Zach Johnston
Associate at 2048 Ventures
Zach Johnston
Associate at 2048 Ventures
Toronto, Ontario
Overview
Work Experience
Associate
2024 - Current
2048 Ventures is a pre-seed and seed stage VC firm investing at the earliest stages. We invest in companies building the next generation of B2B platforms - infrastructure, systems of record, and APIs. As an Associate at 2048, I focus on companies building next gen platforms to protect and enable workflows for critical digital and physical infrastructure (energy, robotics, cybersecurity, supply chain).
Analyst
2023 - 2024
Director, Global Ideas Institute
2021 - 2024
The Global Ideas Institute is a program empowering secondary school students to develop novel and innovative solutions for pressing global challenges.
Associate Director
2022 - 2023
CDL is an objectives-based program for massively scalable, seed-stage, science and technology-based companies based out of the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto.
Senior Venture Manager & AI Stream Lead
2021 - 2022
Venture Manager
2020 - 2021
Venture Analyst
2020 - 2020
Development and Member Relations
2019 - 2020
The C.D. Howe Institute is an independent not-for-profit research institute and one of Canada's leading economic and public policy think tanks.
Research
2019 - 2019
The Centre for Financial Regulation and Inclusion (Cenfri) is a non-profit think tank that supports financial sector development and financial inclusion in Africa.