Sohail Prasad

Sohail Prasad

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About

Role

Founder & CEO

Type

Full-time operator, Angel

Bio

Sohail is the Founder & CEO of Destiny (D/XYZ), an investment management company that provides public access to the private tech markets. Prior to founding Destiny, Sohail was the Founder and CEO of Forge, a global private securities marketplace building trading, custody, and data infrastructure to meet the needs of high-growth unicorn companies, employees, and investors. Today, Forge transacts billions in pre-IPO stock annually, has over $14B in assets under custody, and recently announced that it will be going public in a $2B merger with SPAC Motive Capital Corp (NYSE:MOTV), becoming the first dedicated trading platform for private shares to become a public company. Prior to founding Forge in 2014, Sohail was among the youngest founders to go through Y Combinator as an eighteen-year-old. Over the years, Sohail has advised and invested in over 150 startups, including notable startups such as Rappi, Rippling, Notion, Retool, Astranis, Superhuman, Mercury, and Zenefits.

About Investments

Sohail invests across industries and geographies, with a focus on companies that leverage software and platform-based business models.

Investments

Stages

Pre-seed, Seed, Series A, Series B and beyond

Check Range

$100K-$500K

Geography

Global

Leads Rounds

Sometimes

Investment Highlights

Astranis, Mercury, Mux, Notion, Rappi, Retool, Rippling, Superhuman, Vise, Zenefits

Get in touch

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Disclaimers and footnotes

    Mercury is a fintech company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group, Column N.A., and Evolve Bank & Trust, Members FDIC. Deposit insurance covers the failure of an insured bank.