About Farshad:

Farshad  Nowshadi is a highly experienced VC, Finance and Technology professional with over 30 years of practical knowledge.

He loves helping and advising any Level39 Startups on improving their strategy and finding investments. Such as notable start-ups like WISE (formally Transfer) and Revolut, through Level39, where he has been one of the original VC/Mentors.

Farshad recently ran a very successful Web3/DeFi event at Level39, with Guests from his friends at Google Cloud/Web3 and a few of the great VCs and Startups.

Farshad was a Global Financial consultant for Reuters Financial Services for 25 years and an original pre-IPO investor in Google and Amazon. He holds the VP (Technological Strategy)-Non-Exec position and is a significant investor in one of the largest Banks and Neo Bank in the Middle East. His contributions have helped the bank and its Neo Bank grow from a $10 million company to a multi-billion dollar company with over 10 million customers.

He has provided financial services to global banks such as;

• Deutsche Bank
• Barclays
• Stockbrokers
• Microsoft HQ in Redmond, USA.

He is a regular judge at the prestigious Annual PayTech Awards. Farshad was also an advisor to Coinbase on Crypto and CBDC/KYC

He is also the author of several internationally sold books on technology in the financial world and an international speaker on technology and finance. Farshad recently spoke on “The Future Banking/Payments and Web3/DeFi” at the GITEX and Seamless conference and is also an Adviser to St Andrew’s Business School. He holds an  M.Phil in Computing from Sussex (UK) University.

About MentorHours:

MentorHours are exclusively for Level39 members. These form part of the weekly curriculum offered to our 180 technology businesses who call Level39 home. For more information and link to register for this session, please see the latest member newsletter, or email the team on members@level39.co