Ari Qayumi is Managing Partner of Mindful Ventures, an early stage behavior design data-driven venture firm based in Menlo Park, CA focused on elevating investments for human progress across the $1T+ market covering intelligent automation, digital transformation, fintech, and behavior change. The firm has a thesis-driven track record proving market validation of their proprietary method backtested over the past seven years and a Silicon Valley team with over 80 years across unicorn innovations and investments.
Previously, Ari was Principal at Silicon Valley Data Capital (SVDC), Group Product Manager of Innovation on the West Coast for Royal Bank of Canada (RBC), and Director of New Product Development for RBC Capital Markets. Prior to RBC, Ari was Interim COO at IdeaFlow, a next-generation collective intelligence platform and an Analyst at Morgan Stanley in Wealth Management and Alternative Investments. Ari is also a Researcher at the Stanford Behavior Design Lab, where she focuses on habit formation, behavior sequences, and consensual technology design to facilitate sustainable behavior change at scale. Ari holds a Bachelor of Science in Symbolic Systems from Stanford University.