Zac Townsend - Crunchbase Person Profile

Overview

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Location Austin, Texas, United States
Regions Southern US
Gender Male
Also Known As Zachary Townsend

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Website zactownsend.com/
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Zac Townsend is the CEO of Meanwhile Incorporated, the world’s first digital assets life insurer. A graduate of Y Combinator, he built banking-as-a-service startup Standard Treasury, which he ultimately sold to Silicon Valley Bank in 2015.

Personal Investments

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Zac Townsend

invested in

Resolvr

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Announced Date	Organization Name	Lead Investor	Funding Round	Money Raised
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Jobs

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Zac Townsend

is the

Co-founder and CEO

Meanwhile

. Additionally,

Zac Townsend

has had

past jobs including

Co-founder and General Partner

Deciens Capital

Meanwhile Co-founder and CEO2022

Organization Name	Title At Company	Start Date	End Date
Deciens Capital	Co-founder and General Partner	Jul 15, 2012	May 1, 2019
State of California	Chief Data Officer	Jul 2016	Aug 2017
Silicon Valley Bank	Director, API Banking	Aug 1, 2015	Apr 30, 2016
Standard Treasury	Co-Founder & President	May 2013	Jul 31, 2015
Stripe	Risk	2013	Apr 1, 2013

Board and Advisor Roles

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Organization Name	Title At Company	Start Date	End Date
Bayes Impact	Board Member	Jun 2014	Jun 2018

Education

Zac Townsend

studied at

New York University

and

Brown University

New York University MPAPublic Policy (Focus on statistical methods)2012
Brown University BAApplied Math, Economics, Public Policy2009

Events

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Zac Townsend

has participated in

events. They most recently attended, or will attend,

I Love APIs 2015

Oct 12, 2015

I Love APIs 2015 Speaker San Jose, California, United States, North AmericaOct 12, 2015
The FinTech Revolution: Banking on the Future Speaker Redwood City, California, United States, North AmericaSep 24, 2015

Recent News and Activity

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Funding Round•

Sep 16, 2025

Resolvr raised

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from Adam Back and 8 other investors

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News•

Jul 1, 2016