Silicon Valley Entrepreneurship Club || (SVEC)

Leadership for Entrepreneurs: Building Startups for Successful Exit Strategies in the AI/ML GPT Era
2025-12-05 18:00 - 22:30 UTC | MCA, 3003 Scott Blvd, Santa Clara, CA, United States
https://www.tickettailor.com/events/sventclub/1961649
Agenda:
6:00 – 6:25 pm Registration and Light Dinner
6:25 – 6:30 pm SVEC Introduction
6:30 – 7:00 pm Mona El Naggar “Leadership for Entrepreneurs: Crafting Impactful Boards and Navigating Purposeful Transitions”
7:00 – 7:30 pm Vaseem Anjum “Building Startups for Successful
Exit Strategies in the AI/ML GPT Era”
7:30 – 8:00 pm Panel Discussion and Q&A “moderated by Dr. Amr Mohsen”
8:00 pm Ishaa Prayer

Halal Money Conference
2025-11-16 09:30 - 19:00 UTC | CA

Keys to Success & Digital Outreach
2025-11-14 18:30 - 19:55 UTC | CA

Qatar Science & Technology Park (QSTP) Entrepreneurship Programs
2025-10-28 18:30 - 20:00 UTC | MCA, 3003 Scott Blvd, Santa Clara, CA, United States
QSTP is a global hub for deep tech with impact — with a vision to create a future where technology and science positively impact humanity and the natural world. It hosts global firms and startups, offering top-tier facilities, full foreign ownership, and tax benefits.

Speakers:

Rama Chakaki
Ahmed Al-Said

AI powered Apps for Entrepreneurs
2025-09-26 17:00 - 20:30 (America/Denver) | WVMA, 16769 Farley Rd, Los Gatos, CA, United States
Speaker:
Dr. Shalini Gopalkrishnan

TURN ∞ VIDEO DATA → INTERACTIVE KNOWLEDGE BASE
2025-09-07 18:30 - 19:30 UTC | CA

Incura Medical Devices Innovation
2025-05-18 12:00 - 13:00 UTC | CA

Vitolistic Business Pitch
2025-02-02 18:00 - 20:00 (America/Denver) | CA

Online Interactive Maps of the Prophet’s Sīrah ﷺ
2025-01-05 19:00 - 20:00 UTC | CA

STARTUP BOOT CAMP From dream to reality: Launch your startup!
2024-12-21 10:00 - 14:00 (America/Denver) | WVMA, 16769 Farley Rd, Los Gatos, CA, United States

Fund-level returns and insights to individuals.
2024-12-15 18:00 - 19:00 UTC | CA
TruthSayer AI a Fintech AI Startup that wants to deliver Hedge Fund-level returns and insights to Individual investors. Our Business model has inflection points into the D2C, D2x2C, Market Places, and Custodial/Roboadvisory/Brokerage markets. citations

Recent Trends and Future Applications & Opportunities of Generative Al/ML Technologies
2024-08-02 18:00 - 22:00 UTC | MCA, 3003 Scott Blvd, Santa Clara, CA, United States

Hyder Electric Bikes
2023-08-28 | CA
Company`s Summary
Green Electrical Bikes (GEB), a company incorporated in Pakistan by the owners of SAE Mobility LLC Texas USA, with the mission of minimizing the problem of noise and air pollution, and reducing the burden of excessive fuel prices on daily commuters for the Pakistani market. These bikes shall help with Zero CO2 emissions, reduction in financial impact due to reduction in fuel imports, and Up to 80% reduction in operational costs.
Links:
www.hyder.pk
Presentation:

Smart Tax and Strategie
2023-08-18 | LGIC Main Hall, 16769 Farley Rd, Los Gatos, CA, 95032, United States
“Smart Tax Strategies” – an exclusive event by the Entrepreneurship Club of WVMA! Learn essential tax tips for startups, small businesses, and IPOs. Network with fellow entrepreneurs and gain valuable insights from industry experts. (The presentations of the speakers are attached)
Presentations:

Fuel Station (UBER for fuel delivery)
2023-08-06 | CA
Company`s Summary
Fuel Station is on-demand fuel delivery platform delivering fuel to customers at their doorsteps in a specialized tank. We provide fuel according to the required quantity and the scheduled time by the customers.
Links:
https://www.fuelstation.com.pk/

VCs & Investors Deep Dive
2023-05-19 | CA
Zain Jeewanjee-The art of giving. Various VCs and Investors.

