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Houman Haghighi
InvestorPartner, Business & Corporate Development at Menlo Ventures
San Diego Metropolitan Area
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About
Houman Haghighi is a business development partner at Menlo Ventures who helps portfolio companies grow through strategic partnerships, customer introductions, and additional financing. He spent 15 years at Qualcomm across engineering, project management, and product development (contributing to Amazon Kindle's Whispernet), led business development at Qualcomm Ventures, and co-founded the Qualcomm Robotics Accelerator with TechStars. He holds two U.S. patents and a computational cognitive science degree from UC San Diego.
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Invests in
AI & Machine LearningRobotics
Beyond investing
- Founded
- Haghighi co-founded the Qualcomm Robotics Accelerator in partnership with TechStars, which invested in ten early-stage AI and robotics startups.
- Education
- Studied at UC San Diego (degree, computational cognitive science) Studied at Harvard Business School (venture capital and private equity (Executive Program))
- More
- Haghighi holds two U.S. patents in radio frequency modulation for mobile phones. Haghighi is a Stanford Certified Project Manager.
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Deals · 2
DrataBoard seat
via Menlo Ventures · filed Jan 2021 · $3.2M raise
PortfoliumBoard seat
via Menlo Ventures · filed Sep 2015 · $1.2M raise
Attribution from SEC filings, press coverage, and firm rosters.
Other disclosed investments
Investor
AttackIQClarifaiCohesityFitbitRingZoom
Sources: SEC Form D filings · the firm's website.
Colleagues at Menlo Ventures
Frequently asked questions
- Who is Houman Haghighi?
- Houman Haghighi is a business development partner at Menlo Ventures who helps portfolio companies grow through strategic partnerships, customer introductions, and additional financing. He spent 15 years at Qualcomm across engineering, project management, and product development (contributing to Amazon Kindle's Whispernet), led business development at Qualcomm Ventures, and co-founded the Qualcomm Robotics Accelerator with TechStars. He holds two U.S. patents and a computational cognitive science degree from UC San Diego.
- Where does Houman Haghighi work?
- Houman Haghighi is Partner, Business & Corporate Development at Menlo Ventures.
- What does Houman Haghighi invest in?
- Houman Haghighi invests in AI & Machine Learning, Robotics.
- What boards does Houman Haghighi sit on?
- Houman Haghighi holds tracked board seats at Drata, Portfolium.
- What companies has Houman Haghighi invested in?
- Investments tracked here include AttackIQ, Clarifai, Cohesity, Fitbit, Ring, Zoom.
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Techstars mafia2,500
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Harvard Business School mafia1,303
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Stanford University Graduate School of Business mafia970
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UC San Diego mafia309
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Qualcomm mafia142
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