# Sabih Wasi

> Sabih Bin Wasi is the Founder and CEO of Stellic, a degree management platform born from a personal spreadsheet he built as a confused freshman at Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar. Growing up in Karachi as the son of a teacher and a civil engineer, he came to CMU-Q with transfer credits, a head full of course prerequisites, and a stubborn conviction that the system could be better. He co-founded Stellic with his wife Rukhsar Neyaz and fellow CMU-Q alum Musab Popatia, turning a student project into enterprise software now used by 80+ universities and over one million students. Stellic has raised $14.1 million in total funding, earned a Forbes 30 Under 30 Education nod in 2019, received a Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation grant, and has never lost a university partner in five years of operation.

- **Role:** Founder & CEO at Stellic
- **Organizations:** Stellic
- **From:** Karachi, Pakistan
- **Nationality:** Pakistani
- **Education:** Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar
- **Known for:** Forbes 30 Under 30 Education list (2019), CMU Tartans on the Rise honoree (2024), Raised $14.1M total funding across seed and Series A rounds

## Career timeline

- **2012** — Enrolled at Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar; spent a weekend building a spreadsheet to track course prerequisites and plan semesters ahead
- **2015** — Graduated CMU-Q with a Computer Science degree; co-founded Stellic as a student project piloted at CMU-Q
- **2016** — Launched Stellic as a company; received initial seed funding from Qatar Science and Technology Park
- **2016-2017** — Completed residency at Alchemist Accelerator in Silicon Valley; relocated company to San Francisco
- **2018** — Stellic chosen as client management platform by CMU; expanded to a dozen university partners
- **2019** — Named to Forbes 30 Under 30 Education list alongside co-founder Rukhsar Neyaz; raised $3.1M seed round from Entangled Ventures, Rethink Education, Reach Capital, and angels
- **2022** — Raised $11M Series A led by Reach Capital with 15 edtech founder-investors; achieved 4x revenue growth in prior 12 months
- **2024** — Named CMU Tartans on the Rise honoree; Stellic serves 80+ universities and over 1 million students
- **2025** — Published op-ed 'Built backward: Why colleges must design tech systems around students' in University Business

## Achievements

- Forbes 30 Under 30 Education list (2019)
- CMU Tartans on the Rise honoree (2024)
- Raised $14.1M total funding across seed and Series A rounds
- Zero university partner loss in five years of operation
- Net Promoter Score of 80+ among institutional clients
- Stellic platform serves 1 million+ students across 80+ universities
- Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation grant recipient
- 4x revenue growth in a single 12-month period
- CMU was Stellic's first enterprise client - the same institution where it was built

## Latest updates

- **2025-12** — Published op-ed 'Built backward: Why colleges must design tech systems around students' in University Business
- **2024-00** — Named CMU Tartans on the Rise honoree at Carnegie Mellon University
- **2022-03** — Raised $11M Series A led by Reach Capital; Stellic reaches 45+ university partners and 300,000+ students

## Links

- Website: https://stellic.com
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/sabihbinwasi
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/teamstellic
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/teamstellic

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Last updated: 2026-05-23