Arlington, Virginia, April 20, 2023 — America’s Frontier Fund (AFF) proudly announced that Faran Nouri joined as a General Partner and Executive Vice President. In this role, she will be responsible for leading investments in the semiconductor ecosystem through AFF’s flagship venture fund, Frontier Fund I.
Faran has been a semiconductor technologist, an entrepreneur and an investor. Prior to AFF, she was a Vice President at Lam Research and a founding member of Lam Capital, where she oversaw the creation of the fund and its investment portfolio, which led to multiple exits via IPO and acquisitions. Prior to her VC career, Faran spent two decades in semiconductor and climate tech companies where she developed commercially successful products at both startups and Fortune 500 companies. Faran has been an invited speaker and panelist; board member & advisory member; has served on numerous technical committees; has authored more than 60 peer-reviewed papers, and has been granted 26 patents. She earned M.S. and B.S. degrees in electrical engineering and solid state physics at the University of Colorado in Boulder and an M.S. in management at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Faran was named as one of the Powerlist 100 by Global Corporate Venturing (GCV), a list of the top 100 leaders in the corporate venture world, in 2019, 2020 and 2021. She was named in the Top 50 CVC leaders by GCV in 2022.
About America’s Frontier Fund
America’s Frontier Fund is a mission-driven investment firm dedicated to building frontier technologies for the benefit of the American people. AFF invests in companies, venture studios, and platforms to accelerate innovation in the most promising frontier technologies, including semiconductors, advanced manufacturing, quantum information sciences, energy abundance, and synthetic biology. As a 501(c)(3) organization, AFF works to align interests across entrepreneurs, industry leaders, limited partners, state and local governments, and federal agencies to advance the national security and economic competitiveness of America and its partners around the world.
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