Scott Ford

Scott Ford is cofounder and CEO of Zigzag, a global innovation platform that empowers entrepreneurs at the earliest-stage to unleash their full potential. Using their AI-powered copilot (gozigzag.com), they enable entrepreneurs to build an entire business validation roadmap in less than two minutes.

Prior to Zigzag Ventures, Scott was the COO of Techstars, where he led the organization’s accelerator footprint expansion to 50+ programs in 30+ cities in 13 countries across four continents. Annually deploying over $50M in investment capital across 500+ early-stage companies, the Techstars portfolio grew from <$10B to over $160B during Scott’s tenure.

Scott and his family live in Boulder, Colorado where he also teaches entrepreneurship at Leeds School of Business, University of Colorado, Boulder.