Raj Shekhar Singh

Co-Founder

San Francisco, California, United States11 yrs 9 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Founder of z21 Ventures, focusing on early-stage tech startups.
Co-founded International Battery Company and HyperspecAI.
Former Engagement Manager at McKinsey & Company.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a venture capital expert with extensive experience in technology startups across various industries.

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Climate ChangeMatlabBiotechnologyMathematical ModelingStatisticsEarth ScienceBiofuelsData AnalysisEntrepreneurshipProgrammingStart-upsResearchScienceCBiochemical Engineering

About

Raj is a passionate builder and investor driven by the potential of technology to create positive change. Raj is the founder and General Partner at z21 Ventures. He has a successful track record in building and scaling startups in various industries, including B2B SaaS, Healthtech, EV, High Tech, and autonomous driving. He co-founded International Battery Company and HyperspecAI, and was part of the founding team at Innovaccer. He has worked in McKinsey & Co as consultant and holds a BTech from IIT Kharagpur and a PhD from UC Berkeley.

Experience

Livsyt

Board Member

Feb 2025 – Present · 1 yr 2 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Zime

Board Member

Oct 2024 – Present · 1 yr 6 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Hen nozzles

2 roles

Board Observer

Aug 2024 – Present · 1 yr 8 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Advisory Board Member

Jul 2022 – Jan 2024 · 1 yr 6 mos

International battery company

Co-Founder and CRO

Nov 2022 – Mar 2024 · 1 yr 4 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Li-ion cell manufacturing startup.

Humbi health

Advisory Board Member

May 2022 – Jan 2024 · 1 yr 8 mos

Z21 ventures

Founder and General Partner

Mar 2022 – Present · 4 yrs 1 mo · San Francisco Bay Area

z21 Ventures is a US based, community-focused, operator-led, venture capital fund that capitalizes on opportunities in early-stage technology startups in the US-India corridor.
https://z21.ventures/

Hyperspec ai

2 roles

Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer

Feb 2022 – Nov 2022 · 9 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Leading Operations, Product and Program Management at HyperspecAI

Seed Investor

Apr 2019 – Mar 2022 · 2 yrs 11 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Opslyft

Seed Investor and Advisory Board Member

Oct 2020 – Jan 2024 · 3 yrs 3 mos

Explorex (explorex technologies, inc)

Seed Investor and Advisory Board Member

Jul 2019 – Jan 2024 · 4 yrs 6 mos

Innovaccer

2 roles

Senior Vice President - Head of Product

Oct 2018 – Mar 2022 · 3 yrs 5 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Head of product at Innovaccer, leading the product management, product strategy, and design functions. Responsible for platform, applications, and solution development and new markets/solutions strategy.

Vice President Customer Success and Delivery

Mar 2017 – Oct 2018 · 1 yr 7 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Built and led the customer success team, took over all of customer-facing and delivery functions. Part of the executive leadership team

Mckinsey & company

2 roles

Engagement Manager

Jun 2016 – Apr 2017 · 10 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Corporate strategy (operations, sales, R&D) focused on semiconductor and high tech industries

Associate

Jul 2014 – Jun 2016 · 1 yr 11 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Served more than 15 clients across technology, semiconductor and healthcare industries
Functional experience in corporate strategy, operations, sales strategy, M&A and due diligence

Innovaccer

Advisor

Oct 2012 – Jul 2014 · 1 yr 9 mos · Berkeley

Advised InnovAccer on growth strategy with focus on Earth Science data sets and analytics.

National university of singapore

Summer Intern Reseacher

May 2007 – Jul 2007 · 2 mos · Singapore

The project aim was to purify and study the functional behavior of a novel three-finger toxin from the venom of sistrurus catenatus edwardsii (South American sand viper). I successfully purified the protein for the first time ever and was able to study its therapeutic properties.