Shahram is Founder and General Partner of Civilization Ventures, a venture capital firm focused on supporting cutting edge innovations in health tech and biology. Prior to founding Civilization Ventures, Shahram was an entrepreneur and angel investor.

Shahram is a founding executive in several life sciences companies, including Inspirna, a biotech company with first-in-class therapeutics for cancer, now in Phase 1b human clinical trials. Prior to Inspirna, he was founding CFO and VP of Corporate Development at NextBio, a genomics big data analytics pioneer acquired by Illumina. Shahram is also a seed investor in pioneering startups such as Omada Health, Counsyl (acq. by Myriad), Bina (acq. by Roche) and Avantome (acq. by Illumina).