Ibrahim AlSuwaidi is a venture capitalist at DCM Ventures who is also a trained engineer and quant, with a background that includes mechanical engineering research on drone swarming at Stanford, co-authored research on aquatic locomotion and tribology at Northwestern, and earlier work in government strategy consulting managing a multi-billion-dollar portfolio of state-owned enterprises; he was born in both the UAE and Taiwan and speaks Arabic and Mandarin Chinese. Outside of investing, he builds his own side projects like an algorithmic trading platform and Slack bots, and his public comments on fintech have focused on less flashy areas like payouts infrastructure rather than consumer apps.