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Zain Jaffer

CEO/FounderZain Ventures

Santa Clara, CA

Member Since April 2024

Skills

Venture Capital Investment
Entrepreneurship
Real Estate Finance

About

Zain Jaffer is an investor, entrepreneur, and philanthropist. He began his entrepreneurial journey when he was 14 and later moved to the US to found the tech startup Vungle. After the $780M all-cash sale of Vungle in 2019, Zain shifted his focus to real estate and tech investments. He is currently active in various investment ventures across commercial real estate and PropTech through his family office Zain Ventures, and Blue Field Capital, where he is a Partner. Zain also runs the nonprofit Zain Jaffer Foundation which seeks to directly support causes for and about communities in need all around the globe.

Published content

Seven Tips to Land Your First Client as a Financial Adviser or Entrepreneur

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Building customer relationships is easier when you start from a place of trust and empathy. Whether someone is a financial adviser, planner or financial business owner, being new to the industry comes with its own set of challenges — especially when it comes to finding that first client. While you may have the right credentials and the passion for helping others with their money, you must also work to convince potential clients that you’re the right person for the job.  But unlike entrepreneurs who have a particular product to sell, you won’t be able to rely on your product's features and benefits to help persuade them. You’ll instead need to focus on what you can offer that no one else can. To help get you started, the financial leaders of Kiplinger Advisor Collective offer their best advice for securing your first client — and what worked best for them — no matter the niche you serve.

Will Corporate America Put Bitcoin on Its Balance Sheets?

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Whether Bitcoin (or other cryptocurrency) significantly becomes a treasury asset for many of the world’s businesses and corporations is something to watch.

New to Financial Advising? Nine Key Ways to Build Trust With Your Clients

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Trust, like in any relationship, takes time to develop. There are few topics more personal than someone’s finances. Money determines the way someone is able to live their life, and the various experiences, issues and successes they have with it can impact not only what they do but also who they are. Accepting guidance and advice on how to best handle money can be a big ask, so building trust as an adviser and/or financial services expert is essential if you want to succeed in this career path. But building this type of deep trust doesn’t happen right away; it must be earned, and the best advisers know what it takes to do so. Here, nine members of Kiplinger Advisor Collective share their best advice for building a trusting relationship with a client and how doing so will enhance your credibility and success in the financial industry.

How Lower Interest Rates Will Help the Housing Market

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Lower interest rates will give the industry life again as this will likely create more demand and more incentives for developers and thaw a static market.

13 Practical Strategies for Making Homeownership a Reality

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If your dream of homeownership feels out of reach, these expert-recommended tips can bring you closer to realizing your goal. Decades ago, homeownership was a realistic goal for many people. In recent years, sky-high real estate prices and increased costs of living have made it harder for would-be buyers to envision themselves ever achieving that milestone. Though the path to homeownership can be difficult in today's economy, it's still possible with the right strategies. Here, members of Kiplinger Advisor Collective recommend practical tips for moving the needle on your goal of owning a home.

Nine Expert Tips for Becoming a Successful Financial Adviser

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Be someone your clients can trust and learn to lean on for some of their most personal decisions. Growing at a rate much faster than the average rate for all other occupations, the job outlook for personal financial advisers entering the field is a bright one, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. And while no industry seems immune from technological and cultural changes, many of the factors that made someone a successful financial adviser years ago are likely to make someone successful now. It’s all about understanding your clients and offering a service they can’t get from anyone else. Having each been in the financial industry for some time now, the advisers and financial experts of Kiplinger Advisor Collective know what it takes to build successful businesses in the advising space. Below, they offer their top tips for anyone new to the industry on what they can do to set themselves apart and launch a profitable business from the ground up.

Company details

Zain Ventures

Company bio

Following a $780M acquisition of his start-up, Vungle, by private equity giant Blackstone in 2019, Zain Jaffer founded Zain Ventures, a family office with a diversified portfolio of asset classes that invests based on a simple model: place strategic capital with the right fund managers, and partner with or invest directly in intra-industry visionaries. As an accomplished investor, and a lifelong entrepreneur, Jaffer has dealt with external angel venture capitalists and investors in myriad capacities: as a Founder, CEO, board member, shareholder, sponsor, co-investor, and a limited partner. Well-versed in the many forms investing can take, Zain Ventures remains inspired by and committed to a simple, direct approach when it comes to achieving investment objectives. With a need to execute a carefully developed investment management strategy and a passion for investing in innovation, industry disruption and breakthrough thinking, Zain Ventures engages more than 40 highly respected and industry-leading fund managers across the fields of public equities, fixed income, and alternatives. This private investment company holds a diverse portfolio of real estate, startups and many other assets. All investments and funds under management belong to the personal estate of entrepreneur and investor Zain Jaffer, affording the Zain Ventures team the unique capacity to invest freely across a variety of asset classes, geographies, return profiles, timelines, and strategies. Far from being just a casual, personal investor or angel investor for friends and family, Jaffer started this private investment management firm to be able to support and encourage others to break out, shake up industries in need of massive transformation and to create new industries that have only been vague dreams of visionary entrepreneurs.

Industry

Private Equity

Area of focus

Venture Capital
Real Estate Investing
Private Equity

Company size

2 - 10