Zaid Farekh

Founder and CEO

Zaid Farekh is Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Propeller, a venture capital fund targeting pre-seed and seed-stage startups, which he founded in 2017 with partner Tammer Qaddumi from Oman. He came from a software-engineering background and built his own company to 140 employees, and has invested through Propeller in more than 35 technology companies. In 2025 the fund launched its third, $50 million portfolio to invest in AI infrastructure, software and developer-tools companies, operating from offices in Oman, Riyadh, Boston and Silicon Valley.