Zain Gulamali
Investor @ Amazon Alexa Fund
San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Zain Gulamali is a Series B investor at Amazon Alexa Fund in San Francisco Bay Area focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. Zain A. Gulamali is a venture capital investor and technology executive with 15+ years of experience in enterprise, consumer, and healthcare technology investing, as well as M&A, startup operations, strategy, and business development. He is currently a Venture Investor for the Amazon Alexa Fund, Amazon’s VC fund investing in artificialintelligence (AI), frontier tech, robotics, voice, and digital health across consumer and enterprise. Over the past 5 years, Zain has sourced, led, or managed approximately 30 Alexa Fund VC investments, including Greenlight (fintech) - $2.3-billion valuation, Owlet Baby Care (consumer health) - $1.1-billion exit, SmartRent (property tech) - $2.2-billion exit, SevenRooms (property tech), Fiddler (AI), Embodied (robotics), and June Oven (consumer / deep tech). He has spearheaded the Alexa Fund's investment focus on AI and ML tools, enterprise and collaboration, healthcare, aging, robotics, property tech, financial tech, and mobility. Zain has also led programs -- including the Women Founders Represent pitch competition (with All Raise) and workshops at AfroTech World (with Blavity) -- focused on underrepresented founders to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion.Zain's experiences span venture capital at Amazon Alexa Fund (early-stage venture capital to growth equity), startup operating leadership and business development at Pocket Gems (consumer internet), growth equity investing at Warburg Pincus, and M&A and investment banking at Goldman Sachs. Beyond his professional experiences, he has volunteered since 2000 in urban community service and international development, primarily in the fields of education and youth development, through the Aga Khan Development Network (global NGO). Zain is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
- Total investments:
- 16
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 31%
Last updated:
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Industries Zain Gulamali invests in
Stages Zain Gulamali invests in
Countries Zain Gulamali invests in
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 7 (44%)
- Artificial Intelligence 5 (31%)
- SaaS 4 (25%)
- Health Care 3 (19%)
- Mobile 2 (13%)
Stage
- Series B 4 (25%)
- Seed 3 (19%)
- Series A 3 (19%)
- Funding Round 3 (19%)
- Pre-Seed 1 (6%)
Country
- United States 12 (75%)
- Canada 1 (6%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Fiddler Labs
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Fiddler’s mission is to allow businesses of all sizes to unlock the AI black box and deliver transparent AI experiences to end-users. We enable businesses to build, deploy, and maintain trustworthy AI solutions. Fiddler’s next-generation ML Model Performance Management platform empowers data science and AI/ML teams to validate, monitor,explain, and analyze their AI solutions to accelerate AI adoption, meet regulatory compliance, and build trust with end-users. The platform provides complete visibility and understanding of AI solutions to customers. Fiddler works with pioneering Fortune 500 companies as well as emerging tech companies. | $32M / Series B / Jun 17, 2021 | |
Preemadonna
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Preemadonna builds Physical AI and creative expression infrastructure for nails, bodies, and beyond. Our flagship product, Nailbot, prints custom nail art in five seconds: the first consumer device to make fandom and professional-grade creative output instant, personal, and at home. 1,000+ units shipped. 10+ utility patents. Backed by Version OneVentures, Amazon Alexa Fund, SOSV/HAX, Two Small Fish, and angels | $5.6M / Seed / Jan 26, 2021 | |
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Fiddler Labs
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Fiddler’s mission is to allow businesses of all sizes to unlock the AI black box and deliver transparent AI experiences to end-users. We enable businesses to build, deploy, and maintain trustworthy AI solutions. Fiddler’s next-generation ML Model Performance Management platform empowers data science and AI/ML teams to validate, monitor,explain, and analyze their AI solutions to accelerate AI adoption, meet regulatory compliance, and build trust with end-users. The platform provides complete visibility and understanding of AI solutions to customers. Fiddler works with pioneering Fortune 500 companies as well as emerging tech companies. | Aug 25, 2020 | |
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Fiddler Labs
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Fiddler’s mission is to allow businesses of all sizes to unlock the AI black box and deliver transparent AI experiences to end-users. We enable businesses to build, deploy, and maintain trustworthy AI solutions. Fiddler’s next-generation ML Model Performance Management platform empowers data science and AI/ML teams to validate, monitor,explain, and analyze their AI solutions to accelerate AI adoption, meet regulatory compliance, and build trust with end-users. The platform provides complete visibility and understanding of AI solutions to customers. Fiddler works with pioneering Fortune 500 companies as well as emerging tech companies. | Venture - Series Unknown / Aug 12, 2020 | |
Mojio
