Rama Abdullatif Chakaki

Rama Chakaki’s passion is at the intersection of impact and tech investing. She is a technology professional with 30 years of experience in media, telecom, edtech, fintech, and AI. Rama is a partner at Transform VC, a firm on a mission to unlock the potential of our community’s tech entrepreneurs to make a billion and impact a billion.

Rama took on a COO role at aiXplain, an AI startup on a mission to deeply democratize AI. aiXplain is co-founded and funded by Transform VC. Rama co-founded VIP.fund, a non-profit incubating technology to empower 2,500+ marginalized youth, run by the beneficiaries and volunteer community who build technologies to crowdfund for higher education, enable a digital support community, and create employment opportunities in tech.

Rama founded Baraka Ventures, the first impact tech incubator in the Arab world, seeded startups, and worked on projects supporting the Qatar 2022 World Cup Bid as a Social Impact Strategy Advisor; the World Bank Group as a Communications Advisor to the UAE Ministry of Labour and Kuwait Ministry of Finance; and Etisalat UAE as an advisor for a youth market product strategy. She also built BarakaBits, the first digital content platform focused on good news from the Middle East.

As the COO of Eastnets, a global provider of compliance and payments solutions for the financial services industry, Rama led two investment rounds and scaled the business from 22 to 200 employees. In her late 20s, Rama, along with five colleagues in WDC, raised $60m in funding to build 11 data centers worldwide.

Rama holds a bachelor’s and master’s of science in computer engineering and engineering management from George Washington University and continued education in scaling impact from Stanford. Rama was featured in Forbes Arabia, Arab Women Rising, The Power of Presence, and other publications. Rama is a 2017 TEDxBeaconStreet speaker.