Lucid Lane - Ahmed Zaafran
2023-05-14 | CA
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Company`s Summary
Lucid Lane is addressing the substance use / medication dependence problem that 35M Americans face, costing the economy over $100B annually in addition to causing irreparable harm and loss of life. Millions of people are becoming dependent on prescribed medications like opioids and benzodiazepines after an illness or surgery. Lucid Lane’s mission is to PREVENT, and end, their reliance on addictive medications, while improving their pain and mental health to help them live a better, healthier life.
Lucid Lane is growing rapidly with recurring patient referrals from major health systems, clinics, and surgery centers where it is becoming a standard of care. We have contracts with health systems and over 100 private and government (medicare and medicaid) health plan contracts for getting reimbursed, along with self-insured employers. We operate in 40 states nationally, with major hubs in Texas, California, Utah, Arizona, and Georgia.
Home – Lucid Lane
About the speaker
Ahmed Zaafran, Co-Founder, Chief Medical Officer
ahmed.zaafran@lucidlane.com
Ahmed is the co-founder and Chief Medical Officer of Lucid Lane. He is a board certified anesthesiologist and still practices in the San Francisco Bay area. He trained at The University of Texas McGovern School of Medicine in anesthesiology prior to joining the faculty of the Stanford University School of Medicine from 2012-2021. In 2013, he completed his Certification in Entrepreneurship and Global Innovation through the Graduate School of Business (GSB) Stanford Ignite Program, which led to his role as the Director of Development for Stanford Medicine X-Middle East Region and as a team member of Stanford Healthcare Innovation.

Business Legal Landscape and Pitfalls
2023-04-10 18:00 - 22:00 (America/Denver) | LGIC Main Hall, 16769 Farley Rd, Los Gatos, CA, 95032, United States
Details
“Business legal landscape and Pitfalls” Los Gatos Mosque for March 10th, 6-9 pm.
The event’s objective is to provide legal guidelines to entrepreneurs in our community starting and managing their companies including the following topics:
1. Comparison of various corporate structures, state registrations, and tax considerations. (Ashrar Ahmed from Infinity Law Group ( https://www.infinitylawca.com/our-people/ashar-ahmed) .
2. Review of corporate governance and various legal issues involved in starting any company and where litigation can often occur. (Marwa ElZankali from McManis Faulkner ( https://www.mcmanislaw.com/people/lawyers/marwa-elzankaly).
3. Potential financing at various stages of corporate growth and related contractual events. (Riaz Karamali from Pillsburylaw (https://www.linkedin.com/in/riazkaramali/).
4. Recommended protection means of intellectual property. (Feras Mousilli from Loyd & Mousilli (https://www.lloydmousilli.com/)). Firasat Ali from Haley and Guiliano (https://www.hglaw.com/our-team/Firasat-ali/ )
Here is the tentative schedule of the event:
1. Maghrib prayer at 6 pm-6:15 pm
2. Light dinner meal and networking from 6:15 pm to 6:45 pm.
3. Introduction, panel and presentations from 6:45 pm to 8 pm.
4. Ishaa prayer at 8 pm.
5. Q&A 8:15 pm to 9 pm.

ThunderPort Pitch - Henry VerHeyen
2023-02-26 | CA
Recording
https://drive.google.com/file/d/13UrviJqN82vg3HizXI_Lpa_NOxps3HjF/view
Join the pitch (Sunday 9:00am)
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Company`s Summary
ThunderPort Inc.
Big Picture Idea: Cloud storage cost reduction by a factor of 10x vs. current approaches.

