Meet Zal and our advisors,
who are ready to support you.
After ten years building software products, I joined a16z in 2013 and was originally tasked to search for the next big consumer or enterprise app. However, I got pulled into digital health by dozens of exceptional founders.
I volunteered to lead those efforts and supported a16z’s investments in many health startups. My interests then expanded to include computational and synthetic biology. In 2015, I was part of a small team that launched a16z’s first Bio Fund and thereafter left to start Refactor.
After making a dozen "bio meets climate" investments, I elevated climate tech as one of our primary categories of interest. Some of today’s very best founders are building hard tech companies in climate and bio: where technology can be used to foster a happier, healthier, and more habitable world. I created Refactor to be one of the first institutional investors backing founders striving to manifest category-defining companies.
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Our advisors offer Refactor founders much needed advice in their areas of expertise.