Ari Qayumi

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Ari Qayumi is Founder, General and Managing Partner at Mindful Venture Capital (Mindful VC). Ari focuses on investments in early-stage technology companies (B2B and B2B2C Pre-Seed, Seed, and select Series A) across infrastructure, healthcare, and financial services. Previously, Ari was Principal at Silicon Valley Data Capital (SVDC), where she invested in enterprise artificial intelligence (AI). Prior, Ari was Director at RBC Capital Markets (RBC CM) and Group Product Manager at Royal Bank of Canada (RBC), where she identified winners, established relationships, designed high ROI use cases, created monetization plays in partnership with strategic technology companies, led global next-gen product development, and was tasked with delivering on digital transformation across capital markets, wealth management, and personal and commercial banking. Ari designed SVDC's and RBC’s first product and investment strategies for: ► Digital Transformation ► Enterprise AI ► Conversational AI / Voice Chatbot / Coaching ► Next-Gen CRM / Cross-Selling ► FinTec / Capital Markets / International Money Transfer / New Payments Infrastructure / Crypto Asset Desk ► Corporate Venture Capital Fund and Innova

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