Zain Rizavi
Founder of Cloudflare Angels Network
San Francisco, California
Overview
Work Experience
Co-founder & CEO
2025 - Current
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
Kleiner Perkins is a venture capital firm that specializes in investing in early-stage, incubation, and growth companies.
Co-founder
2024
Backing the next generation of founders coming out of Cloudflare
Angel Investor
2021
Tinfoil (2025), Blacksmith (2025), Composite Security (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 (W23), great expectations, Wingback (W22), Nursa, Tilden, Leland
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
Pelion Venture Partners invests in early-stage B2B software-based companies.
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.
Cloudflare Worker's Launchpad is a funding program for for startups in partnership with leading venture capital investors.
Winter Intern
2016 - 2016
Intern performing due diligence (+sourcing) on potential investments and analysis of new enterprise technologies/markets.
Pelion Venture Partners invests in early-stage B2B software-based companies.
Student Athlete - Rugby
2013 - 2016