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Zee Schwab

Executive venture operator and founder specializing in AI, deep tech, and early-stage investing

Actuate Ventures9 Years ExperienceExecutive Level

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Founder-operator with investor experience who has built a seed-stage company to live usage, meaningful DAUs, a large waitlist, and roughly $1.2M raised. Has operated on both sides of the startup ecosystem—as a Techstars founder raising from firms and as a VC deploying capital—and brings a rigorous, user-first approach to evaluating and scaling new ventures.

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Key Strengths

  • founded a seed-stage company with traction
  • raised approximately $1.2M in funding
  • built product with live users, DAUs, and a large waitlist
  • created virality-driven growth strategy on social platforms
  • experience on both founder and VC sides of the table
  • Techstars participant
  • disciplined idea validation through user interviews and prototypes
  • strong product intuition around user pain, behavior change, and product pull
  • balances user demand with market size, distribution, and timing analysis
  • high commitment and resilience for long-term company building

Reference Highlights

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  • incredible capability to make a company succeed
  • strong willpower
  • operational leadership
  • structured thinking
  • deep user understanding
  • ability to get great design out of engineers
  • ability to take products to market with user excitement
  • ownership from concept through launch
  • turns loose ideas into viable products
  • does not romanticize vision
  • breaks vision into ordered experiments
  • focuses on shipping small end-to-end solutions
  • obsessive about instrumentation and qualitative feedback
  • relentless follow-through post launch
  • built a core revenue driver
  • improved retention and customer acquisition
  • created a template for evaluating and executing new ideas
  • calm under pressure
  • grounded in reality
  • analytical rigor
  • sees second- and third-order effects
  • holistic thinking across product, GTM, and operations
  • steady in high-stakes situations
  • good strategic judgment
  • superb execution discipline
  • turns fuzzy goals into clear milestones
  • ruthless prioritization
  • fast but not reckless shipping
  • focus on measurable outcomes
  • consistently hit key launch dates
  • improved activation and conversion
  • delivered double-digit retention improvements
  • drove meaningful ARR growth

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Experience

CIOAyin Holdings · Mar 2025 – Sep 2025
Partner / Deal ManagerActuate Ventures · Jan 2024 – Present
Independent ConsultantZiL · Feb 2021 – Presentfreelance
Co-FounderColumn · Nov 2020 – Jan 2024
Co-FounderSayar Care · Nov 2016 – Mar 2022

Skills

Product strategyGo-to-market strategyFinancial modelingCybersecurityTeam buildingprototypingproduct managementCompany formationVenture studio operationsZero-to-one strategyFundraisingInvestor readinessMarket analysisCompetitive analysisDue diligence

Languages

English

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Zee SchwabExecutive venture operator and founder specializing in AI, deep tech, and early-stage investing