Decentralized Cloud Storage Solution, ideal for emerging OTA(EV), IoT, Smart Appliance markets.
Decentralized Private, Secure, Encrypted, Internet Communication, coupled with Free Cloud Storage for internet users.

Allows for new applications, such as Smart Contracts 2.0 or Web 4.0. Online Voting, Industry 4.0, etc. to evolve. User Account Associated Data allows for other means of monetization.
a. First Bootstrap program focusing on DRM and stopping Video Piracy. We have developed favorable contacts with Hollywood people.
b. Second Bootstrap program focusing on Banks and securing on-line access into user’s accounts.
Bootstrap a) and b) allow for the company to be in revenue and possibly profit, before undertaking 1) and 2), which is the ‘big picture’.
Three patents: First Issued, Second Filed, Third in Review. Demo almost complete for a).
Delaware Inc., incorporated 2021.
TAM: for Bootstrap programs: $300M, for Decentralized Storage: $300B.
No competition. This is not alike web3. We have had deep technical discussions with the crypto developers, and they agree that ‘this is the better mouse trap for almost all applications that they could be pursuing in web3″.
Network operates at 10M to 100M TPS, 1,000x faster than 10k to 100k server or blockchain solutions.
Technology allows for new verticals, e.g., spin-offs that leverage the technology in application specific markets, e.g., Real Estate Market Automation.
Network capacity: 10B users, 100T objects, infinite number of properties. Can be scaled up.
About the speaker
Henry is a 30-year EDA veteran, with a strong background in HW, SW, Systems design. He has been architect and developer, as well as executive and CEO in both startups and public companies. Henry combines strong technical, marketing, sales, and executive skills.
Two major areas to highlight:
Architect and implementor of major industry product successes such as Quickturn Systems’ Palladium, Xilinx Virtex Series, Cadence Edge P&R, Synaptics’ IC Testing methodologies.
Major industry marketing successes such as revamping VCS and Motive, which led to Synopsys acquiring Viewlogic, and XACT 4.0, which led to Xilinx acquiring NeoCad.
The idea for ThunderPort came to Henry in two parts: the first part in 2008, when he worked with another startup team on a novel internet technology, similar to (but way ahead of) WhatsApp. A China-government grant eventually steered the team into another direction.
The second part was in 2019, when Bob, co-founder, and I were probing into the emerging crypto markets and were looking for a competitive angle.
Henry is a natural leader and has a strong ability to understand and translate communications between cross-functional teams, have teams think outside the box to find solutions, and achieve buy-in and success with any team, outward or inward focusing.

Verbal - Waleed Mohsen
2022-12-04 | CA
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Company`s Summary
the first virtual care AI assistant for digital health that automates training and quality assurance. Unlike manual, asynchronous methods of training & QA, Verbal uses natural language processing to understand individual patient/coach interactions and provides real-time training while QAing 100% of calls.
About the speaker
wmohsen@tryverbal.com

Kestrl Corporation - Areeb Siddiqui
2022-11-20 | CA
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Company`s Summary
his company Kestrl, offering a service that helps Muslims to achieve their goals without compromising their beliefs with a Consumer App in the UK, and a SaaS solution offered to Islamic Banks. (https://kestrl.io/). Kestrl is raising a Seed round of $2m USD at a valuation of $12m to acquire 3-4 new B2B clients, achieve $1m+ in ARR and achieve Product Market Fit with its Consumer App.
About the speaker
Areeb was in Strategy Consulting at Deloitte and PwC London where he specialized in Fintech Strategy for Banks and Wealth Managers. He has an MBA from the University of Cambridge where he came up with the concept of Kestrl after interviewing 1,500 Muslims for his final thesis.

