Ehsan Shahabi

Venture R&D

Companies hire me when they want to try something new.

I figure out whether it's worth doing — then build the first working version to prove it. Research, strategy, prototype, handoff. Evidence and a running system, not a deck.

10+ years

of early-stage R&D — IoT, venture capital, consulting, fintech, crypto.

30+ projects

since early 2024 for a major crypto & fintech group, across all its business lines.

In production

financial automation, credit scoring, and a live market-making system.

Google Looker Hackathon 2023

finalist among 400+ participants from 93 countries.

One loop, every project

  1. 1

    Question

    It starts ambiguous: should we enter this market? Can this process scale?

  2. 2

    Research

    Markets, benchmarks, data. Enough evidence to bet on — no more.

  3. 3

    Strategy

    A position, stated plainly, with the numbers that support it.

  4. 4

    First working version

    The strategy proves itself as running software, not a deck.

  5. 5

    Handoff

    Specialists scale it. I go find the next question.

Selected work

All work →

Venture R&D inside a crypto & fintech group

2024 – present

Over 30 projects across every business line of the group — market-entry studies, M&A research, and systems that shipped to production.

Productizing analysis

the signature

Investment documents, credit scoring, reconciliation: recurring analyses my team used to hand-craft, turned into software that runs every day.

The early years

2018 – 2022

A VC-backed coworking space launched at 21. A boutique strategy unit inside a major engineering firm. An IoT R&D team. The same loop, smaller containers.

Most of my recent work is confidential. What I can always share is the shape of it — and the experiments, which run in public at successfullyfailed.com.

Experiments

Small, real things built to see what's possible — most with AI, some for fun, all in public.