing and company building.
- Where does Babar Khan work?
- Babar Khan is Board director at Blue Nalu.
- Where did Babar Khan go to school?
- Babar Khan studied at KAUST (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology) (Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Bioscience); Rutgers University (Master of Science (M.S.), Microbiology); SUNY New Paltz (Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Molecular Biology).
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Also attended KAUST (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology)11
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Also attended Rutgers University329
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Also attended SUNY New Paltz17
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