- May 13, 2022
EPISODE #
#35 Feras Jalbout on building investment platform Baraka
About this episode
Feras Jalbout has spent his career in finance doing asset management, trading, managing a large family office and investing in startups.
His experience gave him the confidence to turn to entrepreneurship and launch Baraka, an investment platform geared for the young generation, the MENA region’s Robinhood equivalent.
We focus our conversation on Feras’ journey, what we’re doing right or wrong while buying global equities particularly while facing tremendous volatility in the markets. We wrap up with learning about Feras’ experience as an entrepreneur with Y Combinator, the world’s most coveted startups accelerator that graduated the likes of Airbnb, Stripe, Coinbase, Doordash and thousands more.
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guest profile
Feras Jalbout
Feras Jalbout is an investor turned entrepreneur. Most recently, Feras served in a dual capacity as an Investor at an early-stage venture fund focused on deploying capital into high growth companies across MENA and Managing Director of a single-family office based in Dubai with an unconstrained global investment mandate. His work included developing and executing global investment theses in areas of mega growth across public and private markets.
In July 2020, he set out to build baraka – a commission-free investment platform for the Middle East. Since then, he has brought together, and now leads, a dynamic team geared towards growing baraka’s vibrant and transparent open investing platform that educates, enables and empowers individuals to take control of their investments.
Before embarking on his latest venture, Feras executed and structured hundreds of public and private investments across a 15-year career in investment management. He has experience setting up tailored asset allocation models, multi-generational holding structures and executing investments across a wide range of asset classes including public markets, venture capital, real estate and private equity. Feras is a seasoned board member and active angel investor who has deployed his own capital in dozens of startups to date.
His previous employers include Barclays & Standard Chartered where he worked in a Private Banking capacity advising ultra-high net-worth clients on investments. He is a graduate of Carleton University in Canada with certificates from Carnegie Mellon in Corporate Innovation, Singularity University in Exponential Thinking and the Chartered Institute of Securities & Investment in Securities and Derivatives.