Sahar AlGhamdi

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Co-founder & CTO at Compass Grid · Agritech · supply chain, fintech

Compass Grid
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia · AST (UTC+3)
12+ years experience
Qatar University
English, Arabic, Spanish
Advising
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Overview

Co-founder & CTO of Compass Grid, working on agritech. Previously built and sold a small agritech company. Took Compass Grid from zero to $7 million ARR. Before that: Siemens and Standard Chartered.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Advice on agritech
  • Second opinions on agriculture decisions
  • Working sessions on supply chain
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  • Unpaid work or spec projects
  • Agency or outsourcing pitches
  • Courses and coaching offers

Replies on weekends

Skills
agriculturefintechsupply chainrural distribution
AdvisingOpen to advising
closes in 3 months

Open to advising pre-seed teams on agriculture

Topics
agritech, rural distribution, supply chain
Format
Calls
Terms
Open to discuss
Capacity
One call a month
Best for
Teams scaling past 50 people

12 years of agritech. Can review plans, decks and hiring loops.

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia · remote OKagriculturefintechsupply chain
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Experience

  1. Co-founder & CTO
    May 2024 - Present
    Compass Grid · 2 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
    • Grew the team to 28 people across 3 countries.
    • Took Compass Grid from zero to $10 million ARR.
    • Previously built and sold a small agritech company.
  2. Business Analyst
    Jul 2022 - May 2024
    Siemens · 1 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
    • Took payment success rates from 93.6% to 97.3%.
    • Moved 75% of payments platform traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
  3. Consultant
    Dec 2018 - Jul 2022
    Standard Chartered · 3 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
    • Delivered 19 engagements across 4 countries.
    • Led a cost programme that saved a client $103 million.
  4. Associate Partner
    Sep 2016 - Dec 2018
    Boston Consulting Group · 2 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
    • Grew the data platform team from 3 to 12 engineers.
  5. Engagement Manager
    Aug 2014 - Jul 2016
    PwC · 1 yr 11 mo · Full-time · Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
    • Ran commercial diligence on 24 deals.
    • Delivered 11 engagements across 7 countries.

Projects

Open-source fintech toolkit
2026

A small library for agritech that 674 developers star on GitHub.

Write-up: agritech in practice
2023

A long-form guide to agritech for people starting out.

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Education

  1. Qatar University
    BSc, Economics
    2009 - 2013

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