Dounia Bennani

Overview

I invest in healthcare at Kiteline Seed Fund, usually at pre-seed and seed. Sit on 2 boards. Backed 53 founders at pre-seed and seed. Before that: GTBank and Meta. Most at home with venture capital and board work.

Replies on weekends

Experience

1. Principal

   Aug 2024 - Present
   Kiteline Seed Fund · 2 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Casablanca, Morocco
   • Led or co-led 21 investments, 3 of them now at Series B or later.
   • Backed 48 founders at pre-seed and seed.
2. Director of Engineering

   Dec 2022 - Jun 2024
   GTBank · 1 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Casablanca, Morocco
   • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 28 minutes to under 5.
   • Mentored 13 engineers through their first promotion.
3. Staff Data Engineer

   Dec 2020 - Dec 2022
   Meta · 2 yr · Full-time · Casablanca, Morocco
   • Replaced 70 hand-built dashboards with one metrics layer people trust.
4. Senior Engineering Manager

   Oct 2019 - Dec 2020
   Takealot · 1 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Casablanca, Morocco
   • Moved 90% of real-time traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
   • Led the migration of 35 services to venture capital.

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Education

1. University of the Witwatersrand

   BSc, Economics
   2014 - 2018