Claude Zou
Founder at Stealth Startup
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolClaude Zou is a founder and investor with 11 years of experience building startups and managing growth-stage capital from the San Francisco Bay Area. A Brown MEng and Babson summa cum laude alumnus, he blends founder instincts with hands-on investment rigor—running a multi-million AUM fund that outperformed benchmarks for 17 straight quarters while launching AI-driven finance products. He currently leads a stealth AI finance startup and hosts an invite-only podcast connecting high-potential leaders across finance and tech. Claude has operational experience taking ventures from zero to traction (e.g., a food delivery pilot hitting $15k GMV in three months) and a background in hedge funds, endowment and private equity that informs his deal and product decisions. Known as a resourceful connector, he deliberately bridges people, interests and cultures to accelerate collaboration across institutions and startups. An unusual strength is his public thought leadership on M&A analysis, which has scaled to 300K+ monthly impressions.
10 years of coding experience
Master of Engineering - MEng, Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship (PRIME), Master of Engineering - MEng, Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship (PRIME) at Brown UniversityBachelor of Science - BS, Finance & Entrepreneurship - Summa Cum Laude, Bachelor of Science - BS, Finance & Entrepreneurship - Summa Cum Laude at Babson CollegeYale Young Global Scholars, Sustainable Development and Social Entrepreneurship (SDSE), Yale Young Global Scholars, Sustainable Development and Social Entrepreneurship (SDSE) at Yale UniversityInternational Baccalaureate Diploma, HL: Economics, Mathematics, English, International Baccalaureate Diploma, HL: Economics, Mathematics, English at World Foreign Language AcademyCross Registration Course, Technology Ventures: From Idea to Exit, Cross Registration Course, Technology Ventures: From Idea to Exit at Harvard University
Chinese, English, French, Shanghainese, Japanese, Spanish
Github Skills (14)
external7
wikitext7
strings7
latexmk6
latex6
attack-defense5
tex5
translator5
languagetool5
embedded4
reverse4
algebra4
ctf4
computer-algebra2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
poortho/ctf-writeups
Mar 2019 - Aug 2020
Contributions:11 commits, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
ClaudeZou/texvcjs
Jun 2015 - Sep 2016
Contributions:43 pushes, 6 branches, 3 comments in 1 year 2 months
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