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⚡️ Reboot Merch is Here
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Ivan Zhao
Design Engineer at Typeface
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Ivan Zhao
Design Engineer at Typeface
San Francisco, California
Overview
Ivan Zhao is a highly skilled professional based in San Francisco, California, with a background in design engineering and software engineering, having worked at notable companies like Galileo AI, Blend, and IDEO CoLab. Notable career achievements include serving as a Founding Frontend Engineer at Galileo AI and being a Partner at Dorm Room Fund.
Currently, Ivan Zhao is making significant contributions as a Design Engineer at Typeface, showcasing expertise in areas like research, graphic design, and user experience (UX) while also investing in various sectors such as Retail, Education, and AI.
Work Experience
Design Engineer
2024 - Current
Typeface offers a generative AI application that provides streamlined and personalized content creation for enterprises.
Raised $165,000,000.00 from Menlo Ventures, Madrona, Google Ventures, M12 - Microsoft's Venture Fund, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Salesforce Ventures.
Design Engineer
2022
Freelance projects in illustration, branding, product design, and sites. Message me for a list of clients
Founding Frontend Engineer
2023 - 2024
Built web and mobile design systems, computational layout grids, and a lot of early product. Employee #3. Helped raise $4.4 mill seed.
Galileo AI creates delightful, editable UI designs from a simple text description. It empowers you to design faster than ever.
Raised $4,800,000.00 from Khosla Ventures, Howie Liu, Julie Zhuo, Mandeep Singh, Matt Robinson, Dan Becker and Joel Hellermark.
Fellow
2022 - 2022
Kleiner Perkins is a venture capital firm that specializes in investing in early-stage, incubation, and growth companies.
Partner
2020 - 2022
Pitched many investments, designed a lot of decks, ran a summer program of 20 people
Dorm Room Fund is the strongest community of entrepreneurial students in the nation.
Web Engineer
2021 - 2021
API for geospatial data. Built data pipelines, web apps, and SDK's
Improve your business with location data.
Software Engineer
2021 - 2021
Lending for mortgage systems. Worked on the consumer banking team and built microservices for cross-product recommendations and email templates
Blend is a digital lending platform that facilitates the entire lending process, from application to underwriting to closing.
Raised $815,000,000.00 from Haveli Investments.
Fellow
2019 - 2020
Prototyped video communication with sentiment analysis models
IDEO CoLab Ventures is invest in early-stage distributed web startups and co-create with them to ship new products and protocols.
Education
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