Mohsen Moazami

Mohsen Moazami is an entrepreneur. He is the founder of the companies Seif Capital, Columbus Nova Technology Partners (CNTP), and Stanford Business Systems.

Moazami was born in Tehran, Iran, where he lived most of his early life. His father died when Moazami was seven years old, which he said was the most formative experience of his childhood and drove him to become successful. Both sides of his family were involved in politics, and as a child, he envisioned himself as a future politician like the Prime Minister of Iran.

Moazami earned his high school diploma at Tehran International School before moving to the United States to attend college. Moazami attended the Stanford University School of Engineering. He earned a master's degree in mechanical engineering.

Moazami founded Stanford Business Systems (SBS) the same day he received his Green Card. At the time, he was working as an entry-level engineer for another company. Moazami quit this position upon the receipt of his Green Card, which was sponsored by that company. The inspiration for Stanford Business Systems came after Moazami sampled the first Macintosh computer. He was so impressed with the technology that he decided to pursue a career creating Macintosh software with "no business plan, no funding, no angels, nothing, just love and drive."

Stanford Business Systems was acquired by Kurt Salmon Associates in 1995, at which point Moazami became a senior partner there. He ran the company's global e-business practice until he was recruited to Cisco in the late 1990s.

Moazami began working at Cisco in 1999, one of the most popular companies in the world at the time. For the first eight years of his career there, he was a leader of the company's strategic consulting group called the Internet Business Solutions Group. He assisted top global corporations and government entities in becoming digital enterprises and sometimes held global responsibility for various vertical markets. In the last four of his twelve years at Cisco, Moazami joined the leadership team of the Emerging Markets division. He and his team had jurisdiction over 132 countries across twenty-three time zones. The division worked to install and expand national broadband infrastructure in other countries to advance underdeveloped essential sectors like healthcare and education. He left Cisco in 2012 to pursue entrepreneurial ventures.

Moazami founded Columbus Nova Technology Partners (CNTP) in 2012. CNTP invested in popular, fast-growing companies—mostly in the fields of machine learning and genomics. Some of these companies included GenePeeks, ZoomData, Fiverr, and vArmour. CNTP was closed in 2021.

Seif Capital is a global hybrid investment and advisory group that invests in frontier technology companies. Moazami founded Seif Capital in 2019. He serves as the group's managing partner.

Moazami is a member of the board of directors of the companies Vcinity, Marpai Health, and Astrea Acquisition Corp. He previously served on the board of directors of Aerospike, vArmour, Zoomdata, Frame, Deep Instinct, Global Capacity, and LiveLoop. At Global Capacity, Moazami oversaw the company's $150 million acquisition of Megapath and the ultimate exit of the company in 2017.

Moazami is an advisor to the companies Kestrel Partners, OpenGate Capital, Neural Propulsion Systems, Ethernovia, Luminous Computing, Crunch MediaWorks, Movandi, Linquip, and Martingale. He was previously an advisor to VoiceBase, DeepCube, and Think Big Analytics. Moazami was a member of the Investment Advisory Council of the Turkish Prime Minister from 2008 to 2011.