Tabreez Verjee

Bio

Tabreez Verjee is a three-time entrepreneur and investor who co-founded Uprising to invest in and relentlessly support mission driven technology entrepreneurs pursuing epic endeavors that matter. Some of the many real life superheroes he and his partners have backed include the people behind Change.org, Lending Club, Good Eggs, Lyft, Upworthy, ClassDojo, AltSchool, and Zopa. Tabreez has also been on the board of Kiva.org for the past 9 years and is one of the first funders behind both Kiva.org and Watsi.org Tabreez began his career at Bain & Company and left in his first year to co-found a boutique finance company that raised a $150 million fund for innovative media financings and completed landmark deals including a $30M securitization of music royalties for heavy metal band Iron Maiden. He then moved over to the technology and internet space where he helped lead the internet music company Sonique to be the fifth most downloaded application on the Internet in 1999 and was responsible for spearheading its sale for over $70 million. After Sonique, Tabreez co-founded Global Asset Capital which began incubating start-ups and making angel investments and grew over six years into a venture capital firm with $500 million in committed capital and over 40 portfolio companies in the U.S. and Europe.