Emily Zhao

Principal

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Emily is a principal at Salesforce Ventures focused on AI infrastructure and robotics, in addition to spending time across developer tooling and cybersecurity. She joined Salesforce Ventures in the spring of 2022 and helped launch its $1B Generative AI fund and led several investments in the fund, including Anthropic, Hugging Face, Together AI, fal, Runway, Cohere, and others.

Before joining Salesforce Ventures, Emily was an investor at Avenir Growth Capital, a venture-growth fund based in New York, where she spent most of her time on vertical SaaS, health tech, and application software at large. Emily’s experience spans across stages as she started her investing career as an associate in the Private Equity group at Blackstone and invested in corporate buyout transactions. She was previously an analyst at JPMorgan’s Investment Banking group and holds a BA in Economics and Art History from Dartmouth.

Based in San Francisco, CA
Emily Zhao