Kemal Farid
Investor, Founder, CEO
General Partner at L37 Ventures (United States)
Kemal Farid is a veteran technology entrepreneur that now invests in leading innovations across various sectors and stages. Kemal is a Founding Partner at L37, which is a hybrid PE/VC/Venture-studio company. The firm works with executives and founding teams, leveraging frameworks and systems, capital, and talent to engineer opportunities for investors and impact at scale.
For over 30 years, Kemal Farid has worked, built, and invested in software, electronics, IT, healthcare, and services businesses with a special interest in industrial technologies.
Kemal has been awarded numerous business and technical awards, including Ernst & Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year in 2011. Kemal also played a role on several non-profit boards, such as the Society of Petroleum Engineers and the University of Houston’s Engineering Technology College.
He holds a Bachelor of Science degree with Honors in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin and an Entrepreneurship Masters from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Kemal is also a very knowledgeable speaker when it comes to entrepreneurship, the digitization of industrial operations, and the cultural impact of technology innovation.
Kemal is a Managing Director at Farid Ventures, a company that offers capital, and advisory services for early and growth-stage enterprises that specializes in software and software-enabled services for the energy, financial, manufacturing, and healthcare industries. Farid Ventures’ portfolio investments include big names such as Shiv Om Consultants, P2 Energy Solutions, Merrick (P2), GeoScale, Seismos, Abbey Research, Kraftwurx, Axon, Zhongmen Group, WaveGuide, and SURGE Ventures.
He’s also a Managing Director at BlueVine Ventures, which is a Venture Capital company that heavily invests in and works with emerging companies to expand their business footprint globally. The companies in their portfolios see public and private partnerships as a way to take advantage and gain access to local resources that support the development and manufacturing of products, as well as delivering services that facilitate social and economic growth, at the same time delivering high investment returns.
Kemal’s roles include:
- Founding Partner at L37: http://www.l37.vc/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/l37/
- Managing Director at Farid Ventures: http://farid.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/farid-ventures/
- Managing Director at BlueVine Ventures: http://www.bluevineventures.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/bluevine-ventures-llc/
- Investor and Advisor at P2 Energy Solutions: http://www.p2energysolutions.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/p2-energy-solutions/
- Advisor at AlphaX Decision Sciences: http://www.alphaxds.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/alphaxds/
- Investor and Advisor at Seismos, Inc: http://www.seismos.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/seismos/
- Investor, Advisor, and Board Member at Krafwurx: http://www.seismos.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/seismos/
- Chairmanship of Committees and the Digital Energy Technical Section at Society of Petroleum Engineers: http://www.spe.org/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/society-of-petroleum-engineers/
- Charter Member at TiE: http://www.tie.org/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/tieglobal1/
- Chair of College of Electrical Engineering Technology Industrial Advisory Board at University of Houston: http://uh.edu/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/school/university-of-houston/
- Kemal’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kemalfarid/