Rachid Sefrioui

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With over two decades at the helm of Finaventures, we are defined by delivering returns…

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Publications

  • Squaring the Circle: A Venture Thriller

    Amazon Publishing

    Ryker Shaheen and Armen Balfour are best friends. As MBA students at Columbia Business School, they resolved that one day they would put together the ultimate deal, “The culmination of all ambition”.
    Years later, Armen convinces Orwell to back their scheme – a multi-billion dollar investment in Gnosis. While Gnosis will be the anchor of a financial services powerhouse, unbeknown to Orwell it is merely a smokescreen to conceal a far greater purpose.
    The British government begins to…

    Ryker Shaheen and Armen Balfour are best friends. As MBA students at Columbia Business School, they resolved that one day they would put together the ultimate deal, “The culmination of all ambition”.
    Years later, Armen convinces Orwell to back their scheme – a multi-billion dollar investment in Gnosis. While Gnosis will be the anchor of a financial services powerhouse, unbeknown to Orwell it is merely a smokescreen to conceal a far greater purpose.
    The British government begins to understand and fear the revolutionary impact Gnosis will have on the financial services industry. Enemies are everywhere – some disguised others open and vocal. Through the chaos and the intrigue, all Ryker and Armen need is a window of a few days and they will be among the richest men on the planet.

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Courses

  • NVCA's Venture Capital & Private Equity Institute

    2003

Languages

  • English

    Native or bilingual proficiency

  • French

    Native or bilingual proficiency

Organizations

  • Speakers Academy

    Global Speaker on Entrepreneurship, Venture Capital, Innovation

    - Present

    Global Speaker on Entrepreneurship, Venture Capital, Leadership & Creativity - Spoke in Los Angeles, San Diego, New York, Boston, Paris, Madrid, London, Qatar, Dubai. http://bit.ly/1ijMDV6

  • Venture Capital Alliance, a Venture Capitalists' Peer Group

    Co-Founder, Co-Chair

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    The Venture Capital Alliance, a Venture Capitalists' Peer Group A fellow Venture Capitalist and I co-founded the Venture Capital Alliance in 2001 as a way of bringing a Group of Peers together. My Firm, Finaventures, hosted a breakfast every third Wednesday of the month of this wonderful hand-selected group of 16 VCs in the Los Angeles area to go beyond a simple networking gathering. We focused on sharing learned experiences, on developing best practices, on discussing investments and…

    The Venture Capital Alliance, a Venture Capitalists' Peer Group A fellow Venture Capitalist and I co-founded the Venture Capital Alliance in 2001 as a way of bringing a Group of Peers together. My Firm, Finaventures, hosted a breakfast every third Wednesday of the month of this wonderful hand-selected group of 16 VCs in the Los Angeles area to go beyond a simple networking gathering. We focused on sharing learned experiences, on developing best practices, on discussing investments and opportunities, on developing collaborations and partnerships, and most importantly on challenging each other on our respective KPIs. The Power of Peers functioned so well in this group that VCs from San Diego, Orange County and Santa Barbara asked to join. We selected 4 and they started making the 2-hour drive to make the 8:30am breakfast. As a result, Southern California developed a vibrant and healthy base of Venture firms willing and able to lead series A & up rounds of locally angel-funded startups; they no longer had to go to funds in Silicon Valley. This has rooted in the Los Angeles area today's success stories such as Snapshat, Rubicon, TrueCar, ZipRecruiter and many others.

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