Mohamed Kazaz (ZzazZ)

Founder/Investor/Advisor, 1st Employee

📍 United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 32 investments📅 8 years investing🗓 Last invested Jul 2026
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Jul 2026
Everyone wants fast AI. Everyone needs cheap AI. At Tensordyne, we are driven by one defining challenge: How do we build the architecture that delivers both? We design AI chips and rack-level systems purpose-built for ultra-fast and ultra-efficient data center inference. We build rapidly, iterate constantly, and we are about to deploy our technology into the real world to change the trajectory of AI compute. We are in a high-growth phase and looking for brilliant minds who thrive on autonomy and tangible impact. With a global footprint spanning the heartlands of Silicon Valley and Europe, our reach is wide and our momentum is accelerating. Check out our careers page at https://www.tensordyne.ai/careers
Investor
Jul 2026
The only high-performance thin-film transistor that can be built along z-axis. Zinite builds technology that enables 3D chips.
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Jul 2026
RASPIRE is the first line of defense for applications against AI-powered fraud attacks, API abuse, and runtime threats. Unlike code scanners and pentesting tools that identify vulnerabilities before release, RASPIRE operates like a security expert running inside applications, monitoring, detecting, and blocking attacks 24/7 in real time. All without writing a single line of code.
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Jul 2026
Plena is the integrated AI operating system for specialty medical practices. We automate the back-office work that keeps clinics running — referrals, fax intake, scheduling, prior auths, billing — everything that isnt the medicine. We dont replace the EMR or ask staff to learn a new system. We live inside the tools practices already use (EHRs, fax, phones, clearinghouses, payer portals, patient communication) and quietly take over the rote work end-to-end. A Palantir-like base platform of reusable building blocks lets us stand up a custom deployment for each practice in days, not quarters.
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Jun 2026
Apollo’s nuclear systems combine proven technology, factory fabrication, and compact design to enable fast, reliable deployment at low, predictable cost. Built on 15 years of research at MIT’s Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering, Apollo delivers the energy of the future.
Investor
Apr 2026
Moritz is a global AI-native law firm that will handle your legal work the same day, at a fraction of the market price. Our AI does 80% of the work, so you pay our elite lawyers for the final 20%. Our lawyers have closed $2bn in deals with an average turnaround of 4-hours. No other law firm offers this kind of speed for complex deals.
early stageLegal Services
Investor
Mar 2026
Mercury is the fintech ambitious companies use for banking* and all their financial workflows. With a powerful account at the center of their operations, companies can make better financial decisions and ensure that every dollar spent aligns with company priorities. Thats why over 300K startups choose Mercury to confidently run all their financial operations with the precision, control, and focus they need to operate at their best. To learn more, visit Mercury.com. *Mercury is a fintech company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided through Choice Financial Group and Column N.A., Members FDIC.
Angel Investor
Feb 2026
Chip design is one of the most complex multiplayer engineering challenges in the world. Dozens of disciplines — analog, digital, verification, layout, signoff — all building different pieces of the same silicon. All interdependent. ▎ The tools are working. The system isnt. Only 14% of chips succeed on first silicon. Roughly 70% of failures trace back to specification misalignment between teams — not engineering error. Engineers spend 70% of their time on workflow friction and coordination, leaving only 30% for innovation. The bottleneck is no longer physics. Its alignment at scale. Every AI tool in chip design today is single-player: one engineer, one session, one context. But chip design is irreducibly multiplayer. A single spec change creates obligations across five disciplines simultaneously. Individual acceleration is not the same as system coherence. AIDAChip is the alignment OS for AI-native chip design — a Multiplayer AI platform that aligns intent, knowledge, and execution across all disciplines and vendors. Three layers work as a shared nervous system for your team: - Intent Engine (Cognitive Layer) — keeps every decision, spec, and tradeoff connected and current - Knowledge Engine (Memory Layer) — learns from every project so the next one starts smarter - Execution Engine (Spinal Cord) — AI teammates execute across tools, teams, and disciplines in real time Tools optimize execution. AIDAChip coordinates the system. The result: engineers move from alignment and coordination to intent and judgment. Tapeout cycles compress. Knowledge compounds. Smaller teams ship what large teams ship today. Engineering, Aligned. CONNECT Interested in early access? Visit aidachip.com/request-access
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Oct 2025
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core. OpenAI is dedicated to putting that alignment of interests first — ahead of profit. To achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity. Our investment in diversity, equity, and inclusion is ongoing, executed through a wide range of initiatives, and championed and supported by leadership. At OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology.
Investor
Aug 2025
Were an AI research company that builds reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. Our first product is Claude, an AI assistant for tasks at any scale. Our research interests span multiple areas including natural language, human feedback, scaling laws, reinforcement learning, code generation, and interpretability.
