Co-Founder, Managing Partner · New York
Sharareh Noorbaloochi, PhD
Sharareh Noorbaloochi is a co-founder and managing partner of Zeytoon Ventures. She spent nearly a decade as a data scientist, most recently as Senior Director of Data Science at C3 AI and before that as a Vice President at Marcus by Goldman Sachs. Across those roles she deployed more than $100M of enterprise AI for Fortune 500 companies in fintech and healthcare. Earlier she founded Beyond Outraged, a civic technology startup, and was a postdoctoral researcher at New York University. Sharareh holds a PhD in cognitive neuroscience from Stanford University and bachelor’s and master’s degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Minnesota. She graduated from VC Lab, Cohort 20, in July 2026. She is an angel investor and lives in New York City.
Why I’m here
I am Iranian, and I know what it is to watch the country I come from be reduced to its politics. I recognize the story being told about Palestinian founders.
Palestine does not have a talent problem. It has a pathway problem, and that is a solvable problem.
Resilience is what people are forced to have. Imagination is what they choose: to imagine anyway, to build anyway, to ask better questions anyway. That is where every future begins.