CMEA Team: Saad Khan. Joined CMEA: 2007 Years Experience Building Companies: 15 Education: BS, Symbolic Systems; BA Economics with Honors in Science, Technology and Society from Stanford University where he was a President’s Scholar Investments: Blekko , Evolution Robotics, Inc. (Observer), Jobvite, Luminate, Inc., Zaarly Deal Starters: Big ideas, World Changing Entrepreneurs Non-starters: The Status Quo Outside Activities: Film Investing, Social Entrepreneurship Saad Khan is a Partner at CMEA Capital where he invests exclusively in bad-asses.
That includes leading all seed and early stage investments in the people behind Zaarly, Blekko, Luminate, Jobvite, MediaSpike, Evolution Robotics (now iRobot) and some awesome others you’ll hear about. Prior to CMEA, he was a Venture Partner at Garage.com where he helped build Silicon Valley’s first startup incubator. Saad has been a guest lecturer at the Stanford Design School (the Liberation Technology Program) and the UC Berkeley Business School. Making Ideas Happen: Overcoming the Obstacles Between Vision and Reality (9781591843122): Scott Belsky. Steven Pressfield: Books, Biography, Blog, Audiobooks, Kindle. Teresa Amabile: Books, Biography, Blog, Audiobooks, Kindle. Alexandra Michel and Stanton Wortham | L9-keynotes. Alexandra Michel.