Ding Zhou
Angel Investor
Palo Alto, United States
Ding Zhou is a seed investor in Palo Alto focused on Artificial Intelligence and Software. Ding Zhou is the Head of Content Engineering of Snap Inc. He previosuly worked as a Head of Ads Engineering at Pinterest. Mr. Zhou received a bachelor of science in Computer Science at Fudan University and a Ph.D. in Computer Science at Penn State Great Valley.
- Total investments:
- 15
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
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Industries Ding Zhou invests in
Stages Ding Zhou invests in
Countries Ding Zhou invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
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Round size
- Seed
- $20k–$12M
- Series A
- $4M–$30M
- Series C
- $80M–$120M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Artificial Intelligence 5 (33%)
- Software 3 (20%)
- E-Commerce 3 (20%)
- SaaS 2 (13%)
- Transportation 2 (13%)
Stage
- Seed 8 (53%)
- Series A 2 (13%)
- Series C 2 (13%)
- Pre-Seed 1 (7%)
- Series B 1 (7%)
Country
- United States 12 (80%)
- Colombia 1 (7%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Laurel provides automated timesheet management solutions tailored for legal and accounting firms. The platform leverages artificial intelligence to capture user activities seamlessly in the background, allowing professionals to track their time without disrupting their workflow. By streamlining the time tracking process, Laurel enables firms toenhance operational efficiency and improve profitability. The software is designed to alleviate the administrative burden associated with time management, allowing users to focus on their core tasks. Additionally, Laurel continuously evolves its offerings to meet the changing needs of the professional services sector. | $80M / Series C / Jun 10, 2025 | ||
| Siro builds an AI Coach that identifies opportunities to elevate any sales team. Siro records reps’ in-person conversations and highlights the most critical moments to let reps hear how top performers handle difficult customer objections and empower coaches to support reps to a degree never before possible. The majority of the 5.7 million salesprofessionals in the U.S. work in field sales (i.e., any sales process involving a handshake), but most receive ZERO on-the-job coaching because it is too time-intensive. The company believes that with the right tooling, Field Sales can become the most accessible path to financial freedom. | $50M / Series B / May 21, 2025 | ||
| Quince is an affordable luxury brand that sells high-quality fashion and home goods at radically low prices— direct from the factory floor. The company has pioneered a manufacturer-to-consumer (M2C) retail model in which factories produce inventory on a near just-in-time basis and ship their goods directly to consumers' doorsteps, cutting outfinancial and environmental waste. Quince is headquartered in San Francisco, CA and partners with more than 50 top manufacturers around the world.Most recently, Quince completed a $77 million Series B upround raise. The investment was led by Wellington Management with participation from GGV Capital, and continuing participation from Basis Set Ventures, Insight Partners, Lugard Road, and 8VC.Visit Quince at quince.com or on Instagram at @onequince. | $120M / Series C / Jan 29, 2025 | ||
| Opus Clip is a software company that provides generative AI video editing tools. | $30M / Series A / Aug 29, 2024 | ||
Openmart
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AI agent that automates B2B sales for brands and manufacturers. | $2.8M / Seed / Aug 21, 2024 | |
| Lime aims to provide a sustainable solution to the first and last mile transportation problem by helping people move around their cities in an affordable and convenient way while eliminating their carbon footprint. The company empowers future generations to change their behavior so we can save this planet together. From the electric scooter to thee-assist and pedal bike, experience the excitement of Lime’s smart mobility fleet. | $12M / Seed / Mar 15, 2017 | ||
| Deep and flexible integration with all the popular customer-communication platforms and CRM softwares that you already use. | Seed / Feb 01, 2017 | ||
| Teachable (formerly Fedora) is changing education by making it easy to teach or sell courses online. Teacher entrepreneurs use Teachable to run their own courses work with almost half a million students online. In a matter of minutes, Teachable allows you to create a beautiful and powerful, payment-ready course from your own website without anytechnical knowledge. While many use Teachable for asynchronous video-based classes teachers have used it to sell books, services, offline-online classes, group coaching, tutoring and webinars. | $4M / Series A / Jan 25, 2017 | ||
| Rappi is a consumer tech company that specializes in providing online delivery services. It connects consumers who want to purchase prepared foods, groceries, clothes, and virtually anything with independent contractors who can fulfill those needs. The company was founded in 2015 with its main offices in Bogota, Colombia. | Seed / May 02, 2016 | ||
| Trucking is the backbone of the American economy, moving 70% of all freight. Truck drivers risk their lives spending months away from their family to keep the American economy moving.They working to make trucks autonomous on the highway and remote controlled by drivers for the first and last mile. Their trucks will make roads safer while givingdrivers meaningful work close to their homes and families. | Pre-Seed / Jan 08, 2016 | ||
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FAQ
What does Ding Zhou invest in?
Ding Zhou invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Software and E-Commerce startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 15 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Ding Zhou invest in?
Ding Zhou typically joins rounds of $20k–$12M at Seed, $4M–$30M at Series A and $80M–$120M at Series C. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Ding Zhou's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Ding Zhou took part in.
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When did Ding Zhou last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Ding Zhou closed in Jun 2025. Shizune tracks 15 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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Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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