
Emily Zhao is a Managing Director at Salesforce Ventures focused on AI infrastructure and robotics, with additional focus on developer tooling and cybersecurity. She helped launch the firm’s $1B generative AI fund and has led investments including Anthropic, Hugging Face, Together AI, fal, Runway, and Cohere. Previously, she invested at Avenir Growth Capital and worked in private equity at Blackstone and investment banking at JPMorgan.
Emily Zhao is a Managing Director at Salesforce Ventures focused on AI infrastructure and robotics, with additional focus on developer tooling and cybersecurity. She helped launch the firm’s $1B generative AI fund and has led investments including Anthropic, Hugging Face, Together AI, fal, Runway, and Cohere. Previously, she invested at Avenir Growth Capital and worked in private equity at Blackstone and investment banking at JPMorgan.
Career
Emily Zhao holds a BA, Economics and Art History from Dartmouth College.








