BZ

Brian Zhan

Investor

San Francisco Bay Area

Invests in

Stages:

  • Min Investment:

    $500,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $20,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $13,000,000.00

Work Experience

  • Investor

    2024

    Co-Led Seed and Series A

  • Investor

    2024

    Co-Led Seed

2024

  • Investor

    2024

    Series A

2023

  • Investor

    2023

    Led Seed. Acquired by NVIDIA.

  • Investor

    2024

    Led Series A. Acquired by MongoDB.

2023

  • Investor

    2023

    Led Seed

2023 - 2025

  • Principal

    2023 - 2025

    Partnering with Reflection AI, Skild AI, Dyna Robotics, Periodic Labs, LanceDB, Voyage AI (acq MongoDB), Lepton AI (acq NVIDIA), SDF Labs (acq dbt)

2022 - 2024

  • Angel Investor

    2022 - 2024

    Pre-seed. Acquired by dbt Labs.

2021 - 2022

  • Product

    2021 - 2022

    - Joined the original Presto creators (ex-colleagues at Facebook who co-founded Starburst to offer fully managed Presto) to build Starburst’s batch analytics product from scratch. Led product ideation, hired engineering team, led go to market. - Built an active open source community of over 200 companies using Starburst’s open source product Trino (renamed from Presto) for batch analytics. As evidence of the popularity of this product, many companies like Salesforce, Lyft, Zillow, and TreasureData have given talks, written blogs, and published research papers about Starburst/Trino for batch analytics. I was invited to give talks on the product at many data conferences, like dbt Coalesce.

2018 - 2021

  • Product

    2018 - 2021

    I was the first PM for Presto (Presto was created at Facebook) and Spark