Reema is the Founder and CEO of Green Sands Equity. In 2022, Green Sands was recognized by Fortune among the top 11 investors in the U.S. Over the past decade, Reema has built Green Sands into a multi-fund investment platform with investments in companies including SpaceX, Axiom Space, X-energy, Pasqal, Colossal Biosciences, Paradromics, Spotify, and Airbnb.

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As Green Sands’ principal General Partner, Reema leads investment strategy, portfolio construction, and the firm’s broader investment thesis. Her approach combines scientific and technical inquiry with company analysis, capital markets, and geopolitical and regulatory understanding. Her investment philosophy is grounded in systems thinking - understanding how technologies develop within larger ecosystems, identifying the foundational capabilities those ecosystems require, and investing in the exceptional founders capable of building them.

 

Reema is a Trustee of the SETI Institute and Chair of its Endowment and, since 2018, has served as Women In Science  Ambassador to the United Nations on behalf of the Royal Academy of Science International Trust. She is a recipient of the 2026 Ellis Island Medal of Honor for her contributions to the United States.

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Her philanthropic work advances science and technology through the Green Sands AI Fund at MIT and the SAGE program at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory at Stanford. She also established the Green Sands Prize, whose recipients have included astrophysicist Dr. Jill Tarter, former U.S. Treasurer Rosie Rios, SpaceX President and COO Gwynne Shotwell, and scientist Dr. Kizzmekia Corbett.

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Reema lectures and speaks on investment, entrepreneurship, technology, and diplomacy, including at Stanford University and UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business.