Ronak Pakzad
Venture Partner at Starship Ventures
- Role
- Venture Partner at Starship Ventures
- Location
- San Francisco, CA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Ronak Pakzad
Engineer by training, creative empath at heart. Currently building in Web3, specifically bringing connectivity and liquidity to Defi with a proven team that has years of experience building institutional quality products in the digital asset space. I also invest and advise founders undefeated by conventional wisdom via Starship Ventures. My interests lie in the intersection of economics, technology and design. Building strategies that embed transparency and efficiency have been a driver throughout my career and day to day life. Previously, I\'ve held leadership roles in product, investing and marketing management at global financial firms, launched financial products nationally and have developed and implemented capital raising strategies for multi billion dollar funds. I\'ve also worked with and advised founders/CEO\'s of publicly and privately held companies, entrepreneurs, executives, private endowments and foundations on all aspects of asset management, fundraising, product marketing and go to market expansion strategies. Select past and upcoming speaking engagements: World Economic Forum- Davos2020 (Pathfounder Impact Innovation Series) FinTech Silicon Valley- San Francisco 2018 FRA\'s 25th Sub-Advised Funds Forum- NYC 2018 Femigrants Foundation- SF 2018 FinTech on the Block- SF2018 Finovate Spring- SF2019 Digital Wealth (Keynote)- FL2019
Experience
Venture Partner
Jan 2020 — Present · San Francisco, CA, US
Investing in Deep Tech companies solving humanity’s grand challenges of the 21st century. Backed by General Catalyst, Winklevoss Capital, etc.
Education
University of Science and Technology
Bachelor's of Science, Industrial Engineering
Harvard University
Liberal Arts and Sciences/Finance
2014 — 2015
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