Description

My name is Jaedon and I have 3 years experience in venture capital and technology startups in the US, UK and MENA, and I would love to help you with your next project.

Having an economics degree foundation, including quantitative economics econometrics, I have further cultivated a passion and demonstrable aptitude for projects related to data science and AI deployments. Conducting due diligence for growth stage deals for a $100m fund (fintech, F&B), with data-driven analytical skills, I am also a strong written and verbal communicator and readily drop into projects that require fast onboarding of domain knowledge.

I can apply technical skills to solve business problems and converse with technical and non-technical stakeholders with ease. As VP partnerships, I conducted market research and mapping, ICP discovery and prospecting and prepared pitchdecks for ChipHub (Silicon Valley) and Certie (UK) and now Flux (UK).

Notable projects include:

⊛ Due diligence for growth stage F&B fintech and F&B tech deals at series B/C ($5m+ ticket sizes)

⊛ Full stack search engine development for my deeptech startup, Flux, including custom crawl and reranker development (python, golang, rust, aws, docker, digital ocean, vector databases, ETL and high throughput ML pipelines and deployments).

⊛ Presentation of agentic procurement software to teams at Google, Apple, Meta, Google, Nexperia and development of web search retrieval for millions of technical PDFs for ingest into RAG pipelines. AI Prompt engineering and design using langchain, Azure Copilot Studio, Nvidia NGC models

⊛ Matchmaking platform leveraging BERT for startups and family offices/investors in partnership with Hub71 (leading Abu Dhabi incubator)

⊛ Training a random forest model to predict prices based on feature extraction and cross-training on a dataset of 192,000 diamonds +- $50 average on price range of $300-$250,000

⊛ 4x Startup Mentor for Warwick incubator including demo day presentations at the shard

Industry field of expertise

Languages

English
Native or bilingual
German
Conversational

Workplace preferences

Remote only

Primarily works remotely

Spartech Ventures (YAS Investments)
Venture Capital Analyst
PRIVATE EQUITY
October 2023 - Today (2 years and 8 months)
Dubai - United Arab Emirates
⊛ Analyst sourcing for MENA-focused Spartech Ventures 2nd fund (growth stage, series B+, $100M, tech-enabled, sector agnostic)

⊛ Utilised systems design to design an ML-based finance matching service for Hub71 in python and docker. It finds unstructured information from across the web for family offices and startups, then matches stage and sector by utilising BERT-based models to determine which category fits best within a defined schema. Finally, it recommends which startups/family offices are best paired together based on preferences and features

⊛ Conducted 2 due diligence processes on series B fintech and F+B tech startups including market mapping, management forecasting, deep dives on USPs, management background, competitive landscape, cap table et al.

⊛ Outreach to founders seeking $2-5mm ticket sizes (equity) and $10M-$120M (debt), qualifying startups, using written communication skills to generate memos

⊛ Supported answering DDQs from UAE sovereign wealth funds including a report on the state of AI and healthcare and MENA, used to validate the firms thesis

⊛ Created marketing materials, solo developed the website in NextJS (yasinvest.com) for the fund to attract capital during fundraising, and for announcement of partnership with Hub71
Due diligence Venture Capital Data analysis Market analysis Private Equity
Flux
Founder
TECH
July 2025 - Today (11 months)
Nottingham, United Kingdom
‘Real‑Time Web Search for Builders, Agents & Content Teams’

Flux is the semantic search engine that returns real-time answers to questions that can't wait.

Get results by prioritising for timeliness, relevance, and credibility.

We are a 0-1 deeptech startup solving problems with modern search infrastructure.

⊛ Responsible for the strategic direction and hands on role co-leading on technology development.

⊛ Role also includes market mapping, defining ICPs and planning our go-to-market, developing pitch decks, understanding user problems and designing and executing on product development to solve them using agile methodologies. I guide the founding team of 4 and communicating the roadmap and breaking impossible tasks into actionable pieces.

⊛ Chief Evangelist Officer - sign up to the beta at fluxsearch.io :)
CEO Rust Python Start-up Communication
ChipHub
Vice-President of Partnerships
SOFTWARE PUBLISHING
October 2024 - May 2025 (7 months)
San Francisco, United States
⊛ Technical VP partnerships startup building an agentic AI procurement tool for the semiconductor industry

⊛ Presented demos and collected feedback/feature enhancements from senior employees at Google, Apple, Meta, Nexperia, both online and onsite in Sunnyvale/San Jose headquarters

⊛ Designed and coded an AI RAG search feature for technical document retrieval from across the web leveraging python, golang, postman and Rest APIs and collaborated in integration into the existing langchain/Azure pipelines

⊛ Created pitchdecks, prospected investor profiles and delivered pitches to investors in UAE, USA, UK. Responsible for firm entering 2 due diligence processes with VCs

⊛ Identified ICPs and drove pipeline using SPICED model, forming partnerships in Korea and maintaining relationships with design partners

⊛ Represented the firm at NVIDIA GTC as an NVIDIA inception program, attracting pipeline from global neocloud providers and chips brokers
Microsoft Azure Technical project management product owner artificial intelligence Partnerships