Zach Waterfield

About

I grew up in Canada 🇨🇦. I went to the University of Waterloo for Computer engineering and worked at a variety of early/growth-stage companies.

I've lived in many places like Lima, Porto, San Francisco, Ann Arbor, Toronto, and Vancouver. I love travelling and exploring new places.

Favourite things to do:

• 💻 Writing code
• ☕️ Drinking (and brewing) good coffee
• 🗣 Talking to passionate people
• 🛬 Traveling to new places
• 👟 Running
• 🚴‍♂️ Biking
• 🏊 Swimming

What I'm doing these days:

• Engineer at PostHog
• Training for my first Ironman 🏊‍♂️ 🚴‍♂️ 🏃
• Investing with Ripple Ventures and Pioneer Fund - focused on devtools, AI and B2B SaaS
• Building fun side projects like [Scramble](https://github.com/zlwaterfield/scramble)

Things I've done in the past:

• Founder poker game.
• Events / dinners for founders and people in tech
• Founded Zettlor
• Helped source deals with Village Globals and Shaan Puri's fund - investing in 40+ companies
• Investment Club Syndicate - Ian Logan and I run a syndicate on AngelList where we invest in a wide range of companies.
• On Deck - I was an engineering lead at On Deck. On Deck is where the world's top talent comes to connect. Whatever it is you want to do next, our ever-growing community and action-oriented programming will help you get there—fast. If you want to learn something new to up-level your career, launch and scale your big ideas, or make lifelong friends, this is the place for you.
• Kopa - In 2016, I co-founded Kopa, originally called PadPiper, with Jack and Courtney. We founded it on the belief that there is a better way to rent. Housing is such an important piece of our lives, yet it is one of the most stressful to acquire. We built Kopa to be the most streamlined process for renting a home, from searching to paying and moving in. Kopa went through YCombinator in Winter 2019 and has since expanded to over 300 cities in the United States and helped thousands of people find homes. In August 2020, I stepped back from Kopa to work on other things.
• Many more including ventures like WorkOS, Farmlogs, and others.

Find me on the internet:

Email: [email protected]

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zlwaterfield/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/zlwaterfield