Rafiq is the Founding Managing Director at Dipalo Ventures. As a serial entrepreneur and investor, Rafiq has over three decades of experience in innovation, user experience design, product development, management consulting, and early-stage ventures.

His investment focus areas include climate, industrial, manufacturing, and medical devices. Rafiq’s angel investment portfolio has a 29.23% IRR, 2.33x MOIC with 1 unicorn and 5 exits. He co-founded the interactive storytelling platform Demibooks and exited to EDC (NASDAQ: EDUC). He is a Limited Partner in a number of Venture Capital Funds. Rafiq’s prior work included Motorola Mobility, Publicis Sapient Fannie Mae, and PwC.

Rafiq studied Computer Science and received an MBA from Virginia Tech and a BS in Electrical Engineering from West Virginia Wesleyan.