- 1 prior venture(s) from career extraction
- prior exit: Standard Treasury
- worked at McKinsey
- ~13 years experience
Opportunities
all opportunities ▸Internal company pages for screening and memo — not external source links.
No sourced opportunity yet — only GitHub / HN / PH / Devpost / arXiv / inbound ventures appear here (not career employers).
About
Zac Townsend is the CEO of a new seed-stage startup. Previously, he was a leader in McKinsey’s banking practice. He was the inaugural Chief Data Officer of California and built the banking startup Standard Treasury (YC S13), which he ultimately sold to Silicon Valley Bank. He is a published statistician and his writing has appeared in the American Banker, Financial Times, San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Examiner, San Jose Mercury News, Slate, and TechCrunch.
Activation — cold outreach, not cold investment
Generates a personal note referencing this founder's actual work, inviting a real application.
▸ Add / edit details
On save, the model re-reads scraped profile text plus your investor details, then rebuilds Experience / Education (adds and removes) and refreshes the score.
Reading scraped text + your details, rebuilding career facts, updating the score. Usually 15–40s.