Zak Kokosa

Zak Kokosa is a Principal at Salesforce Ventures, where he executes venture capital investments across the broader technology sector. Prior to joining the corporate venture firm in 2020, he spent three years working as an investment banking professional, specializing in middle-market corporate mergers and acquisitions for clients based in New York and San Francisco. He completed his undergraduate education at Bowdoin College, where he studied economics, mathematics, and Spanish. Operating on the core investment team, Kokosa evaluates and supports enterprise startups scaling from the pre-revenue stage all the way through their subsequent initial public offerings. His portfolio involvement includes backing prominent technology companies such as Snowflake, Stripe, Vercel, dbt Labs, and Modern Treasury. Today, his primary investment focus centers on identifying emerging opportunities within the enterprise application software, data infrastructure, and vertical automation markets.