Sam Z.

Co-Founder@477 Studio | Helping Teams Become AI-Native

📍 Australia🔄 Updated September 2026💼 3 investments📅 6 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2025
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Investor & Co-Founder
Jan 2025
8661 Ventures is a founder-first syndicate that backs companies at the pre-seed and seed stages. While sector-agnostic, the team brings deep operational expertise in AI, Healthcare, and Consumer verticals. Led by real operators, 8661 Ventures delivers no-fluff, high-impact support. We help founders move fast and build with conviction from day one.
Early Investor and Advisor
Jun 2024
We are a Sydney, Australian based leading AI captioning company. Our advanced AI solutions enhance accessibility and inclusivity by providing real-time, highly accurate captions and translations in 64 languages. Our event-note-taking tool and Ai chat box offers add more beneficial to your audiences personal knowledge management and event attending experience. Our after-event data analysis will provide you more insights on what your audiences are more interested, give you a better idea what type of events you should host more for them. We prioritize the security and privacy of our users by hosting services on private clouds, ensuring that all data remains confidential and protected. This commitment to security makes our services suitable for various industries, including corporate events, educational seminars, and government meetings, where data sensitivity is paramount. Our products are tested and loved by CSIRO, NSW Governments, FishBurners, UTS Startups, Hearing Matters Australia and University of Queensland. DM us to get in touch or shoot us an email at chuhao@sunflowerai.io to learn more. Live Demo: Call AUS +61 423 974 663
Early Investor
Aug 2020
Relevance AI is the home of the AI workforce: where anyone can build and recruit teams of AI agents to complete tasks on autopilot. Our no-code platform is built for ops teams, no technical background required. Subject-matter experts can use Relevance to design powerful AI agents and AI teams without relying on developer resources. Scale excellence across every area or team with your intelligent, purpose-built AI workforce.
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2026
Venture Partner
Jun 2026
Antler is one of the most active early-stage investors globally. The firm leads in ‘Day Zero’ investing, an approach to venture capital focused on partnering with founders pre-launch. Antler systematically removes capital and network constraints for early-stage technology entrepreneurs by providing co-founder matching, deep business model validation, initial capital, expansion support, and follow-on funding. The firm is present in 27 cities across most leading technology ecosystems globally and has made over 1,300 investments into early-stage startups. Antler has been repeatedly recognized by Pitchbook as the world’s most active angel and seed-stage investor.
2025
Co-Founder
Sep 2025
Our products: - Play Graph (https://playgraph.ai): turn data and info into shareable animated videos - Claude Gym (https://github.com/477-Studio/claude-gym): Open-source tool that nudges builders to move during long Claude code runs - AI, Look! (https://ai-look.app): Screenshot and screen recording tool for AI-power users. So your AI can see what you see.
Investor & Co-Founder
Jan 2025
8661 Ventures is a founder-first syndicate that backs companies at the pre-seed and seed stages. While sector-agnostic, the team brings deep operational expertise in AI, Healthcare, and Consumer verticals. Led by real operators, 8661 Ventures delivers no-fluff, high-impact support. We help founders move fast and build with conviction from day one.
2024
Early Investor and Advisor
Jun 2024
We are a Sydney, Australian based leading AI captioning company. Our advanced AI solutions enhance accessibility and inclusivity by providing real-time, highly accurate captions and translations in 64 languages. Our event-note-taking tool and Ai chat box offers add more beneficial to your audiences personal knowledge management and event attending experience. Our after-event data analysis will provide you more insights on what your audiences are more interested, give you a better idea what type of events you should host more for them. We prioritize the security and privacy of our users by hosting services on private clouds, ensuring that all data remains confidential and protected. This commitment to security makes our services suitable for various industries, including corporate events, educational seminars, and government meetings, where data sensitivity is paramount. Our products are tested and loved by CSIRO, NSW Governments, FishBurners, UTS Startups, Hearing Matters Australia and University of Queensland. DM us to get in touch or shoot us an email at chuhao@sunflowerai.io to learn more. Live Demo: Call AUS +61 423 974 663
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