ZJ

Zach Johnston

Associate at 2048 Ventures

Toronto, Ontario

Invests in

Stages:

Locations:

  • Min Investment:

    $500,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $2,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $1,250,000.00

Work Experience

  • Associate

    2024

    2048 Ventures is a pre-seed and seed stage VC firm investing at the earliest stages. We invest in companies building the next generation of B2B platforms - infrastructure, systems of record, and APIs. As an Associate at 2048, I focus on companies building next gen platforms to protect and enable workflows for critical digital and physical infrastructure (energy, robotics, cybersecurity, supply chain).

  • Analyst

    2023 - 2024

  • Director, Global Ideas Institute

    2021 - 2024

    The Global Ideas Institute is a program empowering secondary school students to develop novel and innovative solutions for pressing global challenges.

  • Associate Director

    2022 - 2023

    CDL is an objectives-based program for massively scalable, seed-stage, science and technology-based companies based out of the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto.

  • Senior Venture Manager & AI Stream Lead

    2021 - 2022

  • Venture Manager

    2020 - 2021

  • Venture Analyst

    2020 - 2020

2019 - 2020

  • Development and Member Relations

    2019 - 2020

    The C.D. Howe Institute is an independent not-for-profit research institute and one of Canada's leading economic and public policy think tanks.

2019 - 2019

  • Research

    2019 - 2019

    The Centre for Financial Regulation and Inclusion (Cenfri) is a non-profit think tank that supports financial sector development and financial inclusion in Africa.