ZG

Zachary Ginsburg

Founder & General Partner at Calm Ventures

Los Angeles, California

Work Experience

  • Founder/GP

    2020

    Calm Ventures (calmvc.com) is a venture capital and growth equity firm focused on breakout technologies. We have made over 600 investments into companies including Thinking Machine Labs, x.ai, Anthropic, Turing, d matrix, Impulse Space, Stoke Space, Enable Software, Databricks, Jackpocket, Shield AI, Bear Flag Robotics, Agility Robotics, OpenArt, Chalk AI & others. Join Calm Ventures as an LP: https://angellist.com/s/zachary-ginsburg/838XS Want to scout for us? Connect with me here

2024

  • Co-Founder

    2024

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  • Co-Founder

    2023

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2023

  • Venture Scout

    2023

    data-driven venture capital firm - Sonos, The RealReal, Creditas, Sorare, Pismo, AppFolio, goPuff, Acorns, Farfetch, Segment, Bumble and Yeahka

  • Venture Partner

    2022

    A Crypto Asset Investment Firm (Celestia, Lava Networks, Ostium, etc.)

  • Startup Investor

    2017

    Investor in 300+ startups including Coinbase, Mercury Bank, Lambda School, Superhuman, Rainbow Wallet, Substack, Mud Wtr, Public, Bolt, Flexport, FalconX, Wyre, ZedRun, 0x, Standard Cognition, Ava Labs, Mainstreet, Sendbird, etc.

2019 - 2020

  • Investor

    2019 - 2020

2018 - 2018

  • MBA Associate

    2018 - 2018

2018 - 2018

  • MBA Associate

    2018 - 2018

2014 - 2018

  • Investment Banking Associate

    2016 - 2018

    Viant Group is a boutique merchant bank providing merger and acquisition and capital raising services to emerging, high-growth companies Sell-Side Transaction Experience: – Sale of Citizen to Ernst & Young (January 2018) – Sale of Dashboard Technologies to CDK Global (October 2017) – Sale of Survox to Enghouse Systems (September 2017) – Sale of Ctuit to Compeat/Serent Capital (August 2017) – Sale of Blab Technologies to Deloitte (August 2017) – Sale of gen-E Technologies to Confidential (April 2017) – Sale of Idea Couture to Cognizant Technology Solutions (August 2016) – Sale of Damballa to K1 Investment Management (August 2016) – Sale of Entwine AG to Extron Electronics (August 2015)

  • Investment Banking Analyst

    2014 - 2016