Zak Kukoff
Non-Resident Senior Fellow at Foundation for American Innovation
Washington, District of Columbia
Overview
Work Experience
Chair, Tech and Venture Practice
2024 - Current
https://lewisburke.com/tech/
Non-Resident Senior Fellow
2024
https://www.thefai.org/profile/Zak-Kukoff
Lincoln Network provides opportunities for the entrepreneurial community to learn about market-based and tech-powered solutions.
Visiting Fellow
2024
https://nationalsecurity.gmu.edu/zak-kukoff/
Advisory Board
2024
https://www.stationdc.com/
Seed Investor
2023 - 2023
Pylon is a real-time customer operations platform helping B2B companies scale customer success and support over Slack, Teams, and Discord.
Raised $20,325,000.00 from Y Combinator, Andreessen Horowitz and General Catalyst.
Board Observer
2022 - 2023
Excited for GC to have led Luminai’s Series A
Board Observer
2021 - 2023
https://www.generalcatalyst.com/gcamplified/the-potential-for-ai-to-transform-dentistry/
Overjet is a software development company that offers an AI platform for dentistry with precision and educates patients.
Raised $130,550,000.00 from March Capital, General Catalyst, The E14 Fund, Crosslink Capital, American Dental Association, Harmonic Growth Partners, Liquid 2 Ventures, Insight Partners and SpringRock Ventures.
Board Observer
2021 - 2023
https://www.generalcatalyst.com/perspectives/our-investment-in-vial-a-tech-enabled-cro-reimagining-clinical-trials
Scalable biotech advancing clinical programs with cost-effective trials and computationally designed therapeutics.
Raised $101,000,000.00 from Patrick Hsu, Connor Zwick, Gordon Wintrob, Josh Buckley, Buckley Ventures, General Catalyst, Byers Capital and Spike Lipkin.
Principal
2020 - 2023
Lucky to work with teams across healthcare, productivity, and SaaS.
General Catalyst partners with ambitious founders to drive resilience and applied AI from seed to growth.
Board Observer
2021 - 2022
https://www.generalcatalyst.com/gcamplified/gitpod-reinventing-the-developer-experience/