We had multiple investor options, but Zenda stood out to us as the best choice. They’ve already been incredibly helpful, and we look forward to an amazing journey alongside them.
Jaime Tabachnik
Founder & CEO @ Solvento
Zenda's exceptional support, 24/7 availability, and valuable network connections have been invaluable in hiring our technical founding team.
Adrian Carabias Barroso
Co-Founder & CEO @ Akamai
The Zenda team has been remarkable with customer and investor intros. They’ve also been greatly helpful in strategizing on the business. If given the opportunity, you definitely want them on your cap table.
Akash Khanolkar
Founder & CEO @ Octane
Zenda's incredible partnership, operational expertise, and collaborative approach has been crucial in SuperPanel's journey from zero-to-one.
Julien Emery
Co-Founder @ SuperPanel
Esteban is an exceptional partner and board member at Cypress. I’ve had the opportunity to work with many top-tier VCs and Esteban clearly stands out.
Drew Lanham
CEO @ Cypress.io
Esteban has been a helpful, early backer of Nova Credit. As a founder who's started and exited multiple businesses, he brings a a depth of operating experience that is rare among investors. And he can go pretty deep in fintech infrastructure too.
Misha Esipov
Founder & CEO @ Nova Credit
Esteban has been instrumental to us since the beginning of SmartHop. Being a founder, having exited, and now investing gives him a unique perspective when supporting founders.
Guillermo Garcia
Founder & CEO @ Smarthop
Team
supporting founders from day one
Our team has started and exited multiple companies in fintech, software, commerce, and education.
With 21 years building startups and 10 years investing in them, Esteban co-founded and successfully exited three B2B companies and incubated eight companies with personal capital.
Esteban Reyes
General Partner
Sol was an M&A advisor at Deloitte, where she worked for seven years.
Sol Franco
Operations
Chetan is an entrepreneurial executive with a strong history of providing business development leadership.
Chetan Chaudhary
Venture Partner
Evan is the current CEO of Fin.com, co-founded by Andrew Kortina & Sam Lessin, and backed by Coatue, Accel, and Slow Ventures. He joined Twilio as the first solutions engineer.
Evan Cummack
Venture Partner
Jeffrey is an investor and research lead at Zenda Capital, responsible for supporting early-stage companies and leading thesis development efforts.
Jeffrey Dong
Research & Investments
Adam Gross
product-led GTM
Drew Lanham
growth and team building
Guillermo Garcia
logistics & transportation
Harold Giménez
product, engineering & security
James Rowe
data science
Misha Esipov
fintech
Esteban Reyes
General Partner
With 21 years building startups and 10 years investing in them, Esteban co-founded and successfully exited three B2B companies and incubated eight companies with personal capital. He raised and invested a $30M B2B seed fund which is performing at top decile. He invested personally in 13 emerging VC funds, with three breakouts.
Sol Franco
Operations
Sol was an M&A advisor at Deloitte, where she worked for seven years. She was an M&A advisor at KPMG for a year. Her M&A and corporate audit experience includes buy-side and sell-side assistance. She was an independent sell side advisor in the acquisition of Kapow by América TV (Perú). She attended the University of Buenos Aires.
Chetan Chaudhary
Venture Partner
Chetan is an entrepreneurial executive with a strong history of providing business development leadership. He is the former Chief Revenue Officer at Scale.ai and expert on developer-led GTM. He spent 9 years at Twilio leading product distribution strategies and partnered with Evan Cummack to build Twilio’s wireless business unit from the ground up.
Evan Cummack
Venture Partner
Evan is the current CEO of Fin.com, co-founded by Andrew Kortina & Sam Lessin, and backed by Coatue, Accel, and Slow Ventures. He joined Twilio as the first solutions engineer. He then spent nine years at Twilio leading product teams. Evan partnered with Chetan Chaudhary to build Twilio’s wireless business unit from the ground up.
Jeffrey Dong
Research & Investments
Drawing inspiration from his family's entrepreneurial legacy that spans manufacturing, banking & healthcare, Jeffrey explores the transformative power of AI/ML advancements in underserved industries and spearheads Zenda’s research efforts.
Prior to joining Zenda, Jeffrey worked with the investment team at Golden Gate Ventures, an early-stage venture fund based in Singapore. Prior to that, he managed digital transformation projects across business units and functions at BASF in Hong Kong and the US.
Jeffrey holds a Master’s degree from INSEAD and BBA in Finance from Bucknell University.
Adam Gross
product-led GTM
Drew Lanham
growth and team building
Guillermo Garcia
logistics & transportation
Harold Giménez
product, engineering & security
James Rowe
data science
Misha Esipov
fintech
research
Diving deep into mission-critical sectors to drive insights from key industry stakeholders