Advisory & Investment
Mahmoud Saadat · Founder
From semiconductors and automotive systems to autonomy, imaging radar, and software-defined vehicles. Today I advise and invest in early-stage Physical AI founders navigating the same hard problems.
No pitch deck required.
Not because the AI is hard.
Because physics, hardware, software, capital, manufacturing, and customers all have to work at once.
The Job
Architecture. Sensing. Compute. Power. Hardware/software boundaries.
Validation. Manufacturing. Reliability. Cost. Supply chain.
Teams. Capital. Customers. Data. Platforms.
Perspective
So when we talk, I'm not only asking whether something is technically possible. I'm asking:
Should you build it?
Can you afford it?
Can you ship it?
Will someone pay for it?
The Difference
I'll look at the system. The BOM. The roadmap. The team. The technical moat. And the assumptions nobody has challenged yet.
That's where expensive mistakes hide.
Skim the deck
Trust the narrative
Debate the valuation
✓ Read the architecture
The Work
What should you build — and what shouldn't you?
What's the minimum system that actually wins?
Sensors, compute, power, networking, silicon, BOM.
Team, hiring, validation, manufacturing.
Turn technical complexity into a story investors understand.
Find out what they actually need — and will pay for.
Who I Work With
Especially companies where hardware makes the software better — and the software makes the hardware more valuable.
Because the best time to find a $10M mistake is when it costs $10K.