Angela Zhou

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Co-founder & COO at Cinder Ops · Vertical SaaS for clinics

Cinder Ops
Toronto, ON · ET (UTC-5)
13+ years experience
McGill University
English
Advising
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Overview

Building Cinder Ops in Toronto - vertical SaaS for clinics. Previously built and sold a small vertical SaaS for clinics company. Before that: KPMG and CIBC. Most at home with hiring and go-to-market.

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  • Advice on vertical SaaS for clinics
  • Working sessions on hiring
  • Questions about vertical SaaS for clinics
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  • Courses and coaching offers
  • Paid accelerator offers
  • Fundraising consultants

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Skills
hiringhealthcarefundraisinggo-to-market
AdvisingOpen to advising
closes in 4 months

Office hours for first-time founders: vertical SaaS for clinics and hiring

Topics
vertical SaaS for clinics, fundraising, hiring
Format
Async reviews
Terms
Equity
Capacity
One advisory role at a time
Best for
First-time founders

16 years of vertical SaaS for clinics. Small equity or paid hours - flexible.

Toronto, ONgo-to-marketfundraisinghealthcare
Open

Experience

  1. Co-founder & COO
    Jan 2023 - Present
    Cinder Ops · 3 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Toronto, ON
    • Grew the team to 117 people across 2 countries.
    • Signed 163 paying customers, 14 of them enterprises.
    • Raised $33 million across 2 rounds.
  2. Director of Engineering
    Dec 2020 - Jan 2023
    KPMG · 2 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Toronto, ON
    • Reduced cloud spend on Android by 20% in two quarters.
    • Moved 61% of Android traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
  3. Principal Engineer
    Sep 2019 - Dec 2020
    CIBC · 1 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Toronto, ON
    • Previously an operator for 5 years before investing.
    • Backed 44 founders at pre-seed and seed.
  4. Director of Engineering
    Mar 2016 - Sep 2019
    Manulife · 3 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Toronto, ON
    • Wrote the fundraising service that now handles 87 million requests a day.
  5. Principal Engineer
    Jul 2013 - Dec 2015
    Cohere · 2 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Toronto, ON
    • Sit on 6 boards.

Projects

Side project: a commute planner
2023

Built with hiring and go-to-market. 621 people used it last year.

Vertical SaaS for clinics benchmark
2023

Reproducible benchmarks comparing hiring and go-to-market on real workloads.

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Education

  1. McGill University
    BEng, Economics
    2005 - 2009

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