About

Jahangir Mohammed is an accomplished entrepreneur, co-founder, and angel investor with over 14 years of experience in building, leading, and growing companies. He is currently the co-founder of Cone(YC S22), a startup that is focused on revolutionizing the way people shop online. Jahangir is equally adept at business and strategy, with a strong background in product and engineering organizations. Jahangir's previous experience includes multiple technology leadership roles at Cotiviti Labs, HBO Code Labs, Adobe, and NextJump. He has a Master's degree in Computer Science from Stony Brook, where he was advised by Professor Steven Skiena, a world-renowned Algorist. Jahangir's special interests lie in the areas of Distributed Computing, Data Mining, and AI, and he has co-authored a paper on ethnicity detection presented in ACM SIGKDD'09 using open data and machine learning. Jahangir is also a sector-agnostic angel investor and advisor, with an impressive portfolio of startups. He believes that (P) Problem, (M) Market size, (B) Business model, and (T) Team are the key factors that drive the success of a venture. Beyond this, he also weighs the opportunities on innovation density (or depth) and the quality of the problem. Some of the startups in his portfolio include Even, Lohum Cleantech, Insane AI, ADLOID, Clinikk, Express Stores, Melorra, Stage3, Adonmo, SuperBeings, BusinessOnBot, Fanplay Inc, FactoryPlus, Gold Setu, Auric, Xook, and Unbox Robotics. Jahangir has a Bachelor of Engineering degree from Osmania University, where he was among the University toppers. He was also the President of the graduate students living community at Stony Brook. Jahangir's specialties include Senior Software Engineer, AI, and ML. He is passionate about building, leading, and growing companies, and he is always looking for new investing opportunities. You can reach out to him at md.jahangir27@gmail.com for advice or investing opportunities.