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Zain Rizavi

Founder of Cloudflare Angels Network

San Francisco, California

Overview 

Zain Rizavi is currently a Principal at Ridge Ventures in San Francisco, California, with a strong focus on investing in early-stage companies in various sectors such as cybersecurity, enterprise applications, and SaaS. Notable highlights of his career include co-founding the Cloudflare Angels Network and making strategic investments in companies like Macrometa at Series A and Presidio Identity at Seed stage.

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

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