Yazan Abdelrahman

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Principal, Kingfisher Venture Partners - venture capital · developer tools · open source

Kingfisher Venture Partners
Dubai, UAE · GST (UTC+4)
9+ years experience
American University of Beirut
English, Arabic
Investing
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Overview

I invest in developer infrastructure at Kingfisher Venture Partners, usually at pre-seed and seed. Backed 18 founders at pre-seed and seed. Previously an operator for 11 years before investing. Before that: Emirates Group and First Abu Dhabi Bank. Most at home with open source and developer tools. Gardening and composting evangelist.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Founders building in developer infrastructure
  • Second opinions on open source decisions
Please don't message about
  • Crypto token projects
  • Decks without a clear ask
Skills
venture capitalenergyopen sourcedeveloper tools
InvestingLooking to invest
closes in 3 months

Writing $25k cheques into seed developer infrastructure in the Nordics

Cheque size
$25k
Stages
Series A
Sectors
Developer infrastructure
Geographies
Europe
Lead or follow
Lead
Decision time
About two weeks
How I help
Intros to operators in our network

Usually the first cheque in. Portfolio support on pricing and enterprise sales.

Dubai, UAEenergydeveloper toolsventure capital
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Experience

  1. Principal
    Sep 2025 - Present
    Kingfisher Venture Partners · 1 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Dubai, UAE
    • Led or co-led 33 investments, 2 of them now at Series B or later.
    • Backed 33 founders at pre-seed and seed.
    • Sit on 2 boards.
  2. Partnerships Manager
    Dec 2023 - Sep 2025
    Emirates Group · 1 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Dubai, UAE
    • Built the mid-market team from 2 to 17 reps.
  3. Account Executive
    Nov 2020 - Dec 2023
    First Abu Dhabi Bank · 3 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Dubai, UAE
    • Opened 11 new logos over $4 million ACV in the region.
    • Closed 186% of quota two years running.
  4. Partnerships Manager
    Oct 2017 - Nov 2020
    Mashreq · 3 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Dubai, UAE
    • Opened 6 new logos over $5 million ACV in the region.
    • Built the public sector team from 2 to 33 reps.

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Education

  1. American University of Beirut
    BE, Computer Science
    2012 - 2016

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