Pejman Nozad
Founding General Partner

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

His investments 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, Path, 1000memories.com, Badgeville,Social Gaming Network (SGN), Qwiki, Clearspring, TokBox, webs.com (formerly Freewebs), Jaxtr, Optrip, Melodis, Songbird, Litescape, InMage, Quantenna, Agitar, Aprius and Picaboo.

Pejman is the co-founder and chairman of Swapmeback, a mobile payment start-up out of Stanford. He sits on the board of Qwiki as an observer.

Pejman is the founding advisor of isoccer.org, and an advisor to Clever Sense (http://thecleversense.com/) and Hotprints.

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

Pejman joined the Amidi Group in 1994 as VP of Business Development. Amidi Group is a conglomerate of privately-held business enterprises consisting of several domestic and international entities with significant manufacturing, distribution, trading, retail, and real estate holdings. In the span of few years, Pejman launched a number of successful initiatives and created significant strategic relationships for the Amidi Group of companies. Amidzad was one of those initiatives.

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).