About
Victor Zhang is a co-founder of Cega and is developing exotic options infrastructure for decentralized finance.
Founder at OrbiterYC W20
Intro paths
YC
Victor went through Y Combinator (Winter 2020) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
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In turn, Victor can intro founders to Orbiter's investors below.
Orbiter's investors · 2
Co-founders at Orbiter
MW
Mark WaiFounder
WZ
Winston ZhangFounder
Experience
- WealthsimpleHead of Cryptocurrent2026 — present
- BONKbot / TelemetryChief Product Officer2024 — 2025
- CegaCTO and co-founder2021 — 2024(Acquired)
- OrbiterCEO and co-founder2019 — 2021Mountain View, California, United States
- TeslaSenior Staff Product Manager2017 — 2019
- MoatPrincipal Product Manager2016 — 2017New York City
- TumblrProduct Manager2015 — 2016New York City
- YahooAssociate Product Manager2014 — 2015Sunnyvale
- GoogleAssociate Product Manager Intern2013Mountain View, California
Skills & more
Team Leadership36Soldering1Event Management11Project Management18Entrepreneurship22C20C++26Verilog6Matlab11Java11BashPhotoshop3
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AssemblyLanguages French · Mandarin
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Frequently asked questions
- Who is Victor Zhang?
- Victor Zhang is a co-founder of Cega and is developing exotic options infrastructure for decentralized finance.
- Where does Victor Zhang work?
- Victor Zhang is Founder of Orbiter.
- What companies did Victor Zhang found?
- Victor Zhang founded Orbiter.
- Where did Victor Zhang go to school?
- Victor Zhang studied at Y Combinator (W20); University of Toronto (Undergraduate, Electrical Engineering).
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Also worked at Wealthsimple21
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