Sheeraz Daniel Haji is the founder and managing partner of Zipdragon Ventures. See sector focus and contact routes.
Sheeraz Daniel Haji is the founder and managing partner of Zipdragon Ventures, a San Francisco-based firm where he leads investments in ten industry cloud startups after previously serving as CEO of Cleantech Group and co-founding GetActive Software. His investment thesis targets pre-seed and seed-stage, capital-efficient vertical SaaS, data, and applied AI companies that digitize legacy industries like clean energy, water, transit, food, real estate, and nonprofits. The firm typically writes operator checks to lead or co-lead rounds at the earliest stage, focusing on geos in the San Francisco Bay Area and East Bay. Notable portfolio companies include Redaptive, for which Haji serves as an Independent Director, and SiteCapture, where he holds a board seat. Haji distinguishes his approach by emphasizing operating leverage over scale-at-any-price and is passionate about how SaaS transforms vertical markets such as energy, mobility, and buildings. He holds degrees in environmental engineering from Brown University and Stanford University, grounding his climate-tech focus in technical expertise.
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