Data & Infrastructure Startups

Zendata generates AI risk signals by observing applications, data flows, and model validation to reveal how data is collected, shared, and exposed in AI-enabled applications. It surfaces pre-production data exposure and third-party integration risks and supplies this intelligence to existing data, security, and AI platforms without replacing enforcement systems.

3 investors

Kitaru, built by ZenML, is a replay-based evaluation tool for AI agents that turns real production traces into replayable test sessions, letting teams re-run their agent's actual code against recorded inputs to test changes, swap models, and catch regressions. It is aimed at engineering teams shipping AI agents to customers, and integrates with observability tools like Langfuse, LangSmith, Braintrust, Logfire, and Arize Phoenix.

3 investors

ZeroDev provides smart account infrastructure for blockchain applications, enabling better onboarding, transaction flows, and user experiences through account abstraction technology.

3 investors

ZeroPoint develops hardware compression intellectual property that accelerates data throughput and capacity in AI and data center systems. The company's inline compression solutions address memory and storage bottlenecks in modern silicon without requiring model retraining or software modifications.

3 investors

Zetaris develops a decentralized data analytics platform that enables organizations to perform analytics and AI operations without migrating their data. The platform serves enterprise customers globally who need to integrate and analyze data across multiple sources.

3 investors

Zette AI partners with a network of publishers to build and monetize proprietary datasets, and supplies fact-checked, up-to-date data to enterprises for use in foundation models and real-time AI insights. The company operates in the AI data infrastructure space, serving publishers and AI developers.

3 investors

Zignal is a national security intelligence company that transforms publicly available information into structured intelligence using AI and agentic capabilities to support early warning, operational tasking, and situational awareness. The platform integrates with existing mission systems to support analysts and operators across global environments.

3 investors

Zilliz provides Zilliz Cloud, a managed vector database and "vector lakebase" built by the creators of Milvus, offering real-time serving, iterative discovery, and batch analytics on a single data source at large scale. It supports vector, text, JSON, and geospatial data with hybrid retrieval, filtering, and reranking for enterprises building AI and retrieval-augmented generation applications.

3 investors

Zinklar operates a consumer market research platform that runs surveys with verified human respondents, using a Survey Agent with built-in methodology controls and a Sentinel screening layer to validate samples. It provides fast turnaround (question to answer in a day) with researcher-staffed support, reaching consumers across 80+ countries.

3 investors

zkMe provides privacy-preserving, reusable KYC/AML credentials using zero-knowledge proofs, letting stablecoin issuers and platforms meet FATF, MiCA, and GDPR compliance requirements without storing or transmitting users' personal data. It targets stablecoin issuers, VASPs, and crypto payment platforms needing regulatory compliance while minimizing data liability.

3 investors

zkVerify is a verification layer for zero-knowledge proofs, designed to verify proofs quickly and at scale across different ecosystems and proving schemes. It targets developers building systems that require proof verification, offering integration with existing infrastructure and multiple ZK proving schemes.

3 investors

Logi Analytics provides embedded analytics and business intelligence software for application developers, enabling them to build customizable dashboards, reports, and data visualizations without extensive engineering resources. The platform serves software teams and enterprises seeking to embed analytics capabilities directly into their applications.

3 investors

Zymtrace is a continuous, cluster-wide profiling platform that uses eBPF to correlate GPU and CPU workloads down to individual CUDA kernels, stall reasons, and lines of code, helping engineering teams find and fix why AI workloads run slowly. It also exposes profiling context to AI agents via MCP for automated optimization, targeting enterprises running GPU and AI accelerator infrastructure.

3 investors

Cigro is an e-commerce analytics tool that automatically collects data from sales channels and ad platforms into one place, letting merchants build brand dashboards, track profit after costs, fees and shipping, and receive daily performance reports. It targets e-commerce businesses that need data-driven management without complex spreadsheet work.

3 investors

Informetis develops AI technology for energy management, producing software and services that help households and businesses monitor, control, and optimize electricity consumption. The company operates in Japan and the UK, focusing on demand response solutions and smart home energy management platforms.

3 investors

Kirifuda develops on-chain finance products and blockchain intelligence services (data analysis, index development, and compliance support) that let businesses embed blockchain-based financial features without specialized expertise. Its blockchain intelligence unit provides transaction graph analysis, address clustering, and fund-flow visualization across chains like Bitcoin, Ethereum, Polygon, and Solana for law enforcement, tax authorities, and crypto exchanges in Japan.

3 investors

Creattura develops technology solutions for carbon finance and biodiversity conservation, leveraging satellite data and AI to support climate action and environmental regeneration.

3 investors

Tongdun (小盾未来) builds AI-based decision intelligence and privacy-computing platforms, including a distributed KV database, metrics platform, and AI credit risk scoring, focused on financial risk, security risk, and government governance risk. It serves banks, internet, transportation, and other industries with risk control, anti-fraud, and credit lifecycle solutions.

3 investors

Wilico is a Japanese company that collects hard-to-reach external data (such as prices, inventory, and competitor information) and organizes scattered internal data into formats usable by AI, then integrates it into business operations. It also works as a development partner, handling data work alongside business systems and internal tools from problem definition through to ongoing operation.

3 investors

Intimate Merger operates IM-DMP, a large-scale data management platform holding around 1 billion audience data records, offering platform provisioning, data analysis, and data-utilization consulting to client companies. It supports digital transformation and data-driven marketing efforts in Japan.

3 investors

All Ads is a Japanese marketing company that specializes in LTV (Lifetime Value) marketing services. The company operates in the digital marketing sector serving businesses seeking to optimize customer lifetime value strategies.

3 investors

Highreso (株式会社ハイレゴ) operates GPU-dedicated data centers and provides computing infrastructure services in Japan. Founded in 2007, it builds and runs large-scale GPU data centers to supply computing power for innovation and industry.

3 investors

Minkabu The Infonoid operates financial media for individual investors and provides information solution services to financial institutions, running a media business and a solutions business. It serves retail investors and financial institutions in Japan with investment information sites, data products, and content tools.

3 investors

Sensors Data provides a data analytics and AI agent platform for enterprise digital operations, offering automated diagnosis, strategy generation, and execution for marketing and customer growth. It serves businesses across more than 30 industries in China, connecting online and offline data to support member lifecycle management and marketing optimization.

3 investors