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Jul 2025
Ramp is an all-in-one financial operations platform designed to save businesses time and money. Combining corporate cards, expense management, bill payments, accounting automation, procurement, travel, treasury, and more, Ramp empowers finance teams to do their best work. More than 70,000 companies, from family-owned farms to space startups, have saved $10B and 27.5M hours with Ramp since its founding in 2019. Investors include Founders Fund, Thrive Capital, Khosla Ventures, Sequoia, Greylock, Stripe, Goldman Sachs, Coatue, and Redpoint, as well as over 100 angel investors who were founders or executives of leading companies. The Ramp team comprises talented leaders from leading financial services and fintech companies—Stripe, Affirm, Goldman Sachs, American Express, Mastercard, Visa, Capital One—as well as technology companies such as Meta, Uber, Netflix, Twitter, Dropbox, and Instacart. Ramp has been named to Fast Companys Most Innovative Companies list and LinkedIns Top U.S. Startups for over 3 years, as well as the Forbes Cloud 100, CNBC Disruptor 50, and TIME Magazines 100 Most Influential Companies. Visit our website for a full list of US state licenses & disclosures: https://ramp.com/legal/state-disclosures
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Jul 2025
Replit is the agentic software creation platform that enables anyone to build applications using natural language. With millions of users worldwide and over 500,000 business users, Replit is democratizing software development by removing traditional barriers to application creation.
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Jul 2025
Sprouts.ai is an AI native “Generative Demand Platform” disrupting the $1.1T B2B GTM category. Sprouts.ai helps B2B demand gen and sales teams generate qualified pipeline and increase deal conversion rates with real-time account and contact level intelligence signals, recommending next best action and execution via AI agents. Sprouts is solving the problem of inefficient GTM driven by dirty data ecosystems, multiple siloed legacy tools, large GTM teams, static ICPs and poorly defined segments. Our existing customers have seen a significant improvement in data coverage and quality →3X increase in qualified leads →50% increase in SDR/BDR efficiency →30%+ reduction in martech tool cost. Unlike traditional GTM tools, Sprouts doesn’t add more dashboards or enrichment tricks—it rebuilds the operating layer beneath your stack. For CROs and Sales leaders, it removes ghost pipeline and provides reps with real-time intelligence and deep ICP qualification to increase conversion rates - Spend more time selling, less time guessing. For RevOps teams, it offers high quality data coupled with signal based orchestration - AI based account and contact research, valid emails, phone numbers, hiring, techstack, sub-team sizes. For CMOs and marketing teams, Sprouts offers deep ICP analysis along with innovative website and event workflows for generating qualified pipeline. Reach out to us and see what dirty data is really costing your GTM → Try the Dirty Data Calculator → Get Your Signal Health Report → Show up to the next QBR with clarity that holds You don’t need more dashboards. You need a system that finally tells the truth. Sprouts.ai isn’t just automation; it’s regeneration. The connective tissue your GTM motion was missing, designed to turn fragmented data into reliable revenue outcomes.
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Jul 2026
Everyone wants fast AI. Everyone needs cheap AI. At Tensordyne, we are driven by one defining challenge: How do we build the architecture that delivers both? We design AI chips and rack-level systems purpose-built for ultra-fast and ultra-efficient data center inference. We build rapidly, iterate constantly, and we are about to deploy our technology into the real world to change the trajectory of AI compute. We are in a high-growth phase and looking for brilliant minds who thrive on autonomy and tangible impact. With a global footprint spanning the heartlands of Silicon Valley and Europe, our reach is wide and our momentum is accelerating. Check out our careers page at https://www.tensordyne.ai/careers
Investor
Jul 2026
The only high-performance thin-film transistor that can be built along z-axis. Zinite builds technology that enables 3D chips.
Investor
Jul 2026
RASPIRE is the first line of defense for applications against AI-powered fraud attacks, API abuse, and runtime threats. Unlike code scanners and pentesting tools that identify vulnerabilities before release, RASPIRE operates like a security expert running inside applications, monitoring, detecting, and blocking attacks 24/7 in real time. All without writing a single line of code.
Investor
Jul 2026
Plena is the integrated AI operating system for specialty medical practices. We automate the back-office work that keeps clinics running — referrals, fax intake, scheduling, prior auths, billing — everything that isnt the medicine. We dont replace the EMR or ask staff to learn a new system. We live inside the tools practices already use (EHRs, fax, phones, clearinghouses, payer portals, patient communication) and quietly take over the rote work end-to-end. A Palantir-like base platform of reusable building blocks lets us stand up a custom deployment for each practice in days, not quarters.
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