Nationality British Occupation Internet entrepreneur | Name Immad Akhund Role Internet Entrepreneur | |
Born 16 April 1984 (age 39) ( 1984-04-16 ) Karachi, Pakistan Residence San Francisco, California,
United States Alma mater Clare College University of Cambridge Spouse(s) Fatema Akhund (2009–present) Children Aniya Sophia Akhund (born 2011) Education University of Cambridge, Clare College, Cambridge | ||
Immad Akhund (born 16 April 1984) is a British entrepreneur. . Immad is best known as the CEO and co-founder of social gaming company, Heyzap.
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Education
Akhund grew up in Harrow, London and attended Nower Hill High School, Middlesex and Dr Challoner's Grammar School in Amersham, Buckinghamshire. He then graduated from Clare College University of Cambridge with a Bachelors in Computer Science.
Career
After graduating Akhund worked for Bloomberg L.P as a Software Engineer in 2006. The employment lasted 13 month with Akhund leaving to start his first company, Revmap at the age of twenty two. Revmap was described as a Digg for events and places.
Akhund moved to San Francisco to take part in the summer 2007 Y Combinator round as the CTO and co-founder of a new company called Clickpass. Clickpass was a provider of OpenID and partnered with Plaxo, Scribd, Disqus and a host of other websites. In 2008 Clickpass was acquired by Yola for an undisclosed sum.
Following the acquisition of Clickpass, Immad Akhund, along with childhood friend Jude Gomila, founded social gaming website Heyzap Heyzap quickly gained traction and raised money from Y Combinator and Union Square Ventures.
Akhund blogs about business, is an advisor for Seedcamp and speaks at events on social and mobile gaming. Akhund Spoke in 2010 at DiscoveryBeat, Digital Hollywood and Social Developers Summit and is often cited for his expert opinion.
In 2012 Akhund was named in the Inc. (magazine) 30 under 30 2012 for his contribution as CEO and co-founder in building Heyzap.