Ziad Shaheen

Principal at Highline Growth · AI applications

Highline Growth

Hamburg, Germany · CET (UTC+1)

5+ years experience

Sorbonne University

English, German

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Principal at Highline Growth, backing AI applications companies. Led or co-led 19 investments, 7 of them now at Series B or later. Backed 23 founders at pre-seed and seed. Most at home with product and open source. Learning woodworking.

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open sourceproductventure capitalapplied ML

InvestingLooking to invest

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Investing in pre-seed AI applications founders across Southeast Asia

Cheque size: $250k-$1M
Stages: Pre-seed, Seed
Sectors: AI applications, AI applications
Geographies: Europe
Lead or follow: Any
Decision time: About two weeks
How I help: Hiring the first ten people

Happy to follow a strong lead. Decisions within 2 weeks.

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Principal
Feb 2025 - Present
Highline Growth · 1 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Hamburg, Germany
- Backed 22 founders at pre-seed and seed.
- Led or co-led 34 investments, 3 of them now at Series B or later.
Senior Engineering Manager
Oct 2021 - Feb 2025
Nestlé · 3 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Hamburg, Germany
- Built the experimentation framework 32 product teams use to ship changes safely.
- Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 31 minutes to under 6.

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Education

Sorbonne University
Licence, Economics
2017 - 2020

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