Pitch Recording
https://us02web.zoom.us/rec/share/uBWBZ0T36CZKJ1HNqijff1cFEaeaVRQpTSvbaKgIz4MVZ-mCb2ymw0XLZDVRyTlE.E3GVWY29wDP5lAzU

GeneCrypt - Kris Vette
2022-11-13 | CA
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Company`s Summary
We are a deep tech start up that have developed a computationally friendly way to encrypt and process genomic (DNA) data from end to end. Our tech integrates with standard bioinformatics tooling allowing for secure interrogation of the dataset to find predictive and therapeutic targets for both precision medicine and for researchers.
About the speaker
kris.genecrypt@gmail.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kris-vette-b8416620/
A founder from New Zealand with a deep tech & biology background. A career in Healthcare management & system improvement across the UK NHS and New Zealand turned an entrepreneurial mindset towards fixing problems to speed up precision medicine. Kris now runs GeneCrypt, a company that decentralises genomic data for the new world of healthcare, one that is predictive, preventative and personalised.

Telemedicx - Nour Lababidi
2022-10-30 | CA
Nour Lababidi is a Technical founder who is on a mission to reduce the patients’ wait time to access specialty care.
Telemedicx
SaaS software that enables family care doctors to ask for specialists advice to improve patient care coordination between private practices.
https://telemedicx.com/
Contacts
nour@telemedicx.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/nour-lababidi/

CKCODECONNECT - Chakib Khemici
2022-10-23 | CA

Halal Cart - Ugur Ozturk
2022-10-16 | CA
Pitch in a nut shell
Halalcart is a same day delivery service for Halal groceries from its local distribution centers in range..
www.halalcartapp.com
Contacts
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ugur-ozturk-171209237
ugur@halalcartapp.com

Al-Driven Test Case Generation for Efficient Quality Assurance
2022-10-13 18:00 - 18:30 (America/Denver) | CA

Specialty Drinks Served by A Robot Barista
2022-10-13 17:30 - 18:00 UTC | CA

Redefining food discovery & ordering Where Every Meal is an Experience!
2022-10-13 17:00 - 17:30 UTC | CA

Vectors Capital - Osman Ghafoor
2022-10-09 | CA
Bio
I have been part of the Bay Area Community since 1999, having moved here from my place of birth, the UK. The Bay area has been home to me and the place I have chosen to raise my family. I enjoy being part of the WVMA community and give my time back by serving on the Board. I am a VP at Silver Lake, a private equity firm that has been involved in many high profile investments and exits. I have an expertise in the back office operations within the Alternative Assets space. I have a bachelors in Accounting and Finance from the UK, I am a UK Chartered Management Accountant. I received my MBA from Cornell University and I’ve been exploring the options of being more involved in the front office within the VC space. This brings me to my present initiative, where I am looking to fundraise for Vectors Capital, a successful Angel group now looking raise $20Million for their Climate Change focused Fund.
Pitch in a nut shell
After identifying this market gap, we are fundraising for our launch of Vectors Capital’s Climate Frontier Fund I to employ a novel investment strategy to guide seed stage Deep-Tech x Climate startups through the early phases. This fund brings practical learning from our previous successful investments (through SPVs). The team’s expertise in Climate-Tech commercialization is looking to establish itself as the Fund that commercializes fronter climate solutions.
Links and references
www.linkedin.com/in/osman-m-a-ghafoor
https://www.vectors.earth/

ChargeWheel, the AirBNB of EV Charging
2022-10-02 | CA
About the speaker
Huzaifa was an early adopter of EVs in the bay area that inspired him to launch ChargeWheel.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/huzaifamu/
h@chargewheel.com
4157996093
About the Company
Charge-Wheel is building the Airbnb of EV charging, we are converting private home driveways and apartment garages in fast charging stations for EV drivers.
ChargeWheel – World’s Smartest EV Chargers
Slides and Info
Raising round: extended pre-seed $500k
