Summary
Ti Zhao is an investing partner and experienced product leader with 12 years building and scaling mission-driven tech companies across healthcare, education, and civic engagement. As founder and former CEO of Kip (acquired by Modern Health) and a product manager/advisor at several startups, Ti blends operator instincts with venture judgment to back and scale founders solving public-good problems. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, Ti pairs engineering roots from Cornell and early biotech/software roles at Genentech with YC founder experience to evaluate both product and technical risk. Beyond investing, Ti contributes to open-source projects (see OSCRR on GitHub) and advises startups on product-market fit and engineering-heavy roadmaps. Notably, Ti’s career spans hands-on product leadership, startup exits, and ongoing advisory roles that bridge clinical, consumer, and civic tech domains.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Winter '16, Winter '16 at Y Combinator
BS Electrical & Computer Engineering, BS Electrical & Computer Engineering at Cornell University