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Simon Zhou
Investor at Various
San Francisco, California
Overview
Simon Zhou is an investor based in San Francisco, California, with a background in consulting at McKinsey & Company and experience in angel investing at Unusual Ventures. He specializes in investing in Series A and seed stages, focusing on sectors such as developer tools, security, and consumer internet in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Simon Zhou's career highlights include his expertise in public speaking, program development, software development, and leadership development, as well as his educational background with a Bachelor of Science from UCLA. His current role involves actively investing in early-stage companies and contributing to the growth and success of startups in the tech industry.
Work Experience
Partner
2024 - Current
Investor
2022 - 2024
B2B apps and infra Select investments: Tobiko Data, Qdrant, Resolve.ai, HippoML (acq. by NVIDIA), and Neon (acq. by Databricks)
Unusual Ventures is a seed-stage venture capital offering hands-on support and expertise to startups on their early-stage journey.
Consultant
2019 - 2021
Digital practice
McKinsey Growth Tech serves leading growth stage tech players, venture capital, and growth private equity