Arfah Farooq

Arfah Farooq co-founded a startup called Discoverables, which led her to co-found Muslamic Makers, a community of Muslim Changemakers who upskill & pioneer the world of tech. Muslamic Makers was recently listed as The 100 Most Innovative Global Muslim Startups to Watch.Experienced in the private and public sector. For the UK Government, she built an internal community of 1,500+ product and delivery managers, built and launched the first Number 10 Innovation fellowship program to get senior talent into government.

She is now a community manager for Impact VC helping VCs invest in impact. I'm a 2017 fellow of the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust and have been awarded a prestigious fellowship exploring Muslim Women in Technology in USA, UAE and Pakistan where I vlogged my travels and brought back my expertise to help businesses.

Her awards are: Top 30 London Tech Week Changemaker in 2018, Top 20 women in the software power list in 2021 by Google for Startups and Makers. She has also been shortlisted for the Muslim Women Awards and We are Tech Women awards.