Omar Zaki
Entrepreneur · Investor · Builder across Finance + Tech
My work has focused on financial infrastructure — from decentralized systems to traditional capital and real estate. I’m the founder and CEO of Composable Finance, a cross-chain platform for on-chain interoperability, and I also run Wheelhouse Holdings, a family office investing in global assets.Earlier in my career, I worked in biotech investing, academic research, and helped launch startups across multiple verticals. I studied physics and economics at Yale, and spent time in Munich at LMU’s economics program.In 2025, I appeared on Bravo’s Next Gen NYC, where I somehow became the calm one.Welcome to my site.
Current Projects
Composable FinanceFounder & CEO
Composable is building the infrastructure for seamless interoperability across blockchains — enabling trustless, chain-agnostic execution for next-gen financial applications.The platform closed a $32M Series A led by top investors in the web3 space.And a $7M Strategic Round led by other prominent investors in DeFi infrastructure.
Wheelhouse HoldingsFounder
Wheelhouse is a family office investing across global real estate, early-stage startups, and fine art.
• Art Collection: Renowned holdings of 19th-century French sculpture and painting, including works by Feuchère, Paolini, Antoine-Louis Barye, and Gaston La Touche — with sales and placements at major international auction houses.
• Angel Investments: Strategic early investor in frontier blockchain protocols, with token positions in Kyve, Light, Celestia, Shade/SILK, Contango, and Fluent.
Publications
From CoWs to Multi-Chain AMMs: A Strategic Optimization Model for Enhancing Solvers — IEEE XPloreThe Composable Finance Mosaic Bridge and Liquidity Forecasting — Association for Computer MachineryWho Wins Ethereum Block Building Auctions and Why? — American Economic AssociationCompetitive solvers in action: strategic optimization across CoWs
and multi-chain AMMs — ELS PublishingS-Palmitoylation Sorts Membrane Cargo for Anterograde Transport in the Golgi — Developmental CellCross-Chain MEV - Can it Surpass CEX-DEX Arbitrage MEV? — Composable Finance Research
In the News
IBC is Coming to Ethereum! - by 0xBrainjar, Founder Composable Finance — Cosmoverse Balkans 2025Ep. 371 Omar Zaki & Ahmad Wehbi | Extending IBC to Ethereum — BlockHash PodcastComposable Finance with 0xbrainjar — Don Cryptonium PodcastZaki asegura que la Argentina tiene un prometedor panorama en el ecosistema criptográfico — ADNemprasario Global¿Qué es el pasaporte de asilo cripto y como puede la Argentina ser parte del cambio de paradigma? — ámbitoBuilding a Super App for Chain-Agnostic Execution — Bitcoin.comMantis: Driving Atheneum's Cross-Domain Future — Ethereum ResearchOmar Zaki Interview — DeFi TimesDelegate Proposal — Jito Network
Writings
Contact
Interested in collaborations or media inquiries?
Email: [email protected]