James Fayal
Founder & CEO at Venture For America
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Fayal is a founder and CEO with eight years of experience building consumer products and supporting startup ecosystems, leveraging a finance degree from the University of Maryland and hands-on venture investing background. He launched Zest Tea, scaling a premium energy-tea brand into hundreds of US retail locations by blending product innovation with retail distribution and supply-chain management. Prior roles in seed and Series A venture capital, an incubation leadership position at NextFab Studio, and an analyst role at CincyTech sharpened his ability to evaluate startups, design financial models, and operationalize hardware and consumer concepts. He also founded LauncHive and an earlier consumer-products company, showing a pattern of identifying practical product gaps and taking them from prototype to market. Comfortable at the intersection of finance, product, and manufacturing, he pairs data-driven investment judgment with maker-space experience. Based in Baltimore, he brings entrepreneurial grit and a track record of turning technical prototypes and early-stage ideas into retail-ready businesses.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Finance, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Finance at University of Maryland
Github Skills (9)
helium10
mercury10
blockchain10
ethereum9
payment4
xrp3
ripple3
crypto3
cryptocurrency2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (4)
jmfayal/HIP
Nov 2020 - Sep 2021
Helium Improvement Proposals
Contributions:2 pushes in 10 months
heliumethereumproposalsblockchainimprovement
helium/HIP
Nov 2020 - Sep 2021
Helium Improvement Proposals
Contributions:2 commits, 2 PRs, 2 comments in 10 months
heliummercuryethereumproposalsblockchain
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