Pejman Nozad
Founding General Partner

Pejman has been closely involved with more than forty new emerging growth companies. His seed investments include Danger Research ( acquired By Microsoft), Bix ( acquired by Yahoo), Sabio Labs (acquired by Magma), Powerset (acquired By Microsoft), Vudu (acquired by Walmart), Dropbox, Zoosk, Clearspring, Tokbox, Zetta, webs.com, Social Gaming Network (SGN), Causes, Optrip, Melodis, Litescape, InMage, Quantenna, Aprius and Picaboo. He is also the founding board member of isoocer.org.

Pejman has been instrumental in creating "Plug and Play Tech Center", world's most successful technology community center which has been home to more than 500 tech startups . ( www.plugandplaytechcenter.com)

Pejman joined the Amidi Group in 1994 as VP of Business Development. Amidi Group is a conglomerate of privately-held business enterprises consisting of several domestic and international entities with significant manufacturing, distribution, trading, retail, and real estate holdings. In the span of few years, Pejman launched a number of successful initiatives and created significant strategic relationships for the Amidi Group of companies. Amidzad was one of those initiatives.

Pejman is a member of the prestigious International Sports Press Association and the Editor-in-Chief of Toop Magazine (an annual international soccer magazine). He sits on the executive board of International Children Games in San Francisco 2008. He played professional soccer for 3 years in Iran.

Pejman also covered two FIFA World Cups ( 1998 and 2006) as an accredited reporter for his own website ( www.footballmedia.net).

pejman@amidzad.com