Zain Gulamali

Amazon Catalytic Capital

Zain A. Gulamali is a technology executive, corporate and business development leader, and venture capital / growth equity investor with nearly 20 years of experience in enterprise, consumer, and healthcare technology investing, as well as strategy, M&A, business development, and startup operations. He is Head of Amazon Catalytic Capital (fund-of-funds supporting underrepresented founders) and an Investment Partner for the Amazon Alexa Fund, Amazon’s VC fund investing in AI, frontier tech, robotics, sustainability, healthcare, and media across consumer and enterprise. Over the past 8 years, Zain has sourced, led, or managed 40+ VC investments, including Greenlight (fintech) - $2.3 billion valuation, SmartRent (property tech) - $2.2 billion exit, SevenRooms (property tech), Fiddler (AI), Comet.ml (AI), Embodied (robotics), etc. He has led the Alexa Fund's investment focus on AI and ML tools, enterprise and collaboration, health care, aging, robotics, property tech, financial tech, and mobility. Zain is also a leader on Amazon's Worldwide Business & Corporate Development group, where he advises senior leaders across the company on strategic decisions and where he leads diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I) efforts for the group. Zain's experiences span corporate development at Amazon, venture capital at Amazon Alexa Fund (early-stage venture capital to growth equity) and Amazon Catalytic Capital (fund-of-funds), startup operating leadership and business development at Pocket Gems (consumer internet), growth equity and private equity at Warburg Pincus, and M&A and investment banking at Goldman Sachs. Beyond his professional experiences, he has volunteered since 2000 in urban community service and international development, primarily in the fields of education and youth development, through the Aga Khan Development Network (global NGO). Zain is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the Stanford Graduate School of Business.