Pejman Nozad

Pejman is the founding managing director of Amidzad, an early and seed stage technology angel fund.

His investment include Danger Research ( acquired By Microsoft), Bix ( acquired by Yahoo), Powerset ( acquired by Microsoft),Sabio Labs( acquired by Magma), Vudu ( acquired by Walmart), Dropbox, Zoosk, Causes, Social Gaming Network (SGN), Clearspring, Tokbox, webs.com, Jaxtr, Optrip, Melodis, Songbird, Litescape,InMage, Quantenna, Agitar, Aprius and Picaboo.

Pejman is the founding advisor of isoccer.org He is also an advisor to Qwiki, Cellixis and Hotprints.

Pejman has been instrumental in creating “Plug and Play Tech Center”, world’s most successful technology community center which has been home to more than 500 tech start-ups . ( www.plugandplaytechcenter.com)

Pejman is a member of the prestigious International Sports Press Association and the Editor-in-Chief of Toop Magazine (an annual international soccer magazine). He sits on the executive board of International Children Games in San Francisco 2008. He played professional soccer for 3 years in Iran. He also covered two FIFA World Cups ( 1998 and 2006) as an accredited reporter for his own website ( www.footballmedia.net).