Founder & Managing Director

The visionary founder of Spiral Dot, Talha Basit is a serial entrepreneur who began programming at 7 years old. Since then, he democratized filmmaking at Apple, brought technology to students in one of the nation’s largest school districts, and created the software that resulted in one of his companies being sold to a Fortune 5 firm. When he isn’t helping other entrepreneurs Talha is the CTO of Deep 6 AI where he leads all the Engineering, Product, AI, Machine Learning and Cloud teams in their mission to defeat disease with data.

Venture Partner

Sameena Mustafa brings over 20 years of management, marketing, and sales experience in the publishing, CPG, healthcare, and real estate sectors to advise early-stage founders and entrepreneurs. A passionate advocate for racial and gender inclusion and equity, Sameena mentors and elevates women of color leaders in business and nonprofits through the Veralo fellowship. She holds a Bachelor’s degree from Northwestern University.

Advisor

John Hill, Jr. is a founder, operator and entrepreneur with over 20 years of experience in sales, marketing and operations. John’s leadership and management experiences range from high growth start-ups to Fortune 100 companies. He mentors young entrepreneurs and managers to achieve their ambitions and believes in giving back to the community by serving on several nonprofit boards focused on enhancing the lives of disenfranchised youth and eradicating homelessness. When he is not diving into go-to-market plans or optimizing sales funnels for our portfolio companies, he holds a senior position at a leading Silicon Valley SaaS company.

Advisor

A 20-year tech industry veteran focusing on technology development and intellectual property protection, Zach Smolinski has leveraged his legal expertise and physics background in diverse areas like communication hardware, medical devices, and FinTech. A sought-after speaker, he frequently conducts presentations involving the intersection of technology and the law– especially in the area of blockchain technology. Zach has experience as an entrepreneur, and is an avid game player who has done work both as a beta-tester and game reviewer. With a background in optics, he brings a laser focus to his work with Spiral Dot.

Advisor

Soibi Andrew-Jaja enjoys helping startups and rapid-growth businesses innovate and succeed. A mission-driven leader, she has almost 15 years of strategy and operations leadership experience globally, in operations, strategy, e-commerce, real estate, healthcare, and services organizations. She attributes her operational expertise and data driven approach to her experience and success at Amazon. She has enabled companies, ranging from startups to Fortune 5 to  operationalize and integrate new ideas and initiatives that drive meaningful customer value. Recently Soibi led operations from an early phase through exit and now wants to share that experience and knowledge with other founders.  In her spare time, she plays tennis and mentors founders and small businesses in developing nations.