# Lex Zhao

> Lex Zhao is a seed investor at One Way Ventures backing Software and Artificial Intelligence. See 11 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [One Way Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/one-way-ventures)
- Location: Boston, United States
- Total investments: 11
- Last investment: Apr 2026
- Lead investor: 36%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lexzh/

Lex Zhao is a Partner at One Way Ventures. He Attended The University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 5 | 45% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 4 | 36% |
| FinTech | 3 | 27% |
| Financial Services | 2 | 18% |
| Apps | 1 | 9% |

30 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 7 | 64% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 9% |
| Series A | 1 | 9% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 9% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 7 | 64% |
| Canada | 1 | 9% |
| United Arab Emirates | 1 | 9% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Debbie | Points for the 99%. Get paid to pay off your debt and save. Debbie partners with mission-aligned financial institutions to acquire and engage young consumers by rewarding them for positive financial habits. | $5.3M | Seed | Apr 13, 2026 |  |
| Billdr | Billdr is an AI-native construction management platform for general contractors across North America, covering estimating, scheduling, job costing, invoicing, and client communication.Billdr brings your whole business under one roof, with an AI team built in: Bob, your AI project copilot, monitors every job in real time and flags risks beforethey become problems. Bruno, your AI estimator, builds accurate quotes in minutes from your price book. Send $100K+ quotes in 30 minutes or less. Billie, your AI receptionist (coming soon), will qualify leads, book calls, and follow up with prospects 24/7.Trusted by contractors managing $2B+ in projects across the US and Canada. | $3.2M | Seed | Jan 26, 2026 |  |
| Qashio | Qashio is a spend management platform that allows people to monitor costs, make payments with app credit cards, and handle payables. Founded in 2021 and is based in Dubai. | $19.8M |  | May 27, 2025 |  |
| Buddy.ai | Buddy.ai teaches over a million children worldwide to speak English with our voice-based virtual tutor. With proprietary speech and virtual human technologies, the company is solving conversational AI for language learning. Buddy provides a month of learning for the cost of one live tutoring session. That means 500 million children worldwide willsoon have access to affordable 1:1 English speaking practice. Buddy works for native Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Turkish, and Polish speakers, with more languages coming soon. The company raised $3M of venture capital, generated over $4.5M in sales, and is entering the scaling stage. Our mobile holds the Top 10 positions on the App Store’s Kids and Education charts in several major countries throughout Latin America and Europe.Buddy.ai holds multiple international awards and nominations, including GESA (Global Edtech Startup Awards) in London, EnlightEd in Madrid, and Voice Summit Awards in New York, among others. Headquartered in Mountain View, California we are a growing international team combining expertise in voice and virtual human technologies, education, and game design. | $11M | Seed | Oct 31, 2024 |  |
| Nim | Generative Video for Professionals | $2.9M | Seed | Aug 14, 2024 |  |
| Burq | Burq enables businesses to access multiple delivery providers under one platform. | $10.5M | Series A | May 24, 2024 |  |
| Tabs | Tabs provides AI-powered accounts receivable software to save time analyzing contracts, improve cash flow, and avoid billing errors. | $7M | Seed | Apr 11, 2024 |  |
| Qashio | Qashio is a spend management platform that allows people to monitor costs, make payments with app credit cards, and handle payables. Founded in 2021 and is based in Dubai. | $10M | Seed | Nov 22, 2022 |  |
| Quantivly | Empowering radiology to make data-driven decisions | $1.7M | Pre-Seed | Feb 16, 2022 |  |
| Billdr | Billdr is an AI-native construction management platform for general contractors across North America, covering estimating, scheduling, job costing, invoicing, and client communication.Billdr brings your whole business under one roof, with an AI team built in: Bob, your AI project copilot, monitors every job in real time and flags risks beforethey become problems. Bruno, your AI estimator, builds accurate quotes in minutes from your price book. Send $100K+ quotes in 30 minutes or less. Billie, your AI receptionist (coming soon), will qualify leads, book calls, and follow up with prospects 24/7.Trusted by contractors managing $2B+ in projects across the US and Canada. | $3.2M | Seed | Nov 16, 2021 |  |

10 of 11 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Lightspeed Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lightspeed-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Goodwater Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/goodwater-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [MIT Alumni Angels](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mit-alumni-angels) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Reseda Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/reseda-group) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [500 Global](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/500-startups) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [6igma Ventures,](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/6igma-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About One Way Ventures

VC Fund · Boston, United States

One Way Ventures is a seed-stage fund that invests in immigrant tech founders.

5 contacts available at One Way Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Semyon Dukach | Founding Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/semyon-dukach |
| Alissa Carroll | Investment Analyst | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alissa-carroll |
| Eugene Malobrodsky | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eugene-malobrodsky |
| Joe Zhou | Limited Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chuhao-zhou |
| Lex Zhao | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lex-zhao |

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## FAQ

### What does Lex Zhao invest in?

Lex Zhao invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and FinTech startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 11 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 Lex Zhao last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Lex Zhao closed in Apr 2026. Shizune tracks 11 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?

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 Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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