Victoria Mehran

About

Venture capital and venture studio operator since 2019 with experience evaluating 75+ startups and helping raise capital across accelerator and venture-building environments. Currently developing Zenom, an AI-driven longevity and preventive healthcare platform combining biomarker analysis, genomics, and personalized wellness recommendations, with commercialization ambitions across MENA and Los Angeles.

Key Strengths

• Raised capital through SPV structuring and investor engagement, including contribution to a $3M biomarker/genomics venture raise
• Supported investor relations and fundraising efforts contributing to approximately $10M raised at Expert Dojo
• Evaluated, sourced, and invested in 75+ early-stage startups across fintech, AI, healthtech, and enterprise tech
• Led venture building and commercialization for 5+ ventures across healthcare, fintech, and AI platforms
• Strong healthcare innovation expertise at the intersection of AI, genomics, biomarkers, and preventive care
• Commercialization-focused operator with experience in go-to-market, partnerships, and scaling strategy
• Thoughtful founder mindset grounded in market size, timing, scalability, defensibility, and founder-market fit
• Strategic approach to trust-building in healthtech through clinical, research, and healthcare partnerships
• high-volume founder sourcing across relationships, conferences, LinkedIn, email, and referrals
• thesis-driven investing and opportunity identification
• ability to convert cold outreach into qualified founder conversations
• trust-based founder relationship building over time
• value-add approach through insights and strategic introductions
• strong founder assessment on execution, leadership, and storytelling
• structured early-stage diligence using market size, scalability, founder strength, and traction
• rigorous pipeline tracking and prioritization in Affinity CRM
• concise investment memo writing with strengths, risks, and ROI view
• international network across the Middle East, India, and the US
• cross-functional background spanning VC, accelerator, venture studio/CVC, consulting, client relations, and financial analysis
• engineering-trained problem-solving mindset

Reference Highlights

• excellent outbound salesperson
• proactive
• good on the phones
• effective in physical outbound
• finds new business
• consistently hit metrics and targets
• filled cohorts with high-quality companies
• met required cohort volume
• good at building relationships
• converted difficult prospects to company terms
• good judgment
• good sales
• identified companies the organization needed
• won valuable companies such as Gesture

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