Zak Kukoff
Non-Resident Senior Fellow at Foundation for American Innovation
Washington, District of Columbia
Overview
Work Experience
Non-Resident Senior Fellow
2024 - Current
Lincoln Network provides opportunities for the entrepreneurial community to learn about market-based and tech-powered solutions.
Seed Investor
2023 - 2023
Pylon is a real-time customer operations platform helping B2B companies scale customer success and support over Slack, Teams, and Discord.
Raised $20,325,000.00 from Y Combinator, Andreessen Horowitz and General Catalyst.
Board Observer
2022 - 2023
Excited for GC to have led Luminai’s Series A
Board Observer
2021 - 2023
https://www.generalcatalyst.com/gcamplified/the-potential-for-ai-to-transform-dentistry/
Overjet is a software development company that offers an AI platform for dentistry with precision and educates patients.
Raised $130,550,000.00 from March Capital, General Catalyst, The E14 Fund, Crosslink Capital, American Dental Association, Harmonic Growth Partners, Liquid 2 Ventures, Insight Partners and SpringRock Ventures.
Board Observer
2021 - 2023
https://www.generalcatalyst.com/perspectives/our-investment-in-vial-a-tech-enabled-cro-reimagining-clinical-trials
Scalable biotech advancing clinical programs with cost-effective trials and computationally designed therapeutics.
Raised $101,000,000.00 from Patrick Hsu, Connor Zwick, Gordon Wintrob, Josh Buckley, Buckley Ventures, General Catalyst, Byers Capital and Spike Lipkin.
Principal
2020 - 2023
Lucky to work with teams across healthcare, productivity, and SaaS.
General Catalyst partners with ambitious founders to drive resilience and applied AI from seed to growth.
Board Observer
2021 - 2022
https://www.generalcatalyst.com/gcamplified/gitpod-reinventing-the-developer-experience/
Board Observer
2021 - 2022
https://www.generalcatalyst.com/gcamplified/alyce-reimagining-corporate-gifting/
Alyce is an AI-powered Personal Experience Platform empowers marketers and sellers to build bonds with their prospects & customers at scale.
Raised $46,800,000.00 from Morningside Venture Partners, Boston Seed Capital, Visible Ventures, Golden Ventures, General Catalyst, Manifest and Alumni Ventures.
Investor
2018 - 2020
Investing in enterprise.
Emergence supported a few carefully selected CEOs who shared our vision that corporate software would migrate to the cloud.
Special Projects
2017 - 2018
Flexport is a tech-enabled freight forwarder backed by Y Combinator, First Round Capital, Founders Fund and more.
Flexport is a full-service global freight forwarder and logistics platform using modern software to fix the user experience in global trade.
Raised $2,699,000,000.00 from Shopify.