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Zack Urlocker

Investor

Investor at Index Ventures · Board director at Brightback

Traverse City, Michigan, United States

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Zack: together at Concordia University

About

Zack Urlocker is an executive in residence at Index Ventures who has held leadership roles across sales, marketing, product, engineering, and business development at software companies including Duo Security, Zendesk, MySQL, and Active Software, which collectively generated over $20 billion in shareholder returns at exit. He serves as a board member and advisor to venture-backed software companies including Cockroach Labs, Contentful, DataStax, GitLab, HackerOne, HubSpot, and PagerDuty. Urlocker shares guidance on scaling software companies through his newsletter, Build to Scale.

Board director at Brightback

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Brightback's investors · 6

Camber PartnersNew York · $15M – $50M checks · since 2018Index VenturesSan Francisco · $540K – $10.8M checks · since 2018MatrixSan Francisco · $100K – $10M checks · since 2018Point NineBerlin · $1M – $10M checks · since 2018Rembrandt Venture PartnersLaramie · since 2018Verissimo VenturesBedford · since 2018

Co-founders at Brightback

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GUY MARIONExecutive Officer, Director

Experience

  1. Index VenturesExecutive in Residencecurrent2025 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
  2. Venture Capital Backed StartupsInterim Executive, Board Member, Coach, Advisorcurrent2017 — present
  3. CrescendoChief Operating Officer2024 — 2025Traverse City, Michigan, United States
  4. Scale Venture PartnersExecutive in Residence2024Foster City, California, United States
  5. NetlifyEl Presidente2023Anywhere, everywhere

Skills & more

Executive DevelopmentManagement

Languages French · Turbo Pascal

From Zack's professional profile.

Colleagues at Index Ventures

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Investor at Index Ventures
Alex Bangash
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Alexander Bruehl
Investor at Point Nine Capital
Ali Fisher Sweet
Investor at Index Ventures
Ana Andreescu
Investor at Index Ventures
André Dubois
Investor at Index Ventures
Avron Marcus
Investor at Index Ventures
Bastian Hasslinger
Investor at Index Ventures

Frequently asked questions

Who is Zack Urlocker?
Zack Urlocker is an executive in residence at Index Ventures who has held leadership roles across sales, marketing, product, engineering, and business development at software companies including Duo Security, Zendesk, MySQL, and Active Software, which collectively generated over $20 billion in shareholder returns at exit. He serves as a board member and advisor to venture-backed software companies including Cockroach Labs, Contentful, DataStax, GitLab, HackerOne, HubSpot, and PagerDuty. Urlocker shares guidance on scaling software companies through his newsletter, Build to Scale.
Where does Zack Urlocker work?
Zack Urlocker is at Index Ventures and Board director at Brightback.
Where did Zack Urlocker go to school?
Zack Urlocker studied at University of Waterloo (M. Math, Computer Science); Concordia University (Bachelor of Computer Science, Computer Science, Business Option).

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Also attended Concordia University189

Harley FinkelsteinInvestor at Felicis VenturesDavid NaultGeneral Partner at Luge CapitalRania BelkahiaInvestor at EQT VenturesMarie-Alix MotteCommunity Associate at Partech VenturesCagdas YildizInvestment | Simya VC at 212Domenic Del VecchioPrincipal at Panache Ventures

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Shared employers

Also worked at Crescendo3

Hemant TanejaCEO & Managing Director of General CatalystAnand ChandrasekaranManaging Partner at Celesta CapitalMatt PriceFounder at Crescendo

Also worked at Scale Venture Partners55

Alex NiehenkePartner at Scale Venture PartnersAndy VitusPartner at Scale Venture PartnersAriel TseitlinPartner at Scale Venture PartnersAurelia HanAssociate at Scale Venture PartnersClaire YoonAssociate at Scale Venture PartnersDamian GardinerSenior Associate at Scale Venture Partners

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Also worked at Netlify18

Mamoon HamidPartner at Kleiner PerkinsKelly GoetschPresident, Pipe17 at Mu VenturesNadav EylathManaging Partner at ATINCMatt MurphyPartner at Menlo VenturesTom Preston-WernerCofounder & General Partner at Preston-Werner VenturesMarcus BraggInvestor at Ballistic Ventures

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