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Habib Haddad
InvestorAdvisor at Xfund · Managing Partner at The E14 Fund · Board director at Ketryx · Board director at Overjet
Greater Boston
About
Habib Haddad is an Advisor to Xfund, an entrepreneur and early stage investor who serves as Managing Partner of the E14 Fund, an MIT Media Lab-affiliated fund backing early companies from the MIT Media Lab community. He previously was founding CEO of Wamda, a platform supporting entrepreneurship across the Middle East and North Africa, and earlier founded Yamli, a computational linguistics company whose technology he sold to Yahoo! in 2012, and was a founding member of the MIT CSAIL spinoff Mok3. He holds a Bachelor's in Computer and Communication Engineering from the American University of Beirut and a Master's in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California.
Contact· self-published, not guessed
Invests in
AI & Machine LearningBiotechDeep TechEnterprise SoftwareHardwareHealthtechRobotics
Board director at Ketryx
Intro paths
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In turn, Habib can intro founders to Ketryx's investors below.
Ketryx's investors · 5
Co-founders at Ketryx
EK
Erez KaminskyPresident
JP
Jan PoschkoDirector
EK
Erez KaminskiCEO & Founder
JP
Jan PöschkoCTO & Founder
Board director at Overjet
Intro paths
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In turn, Habib can intro founders to Overjet's investors below.
Overjet's investors · 8
Blumberg CapitalMiami · $500K – $5M checks · since 2025Crosslink CapitalSan Francisco · $1M – $9M checksGeneral CatalystSan Francisco · $30M checks · since 2025Gradient VenturesSan Francisco · $100K – $10M checks · since 2025Harmonic Growth PartnersChevy ChaseInsight PartnersNew York · $120M – $350M checksMarch Capital PartnersSanta MonicaThe E14 FundCambridge · $1M – $5M checks
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Co-founders at Overjet
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Wardah InamExecutive Officer, Director
Experience
- E14 FundManaging Partnercurrent2016 — present
- MIT Media LabResearch Affiliatecurrent2012 — present
- Eka RoboticsBoard Membercurrent2025 — present
- Eigen AIInvestorcurrent2025 — present
- humans&Investorcurrent2025 — present
- Avantos.aiBoard Member and Investorcurrent2024 — present
- AxiomInvestorcurrent2025 — present
- alteregoInvestorcurrent2025 — present
- NetpremeInvestor and board observercurrent2024 — present
- Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyAffiliatecurrent2012 — present
- ReplitInvestorcurrent2025 — present
- General RoboticsBoard Member and Investorcurrent2024 — present
- Maven AGIBoard Observer and Investorcurrent2023 — present
- OverjetBoard Observercurrent2021 — present
- OverjetBoard Member2019 — 2021
- Foundation LLMBoard Member and Investorcurrent2023 — present
- MosaicMLInvestorcurrent2021 — present
- ReadySet Technology, Inc.Investorcurrent2021 — present
- KetryxBoard Membercurrent2021 — present
- ButlrInvestor and board observercurrent2021 — present
- OPT IndustriesBoard Membercurrent2019 — present
- FormlabsInvestorcurrent2015 — present
- Stable AutoInvestorcurrent2018 — present
- OriInvestorcurrent2015 — present
- Tulip InterfacesInvestorcurrent2015 — present
- Wamda ومضةFounding CEO2011 — 2016Middle East and North Africa
- Wamda ومضةVenture Partner and member of the Investment Committee2013 — 2016
- YamliFounder & CEO2007 — 2012
- AMDSenior Engineer2005 — 2008
- EveryScape, Inc.Founding Engineer2003 — 2005
- United NationsConsultant2003
- European CommissionConsultant2003
Skills & more
Start-ups99Product Strategy5New Business Development30Entrepreneurship99New Media53NGOs27Entrepreneur7Business Strategy99Product Management30Venture Capital58Strategic Partnerships92Business Development60
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Non-profitsDigital MarketingBusiness PlanningPublic RelationsUser ExperienceNonprofitsSocial MediaOnline AdvertisingLeadershipStrategyArabicManagementLanguages Arabic · English · French
From Habib's professional profile.
Colleagues at Xfund
Alex Pentland
Toshiba Professor of Media, Arts, and Sciences at MIT at Xfund
Andrew Williamson
Managing Partner, Cambridge Innovation Capital at Xfund
Bob Pozen
Senior Lecturer, MIT Sloan School of Management at Xfund
Brandon Farwell
General Partner at Xfund
Cherry Murray
Benjamin Peirce Professor of Technology and Public Policy and Professor of Physics, Harvard University at Xfund
Deborah Spar
Jaime and Josefina Chua Tiampo Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School at Xfund
Elise Bates
Senior Director of the HBS Rock Center for Entrepreneurship and HBS Foundry, Harvard Business School at Xfund
Harry Lewis
Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science, Harvard University at Xfund
Frequently asked questions
- Who is Habib Haddad?
- Habib Haddad is an Advisor to Xfund, an entrepreneur and early stage investor who serves as Managing Partner of the E14 Fund, an MIT Media Lab-affiliated fund backing early companies from the MIT Media Lab community. He previously was founding CEO of Wamda, a platform supporting entrepreneurship across the Middle East and North Africa, and earlier founded Yamli, a computational linguistics company whose technology he sold to Yahoo! in 2012, and was a founding member of the MIT CSAIL spinoff Mok3. He holds a Bachelor's in Computer and Communication Engineering from the American University of Beirut and a Master's in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California.
- Where does Habib Haddad work?
- Habib Haddad is Advisor at Xfund and Board director at Ketryx and Board director at Overjet.
- What does Habib Haddad invest in?
- Habib Haddad invests in AI & Machine Learning, Biotech, Deep Tech, Enterprise Software, Hardware, Healthtech, Robotics.
- Where did Habib Haddad go to school?
- Habib Haddad studied at University of Southern California (MS.EE, Multimedia and Creative Technologies); Harvard Kennedy School (Global Leadership Program); American University of Beirut (BE, Computer and Communications Eng'g).
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