PRODUCT · AI
Tehran · Data, Analytics & AI

Vahid
Yadrouj

Product Director — AI & Data · Innovation Director, KareOne

I build the systems that let organizations see their market first — and I make the hard calls they produce. Public face of an 800-person technology holding; hands-on leader of a 13-engineer AI team.

Vahid Yadrouj
VY
Keynote speaker — National Innovation & Technology Event
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0Holding staff
0Venture funds
0AI engineers led
0Companies tracked
0Startups reviewed
About

Evidence first.
Even when it says no.

I direct innovation across a technology & AI holding with 9 venture funds, where I created the Go/Iterate/Kill governance every fund uses to judge its products and screen new deals. That means I personally kill underperforming services, veto business lines that fail the evidence bar, and redirect products mid-flight.

Before that: a decade of shipped fintech — currency exchange scaled from 27k to 800k users in nine months, P2P crypto trading, cross-border payment rails, and post-trade systems serving 40M+ capital-market users.

Current roleInnovation Director, KareOne
Ecosystem10+ startup events hosted · 100+ startups reviewed
EducationM.Sc. Financial Engineering, Khatam · B.Sc. Industrial Engineering, IHU
LanguagesEnglish C1 · Persian native · German A1
Flagship — Market Navigator

A machine that watches the market, so decisions don't rely on opinion.

Built with my 13-engineer AI team, Market Navigator is the intelligence engine behind the holding's investment decisions — from spotting where smart money moves to scoring which company raises next.

01

Smart-money behavior alerts

Statistical anomaly detection across 500 top venture funds — deal pace, check size, stage drift, dormancy — surfacing behavior change before the news does.

02

3M+ company data platform

Enriched company records, 200k+ investor profiles, and a self-built multilingual news pipeline (~500k articles in Persian, Arabic, English) with LLM event extraction.

03

Calibrated prediction engine

Next-round fundraise probability via gradient boosting with probability calibration and SHAP explanations — evaluated leakage-safe, reported as precision@K and lift.

04

Trend & theme radar

Theme lifecycle phasing — early, smart-money, crowded, exit — plus a co-investment graph for fund scoring and warm-introduction paths.

Journey

Ten years of products that moved money and markets.

Dec 2023 — Present
Innovation Director · KareOne — Technology & AI holding
Investment & product governance across 9 venture funds; built Market Navigator; 30+ AI applications and 50+ enterprise contracts deployed group-wide.
Sep 2024 — Mar 2025
Product Manager (contract) · ToyPal.ai — AI storytelling device, UK
Disproved product-market fit for the existing version, found the real customer segment and channel, and restructured the product for a pivot.
Sep 2023 — Sep 2024
Co-Founder, VP Product · Tourbist — travel platform, Iran–Turkey
Zero to 1,200 users and 110 curated trips in 4 months; ~25% month-over-month growth through content-led acquisition.
2023
Head of Product · Kanoon Sarafan — currency exchange
Registrations from 27k to 75k in 3 months — 800k in nine — on a product-led growth strategy; launched rial / foreign-currency / stablecoin settlement.
2022
Senior Product Manager · Hami Pishgaman — crypto exchange & payments
Launched a P2P crypto trading app serving 1,800+ customers; built Hami-Link for foreign payments.
2018 — 2021
Senior Product Manager · PDN — B2B/B2G software agency
Four products idea-to-launch generating $400k+ net profit; gold-trading platform handling 500+ kg/day; EMV gold-backed payment card.
2017 — 2021
Co-Founder · Arzito & Mosaferz — cross-border payments
Three payment rails integrated with 70+ exchanges; $200k+ escrow volume in year one; multi-method acquiring across Iraq and Dubai.
2016 — 2019
Product Manager, Blockchain Consultant · CSD Iran — capital markets
Central authorization portal for 40M+ stock-market users; piloted blockchain post-trade settlement.
“Growth is easy to promise. The rare discipline is killing what the evidence says won't work.”
The principle behind Go / Iterate / Kill
Contact — the committee test

Want my inbox? Convince the committee first.

Every deal that reaches me passes the same bar. Three pitches, the evidence on the table — make the call I would make: Go, Iterate or Kill. Score 3/3 and my contact details unlock.

Committee verdict: