Jahed Momand

Co-Founder and General Partner at Cerulean Ventures

Speaker

Jahed Momand is the co-founder and General Partner at Cerulean Ventures, backing pre-seed and seed stage founders building climate and naturetech companies to create energy and nature markets for planetary-scale regeneration and climate impact. Before Cerulean, Jahed co-founded Magalix (through the prestigious 500Startups accelerator), a machine-learning platform for developer operations where he led product and marketing, and exited the company to WeaveWorks (UK) in 2021. Along the way, he has been an active angel investor in the user- and community-owned Ownership Economy by investing in over 20 companies, and co-founded and runs the premier podcast in the space aptly titled the Ownership Economy.

Jahed went to the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign's prestigious graduate program studying Physics (MS), and completed degrees in biology and chemistry at the University of California, Irvine. Prior to starting his business career, he played poker professionally online and in tournament settings.