Ramtin Naimi is an American Investor, Entrepreneur, and founder of the Venture capital firm, Abstract Ventures.

Born in the San Francisco Bay Area and raised in the town of Tiburon, ever since he was a child, he valued the dollar. His father, a partner in a Bay Area auto dealership franchise, would often watch shows related to the stock market - he began doing the same. He started trading stock since he was a kid and at the age of 15 it became his passion.

After he graduated high school, he made a trade in the stock market that made him a lot of money.

After high school, Ramtin had no plans to pursue college as he made enough money to start a hedge fund.

Instead, he worked toward receiving his investment advisor license: Series 65 license.

Thereafter receiving his certificate, he set up an RIA.

He started managing money for his family members, friends, and friends-of-friends.

AIn 2012, at the age of 22 years old, he started his own hedge fund called Opes Cura which started with $600k in assets with a few million from other managed accounts.

He was able to grow such assets $18 million at its peak with options trades on the banking sector.

After making good moves with his hedge fund, he wanted to scale his network, something he felt was not a strength.

He went on to meet Stuart Peterson from Artis Ventures who introduced him to the start-up culture of Silicon Valley. He saw the early operations of a company like Juicero and was able to meet Doug Evans. He went on to start pitching in around the Artis Ventures office as an investment intern.

Through Core, a VC Firm he would later give his services for, he met Gil Penchina.

He spent nearly 7 months working with Gil, in order to understand Angel investing like an expert.

He founded his own start-up called Lender's Exchange, a secondary exchange marketplace. He decided to pull the plug in its early stage as he foresaw a crippling time in the sector he was in.

One of the VC firms he became acquainted with was Core, which impressed him quite a lot for their understanding of the financial sector.

The VC is a $150 million firm that exclusively invests in financial services-oriented startups that provide upward mobility to everyday Americans.

Ramtin started his VC firm, Abstract Ventures, when Stuart and Doug gave him direct access to invest in Juicero and he thought the best way to do this was to start his own fund.

Every deal that Naimi does is structured as a special purpose vehicle.

He doesn’t take a management fee on the SPV, and he draws down capital for deals on a deal-by-deal basis.

The idea is to invest in six big, borderline crazy ideas a year, nothing incremental.

They invest in companies that have the mentality of go big or go home.

In 2017, about $16 million was put to work in over 30 deals in the last six months alone.

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Ramtin has answered numerous questions on Quora related to investing.