2024 to present
Co-founder and CEO
Banza
Leads company strategy, fundraising, investor relations and operations for a consumer technology company building personal AI products.
Current companyMehdi Abdi
Founder, operator
and investor.
Current role
Co-founder and CEOBanzaSelected experience
Capital, identity and venturesInvestment management · Polygon Labs · Blocklogica · MonolythicEducation
MBA and executive educationIrish Management Institute · Harvard Business School01
About
A career built across cycles.
I started in investment management, moved into blockchain in 2019, and have since worked across identity, partnerships, accelerators and company building.
The sectors have changed. The responsibilities have remained familiar: understand an opportunity, earn trust, allocate resources and turn an early thesis into something useful. Today I am co-founder and CEO of Banza. It is my current chapter, not the whole story.
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Roles and responsibilities.
2022 to present
Co-founder
Blocklogica Labs
Built a Dubai venture studio and accelerator supporting Web3 founders, programs and ecosystems across MENA.
About BlocklogicaOngoing
Founder
Monolythic
Built a UAE-based ecosystem growth and partnerships company connecting Web3 networks with institutions, founders and deployment partners across MENA.
About Monolythic2.5 years
Technical Sales Lead, MENA
Polygon ID
Polygon Labs
Worked on ecosystem growth, technical sales and partnerships for self-sovereign identity and verifiable credentials. Later advised PrivadoID.
About Polygon LabsSince 2018
Investment management
ABDI International Group
Investment and operating work focused on opportunity assessment, capital allocation and long-term execution.
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What experience has taught me.
Follow the responsibility.
Titles change. The work is usually the same: understand the market, build the relationship, make the decision and own the result.
Local context is an advantage.
Work across the Gulf and wider MENA market depends on patient partnerships, institutional credibility and knowing how decisions are really made.
Technology needs a human reason.
Identity, ownership and AI matter when they improve how people participate, decide and retain control.