Tathir comes from the Arabic root a-th-r. The same root gives Athar — the trace, the mark left behind. Athar is the noun. Tathir is the verb.
We don't run the companies in our portfolio. We put capital into them, sit with the people building them, and stay useful for as long as it takes. The work happens on their side of the table.
Fractional CTO and product work for early-stage teams that have the idea but not yet the engineering spine to build it. We take equity, not retainers.
Categories where the incumbents stopped paying attention. Founders who want to own the brand for twenty years, not twenty months.
Positions we have no intention of selling. We show up to board meetings, we answer the late-night calls, and we stay until the people who started the thing are ready to hand it off.