Nasir Ali is a Co-Founder and serves as Managing Director at StartFast Venture Accelerator. Ali is a Co-Founder of Instamour and serves as its Advisor. He also serves as Advisor at Spincar and Chloe Capital. He is also the founder of Seed Capital Fund of CNY and serves as its executive director. He also serves on the board of the Upstate Venture Association of New York and Chequed. Prior to founding UVC, Ali was president of The Tech Garden. He received his MBA in finance and operations management from Yale University's School of Management, where he helped initiate a joint master's degree program in industrial environmental management. Ali graduated from Princeton University with a degree in physics and a concentration in economics.