Shayan Habib

Shayan Habib is a technology executive and early-stage investor whose career spans investment banking, venture capital, and cleantech entrepreneurship. He holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Pennsylvania, majoring in Economics with minors in Mathematics and International Relations. Earlier in his career he served as a Vice President in the Fixed Income banking division at Lehman Brothers in New York, and then sat on the investment team at Arrow Capital Management, an event-driven global public-equities hedge fund also based in New York.

From roughly 2010 to 2015, Habib was a Partner at Ideavelopers, an early-stage venture capital firm affiliated with EFG-Hermes Private Equity that managed the ~$50 million Technology Development Fund focused on early-stage technology companies. In that role he evaluated, backed, and worked alongside early-stage technology founders — the experience that most directly informs his angel investing at the seed stage.

Habib is also a cleantech entrepreneur: he founded Taxila Services, a company providing alternative/off-grid energy solutions to underserved markets, reflecting a long-standing interest in energy access and emerging markets (with ties to Pakistan). Since around 2015 he has been at EcoFactor, Inc., a Redwood City–based energy-technology company, where he served as Chief Financial Officer / Chief Operating Officer and subsequently became Chief Executive Officer. EcoFactor builds IoT- and SaaS-based platforms that optimize residential energy consumption via smart-thermostat and grid-services technology.

Across these roles, Habib combines a finance and capital-markets foundation (Lehman Brothers, Arrow Capital) with hands-on venture and operating experience (Ideavelopers, Taxila, EcoFactor), which shapes how he approaches early-stage bets.

• Invests as an angel at the seed / early stage, consistent with the contact record and his years as an early-stage VC partner at Ideavelopers.
• Draws on his cleantech/energy operating background (Taxila Services, EcoFactor) — likely receptive to energy, IoT, SaaS, and hard-tech-adjacent startups.
• Comfortable with emerging-market and Pakistan-linked opportunities given his founding of an alternative-energy venture serving underserved markets.
• Brings a finance-and-diligence lens (Lehman Brothers fixed-income banking, Arrow Capital hedge-fund investment team) — expect scrutiny on unit economics, capital efficiency, and path to revenue.
• Note: a specific publicly stated personal investing thesis or fixed check-size range was not found in public sources; the above is inferred from his documented track record.