Ethan Kurzweil

Ethan Kurzweil is a founder and managing partner at Chemistry VC, a seed and Series A venture capital firm he co-founded in October 2024 with a $350 million debut fund. He previously spent 16 years as a partner at Bessemer Venture Partners, where he led investments in companies including Twitch, PagerDuty, SendGrid, Twilio, and Intercom. He is best known for his focus on developer platforms and enterprise infrastructure and for articulating the thesis that the venture market is bifurcating into massive consensus bets and highly contrarian companies. He holds an AB in Economics from Stanford University and an MBA from Harvard Business School, and is the son of inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil.