Abdalla Ashraf is a venture builder with a career spanning international development, academia, consulting, and tech entrepreneurship. He began by building university-based incubators (UBIs) globally, and later worked with UNDP, Strategy&, and AUC on economic empowerment and sustainability. He holds a BSc in Mechanical Engineering and an MSc in Sustainable Development and Entrepreneurship from the American University in Cairo, and is currently pursuing an MBA with One League in partnership with Harvard and MIT, focusing on Data Science and AI.

Abdalla is the founder of the Third Mission Venture Studio (TMVS), based on his master’s research on the evolution of entrepreneurship in universities. TMVS has spun off two startups: Zaher.AI, a platform for AI visibility and Generative Engine Optimization (GEO), and Blacksmith AI, an AI-driven text-to-CAD engineering copilot.