# Alayzain Rizavi

> Alayzain Rizavi is a seed investor at Pelion Venture Partners backing Software and Cyber Security. See 3 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Pelion Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pelion-venture-partners)
- Location: Salt Lake City, United States
- Total investments: 3
- Last investment: May 2025
- Lead investor: 33%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zainrizavi

Alayzain Rizavi is a Senior Associate at Pelion Venture Partners.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 2 | 67% |
| Cyber Security | 2 | 67% |
| SaaS | 1 | 33% |
| Database | 1 | 33% |
| Cloud Computing | 1 | 33% |

10 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 1 | 33% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 33% |
| Series A | 1 | 33% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Unbound Security | Unbound enables employees to securely utilize AI tools in their work while safeguarding company secrets. | $4M | Seed | May 29, 2025 |  |
| cside | c/side is a cybersecurity company that provides monitoring solutions, optimizing, and safeguarding vulnerable browser-side third-party scripts. | $1.7M | Pre-Seed | May 16, 2024 |  |
| Macrometa | Macrometa is an information technology company. Macrometa helps enterprise developers build real-time apps and APIs in minutes - not months. It delivers a global data mesh with multi-model data store, a complex event processing engine, and compute runtimes across more than 175 worldwide edge data centers.The company was founded in 2017 and isheadquartered in San Mateo, California. | $20M | Series A | Jun 15, 2021 |  |

3 of 3 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Scribble Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/scribble-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [DNX Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dnx-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Benhamou Global Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/benhamou-global-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Fusion Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fusion-fund) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Liquid 2 Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/liquid2-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Partech](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/partech) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Pelion Venture Partners

VC Fund · Salt Lake City, United States

Pelion Venture Partners helps entrepreneurs and invests in early-stage B2B software-based companies. Since 1986, Pelion Venture Partners has been helping entrepreneurs turn early-stage concepts into tomorrow's industry-leading companies. Pelion invests in early-stage B2B software across the US. With 7 investment team members, Pelion has deepand diverse industry and investment experience. They are hands-on in their approach and work collaboratively with each portfolio company.

5 contacts available at Pelion Venture Partners.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Chad Packard | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chad-packard |
| Matt Mosman | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/matt-mosman |
| Alayzain Rizavi | Senior Associate | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alayzain-rizavi |
| Benjamin Lambert | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/benjamin-lambert |
| Bradley Hintze | Financial Associate | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bradley-hintze-32ce |

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## FAQ

### What does Alayzain Rizavi invest in?

Alayzain Rizavi invests primarily in Software, Cyber Security and SaaS startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 3 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Alayzain Rizavi last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Alayzain Rizavi closed in May 2025. Shizune tracks 3 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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