Alexander Zhou
Investment Lead at Ventures Together
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAlexander Zhou is an investment lead and two-time founder based in London with eight years of experience building and scaling fintech and hospitality startups. He co-founded Hirebolt (YC S21), raised $1.5M, scaled the product to 800+ hospitality customers, and exited via acquisition to Index.dev, where he now serves on the advisory board. At Ventures Together he moved from an early portfolio company to leading new investments, and he also angels into early-stage startups like Jack & Jill and Audiomob. His background spans accelerator ecosystems (YC, Entrepreneur First) and deep domain study—MPhil in Real Estate Finance from Cambridge and an MSc in Innovation from Imperial—reflecting a mix of operator, investor, and sector specialist. Notably, he outcompeted MBA candidates for a strategic real estate role early in his career, showing an uncommon blend of startup grit and institutional finance chops. He’s approachable and pragmatic (GitHub bio: “Just try turning it off and on again”), happy to connect about product-led go-to-market and early-stage investing.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (Msc), Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Management, Master of Science (Msc), Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Management at Imperial Business SchoolS21 & W20 Batches, S21 & W20 Batches at Y CombinatorMaster of Philosophy (MPhil), Real Estate Finance, Master of Philosophy (MPhil), Real Estate Finance at University of CambridgeBachelor of Science (BSc), Hotel Administration, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Hotel Administration at Cornell University
English, Spanish, Chinese
Github Skills (53)
intelligent10
deep-reinforcement-learning10
serve10
unity3d10
reinforcement-learning9
assembly9
machine-learning9
simulations9
ml-agents9
q-learning8
android-ndk8
deep-learning8
plugin8
gymnasium8
imitation-learning8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
gzrjzcx/project_templete
Jan 2019 - Jul 2021
Contributions:8 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 6 months
gzrjzcx/AlexsImageHosting
Nov 2019 - Aug 2024
Contributions:24 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 10 months
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