Zain Rizavi

Building at the intersection of AI and Security. We’re fortunate to be backed by exceptional investors, including operators and angels from Cloudflare, Palo Alto Networks, CrowdStrike, Tenable, Snyk, Fastly, Groq, Okta, Mandiant, and others.

Backing the next generation of founders coming out of Cloudflare

Cranston AI (2025), Hyperspell (2025), Castari (2025), Sanctum (2025), Aesopic (2025), Valinor Discovery (2025), Nimble Security (2025), Artie (2025), Azentic AI (2025), Mallory AI (2025), Weaver AI (2025), Qpoint (2025), Tinfoil (2025), Probo (2025), The LLM Data Company (2025), Arbor (2025), Blacksmith (2025), Composite (2025), Specstory (2024), Galini (2024), Unbound Security (2024), Nadrama (2024), Contextual (2024), Cake AI (2024), c/side (ex-Cloudflare, 2024), LP in Aviso Ventures, Outerbase (acq. Cloudflare), great expectations, Wingback (W22), Nursa, Tilden, Leland

Fortunate to work for: - Prompt Security | Series A | Board Observer - Channel99 | Seed | Investor

Fortunate to work for: - Macrometa | Series A | Board Observer - Yendo | Seed | Investor - Open Raven | Series B | Board Observer - Harmonic | Series A | Investor

The Special Projects (SPX) team at Cloudflare works on a wide range of tactical and strategic projects that are critical to the operations and long term development of Cloudflare. From Cloudflare’s entry into China through a strategic partnership with one of China’s largest Internet companies; to conducting strategic acquisitions; managing our partnerships and relationships with the major cloud providers; and finding commercial opportunities for Cloudflare’s new products and technologies, we are involved at all levels of driving the company’s business strategy and development. The Special Projects team works with the executive level and across all teams in the company.

Intern performing due diligence (+sourcing) on potential investments and analysis of new enterprise technologies/markets.