Ben Bayat
Ben Bayat is a Managing Partner at NextGen Venture Partners. He previously worked as a Partner at Illuminate Ventures and started his career as a data scientist at IBM.
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NextGen Venture Partners writes $500K to $10M checks, larger than 71% of firms in the atlas.
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- IBM · data scientist
- Illuminate Ventures · Partner
- NextGen Venture Partners · Managing PartnerNow
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Who is Ben Bayat?
Ben Bayat is a Managing Partner at NextGen Venture Partners. He previously worked as a Partner at Illuminate Ventures and started his career as a data scientist at IBM.
How much does Ben Bayat invest?
Ben Bayat invests through NextGen Venture Partners, which writes checks of $500K to $10M at pre-seed, seed.
How do I pitch Ben Bayat?
Email [email protected], the firm's inbox for founders, and name Ben in the subject. A warm intro from a founder NextGen Venture Partners backed works better.
What did Ben Bayat do before NextGen Venture Partners?
data scientist at IBM; Partner at Illuminate Ventures.
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