Zaheera Valani, Angel Investor

Zaheera Valani is an angel investor with a focus on AI and data infrastructure ventures. Her portfolio includes Ridge AI, where she participated in its pre-seed round. She joined Ridge AI’s pre-seed round, which raised $2.6 million in total funding. This investment reflects her interest in supporting early-stage startups advancing machine learning and data-driven technologies. Zaheera is Vice President of Engineering and Seattle Site Lead at Databricks, where she leads teams focused on AI/BI, data sharing and collaboration, Unity Catalog experiences, and Databricks SQL. Her leadership in scaling engineering organizations complements her investment activities in emerging AI ventures.