Tamer Hamdan

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Founder at Saffron Ops · consumer brands, supply chain

Saffron Ops
Stockholm, Sweden · CET (UTC+1)
12+ years experience
IE Business School
English, Swedish, French
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Overview

Founder of Saffron Ops (D2C food brands). 12 years of building before that. Previously built and sold a small D2C food brands company. Before that: Mollie and UBS. Parent of two, so mostly sleep-deprived.

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Skills
marketingsupply chainconsumer brands
RaisingRaising capital
closes in 3 months

Raising a $1M pre-seed for credit underwriting for shipping lines

Stage
Pre-seed
Raising
$1M
Instrument
Convertible note
Committed so far
Opening the round now
Lead investor
Looking for a lead
Traction
$74k MRR after 22 months
Use of funds
Engineering hires and the first sales team

$74k MRR after 22 months. Looking for investors who know gaming and can help with enterprise sales.

Stockholm, Swedenmarketingconsumer brandssupply chain
Open
HiringHiring for a role
closes in 3 months

Looking for account executives to join Saffron Ops early - D2C food brands

Role
Account executive
Level
Senior
Type
Full-time
Work mode
Remote within country
Compensation
$130k-$173k + equity
Team
Founding team, 4 people
Start
This quarter
Must have
A record of closing B2B deals Experience selling to the buyers we sell to Good judgment about what not to build
Process
Decision within 10 days

Comp €100k-€127k. We decide within ten days. Message me with one thing you shipped that you're proud of.

Stockholm, Sweden · remote OKconsumer brandsmarketingsupply chain
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Experience

  1. Founder
    Dec 2024 - Present
    Saffron Ops · 1 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Stockholm, Sweden
    • Raised $3 million across 3 rounds.
    • Took Saffron Ops from zero to $2 million ARR.
  2. Director of Engineering
    Aug 2021 - Nov 2024
    Mollie · 3 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Stockholm, Sweden
    • Shipped 15 launches on the real-time team without a rollback.
    • Wrote the consumer brands service that now handles 64 million requests a day.
  3. Principal Engineer
    Sep 2019 - Aug 2021
    UBS · 1 yr 11 mo · Full-time · Stockholm, Sweden
    • Backed 35 founders at pre-seed and seed.
    • Sit on 4 boards.
  4. Software Engineer
    Mar 2016 - Sep 2019
    Celonis · 3 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Stockholm, Sweden
    • Cut the main bundle by 57% and got LCP under 2.5 seconds.
  5. Frontend Engineer
    Oct 2014 - Mar 2016
    Novo Nordisk · 1 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Stockholm, Sweden
    • Moved 68% of public API traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 39 minutes to under 3.

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Education

  1. IE Business School
    MBA, Business Administration
    2014 - 2016
  2. Humboldt University of Berlin
    BA, Economics
    2010 - 2013

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