Zao is a Principal on the Craft investment team. He focuses on investing in software companies with a particular interest in data infrastructure, AI infrastructure and developer tools. Zao enjoys partnering with companies to help scale their growth engines. He's worked with several Craft portfolio companies including as Interim VP Finance at Supabase and Interim VP Finance & BizOps at Onehouse.

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Prior to joining Craft, Zao was an investor at Georgian where he focused on growth equity investments in B2B software. Zao began his career at Bank of America Merrill Lynch in the M&A group. He graduated from the University of Waterloo with a Bachelor of Science in Biotechnology and was a member of varsity swimming.