Rayyan Islam
Co-Founder
Rayyan Islam is Co-Founder of 8090 Industries, a venture capital firm investing in industrial technology, where he works to expand America’s energy and industrial capacity.
In 2025, Rayyan led 8090’s co-development of American Intelligence and Power Inc. (AIP) and its Monarch campus in West Virginia, targeting 8 GW of power and AI data center capacity. AIP was acquired by Nscale in March 2026. Most recently, Rayyan co-founded Sentinel, a distributed, modular power and compute utility.
Rayyan was an early investor in Oklo (NYSE: OKLO) and backs companies across modular fusion, deep geothermal, edge compute, robotics, critical mineral refining and American shipbuilding. He is also part of the development group behind Prototown, a planned 3,500-acre industrial and manufacturing campus in central Texas.
Rayyan advises government leaders and institutions on energy and industrial policy. He has been recognized among Business Insider’s top early-stage investors and Fortune’s leading energy and climate technology investors. Prior to co-founding 8090 Industries, Rayyan worked at firms including Spotify, Deloitte, NASA and UBS.
Rayyan lives in Dallas, Texas with his wife, two sons and daughter.