Abdul is a qualified lawyer at SeedLegals. He has significant experience in negotiating VC funding rounds with companies from pre-seed right through to Series A and beyond.
He graduated with a Law degree from the University of Cambridge before going on to practice law at global law firms Orrick and Goodwin. There, he helped innovative startups and global VC investors on early stage and growth stage fundraisings as well as guiding companies through exit and acquisition.
Abdul has a particular interest in legal tech and climate tech which he has used to help companies raise multi-millions in funding with SeedLegals. He advised Definely in their $7m Series A funding round led by Octopus Ventures, which will allow them to take their unified solution for legal documents to the next level. He also helped close a £2m VC funding round for PHINXT, a female-led robotics startup working to transform warehouse operations.
When he’s not busy working with the next generation of innovative tech companies, you’ll find Abdul pretending he’s definitely not lost while out hiking with his friends and family.
Some more of Abdul’s career highlights, so far:
Companies he’s represented:
- Just Move In on its $8 million Series A funding led by Eos Ventures
- Definely on its $7m Series A funding led by Octopus Ventures, with participation from Cornerstone VC and Zrosk Investments.
- PHINXT on its oversubscribed £2m Series Seed funding round led by Sure Valley Ventures with participation from Ada Ventures.
- SgMA, an award-winning paper-treatment technology, on its investment from Oaktree to help accelerate the green package revolution.
- We Are Fulfilment on investment from Foresight Group, a leading listed regional private equity and infrastructure investment manager, using equity finance from the Midlands Engine Investment Fund.
- Plain, a London based startup developing an API-first tool to help companies provide streamlined support for customer teams, on its $6 million Seed fundraising.
- Better Dairy, a startup developing products that are molecularly identical to traditional dairy while removing animals entirely from the equation, on its $22 million Series A fundraising.
- Sensat, a digital twin infrastructure company (described as ‘Google Earth on steroids’) on its $20.5 million Series B financing led by National Grid Partners, the corporate venture and innovation arm of National Grid plc.
- Cleo, a Gen Z focused fintech, on its $80m Series C investment led by Sofina.
- Captify, a privacy-first search technology leader, on its sale to SFW Capital Partners.
- A private seller in the sale of a majority interest in a renewable energy company to an environmental infrastructure asset management company.
Investors and strategic acquirers he’s worked with:
- Octopus Ventures on its Seed investment into Lvndr, a remote health-tech company designed by and for the LGBTQ+ communities.
- Creandum on its lead investment into the £8 million Seed fundraising of Packfleet, a carbon-neutral delivery company.
- Kennet Partners and Digital+ Partners (now Yttrium) on their $30 million equity investment into eStoreMedia, a SaaS which streamlines ecommerce.
- Multiple prolific UK VC investors on their numerous investments into Seed to Series B stage companies, including companies building in AI, health-tech, fintech and climate-tech.
- Multiple US VC investors on their investments into UK fintech and climate-tech companies.
- Aptean on its acquisition of LinkFresh Software.
