Ramzi Rizk is the Founder and General Partner of Work in Progress Capital, a €10M fund in Berlin backing scientists and engineers building the future he wants to live in.

He left Lebanon on his 21st birthday looking for his tribe, landed in Germany, and dropped out of a PhD on privacy and social media to build a photography platform. It grew to 25 million photographers, pioneered computational aesthetics and computer vision, and went public on the Swiss Stock Exchange in 2021 after an 11-year journey. He started angel investing in 2020 and quickly noticed a pattern that the founders he liked best were scientists and engineers who looked different than what European VCs were used to seeing.

He's an active angel investor (Gorillas, Pitch, Mobius Labs, Softr), advisor (mushlabs, berlin photo week) and mentor (Techstars, PnP, Startupbootcamp, Berlin Founders Fund).

He's also a member of various professional networks including EO and Founders Pledge, and spends a lot of time thinking, talking and writing about the impact of AI on society, making algorithmic art, and learning from books and people.