Alexander Zhou

Co-Founder at Hirebolt / 2x YC / EF / Forbes 30u30

📍 United Kingdom🔄 Updated September 2026💼 1 investments📅 2 years investing🗓 Last invested Feb 2024
VC🌍 United Kingdom
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Angel Investor
Feb 2024
This is a catchall company for the doers, the thinkers, and the innovators.
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2024
Angel Investor
Feb 2024
This is a catchall company for the doers, the thinkers, and the innovators.
2021
Co-Founder and CEO
May 2021
Access a global network of verified engineers, AI-augmented teams, and expert AI evaluators — with instant search that helps you start finding and interviewing talent in seconds. To date, we’ve raised ~$1.5M from investors including Y Combinator, Entrepreneur First, world-class Venture Capital funds and industry leaders.
LD16 Cohort Member
Mar 2021
Entrepreneurs First invests in exceptional individuals to build startups from scratch. We bring together talented outliers to develop their most ambitious ideas and raise money from the world’s best investors. Since pioneering Talent Investing in 2015, we’ve learned to recognize individuals with extraordinary futures before anyone else, embedding them in a community of ambitious peers and giving them the tools they need to succeed, fast. We back them before they have a company, a team, even before they have an idea, based purely on talent. EF’s portfolio is now collectively valued at over $16B, and includes companies such as Aztec, Cleo, Magdrive, Neptune, Omnea, Opply, PolyAI, Tractable, and many more. EF is backed by some of the worlds leading founders and investors, including Founders Fund, Greylock, John Collison (founder – Stripe), Patrick Collison (founder – Stripe), Reid Hoffman (founder – LinkedIn), Eric Schmidt (former CEO - Google), Demis Hassabis (founder – Google DeepMind ), Taavet Hinrikus (founder – Wise), Matt Mullenweg (founder – WordPress), Charlie Songhurst (Board member – Meta), Christa Davies (Board member – Stripe), Lachy Groom (founder – Physical Intelligence), Aidan Gomez (founder – Cohere), Mati Staniszewski (founder – ElevenLabs), Danny Rimer (Partner - Index Ventures), Matt Cohler (former General Partner - Benchmark). We exist to make great companies happen that otherwise wouldn’t. For more information about Entrepreneurs First, visit www.joinef.com Were hiring! Join our global team and experience firsthand the workings of a globally unique talent investor working with cutting edge entrepreneurs on world changing technologies: https://www.joinef.com/about/careers
2019
Co-Founder and CEO
Jul 2019
Revenir partners with banks, fintechs and governments to develop innovative AI financial technology, which responsibly adds value to peoples lives.
2017
Real Estate Development Summer Associate
Jun 2017
Strategic Property Partners, LLC ("SPP") is a full-service real estate developer, owner and operator focused on world-class execution, innovation, and creating high quality and experiential places. SPPs first project, Water Street Tampa, is being developed on over 56 acres of contiguous land the company controls in downtown Tampa along the waterfront. The phased Water Street Tampa development project commenced vertical construction in 2018, and is revitalizing the downtown core into an urban, mixed-use waterfront district consisting of approximately 9 million square feet of new commercial, residential, hospitality, cultural, entertainment, education, and retail uses, totaling over $3 billion in private investment from SPP. The company is owned and capitalized through a partnership between Cascade Investment LLC, and Jeff Vinik. For more information, please visit www.waterstreettampa.com.
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