Zeeza Cole

Zeeza Cole is a Partner at Avid Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm, based in New York, New York. Prior to her current position, she spent four years at Bain Capital Ventures, where she served as a Principal and backed technology startups including Cofactr, Archive, and Arc. During her tenure at the firm, she also successfully scaled their indirect fund investments to encompass a portfolio of nearly 50 emerging managers. Cole previously worked as a founding investor at the WeWork Creator Fund from December 2018 to April 2020, following her initial start as an Investment Banking Analyst in the equity capital markets division at Goldman Sachs. Her current investment focus centers on early-stage software, artificial intelligence, and fintech companies, targeting seed to Series B funding rounds with check sizes ranging from $500,000 to $50 million.