Raaid Ahmad is a Managing Partner at 4DX Ventures. He was previously a Director at Facebook Financial (F2) as the functional head of Analytics, Data Science & Engineering. Prior to F2, Raaid was the head of data science for Facebook's growth team, tasked with growing the company's user base from 1.5bn to 3bn people, predominantly in emerging markets.
Earlier in his Silicon Valley career, he started and scaled data science teams for two global, Sequoia-backed startups that were ultimately acquired (Kiwi by Jam City in 2015 and Weebly by Square in 2018). In his previous stint in finance, Raaid was a senior member of the high-risk trades team at Bridgewater Associates. In addition to his full-time work, he has also advised numerous fast-growing startups on data science and analytics, consumer product strategy and design, and rapidly iterating to find product market fit.
Raaid is an early adopter of blockchain technology and a power user of DeFi protocols, first buying bitcoin in 2013 and ether in early 2017. He was the founding data scientist for Facebook’s crypto efforts and has advised a number of startups in the space.
Raaid was born and raised in New York. He earned a B.S. with Honors from Johns Hopkins University in Computer Science, Applied Mathematics & Statistics, and an MBA from The Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar (Top 10% of Class).
In his spare time, Raaid enjoys reading about science, technology & philosophy, trading options, playing poker (and other games), and gardening.
