A Mission Driven
Impact Venture Platform
Aleph Venture Platform is a mission driven venture accelerator platform based in the NYC metropolitan area and engaged in impact investing focused on the twin themes of Food / Ag Tech and Circular Economies. It is seeking to back frontline entrepreneurs solving the most critical problems confronting our global society because of Climate Change and Conflict.
Aleph Venture Platform’s work is aligned to the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals and complements the work of a rich and growing eco-system of stakeholders tackling these challenges.
Thesis and Investment Areas
Aleph Venture Platform allocates a majority of its capital from an investment standpoint in post Series A funding rounds (both primary and follow-on rounds).We are building a premier platform that brings together the following elements.
Ag Tech
· Ag Biotech ·
· Agri finance & e-commerce ·
· Indoor Farming ·
· Animal Ag ·
· Precision Ag ·
· Regenerative Ag ·
· Reforestation ·
Food Tech
· Alt Proteins ·
· Bioengineered Foods ·
· Food Discovery & Review ·
· E-commerce ·
· Food production, recycling, & waste reuse ·
· Restaurant and Retail Tech ·
Circular Economies
· Cradle-to-Cradle (C2C) ·
· Urban Planning ·
· Waste Management ·
· Reduce-Reuse-Recycle Solutions ·
· Supply chain redesign /overhaul ·
· Sustainability ·
Founder and Managing Partner
Burhan Jaffer is a VC and PE executive with 24+ years of industry experience. Burhan is Founder & Managing Partner of Aleph Venture Platform (Stealth Mode) an innovation accelerator focused on Food/AgTech and Circular Economies as well as Founder and Managing Partner of Plasma Ventures which is a flexible mandate PE and VC firm based in NYC.Burhan is also Co-Sponsor and Chief Financial Officer of Compass Digital Acquisition Corp, that is focused on the $1 trillion-dollar digital transformation segment of B2B technology companies. He is an advisor to leading private equity groups focused on the technology segment, MIT Solve which is a social impact innovation marketplace and several boutique VC’s.Between 2016-2021, Burhan Jaffer was the Chief Strategy & Corporate Development Officer at Conduent Inc, one of the world’s largest diversified technology services companies (a successful spin-off of the software and services business from Xerox following shareholder activism to split Xerox Corporation)Before joining Conduent, Burhan spent 12 years with Infosys, a global leader in technology services and consulting across several leadership roles. In his last leadership role at Infosys, he led the Corporate Finance and M&A / Investments team. Under his stewardship, Infosys developed and launched a $500M venture fund for investing in early-stage start-ups engaged in disruptive technology. Burhan advised the Infosys Board and Leadership on a variety of strategic investment decisions, special projects, and business model innovation thesis for the strategic reboot of Infosys. Prior to that, Burhan served as a Portfolio CFO of multiple business units.Between 2001-2005, Burhan spent time at ConAgra as part of their expansion into South Asia, in a variety of trading, operational and financial roles and the idea of building Aleph is rooted in his time at ConAgra and witnessing first-hand the cataclysmic impact of climate change, technology, and conflict on globalized industrialized supply chains.
