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Ariel Zebaida
Executive Venture & Investment Professional specializing in early-career hiring tech and VC
New York, NYFounder & CEO7 years experienceExecutiveArtificial IntelligenceEducationFinancial Services
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Former investment banker who built an AI hiring tech platform to automate early-stage undergraduate screening for investment banks, validated via discovery calls with heads of HR and tailored workflows to bank-specific recruiting needs. Strong 0-to-1 operator with a disciplined approach to problem selection, moat analysis, and lean go-to-market execution.
Experience
Founder & CEOStepStone AI
Senior Investment Associate3iMembers
Investor, Founder of Fundraising & Marketing PlatformStartup Café
Venture Capital & Growth Equity InvestorFifth Wall
Investment Banking Analyst, Mergers & AcquisitionsEvercore
Investment Banking Summer Analyst, Mergers & AcquisitionsEvercore
Education
Cornell University, School of Industrial and Labor Relationsbachelor, Industrial and Labor Relations (2019)
Key Strengths
- 0-to-1 venture building mindset (high-risk/high-reward)
- Structured idea evaluation (urgency, competition/moat, founder-market fit)
- B2B customer discovery with senior stakeholders (heads of HR)
- Founder-market fit in investment banking recruiting (former investment banker with credibility/relationships)
- Built an AI hiring platform automating early screening for investment banks
- Lean GTM approach: single ICP, smallest valuable outcome, channel focus, conversation-first messaging, tight feedback loops
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