Ran Zhao

Founder & CEO | Builder | Investor | Building AI-Native Hedge Funds

📍 United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 3 investments📅 3 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2024
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2024
Augment is the AI coding platform built for enterprises - powered by a highly secure, production-grade Context Engine developed over 2.5 years in stealth until our public launch in November 2024. Augment semantically indexes your entire codebase, documentation, dependencies, and internal knowledge in real time to enable devs to ship code faster, onboard in days instead of months, and modernize legacy systems with confidence. We are alumni of global-leading AI and cloud companies including Google, Meta, NVIDIA, Snowflake, and Databricks - all on a mission to provide enterprises with context that actually understands your codebase. If, like us, you believe in augmenting and not replacing software developers, join us on our mission to improve software development at scale using AI.
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2023
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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2025
Founder & CEO
Apr 2025
Stealth AI Startup is a private community for founders, researchers, and engineers building next-generation AI companies before public launch. Founders tag themselves here to: 🔹 Gain credibility while working in stealth 🔹 Connect discreetly with other AI founders 🔹 Receive inbound interest from early-stage VCs 🔹 Join curated founder-only circles & discussions 🔹 Access hiring pipelines for early team building If youre building an AI startup in stealth, add your profile to the community and tag yourself to this page. Your stealth journey deserves visibility — without revealing your idea. Join the world’s largest AI stealth founder network.
2024
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2024
Augment is the AI coding platform built for enterprises - powered by a highly secure, production-grade Context Engine developed over 2.5 years in stealth until our public launch in November 2024. Augment semantically indexes your entire codebase, documentation, dependencies, and internal knowledge in real time to enable devs to ship code faster, onboard in days instead of months, and modernize legacy systems with confidence. We are alumni of global-leading AI and cloud companies including Google, Meta, NVIDIA, Snowflake, and Databricks - all on a mission to provide enterprises with context that actually understands your codebase. If, like us, you believe in augmenting and not replacing software developers, join us on our mission to improve software development at scale using AI.
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2024
Oura is an award-winning, fast-growing startup that helps people get up close and personal with their health. The Oura Ring and Oura App provide daily insights into sleep, activity, stress, recovery and much more. By providing daily feedback and practical steps to inspire healthy lifestyles, weve helped millions of people improve their sleep, understand their bodies, and transform their health. We’re on a mission to empower every person to own their inner potential, and we’re seeking talented individuals to join us on our journey. JOIN THE OURA TEAM We are a multi-disciplinary team of over 100 experts in hardware engineering, software development, machine learning, bioscience, sleep, industrial and UX design, production, marketing and customer experience. We always strive to learn more and dig deeper into our research and analytics, to stay engaged and creative in everything we do. We are uncompromising in delivering value to our members and our partners across the globe.. Ouraring Inc. is headquartered in San Francisco, CA
2023
Co-Founder & CEO
Oct 2023
Onwish AI is committed to building a reliable AI platform for the future of financial research. We envision AI revolutionizing the acquisition and interpretation of market data. Our advanced platform, powered by cutting-edge large language models (LLMs), delivers on-demand and in-depth analysis through both textual and visualized data representations. Clients can effortlessly verify AI-generated content with directly cited sources and highlighted excerpts from original documents. Established by AI specialists and investment experts from Meta AI, Yelp, 5Y Capital, IDG Capital, and Bain, Onwish AI has garnered support from top-tier investors, including Sequoia China, IDG Capital, 5Y Capital, UpHonest Capital, Alumni Ventures, Velocity Venture, and Embedding VC.
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2023
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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