Kamran Elahian

Kamran Elahian (Persian: کامران الهیان‎) is an Iranian-American entrepreneur who is the chairman and founder of Global Innovation Catalyst and advises various governments on the needed transition from fossil-based economies to sustainable innovation economies. In the past, as a global high-tech entrepreneur, he co- founded ten companies, had 6 exits, 3 of them were Unicorn IPOs [1] with a total market cap of over $8B. [2] For 15 years he was Chairman of Global Catalyst Partners, a global VC firm ($350M under management) with investments in the U.S., Japan, China, India, Israel and Singapore. Underlying his vision for global philanthropy is the conviction that modern Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) can be instrumental in dissolving barriers between nations and bridging the social and political differences among people.[3][4]This vision was reflected in Schools-Online, a nonprofit he co-founded in 1996 to connect the world, one school at a time (6400 schools in 36 countries were provided with computers and access to the Internet) and merged with Relief International in 2003; Global Catalyst Foundation, co-founded in 2000 to improve lives through effective education and empowerment of the youth (with special emphasis on young women) using the leverage of ICT[5], and UN-GAID, a United Nations global forum that promotes ICT in developing countries where he served as Co-Chairman (2009-2011).

Kamran Elahian
کامران الهیان
Born1954
Tehran
NationalityIranian American
OccupationEntrepreneur
Spouse(s)Zohre Elahian

Career

Kamran co-founded 10 companies [6]: had 6 exits, 3 of them were Unicorn IPOs with a total market cap of over $8B.

gollark: Yes, they could probably just put basically anything in there and it would be hard to do anything about it.
gollark: No, I mean it would be hard to do in the various open source OSes.
gollark: > Maybe you've never thought about this, but if there are 100 devs working for free you'd only need to hire 50 devs to compromise all their code.That's, um, still quite a lot given the large amounts of developers involved, and code review exists, and this kind of conspiracy could *never* stay secret for very long, and if you have an obvious backdoor obvious people are fairly likely to look at it and notice.
gollark: Those are increasingly not working because of better security in stuff, which is probably good.
gollark: There is actually a wikipedia page for that.

References
  1. https://techsauce.co/en/tech-and-biz/itechpreneurship-creating-chaos-to-avoid-chaos-keynote-address-by-kamran-elahian-founder-and-chairman-of-global-innovation-catalyst/
  2. https://powderkeg.com/failure-to-success-kamran-elahian/
  3. https://www.ft.com/content/d729e71c-fed9-11e4-84b2-00144feabdc0#axzz40s1q1mIw
  4. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/may/31/amazon-iranian-style-digikala-other-startups-aparat-hamijoo-takhfifan
  5. https://www.washingtonpost.com/gdpr-consent/?next_url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.washingtonpost.com%2fnews%2fpowerpost%2fwp%2f2015%2f07%2f21%2ftech-recruiters-eye-iranian-tech-talent-clinton-urges-portable-benefits-at-firms-like-uber%2f
  6. https://www.techinasia.com/talk/great-founder-break-arm
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