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Khalid Keenan

Founder

Founder at Elevate (formerly Bloom)

United Kingdom

FoundedElevate (formerly Bloom) · YC

About

Khalid Keenan studied computing at Imperial College and has spent over a decade as a software engineer in banking and financial services, specializing in risk and investment management systems.

Founder at Elevate (formerly Bloom)YC W22

Intro paths

YC

Khalid went through Y Combinator (Winter 2022) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.

GP

Their group partner at YC was Tom Blomfield, General Partner at Y Combinator — the partner who ran Elevate (formerly Bloom)'s batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗

In turn, Khalid can intro founders to Elevate (formerly Bloom)'s investors below.

Elevate (formerly Bloom)'s investors · 2

Co-founders at Elevate (formerly Bloom)

Experience

  1. Elevate (YC W22)Co-Founder & CEOcurrent2021 — presentGreater London, England, United Kingdom
  2. FINBOURNE TechnologyEngineer2020 — 2021Greater London, England, United Kingdom
  3. ActiveViamSenior Software Engineer2014 — 2020London Area, United Kingdom
  4. Goldman SachsSoftware Engineer2011 — 2014London Area, United Kingdom
  5. Barefoot JunkieCo Founder & Tech Lead2005 — 2011Sheffield
  6. BDOAudit2006 — 2007Greater London, England, United Kingdom

Education

  1. Imperial College LondonBachelor of Engineering (BEng), Computer Science2008 — 2011

Skills & more

Java28Credit Risk16Liquidity Risk6JavaScript6FRTB

Languages Arabic · English

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