
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
Industries
Investment Highlights
Astranis, Mercury, Mux, Notion, Rappi, Retool, Rippling, Superhuman, Vise, Zenefits
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