Rayyan Islam

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Mr. Rayyan Islam is a Co-Founder & serves as a General Partner at 8090 Industries. He served as a Venture Partner at Takeoff Capital. Mr. Islam serves as a Venture Partner at Romulus Capital. He serves as Partner & Head of the Decarbonization fund at 8090 Partners. He Co-Founded & served as Chief Executive Officer at Emergence Industries. He serves as a Board Member at Cemvita Factory. He served as Vice President of products at Beacon. He also serves as an Associate at Romulus Capital. He joined Romulus Capital in 2014 and has been involved in sourcing investments and working with portfolio companies. He is particularly interested in innovation in consumer, software, sustainability, data, artificial intelligence, and aerospace. From Austin, TX, he is passionate about helping grow the spurring Austin startup ecosystem. He is an entrepreneur who helped take to market the world's first electronic hookah scaling it to global distribution and nearly $10M in annual revenue in just two years while in college. He's also a co-founder of a stealth artificial intelligence startup. Previously, he spent time at Deloitte doing strategy consulting in their emerging markets practice as well as with Lazard and Deloitte Corporate Finance doing middle-market investment banking. He moved into venture capital to help other entrepreneurs build disruptive valuable companies at the early stage, first working with Wasabi Ventures as an analyst and more recently as a venture fellow with 406 Ventures. build disruptive valuable companies at the early stage, first working with Wasabi Ventures as an analyst and more recently as a venture fellow with 406 Ventures. In his free time.