Zara Zaman

Zara is an Investor and Head of Platform at Emerge Capital, a European pre-seed and seed venture capital firm focused on the future of Human Capital Development. HCD is a $4T global category spanning how people learn, navigate careers and work effectively, one of the largest and durable markets in venture. Emerge is an institutionally backed firm with a strong track record, deep sector knowledge and a highly engaged founder and operator community. At Emerge, she leads the Venture Partner community, 100 of the world's leading founders, operators and executives in the HCD space, at companies from OpenAI to Coursera to Duolingo. Prior to Emerge, she founded Edventure, the first pan-European university venture builder, commercialising PhD spinouts across 26 countries.