Zach Michel is a Co-Founder of Middleware, a company associated with Y Combinator's Winter 2023 cohort. Michel has experience as an Angel Investor at Inventive and has held key positions at Firebolt as Head of Support & Solution Architecture, as well as at Google in Customer Strategy. Previous roles also include working at Looker, where responsibilities encompassed Customer Success and Support. Michel holds a Bachelor of Science in Technology and Information Management from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and has studied Economics with a focus on Global Economics at Lund University.