ZR

Zain Rizavi

Co-founder & CEO

San Francisco, California

Work Experience

2025

  • Co-founder & CEO

    2025

    Building at the intersection of AI and Security. We’re fortunate to be backed by exceptional investors, including operators and angels from Cloudflare, Palo Alto Networks, CrowdStrike, Tenable, Snyk, Fastly, Groq, Okta, Mandiant, and others.

  • Scout

    2025

  • Co-founder

    2024

    Backing the next generation of founders coming out of Cloudflare

  • Angel Investor

    2021

    Nimble Security (2025), Widefield AI (2025), Azentic AI (2025), Mallory AI (2025), Weaver AI (2025), Qpoint (2025), Tinfoil (2025), Probo (2025), The LLM Data Company (2025), Arbor (2025), Blacksmith (2025), Composite (2025), Specstory (2024), Galini (2024), Unbound Security (2024), Nadrama (2024), Contextual (2024), Cake AI (2024), c/side (ex-Cloudflare, 2024), LP in Aviso Ventures, Outerbase (acq. Cloudflare), great expectations, Wingback (W22), Nursa, Tilden, Leland

2022 - 2025

  • Principal

    2022 - 2025

    Fortunate to work for: - Prompt Security | Series A | Board Observer - Channel99 | Seed | Investor

  • Senior Associate

    2020 - 2022

    Fortunate to work for: - Macrometa | Series A | Board Observer - Yendo | Seed | Investor - Open Raven | Series B | Board Observer - Harmonic | Series A | Investor

2017 - 2020

  • Special Projects

    2017 - 2020

    The Special Projects (SPX) team at Cloudflare works on a wide range of tactical and strategic projects that are critical to the operations and long term development of Cloudflare. From Cloudflare’s entry into China through a strategic partnership with one of China’s largest Internet companies; to conducting strategic acquisitions; managing our partnerships and relationships with the major cloud providers; and finding commercial opportunities for Cloudflare’s new products and technologies, we are involved at all levels of driving the company’s business strategy and development. The Special Projects team works with the executive level and across all teams in the company.

  • Winter Intern

    2016 - 2016

    Intern performing due diligence (+sourcing) on potential investments and analysis of new enterprise technologies/markets.

  • Student Athlete - Rugby

    2013 - 2016