ZG

Zachary Ginsburg

Founder & Managing Partner at Calm Ventures | I also run a newsletter to help people access and evaluate the VC ecosystem via Last Money In 👉

Los Angeles, California

Work Experience

  • Founder/GP

    2020

    Calm Ventures (calmvc.com) is a venture capital and growth equity firm focused on breakout technologies. Since starting Calm Ventures in 2020, Calm has grown to over $150,000,000 in AUM across 300+ companies and 6,500+ LPs, investing in some of the most prominent technology and services businesses globally including. Apply to our syndicate: https://angel.co/s/zachary-ginsburg/838XS Calm Ventures has invested in 250+ startups; a selection of Calm’s investments as follows [unicorns (companies w/ a $1B+ valuation) are indicated with a *]: Select Calm led investments: • SpaceX* • Worldcoin* • Fetch Rewards* • Cartography • Sandbox VR • Runway • Jackpocket • Weights & Biases* • People.ai* • Brex* • Epirus* • Kojo • Raydiant • Esper • Jadu.AR • Alloy Therapeutics • Turing* • Anthropic* • Workstream • EasyKnock • Caribou* • Betterfly* • Quicknode, • Capchase • Rain Neumorphics • Humane* • Renewal Bio • Motion • Enable • 30 Madison* • Republic* • Equi • Messari • Ochre Bio • Palmetto Solar* • Ocient • Shef • Journey Clinical • 3Box Labs • Brave Health • Capstack • Choco • SteadyMD • Colossal* • Flutterwave* • Overtime • Mistral* • Hiive • Minicircle • OpenSea* • Nillion

2024

  • Co-Founder

    2024

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  • Co-Founder

    2023

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2020

  • Venture Partner

    2020

    Gaingels is the leading venture investment firm in service of the LGBT+ and URM communities and its allies.

2023

  • Venture Scout

    2023

    data-driven venture capital firm - Sonos, The RealReal, Creditas, Sorare, Pismo, AppFolio, goPuff, Acorns, Farfetch, Segment, Bumble and Yeahka

  • Venture Partner

    2022

    A Crypto Asset Investment Firm (Celestia, Lava Networks, Ostium, etc.)

  • Startup Investor

    2017

    Investor in 300+ startups including Coinbase, Mercury Bank, Lambda School, Superhuman, Rainbow Wallet, Substack, Mud Wtr, Public, Bolt, Flexport, FalconX, Wyre, ZedRun, 0x, Standard Cognition, Ava Labs, Mainstreet, Sendbird, etc.

2019 - 2020

  • Investor

    2019 - 2020

2018 - 2018

  • MBA Associate

    2018 - 2018

2018 - 2018

  • MBA Associate

    2018 - 2018