Mohammad Asghar Aboobaker (EE, 1970)
(Managing Director, K2 Ventures, LLC and Venture
Partner, Horizon Ventures)
Asghar has more than 10 years experience in venture
capital, acquisition and mergers and more than 23
years operating experience in business and engineering
management and IP licensing at Intel and other companies.
He has been on both sides of venture capital business.
He is a venture partner at Horizon Ventures and
angel investor for many years under K2 Ventures.
He has also raised funding for couple of start-ups
as CEO with funding from marquee silicon valley
venture firms and from angel groups. He served as
a director of strategic Investment at Intel Capital.
Managed a group for minority investments with investment
portfolio of more than $50M in 2 years.
Currently, managing K2 Ventures, LLC, an early stage
private venture fund, with areas of focus include
hardware, software, tools, semiconductors, communication
and wireless. He is also a venture partner at Horizon
Ventures, $150M early stage IT fund. He is serving
on board of Active Optical MEMS, Inc and advisory
boards of Ecrio and Sound ID, all Silicon Valley
start ups. He served on board of directors of Sacramento
Area Regional Technology Alliance and Sacramento
Angels.
Asghar has Masters of Science in Electrical Engineering
from UCLA and BS from University of Karachi (NED
class of '70), Pakistan. He can be reached via email
at Mohammad@k2ventures.com.
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