Kevin Zhang

Partner at Bain Capital Ventures

📍 San Francisco, California, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 23 investments📅 10 years investing🗓 Last invested Feb 2024𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
VC🌍 United States20+ investments
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5
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Series B Investor & Board Member
Feb 2024
Loyal is a clinical-stage veterinary medicine company developing drugs intended to extend the lifespan and healthspan of dogs. In other words, our mission is to help dogs live longer, healthier lives. We’ve already achieved significant milestones on our path to gaining FDA approval for the first lifespan extension drug for any species. We have three products in our pipeline and expect to bring the first product to market in 2025. Our team includes scientists, veterinarians, engineers, operators, and creatives. Join us in our mission to help dogs everywhere.
Seed/Series A Investor & Board Member
Aug 2023
Introducing the industrys first Care Readiness Platform. Silna handles all prior authorizations, benefit checks and insurance monitoring upfront to make sure your patients are clear to receive care, and you have more capacity to provide it.
Seed Investor
Apr 2023
Forus accelerates medicine for the people who need it, prescribe it, and create it. We are building the AI-powered network that connects doctors, pharmacies, payers, and biopharma to bring new science to patients. Backed by Thrive Capital, General Catalyst, Accel, and other leading investors, we are building an exceptional team of engineers and operators to unlock an order of magnitude more medicine for society. If your ambition matches that goal, apply to join today.
Founding & Lead Seed Investor
Jul 2022
Skip is on a mission to help chains harness MEV (Miner Extractable Value) to achieve financial sustainability and power better, cheaper user experiences. Jobs at: jobs.skip.money Our products: 1. Enable users, stakers, and validators share in MEV profits 2. Protect users from the harmful consequences of poorly designed MEV markets 3. Give traders tools to execute more sophisticated and profitable MEV trading strategies See our job board at jobs.skip.money
Seed/Series A Investor & Board Member
May 2022
Pallet makes supply chains more efficient. Our AI workforce, CoPallet, handles high-volume tasks like order entry, portal updates, and quoting — all with human-level accuracy and oversight. CoPallet operates your existing tools and processes at a fraction of the cost. We’ve raised over $50M from General Catalyst, Bain Capital Ventures, Activant Capital, and Bessemer Venture Partners. We’re built by a team from the world’s best companies including Google, Rippling, Scale AI, Uber, and other top startups.
Lead Seed Investor
Mar 2022
On a mission to empower millions of developers. Mintlifys platform reaches 20m+ developers every year and power the documentation of 4000+ companies. Were also the #1 most popular YC product used by other YC companies in the past four years. Would you like to join us?
Series A Investor & Board Member
Oct 2021
Playbook is a beautiful, organized home base for all creative work. For teams, Playbook makes it easy to share, and collaborate on visual projects. For freelancers, Playbook makes collaborating with clients and sharing their work with the world seamless. Playbook runs on advanced and intelligent technology. It automatically imports, tags, categorizes your entire media library, in minutes.
Seed/Series A Investor & Board Member
Jul 2021
Our mission at Column Tax is to democratize access to financial help and meaningfully improve people’s lives by providing game-changing tax solutions. Today, high net worth individuals in the United States have teams of accountants and lawyers to help them avoid taxes, while in the same country, 3/4 of Americans don’t have access to any financial or tax advice. Over 100M adults in the US report that they would not have the funds to cover a $1,000 emergency bill. It’s not right. And Column Tax is fixing it. ‍ Were creating year-round, API-first tax products that live in the financial apps people are already using every day. An accountant in every persons pocket. That is the future we are building at Column Tax.
Lead Seed Investor
Mar 2021
Finleys software simplifies debt capital management for banks and asset managers. By automating due diligence, ensuring compliance, and streamlining ongoing reporting, Finley helps ensure that capital is always available when companies need it. Finleys investors include CRV, Bain Capital Ventures, Y Combinator, Haystack, and Nine Four Ventures.
Seed/Series A Investor & Board Observer
Feb 2021
Small business banking and money management tools to put you in complete control of what your business is earning, spending and saving. The official banking platform of Profit First. Bank with Relay for: ✅ No fees or minimum balances that tie up cash flow ✅ Up to 20 checking accounts to organize income and expenses ✅ Spending management using 50 physical or virtual debit cards ✅ Payments and deposits via ACH transfers, checks and wires ✅ Secure, role-based access to team members and financial advisors ✅ Personalized customer support by email, phone or chat - Relay is a financial technology company, not a bank. Banking services and FDIC insurance are provided through Thread Bank; Member FDIC. The Relay Visa® Debit Card is issued by Thread Bank pursuant to a license from Visa U.S.A. Inc. and may be used everywhere Visa® debit cards are accepted.
