BIO
Amer is a successful entrepreneur, business leader and early-stage angel investor in Silicon Valley. Amer started his career in the valley in 1999 as a VPN product manager at SonicWall (SNWL). Amer joined Cavium (CAVM) as an early employee in 2001. During his 13 years at Cavium, he grew from product management to VP corporate and business development, reporting to the CEO. During Amer's tenure as VP of Corp. Dev. at Cavium he evaluated hundreds of deals. He completed deals ranging from asset purchases, cross border acquisitions, and a spin-in like deal that was covered in SDX central.
Inspired by family healthcare challenges Amer left Cavium to co-found Doctella, a remote patient monitoring company that was acquired by Masimo (MASI) in 2018. Amer's operational expertise spans across general business, sales and engineering team management, ecosystem development, M&A, deal structures and early-stage investments. He has 7 patents in areas of digital security and processing.
As an investor, Amer has privately funded 15+ companies. Notable exits include Bitzer Mobile where he incubated the company and was Chairman of the board. Bitzer was acquired by Oracle in 2013. Amer was an angel investor and advisor in Flutter. Flutter was acquired in 2013 by Google. Amer invested in Organ-i that was acquired by Immucor in 2014. Amer incubated and invested in Altia Systems that was acquired by GN Audio (Jabre) in 2019. Amer's active early-stage investments include MatterNet, Matician, Excitem, DrBeen, and Yobi.
Amer with his wife Munira operate two non-profits related to congenital conditions of their children. Pehla Qadam focuses on eliminating untreated clubfoot in Pakistan and the world (www.pehlaqadam.org). Growing Stronger focuses on improving the quality of medical care for little people (www.growingstronger.org). Amer has an MS in Numerical Simulation and an MBA from U of IL at Urbana Champaign.
Selected Publications and News:
The Capital-Lite Semiconductor Model: Evolution of Semiconductor Startup Investment, 2012
Article about new deal structure for funding and acquisition of semiconductor companies, 2014
Presentation about Promoting Open Source SW in medicine at the IOM, 2014
Clinical practice guidelines for clubfoot, 2015
Doctella coverage by John Hopkins, 2016
Doctella Launch with Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School and Johns Hopkins Scientists, 2017
Article about the ethics around promoting a new therapy for little people, 2019
Video interview of Raghib Hussain at Startup Grind, 2019
Speaker at Precision Medicine World Conference, 2020
Announcement of new drug for little people with accelerated FDA approval, 2021
BBC Documentary with Ellie Simmonds about dwarfism, 2022
Video interview about Security Hardware Modules, 2022
Patents:
Method and apparatus for estimating overshoot power after estimating power of executing events, granted 2013
System and method for enabling access to a protected hardware resource, granted 2013
System and method for secure device key storage, granted 2014
Secure software and hardware association technique, granted 2014
Secure and zero knowledge data sharing for cloud applications, granted 2021
Linked In:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/amerhaider/
Link to Resume
Inspired by family healthcare challenges Amer left Cavium to co-found Doctella, a remote patient monitoring company that was acquired by Masimo (MASI) in 2018. Amer's operational expertise spans across general business, sales and engineering team management, ecosystem development, M&A, deal structures and early-stage investments. He has 7 patents in areas of digital security and processing.
As an investor, Amer has privately funded 15+ companies. Notable exits include Bitzer Mobile where he incubated the company and was Chairman of the board. Bitzer was acquired by Oracle in 2013. Amer was an angel investor and advisor in Flutter. Flutter was acquired in 2013 by Google. Amer invested in Organ-i that was acquired by Immucor in 2014. Amer incubated and invested in Altia Systems that was acquired by GN Audio (Jabre) in 2019. Amer's active early-stage investments include MatterNet, Matician, Excitem, DrBeen, and Yobi.
Amer with his wife Munira operate two non-profits related to congenital conditions of their children. Pehla Qadam focuses on eliminating untreated clubfoot in Pakistan and the world (www.pehlaqadam.org). Growing Stronger focuses on improving the quality of medical care for little people (www.growingstronger.org). Amer has an MS in Numerical Simulation and an MBA from U of IL at Urbana Champaign.
Selected Publications and News:
The Capital-Lite Semiconductor Model: Evolution of Semiconductor Startup Investment, 2012
Article about new deal structure for funding and acquisition of semiconductor companies, 2014
Presentation about Promoting Open Source SW in medicine at the IOM, 2014
Clinical practice guidelines for clubfoot, 2015
Doctella coverage by John Hopkins, 2016
Doctella Launch with Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School and Johns Hopkins Scientists, 2017
Article about the ethics around promoting a new therapy for little people, 2019
Video interview of Raghib Hussain at Startup Grind, 2019
Speaker at Precision Medicine World Conference, 2020
Announcement of new drug for little people with accelerated FDA approval, 2021
BBC Documentary with Ellie Simmonds about dwarfism, 2022
Video interview about Security Hardware Modules, 2022
Patents:
Method and apparatus for estimating overshoot power after estimating power of executing events, granted 2013
System and method for enabling access to a protected hardware resource, granted 2013
System and method for secure device key storage, granted 2014
Secure software and hardware association technique, granted 2014
Secure and zero knowledge data sharing for cloud applications, granted 2021
Linked In:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/amerhaider/
Link to Resume
