In 2011 Amal co-founded a real-time document collaboration startup called LiveLoop to provide “multiplayer as a service” for single-user applications. He raised Seed and Series A financing rounds from New Enterprise Associates, Webb Investment Network, and various angel investors, and shipped our first product on top of Microsoft Office, using a novel variation of operational transformation to turn desktop PowerPoint into a keystroke-by-keystroke real-time collaborative application. They sold LiveLoop to Microsoft in 2015, where he joined as a product manager to ship the collaboration service that currently powers real-time collaboration for hundreds of millions of Office users across PowerPoint, Excel and Word.

He joined Anorak as a Venture Partner in 2022, and shortly thereafter as a full Partner, to invest in founders solving problems with new or emerging technology, particularly at the boundaries of the physical and digital worlds: VR and augmented reality, computer vision and AI, robotics and automation, and 3D computing. While at Anorak, he led our investments in Irrigreen, Prisms of Reality, Virtex Stadium, Astrobeam, and others.

As a father of three children, in 2024 he became increasingly focused on the problem of computing for children. In May 2024, he left his full-time role at Anorak Ventures to co-found Cartwheel, a new company building technology for creative and curious children. Anorak Ventures was the first investor in Cartwheel and he remain a Venture Partner at Anorak.

The full recording of this mentorship session can be found within our founder community in the Classroom section. (paid members-only)

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