Zakaria Khan | Strategist & Founder
STRATEGIST & FOUNDER

Building institutions at the intersection of capital, infrastructure & power.

I invest and research at the intersection of infrastructure, macro capital, and institutional power — built on a decade architecting the systems that run global telecom, now applied to independent capital allocation and strategic research.

Zakaria Khan, Strategist & Founder
2009 — 2011

EU FP7

Researcher (via Ericsson)

2011 — 2016

Ericsson

Product Development Leader & Systems Architect

2006 — 2007

GrameenPhone

Divisional Head, GPCIC Programme

2017 — PRESENT

Blomstra Ventures

Founder & Managing Director

BIOGRAPHY

Story

“To understand the forces shaping the future — and build intelligently within them.”

I spent the early part of my career inside the physical backbone of global telecom — as a researcher on the EU's FP7 4WARD project, and later as a systems authority at Ericsson, designing the future-internet frameworks and LTE infrastructure that operators run today.

That decade taught me how complex systems actually behave at scale — not in theory, but in the pre-studies, trade-offs, and failure modes of real deployments. When I left, I wanted to apply that same systems thinking somewhere with more direct stakes: my own capital.

I became financially independent through real estate investing, then expanded into public markets. Today I run Blomstra — deploying my own capital across real assets and macro equities, and building Blomstra Insights as an independent research practice on the same questions that got me here: how infrastructure, power, and capital move together over long horizons.

Builder

EU & Ericsson

Future-internet architecture and protocol design at scale.

Investor

Blomstra Ventures

Real capital deployed across property and public markets.

Strategist

Blomstra Insights

Systems thinking applied to technology, power, and capital.

WORKING AXIOMS

The Four Principles

REF. 01

Anti-Fragile Over Optimal

Prioritize systems that gain from disorder over those merely optimized for current conditions. Efficiency is a tactic; resilience is a strategy.

REF. 02

Capital Follows Power

Capital flows concentrate where geopolitical and technological power concentrates. Investing where long-term power is absent is speculation, not strategy.

REF. 03

Real Assets Compound Longest

In an era of currency debasement and technological deflation, tangible, income-producing assets are the ultimate mechanism for preserving wealth across generations.

REF. 04

Ignore Noise, Track Structure

Ignore the 24-hour news cycle. Identify decade-spanning structural shifts — energy transition, AI, demographic contraction — and position capital accordingly.

BLOMSTRA INTELLIGENCE SERIES

The Sovereignty Protocol

AUTHOR: ZAKARIA KHAN

A Strategic Framework for Infrastructure Resilience & Digital Autonomy

Drawing on a decade designing the physical backbone of global telecom — from the EU's FP7 programme to Ericsson's systems architecture — this book maps the intersection of infrastructure resilience, digital autonomy, and long-term capital allocation.

It is a framework for understanding how nations, institutions, and capital must adapt to an era of digital fragmentation and contested infrastructure. Not a prediction. A protocol.

Capital Sovereignty
Infrastructure Design
Digital Autonomy
Macro Strategy

BLOMSTRA INTELLIGENCE SERIES


THE

SOVEREIGNTY

PROTOCOL

Infrastructure Resilience & Digital Autonomy


ZAKARIA KHAN

STRUCTURED ECOSYSTEM

The Blomstra Ecosystem

Real Assets

Blomstra REIT

Real estate holdings focused on resilient, long-term value in the Nordic market. Currently a personal property portfolio, structured as the foundation for a larger real-asset strategy over time.

Focus Value Preservation
Public Markets

Blomstra Capital

My own macro and public-markets investing — informed by cycles, geopolitical trends, and technological disruption. The research platform behind it tracks macro indicators, sector rotation, and risk signals.

Focus Macro Strategy
Research & Intel

Blomstra Insights

An independent research practice exploring technology, power, and capital — the thinking engine behind how I invest, published for anyone following the same questions.

Focus Foresight & Intelligence
INTELLECTUAL OUTPUT

Publications

Books

2026

The Sovereignty Protocol

A Strategic Framework for Infrastructure Resilience & Digital Autonomy

Drawing on a decade designing the physical backbone of global telecom — from the EU's FP7 programme to Ericsson's systems architecture — this book maps the intersection of infrastructure resilience, digital autonomy, and long-term capital allocation.

Not a prediction. A protocol.

Essays & Hard Lessons

2024

Learning from Failure: My Options Trading Catastrophe

A transparent account of losing significant capital on options — what went wrong, why smart, capable people make this exact mistake, and how it reshaped my approach toward patient, long-horizon capital.

Research Briefs

Coming 2026

Critical Infrastructure Resilience & Digital Sovereignty

First research notes launching soon on Blomstra Insights — covering critical infrastructure resilience, digital sovereignty, and macro capital shifts.

REAL-WORLD APPLICATION

Selected Writings

Hard Lesson · 2024 Intellectual Humility Archive

Learning from Failure: My Options Trading Catastrophe

A transparent account of losing significant capital on options — what went wrong, why smart, capable people make this exact mistake, and how it reshaped my approach toward patient, long-horizon capital.

Read the Hard Lesson
SECURE GATEWAY

Inquiries

I read every message. I reply to those that align with the long game.

hello@zakariakhan.com

Based in Stockholm, Sweden