
04 / The Voices
United States
Itbaan Nafi
Founder and Managing Partner of Breakthrough Ventures
Itbaan Nafi is an entrepreneur passionate about human-centered design and national economic development. He designed his bachelor's degree at Stanford University, called Software, Policy, and Design Engineering, by combining human-computer interaction, design thinking, and political science, and served as a teaching assistant in the master's departments for Management Science & Engineering and Sustainability. Itbaan was selected as an inaugural Obama-Chesky Scholar where he created Design for Bangladesh, an entrepreneurship accelerator for students in his home village, which served as the inspiration for Breakthrough. Working with Roman Scott, he built Breakthrough, America's largest accelerator for student founders. In just under two years, they've advised more than 60 students building in AI, health, sustainability, and infrastructure…
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