the z list irl 💥🧿✨👩🏻‍💻

I’m a VC! Quick Update

Hi everyone! I hope you had a restful and joyous holiday season and incredible start to your new year.

The Z List will go back to regularly scheduled programming featuring lots of events in NYC this Monday Jan 8th. In the meantime, I wanted to provide a quick update on myself if you didn’t catch it earlier last week on Twitter and LinkedIn.

After 3.5 amazing years at Republic, I parted ways with the company earlier last week and am joining a VC fund later this month as an investor. I’ll be focused on consumer companies (my passion) and will still be based in NYC. Additionally, I’ll be visiting SF at least once every few months now so we’ll be hosting loads of events there as well. More details soon.

This update is particularly exciting for me as I’ve been looking to break into VC for a number of years now ever since I was in undergrad at Columbia.

Career transition aside, I want to make it abundantly clear that I will still be sending out this newsletter, hosting events across NYC, and will remain a community builder in this space. The Z List is here to stay!

If you’re a founder or investor in the consumer space, let’s catch up. Lots to chat about. Otherwise I’ll see you all soon :)

Z List IRL hosted by Zehra

Throughout the next few months I’m hosting small investor & founder dinners (5-15 people)! If you’ve attended No GPs Allowed or a founder event I’ve hosted keep an eye out for an email invite to one of these dinners. Otherwise if you’re interested in attending reply to this email.

tuesday 1/16

• Consumer Founder & Investors Breakfast

  • for who: Consumer VCs & founders

Resources — a lot of folks reach out to me for recommendations of engineers, website devs, designers, & more. This new section of The Z List will feature recommendations from folks I’ve worked with.

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• Need a website developer? Tamir is amazing and has been working with me on The Z List’s website. You can schedule a call to learn more from him at the link above (mention Zehra or Z List in the additional notes section)

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• Need a growth marketer? Ri has scaled social accounts to 140K followers and does so much more.

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Please reply to this email if you'd like to amplify your events with the z list community or if you'd like to collaborate on an event together.

Have fun! 💥🧿✨👩🏻‍💻