Chris Z.

Partner @ Wing | Investing in AI infrastructure startups!

📍 San Francisco, California, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 6 investments📅 7 years investing🗓 Last invested Sep 2019
VC🌍 United States
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Board Observer
Sep 2019
Saturn Cloud is an AI/ML platform available on every cloud. Data teams and engineers can build, scale, and deploy their AI/ML applications with any stack. Quickly spin up environments to test new ideas, then easily deploy them into production. Scale fast—from proof-of-concept to production-ready applications. Customers include NVIDIA, CFA Institute, Snowflake, Flatiron School, Nestle, and more. http://bit.ly/2XDdRnw
Investor
May 2019
Testim is now part of Tricentis. Follow us on our official LinkedIn page Tricentis for all the latest news & updates about our business, products and services! Dont forget to follow us on: Twitter: https://lnkd.in/g-AWaZzB Facebook: https://lnkd.in/gmaYKNi7
Investor
Apr 2019
PlanetScale is a MySQL-compatible database that brings you scale, performance, and reliability — without sacrificing developer experience. With PlanetScale, you get the power of horizontal sharding, non-blocking schema changes, and many more powerful database features without the pain of implementing them. The database market is the most sought after in the VC space and is projected to be a $60 billion business by the end of 2022. The pace of innovation is mind-blowing. The opportunity is massive. Created by the people who built the infrastructure at YouTube, PayPal, Dropbox, and GitHub. PlanetScale is a series C start-up with over $100 million in funding raised; and backed by leading VC companies like a16z, SignalFire, Insight Partners, and Kleiner Perkins.
Board Observer
Mar 2019
OneSignal is the market-leading customer messaging and engagement solution, offering email, mobile and web push notifications, in-app messaging, and SMS. Our powerful omnichannel platform enables 1M+ businesses to deliver over 12B+ messages daily. Powered by superior architecture, OneSignal is designed to scale with your business and deliver messages more quickly and reliably than the competition. By providing an open API, extensive documentation, free accounts, and intuitive automation, personalization, and analytics tools, we help businesses of all sizes provide a seamless messaging experience to create meaningful customer connections.
Investor
Feb 2019
XOR is a fast-growing HR Technology company, the global leader in quality recruitment. XOR has been working on revolutionary software that is and will keep changing how the Recruitment Industry works when it comes to acquiring talent. We offer the tools and the services to cover the recruitment processes for businesses in the US fully. Our mission is to be the world’s leading Assistant for Talent Acquisition processes. We help clients reach their full potential by assisting them in building the strongest team. We go the extra mile and help companies grow through an innovative cadence, a more agile process, and integrate Artificial Intelligence which helps improve hiring and makes it quicker. We create a process that is clear right from the beginning and help instantly align interested prospects from untapped markets with your jobs. Our team is devoted to serving you. We are not a job board OR staffing agency. We envisioned XOR to help make the act of engaging with candidates way easier besides automating time-consuming tasks and processes. Recruiters are now using XOR to add more value to their clients and candidates and make more placements with less effort. Were built to help you scale! To find out what we can do for you, contact us by email: xor@xorair.com.
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2022
Partner
Jun 2022
Founded in 2013, Wing Venture Capital is a venture capital firm devoted to early-stage, long-term company building in the AI-first technology stack. The body of work of Wings award-winning team spans more than two decades and dozens of successful early-stage companies, 21 of which went on to achieve billion-dollar-plus outcomes following IPOs or acquisitions. Its portfolio companies include Cohesity, AirOps, Gong, Instart Logic, Juvo, Moogsoft, Palerra, Shape Security, and Snowflake.
2020
Principal
2020
Base10 is an early stage venture capital firm partnering with entrepreneurs who are bringing automation to traditional sectors of the economy - what we call automation of the real economy. Base10 is headquartered in San Francisco.
2019
Board Observer
Sep 2019
Saturn Cloud is an AI/ML platform available on every cloud. Data teams and engineers can build, scale, and deploy their AI/ML applications with any stack. Quickly spin up environments to test new ideas, then easily deploy them into production. Scale fast—from proof-of-concept to production-ready applications. Customers include NVIDIA, CFA Institute, Snowflake, Flatiron School, Nestle, and more. http://bit.ly/2XDdRnw
Investor
May 2019
Testim is now part of Tricentis. Follow us on our official LinkedIn page Tricentis for all the latest news & updates about our business, products and services! Dont forget to follow us on: Twitter: https://lnkd.in/g-AWaZzB Facebook: https://lnkd.in/gmaYKNi7
Investor
Apr 2019
PlanetScale is a MySQL-compatible database that brings you scale, performance, and reliability — without sacrificing developer experience. With PlanetScale, you get the power of horizontal sharding, non-blocking schema changes, and many more powerful database features without the pain of implementing them. The database market is the most sought after in the VC space and is projected to be a $60 billion business by the end of 2022. The pace of innovation is mind-blowing. The opportunity is massive. Created by the people who built the infrastructure at YouTube, PayPal, Dropbox, and GitHub. PlanetScale is a series C start-up with over $100 million in funding raised; and backed by leading VC companies like a16z, SignalFire, Insight Partners, and Kleiner Perkins.
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