About Zaid Rahman

Zaid is a serial entrepreneur and currently the Founder and CEO of Flexbase, a fintech company building a finance super app for small businesses, mainly supporting underbanked industries and regions. Flexbase partners with B2B merchants to enable their customers to pay via a one-click 60-day payment button during online checkout, as well as other financial products like a 60-day charge card, business banking, expense management software, and much more. As an active builder, Zaid also invests in founders he comes across at 305 Ventures, an angel fund he cofounded. With over 100 investments, Zaid invests in fintech, Web3, DeFi, enterprise software, and frontier technologies. Prior to Flexbase and 305 Ventures, Zaid founded two startups — Pilot Labs, a K12/University focused EdTech platform acquired by PE; and Volley, an AI startup that worked with Fortune 500 companies helping generate knowledge summaries from natural language content. He exited his first startup at 19. Zaid dropped out of college to become a Fellow in Peter Thiel’s Fellowship.