Jaffar Raza

Jaffar Raza is a New York-based interventional cardiologist angel writing $25K to $100K at pre-seed and seed into medical devices and AI/ML in healthcare. The FACC and FSCAI credentials in his LinkedIn signal active interventional practice, which is precisely the operator profile that pattern-matches to cardiology device and procedural AI investing. The explicit AI focus paired with devices is unusual and informative: it points to interest in algorithm-assisted imaging, structural heart planning, AI-guided procedural devices, and clinical decision support in cardiology. Check size positions him as a clinical-conviction angel suited to syndicates, not a round leader, with highest value to teams who need a working interventional cardiologist on the cap table for clinical advisory, study design, and KOL introductions. Founders most likely to fit are early cardiology device companies, structural heart and electrophysiology AI tools, imaging-AI platforms with a cardiology wedge, and procedural decision-support software targeting cath labs. Pure consumer wellness, biotech, and care-delivery models without a procedural anchor are weaker fits. New York and Northeast academic medical centers and ambulatory cardiology networks will be the easiest geographic match. The entry path is a LinkedIn message, ideally warmed by a mutual cardiology or device-investor connection, leading with the procedural problem, the clinical evidence plan, and the specific introduction or study-design help you want from a practicing interventionalist. Generic AI or healthcare decks without a cardiology wedge will not convert at this check size.