Charles Zedlewski
Angel Investor
San Francisco, United States
Charles Zedlewski is a seed investor in San Francisco focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. Charles is a business and product leader with 20 years of experience building, advising and investing in category-defining platform companies.Most recently Charles served as Chief Operating Officer at Temporal Technologies, the leader in durable execution systems where he built and led all the company’s go-to-market and product functions whilecreating the category and launching the commercial product. In less than 3 years Temporal grew its users, customers, revenues and value by 20-100 times.Prior to Temporal Technologies, Charles spent nearly 10 years building Cloudera first as the product leader and subsequently as general manager for Cloudera’s 3 high growth business units. As the longest serving member of the leadership team, Charles helped Cloudera grow from a pre-product startup with less than $10 million in funding to a multi-product public company with nearly $800 million in ARR. Charles has advised or invested in other notable platform companies and investors including Airbyte, Baseten, Huggingface, Streamsets and Y Combinator.Charles has an undergraduate degree from Carleton College and a master’s from MIT and lives in San Francisco.
- Total investments:
- 35
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 0%
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Industries Charles Zedlewski invests in
Stages Charles Zedlewski invests in
Countries Charles Zedlewski invests in
Round sizes
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Round size
- Seed
- $1.3M–$8.3M
- Pre-Seed
- $1.5M–$3M
- Series A
- $13M–$27M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 17 (49%)
- Artificial Intelligence 9 (26%)
- Machine Learning 6 (17%)
- Information Technology 6 (17%)
- SaaS 5 (14%)
Stage
- Seed 21 (60%)
- Series A 5 (14%)
- Pre-Seed 3 (9%)
- Series B 2 (6%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 2 (6%)
Country
- United States 27 (77%)
- Cyprus 1 (3%)
- Poland 1 (3%)
- United Kingdom 1 (3%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Memory layer for your AI apps | $20M / Series A / Oct 28, 2025 | ||
| Cline is a developer of an open‑source AI coding agent that automates software creation tasks within integrated development environments. It supports planning, file editing, terminal operations, and web browsing, all under user supervision. Cline integrates with multiple AI models and uses client-side architecture so code and API usage stay underuser control. The product includes Plan Mode and Model Context Protocol (MCP) integration, enabling exploration of codebases, defining project‑specific rules, and accessing external systems. It also offers team features like shared credits, admin controls, usage analytics, and audit logging, built on top of the same transparent, open‑source core. | $27M / Series A / Jul 31, 2025 | ||
| Pave Robotics builds robots that repair roads. Their first product, 'Tracer', seals cracks in asphalt faster, cheaper, and more efficiently than traditional crews. | $5M / Seed / Mar 13, 2025 | ||
| Konvu is a technology company building innovative security solutions that bridge the gap between security and developers. | $5M / Seed / Jul 17, 2024 | ||
| Baseten provides a platform for training, deploying, and serving artificial intelligence models in production environments. It supports open-source, fine-tuned, and custom models, converting them into API endpoints with capabilities such as autoscaling, observability, and optimized model serving. The platform manages infrastructure componentsincluding containerization, GPU scheduling across multiple cloud providers, and performance optimizations to support large-scale inference workloads. Baseten also offers preconfigured model APIs and deployment options that can run either on its managed cloud service or within a customer's own environment. Its tools are designed to help developers build, manage, and scale AI applications while maintaining flexibility in how models are hosted and executed. | $40M / Series B / Mar 04, 2024 | ||
| Metronome helps software companies launch, iterate, and scale their business models, with billing infrastructure that works at any size and stage. Metronome prioritizes rapid deployment, flexibility, and user-friendliness, minimizing the usual engineering demands associated with billing. It empowers business and product teams to take full controlof revenue and pricing. After the initial platform integration, teams can promptly introduce new products and pricing, simplify revenue workflows, and provide customers with immediate insight into their spending. | $43M / Series B / Jan 31, 2024 | ||
| SaaS | $28.5M / Seed / May 30, 2023 | ||
| Numbers station is a software development platform that enables artificial intelligence workflows. | $12.5M / Series A / Mar 20, 2023 | ||
| Chaos Genius is a provider of a DataOps observability platform for improving data infrastructure efficiency. It has developed a unique data infrastructure observability and optimization product that’s initially aimed at Snowflake Inc.’s cloud data warehouse platform. Organizations can save money on Snowflake by receiving automated recommendationsto optimize their workloads, identify inefficient queries, and improve query performance. The platform analyzes Snowflake workloads with millions of queries using query patterns to identify inefficient queries and provides intelligent recommendations that significantly improve performance.The company was founded in 2021 by Preeti Shrimal and Harshit Surana. The company is based in Palo Alto, California. | $3.3M / Seed / Jan 03, 2023 | ||
| SaaS | Pre-Seed / Oct 13, 2022 | ||
| See all 35 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Charles Zedlewski invest in?
Charles Zedlewski invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 35 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Charles Zedlewski's check size?
Charles Zedlewski typically joins rounds of $1.3M–$8.3M at Seed, $1.5M–$3M at Pre-Seed and $13M–$27M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Charles Zedlewski participates in.
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When did Charles Zedlewski last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Charles Zedlewski closed in Oct 2025. Shizune tracks 35 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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