Alex Cheng

Venture Builder & Investor | Co-Founder @ Zenith Venture Studio | Term Assistant Professor of Practice at Simon Fraser University’s Beedie School of Business

📍 Canada🔄 Updated September 2026💼 8 investments📅 9 years investing🗓 Last invested Nov 2025
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Co-Founder & Investor
Nov 2025
3x Analyst Capacity without hiring. 80% Screening Time Saved. 95%+ Accuracy Rate. Why VeloQuote? Veloquote gives you full control over T12s — extract raw data, map every line item to HUD/GSE friendly categories, and export Excel files you can model immediately. • Normalize & Extract raw T12s from Inconsistent Formats and Broken Excel. • HUD/GSE-Loan Friendly Category Mapping. • Instant Ratio Analysis & Smart NOI Validation. • Direct PDF Upload. Structured Data Out. • Custom Mapping Categories & Export Formats.
Advisor & Investor
Oct 2022
A global digital coupon platform for merchants to create, distribute, redeem, track coupons and measure the effectiveness
Co-Founder & Investor
Mar 2022
Jahvis is an All-In-One Hotel PMS Optimiser empowered by automated technology. No PMS is ever a “one size fits all” category, Jahvis is designed to provide an additional and unequivocal digital solution to advance guest engagement, operation management and revenue enhancement with options to curate a system that is the best fit for your property (so hotels need not look further). Our comprehensive solution takes the complacent PMS one step further. Empowered by automated technology, Jahvis facilitates seamless communications and interactions via Omnichannel amongst guests, hotel staff and tech partners in hotel operation. Together with the ability to connect with our extensive range of apps, our single platform helps equip hotels with higher capacity for handling complex requests and improving outcomes on the customer service front.
Investor & Advisor
2022
CL1CK makes cold outreach easy and intelligent for B2B sales & HR teams. For B2B Sales: Ensure that each prospect gets an email they are mostly likely to engage with. We cover qualified leads sourcing, content writing, email sending, testing, data analysis and optimisation into 1 product. A-Z of cold outbound – everything you need to set your outbound off the ground. For HR: Get a customized list of LinkedIn profiles of best-fit candidates & hyper-personalized outreach messages, so you don’t have to manually sift through 100s of candidate profiles. 15x your weekly outreach volume to boost your interview conversion numbers.
Investor
2021
Krunch is Bitly for Dev marketers tracking conversion metrics
Investor & Co-Founder
2019
From booking to post experience, Telkie is an Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) to transform hotels’ business with PMS and CRM integration, bundling the data and tools necessary to drive Revenue Enhancement, Cross and Up-sell opportunities. Hotels and Venues can generate more revenue without extra manpower by integrating with 3rd-party digital platforms and marketplaces.
early stageHospitality
Investor
2019
TripGuru is one of the leading tour operators in Southeast Asia that caters to experience-focused and environmentally-conscious travelers. Holidaymakers around the globe refer to TripGuru for value-for-money, bespoke tours in 16 cities, including those in Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam, Turkey, and Mexico. Crafted by local insiders, TripGuru has over 350 nature-based tourism activities backed by a commitment to sustainable practices and animal welfare protection. Subsidiaries of Trip Guru Limited include a catalog of established online travel brands operating under the worlds most trusted apps and websites. TripGuru’s business partnerships include long-standing collaborations with AirBnb (airbnb.com), Klook (klook.com), GetYourGuide (getyourguide.com), and Tripadvisor (tripadvisor.com). Seamlessly integrating technology into the way people socialize and travel remains TripGuru’s lifelong commitment and passion. For investment partnerships and recruitment-related inquiries, reach out at info@thetripguru.com.
Investor & Advisor
2017
Cloudbreakr is an integrated influencer marketing platform in Asia built by Advwhere, a marketing technology based in Hong Kong and APAC regions. Powered by Big Data Analytics and Machine Learning, the platform provides influencer discovery, social analytics and campaign management to help marketers optimize their influencer marketing and social media campaigns. The company has primary operations in Hong Kong, Malaysia, Thailand, and Taiwan.
Experience · 16 entries
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Investments (5)
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2025
Co-Founder & Investor
Nov 2025
3x Analyst Capacity without hiring. 80% Screening Time Saved. 95%+ Accuracy Rate. Why VeloQuote? Veloquote gives you full control over T12s — extract raw data, map every line item to HUD/GSE friendly categories, and export Excel files you can model immediately. • Normalize & Extract raw T12s from Inconsistent Formats and Broken Excel. • HUD/GSE-Loan Friendly Category Mapping. • Instant Ratio Analysis & Smart NOI Validation. • Direct PDF Upload. Structured Data Out. • Custom Mapping Categories & Export Formats.
2024
Partner
Mar 2024
Hit the right note in your wealth journey.
2023
Co-Founder & CSO
Nov 2023
At Zenith Venture Studio, we build vertical AI startups by combining deep technical expertise with real-world industry insights. Our in-house engineering team partners with a think tank of seasoned domain experts to automate overlooked, “boring” processes inside large enterprises—turning complexity into scalable AI solutions. Every idea is validated from our own balance sheet and accelerated with capital from our global angel network. With 20+ years of Fortune 500 experience, best-in-class AI coding methodology, and centralized support across legal, finance, design, and growth, we take startups from concept to commercialization. Our advisor network opens doors to pilot programs, customers, and strategic exits—powering a new wave of vertical AI innovation.
2022
Advisor & Investor
Oct 2022
A global digital coupon platform for merchants to create, distribute, redeem, track coupons and measure the effectiveness
Co-Founder & Investor
Mar 2022
Jahvis is an All-In-One Hotel PMS Optimiser empowered by automated technology. No PMS is ever a “one size fits all” category, Jahvis is designed to provide an additional and unequivocal digital solution to advance guest engagement, operation management and revenue enhancement with options to curate a system that is the best fit for your property (so hotels need not look further). Our comprehensive solution takes the complacent PMS one step further. Empowered by automated technology, Jahvis facilitates seamless communications and interactions via Omnichannel amongst guests, hotel staff and tech partners in hotel operation. Together with the ability to connect with our extensive range of apps, our single platform helps equip hotels with higher capacity for handling complex requests and improving outcomes on the customer service front.
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