Abdur Rahman
I'm Head of Applied AI at Caspian, where I build the systems that turn trade compliance into recovered capital. I also invest in and advise founders across fintech and robotics.
Before Caspian, I was a private equity investor at Tower Three Partners, an operationally focused middle-market firm. I worked on diligence, value creation, and portfolio operations.
Earlier I was at Bank of America Securities, in the mergers and acquisitions group of its investment banking division. I hold an MBA from Carnegie Mellon's Tepper School of Business.
Education
- Carnegie Mellon University Tepper School of Business (MBA)
- Clark University (BA)
Experience
- Caspian
- Tower Three Partners
- Bank of America Securities
- MoonRanger NASA / Carnegie Mellon
Investments
- Champions Retreat Golf resort & hospitality
- Clearspeed Voice-based risk assessment
- Facet Medical Technologies Specialty medical devices
- Ola Electric Electric vehicles (NSE: OLAELEC)
- Palladyne AI Robotics & AI (NASDAQ: PDYN)
- Pathwater Sustainable bottled water
- Pivotal Commware 5G mmWave wireless infrastructure
- SteriCare Solutions Healthcare sterilization
Recognition
- HackMIT 2018 Exploring New Territory, top prize. ClarkU News
- Wellesley Hackathon 2018 Best Clean Transportation Hack (MassCEC), and Best Use of Google Cloud Platform. ClarkU News
Writing
Finance AI, on how artificial intelligence is reshaping private equity and the investing world.
Reading
The three books I'm reading right now.
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Elsewhere
Proof that I touch grass, usually from somewhere high. Every print here was shot from an overlook, a mountain or a temple deck above the sea. (Psst. Tap the Miyajima print for a surprise.)
The overlook is Mount Washington in Pittsburgh, where three rivers meet. I did my MBA there at Tepper. It's also where I joined the team behind MoonRanger, the most literal version of looking up I've managed so far: a micro-rover that CMU, Astrobotic and NASA built for the Moon's south pole.
I skied Whitefish Mountain in Montana in January 2024. Japan came fourteen months later, with a hike on Miyajima above the Seto Inland Sea and a night walking Kyoto under the lanterns.
Back on the ground, I get the long view from history, and I follow geopolitics.
