ZK

Hi, my name is Ziyaad. I'm a Texas-bred, Mauritian-American living on the west coast. I'm an investor fortunate to spend time with true game-breakers across technology—especially where AI bends behaviors, numbers, and outcomes. Still waiting for it to improve my golf game though.

Give me a shout if you want to go for a walk (much better than coffee, sorry!)

Work Experience

Factorial Funds

Joined Sol Bier (founding eng at Cruise) as a Partner, backing visionary entrepreneurs and generational companies. Opportunistically writing angel checks as well.

The D. E. Shaw Group

Co-head, founding member, and IC of D. E. Shaw's private venture and growth investing arm. Built fund infrastructure from scratch and deployed the first few investments in that strategy with some phenomenal people at the firm.

Summit Partners

Cut my teeth as an investor in Summit's venture fund, focused on capital-efficient growers, often in vertical software. Led a few and co-invested across 40+ companies. I'd recommend anyone start their investing career at a place like Summit.

Prior

Focused on M&A and other strategies at Evercore and J.P. Morgan in NYC. Prior to that, my first paid job was an event coordinator and professional coach... ask me about driving U-Hauls full of audiovisual equipment around Las Vegas.