# Jiaona (JZ) Vaidya

> Jiaona (JZ) Vaidya is a seed investor at Stanford University backing Software. See 2 investments, round sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Stanford University](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/stanford-university)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 2
- Last investment: Oct 2024
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jiaona/
- Website: https://www.jiaonazhang.com/

Jiaona (JZ) Vaidya is a seed investor at Stanford University in San Francisco focused on Software and Agentic AI. VP of Product at Webflow & Lecturer, Product Management at Stanford University.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for Jiaona (JZ) Vaidya: work email, personal email, work phone, personal phone and socials. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-email/jiaona-zhang?utm_source=investor_profile

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 1 | 50% |
| Agentic AI | 1 | 50% |
| Web Hosting | 1 | 50% |
| Web Browsers | 1 | 50% |
| Collaboration | 1 | 50% |

9 industries tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Canada | 1 | 50% |
| Germany | 1 | 50% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Round size | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Passionfroot | Passionfroot develops creator marketing software that helps businesses discover creators, manage campaigns, process payments, and measure campaign performance. Its platform uses artificial intelligence to support campaign planning, creator matching, outreach, workflow management, analytics, and reporting across social media and content platforms. | $3.8M | Seed | Oct 21, 2024 |  |
| ZenHub | ZenHub is project management software that is intended to assist developers in improving the software development lifecycle. The company's software assists businesses in planning their projects within GitHub and automating workflow to eliminate redundancies, extra steps, and hand-off delays, using live data to identify risks and bottlenecks,and creating a project's real-time roadmap, allowing clients to spend more time working on code and less time managing the work.ZenHub was established in 2014 in Vancouver, British Columbia by Matthew Butler. | $4.7M | Seed | Feb 23, 2021 |  |

2 of 2 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [s16vc](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/s16vc) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Business Development Bank of Canada](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bdc-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [big_bets](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bigbets) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [SDAC Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bldrs) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Business Development Bank of Canada](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/business-development-bank-of-canada) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Creandum](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/creandum) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Stanford University

VC Fund · Stanford, United States

Stanford University is a teaching and research university that focuses on graduate programs in law, medicine, education, and business. Few colleges can match the breadth, excellence, and prestige of Stanford’s academics, both at the undergraduate and graduate levels. The university is organized into seven schools: Business, Earth Sciences,Education, Engineering, Humanities and Sciences, Law, and Medicine Student life at Stanford is quite active, due in part to the 11,000+ students living on campus. Art is a strong presence at Stanford, fostered by Stanford Lively Arts, the Cantor Center for Visual Arts, and numerous student clubs and organizations. Stanford also features extensive athletic programs, including more than 35 varsity sports and about 20 clubs sports. In order to maintain its high standards, Stanford University has extremely selective admissions. The university admits undergraduates based on a combination of academic achievement, intellectual curiosity, and personal experience. Graduate admissions criteria and application procedures vary based on the program of study. Undergraduates at Stanford have access to a variety of financial aid opportunities, including institutional scholarships, grants from the government, and student employment. Graduate students can receive financial aid through fellowships and grants, but funding is typically not available for master’s students.

5 contacts available at Stanford University.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Audrey Maclean | Consulting Associate Professor, School of Eng. | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/audrey-maclean |
| Badr Al-Rumaih | Graduate Research Assistant, Stanford Wave Physics Lab | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/badr-al-rumaih |
| Carolyn Bertozzi | Professor of chemistry | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/carolyn-bertozzi |
| Christopher Field | Perry L. McCarty Director, Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/christopher-field-eb2e |
| Chuck Eesley | Associate Professor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chuck-eesley |

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## FAQ

### What does Jiaona (JZ) Vaidya invest in?

Jiaona (JZ) Vaidya invests primarily in Software, Agentic AI and Web Hosting startups, most often at Seed stage. Most of the 2 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Canada. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Jiaona (JZ) Vaidya?

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### When did Jiaona (JZ) Vaidya last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Jiaona (JZ) Vaidya closed in Oct 2024. Shizune tracks 2 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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