Raheel Zia

Prior to co-founding Aldrich Capital Partners, Mr. Zia was a Managing Director in the Principal Investment Area (“PIA”) of Goldman, Sachs & Co., where he helped launch the growth equity investing practice. Over the course of his private equity investing career, prior to launching Aldrich Capital Partners, he was a part of a team that invested approximately $634 million of capital across 12 growth equity investments from 2003 until August 2014.

Mr. Zia has worked extensively with technology businesses and helped companies in areas such as sales and marketing, channel distribution, acquisitions, new product launches and R&D. Raz was the co-founder and CEO of Knumi, Inc, a mobile application software company that sold solutions to major enterprises. He led the successful sale of the business to Houghton-Mifflin.

Mr. Zia has an MBA from Harvard Business School, an MSc in Advanced Computing from London University England, and a BEng with honors in Microelectronic Systems Engineering from Manchester University. He was also a qualified Chartered Accountant (inactive).