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Scalable, secure and hardware-agnostic, Mojio is the platform and SaaS solution provider of choice to build, launch and scale connected mobility services. Founded in 2012, Mojio has growing teams in Silicon Valley and Vancouver, and counts some of the world’s biggest brands as customers, investors and partners, including Amazon, Bosch, DeutscheTelekom, Microsoft, T-Mobile and Vivint.Mojio’s platform, apps and services deliver a smarter, safer and more convenient car ownership experience for the global driving community. With over 15 billion miles of driving data gathered from more than a million vehicles, Mojio’s big data analytics framework uses machine learning to generate actionable insights, unlocking the next generation of revenue streams for companies throughout the automotive value chain. Learn more at moj.io. Force by Mojio is the ideal GPS fleet tracking solution for small businesses that rely on their vehicles to get the job done. Learn more at forcebymojio.com | $38.7M / Series B / Feb 20, 2019 | |
SevenRooms
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SevenRooms is a guest experience and retention platform that helps hospitality operators unlock the full revenue potential of their data. From neighborhood restaurants and bars to international, multi-concept hospitality groups, the end-to-end platform enables operators to build direct guest relationships, deliver exceptional experiences, and,ultimately, bring guests back. SevenRooms has dining, hotel F&B, nightlife and entertainment clients globally, including: Bloomin’ Brands, MGM Resorts International, Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group, The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas, Jumeirah Group, Wolfgang Puck, Michael Mina, sbe, LDV Hospitality, Zuma, Altamarea Group, AELTC, Chase Hospitality Group, D&D London, Corbin & King, Live Nation and Topgolf. | $5.1M / Oct 17, 2018 | |
Aiva Health
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Aiva Health offers a voice-powered healthcare assistant for patient care. It frees up clinicians to deliver faster, more personal care, which improves caregiving for them as well as their patients.Aiva was part of the Cedars-Sinai Accelerator powered by Techstars and is piloting at several facilities and home care providers. It was founded in2016, based out of Los Angeles, California. | Sep 27, 2018 | |
Plant Prefab
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Plant Prefab designs and builds custom, sustainable, single-family and multi-family homes for individuals, architects, and developers—twice as fast as site-based builders.Plant Prefab homes are meticulously crafted, and built according to its clients' exact design specifications.Plant Prefab homes are constructed in half the time of asite-built home. Building in a controlled environment, in parallel with site work, reduces delays and waste.Plant Prefab's off-site construction and a patented building system helps it build custom homes much faster and more efficiently than site-based contractors and other prefabricators. The company's rigorous health and sustainability standards means Plant homes are as healthy as possible for its clients and the environment. | $5.1M / Series A / Sep 25, 2018 | |
Roby
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Roby is a chat/voice-enabled software that handles all requests, automates repetitive tasks, eliminates miscommunication, and reduces resolution time to increase employee satisfaction. It works by simplifying and automating tasks such as employee QAs, room booking, facility requests, and IT support allowing you to focus on what really matters.Roby is a Techstars 2018 company. Its mission is to create an engaged, productive, and happy workplace for our customers by making their operation efficient, simple, and personalized. | $1.6M / Seed / Aug 07, 2018 | |
Tact.ai
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Tact.ai is on a mission to help life science organizations nurture meaningful customer engagement through our human-friendly software. Our AI-powered engagement platform empowers field teams to work with their customers in new ways to drive better outcomes. Tact.ai is headquartered in Silicon Valley and is backed by some of the world’s leadingfirms in venture capital, technology, and healthcare and life sciences, including Microsoft’s venture fund M12, Salesforce Ventures, Novartis, Lilly and McKesson Ventures. Visit us at: https://www.tact.ai/ | $27M / Series C / Jun 25, 2018 | |
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Co-Investors
About Amazon Alexa Fund
The Amazon Alexa Fund is Amazon’s venture capital fund investing in artificial intelligence, frontier tech, voice, robotics, and digital health across consumer and enterprise. We invest in early- to growth-stage companies globally. To learn more, visit us at alexafund.com.
Amazon Alexa Fund Contacts
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Rodrigo Prudencio
Fund Development
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Zain Gulamali
Investor
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Brian Adams
Portfolio Manager
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Hanns Anders
Venture Investor
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Paul Bernard
Director
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What does Zain Gulamali invest in?
Zain Gulamali invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and SaaS startups, most often at Series B and Seed stage. Most of the 16 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 Zain Gulamali last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Zain Gulamali closed in Jun 2021. Shizune tracks 16 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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