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Founder69
44th percentile
Investor38
78th percentile
YC S23Serial FounderRaised $30M+10+ Employees
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Technical Depth · 84th percentile
- Stack Overflow reputation of 851 reflects active technical community participation.
- Identified as a Hugging Face author under the handle @chizhang.
- Identified Stack Overflow account with 851 reputation.
Founder score
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Current co-founder and CEO of Kite, building programmable trust infrastructure for the Agentic Internet.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Kite is a Y Combinator Summer 2023 company.
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Co-founded Kite and ZettaBlock alongside other co-founders.
- 82%Probability of being accurate (82%)Kite has raised $36M in total funding across multiple rounds, including an $18M round led by PayPal and General Catalyst.
- 55%Probability of being accurate (55%)Stack Overflow reputation of 851 reflects active technical community participation.
- 55%Probability of being accurate (55%)Identified Stack Overflow account with 851 reputation.
- 50%Probability of being accurate (50%)Identified as a Hugging Face author under the handle @chizhang.
Investor score
- 60%Probability of being accurate (60%)Named as a fund manager/GP on Ocean Link Partners II, L.P., a pooled investment fund with $490.7M in fund size, per SEC Form D filing.
- 55%Probability of being accurate (55%)Named as a related person on General Atlantic Investment Partners 2017, L.P., a recognized global growth equity firm, per SEC Form D filing.
- 50%Probability of being accurate (50%)Investing activity traceable to at least 2017 based on SEC Form D filings, representing approximately 8 years of experience.
What you likely need
Chi Zhang is a high-signal technical founder running two companies (Kite and ZettaBlock) under the DataLego umbrella, with YC backing and top-tier VC investment from PayPal and General Catalyst. Her profile combines deep AI/data expertise with blockchain infrastructure, positioning her well for the emerging AI-agent economy. The next 12 months are critical for converting early funding into product-market fit and team scale.
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- fundraisingWith $36M raised and PayPal/General Catalyst already on board, prepare a Series A narrative focused on AI-agent payment volume metrics to attract top-tier fintech and crypto-native funds.
- introsLeverage the YC S23 alumni network to fast-track enterprise pilots with other YC portfolio companies that are building AI agents and need payment/trust infrastructure.
- hiringKite is at 17 employees and growing 257% YoY — prioritize hiring senior protocol and distributed-systems engineers who have shipped production blockchain infrastructure.
- tacticalFormalize a go-to-market partnership with PayPal beyond the investment relationship to co-market Kite's stablecoin rails to PayPal's existing merchant and developer base.
- positioningClarify the public positioning between Kite and ZettaBlock — both are active brands under DataLego, which can confuse investors and customers; a unified narrative or explicit product hierarchy will sharpen the story.
- positioningAmplify the Forbes 30 Under 30 recognition with targeted media placements in AI and fintech outlets to build personal brand authority as the go-to voice on AI-agent payment infrastructure.
- tacticalPublishing open-source tooling or SDKs for AI-agent payment integration on GitHub would accelerate developer adoption and generate inbound interest from the builder community.