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Lead Seed Investor
Nov 2020
Alloy Automation is a next generation iPaaS platform used by the likes of Amazon & Burberry to connect to over 220+ apps via one platform. Founded in 2019, Alloy Automation is backed by $27M in funding from a16z, Bain Capital Ventures, and Y Combinator.
Series A/B Investor & Board Observer
Oct 2020
Hightouch is an Agentic Marketing Platform powered by the industry-leading Composable CDP. With complete brand context, customer data, and performance history in one place, Hightouch gives every marketer the power to build and ship end-to-end campaigns themselves. Teams move faster, stay on brand, and get AI marketing that actually works.
Founding & Co-Lead Seed Investor
Aug 2020
⏱ Save 7+ hrs/week – automate repetitive tasks ☝️ Top productivity app, Chrome store ❤️ 500,000+ users at 20,000+ companies like Google, LinkedIn, Facebook, Uber, Indeed, Salesforce, Lyft, and Loom. 👩‍💻 Come work with us: getmagical.com/careers
Seed/Series A Investor & Board Observer
Dec 2019
The AI development platform - From idea to AI, Lightning fast ⚡️. Code together. Prototype. Train on GPUs. Scale. Serve. From your browser - with zero setup. AI Studio is your laptop on the cloud. Zero setup. Always ready. Persistent storage and environments. Code on CPU. Debug on GPU. Scale to multi-node. Run sweeps, jobs and more. Scale models with PyTorch Lightning, Fabric, Lit-GPT, torchmetrics and more.
Series A Investor & Board Observer
Nov 2019
Airbase is the only procure-to-pay solution to combine enterprise-grade power with a delightful user experience. It radically simplifies purchasing. Tackle complex workflows and enjoy effortless company-wide adoption with easy-to-use and flexible intake, AP automation, expenses, and corporate cards. Stop uncontrolled spend, save time and money, and get a faster close.
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2024
Series B Investor & Board Member
Feb 2024
Loyal is a clinical-stage veterinary medicine company developing drugs intended to extend the lifespan and healthspan of dogs. In other words, our mission is to help dogs live longer, healthier lives. We’ve already achieved significant milestones on our path to gaining FDA approval for the first lifespan extension drug for any species. We have three products in our pipeline and expect to bring the first product to market in 2025. Our team includes scientists, veterinarians, engineers, operators, and creatives. Join us in our mission to help dogs everywhere.
2023
Seed/Series A Investor & Board Member
Aug 2023
Introducing the industrys first Care Readiness Platform. Silna handles all prior authorizations, benefit checks and insurance monitoring upfront to make sure your patients are clear to receive care, and you have more capacity to provide it.
Seed Investor
Apr 2023
Forus accelerates medicine for the people who need it, prescribe it, and create it. We are building the AI-powered network that connects doctors, pharmacies, payers, and biopharma to bring new science to patients. Backed by Thrive Capital, General Catalyst, Accel, and other leading investors, we are building an exceptional team of engineers and operators to unlock an order of magnitude more medicine for society. If your ambition matches that goal, apply to join today.
2022
Founding & Lead Seed Investor
Jul 2022
Skip is on a mission to help chains harness MEV (Miner Extractable Value) to achieve financial sustainability and power better, cheaper user experiences. Jobs at: jobs.skip.money Our products: 1. Enable users, stakers, and validators share in MEV profits 2. Protect users from the harmful consequences of poorly designed MEV markets 3. Give traders tools to execute more sophisticated and profitable MEV trading strategies See our job board at jobs.skip.money
Seed/Series A Investor & Board Member
May 2022
Pallet makes supply chains more efficient. Our AI workforce, CoPallet, handles high-volume tasks like order entry, portal updates, and quoting — all with human-level accuracy and oversight. CoPallet operates your existing tools and processes at a fraction of the cost. We’ve raised over $50M from General Catalyst, Bain Capital Ventures, Activant Capital, and Bessemer Venture Partners. We’re built by a team from the world’s best companies including Google, Rippling, Scale AI, Uber, and other top startups.
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