Zero Prime Ventures
Venture capitalActively deployingSan Francisco · Pre-Seed–Series B · 7 people tracked
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Investment thesis
Zero Prime Ventures invests in 'Day Zero' engineer-founders and deeply technical teams building the infrastructure, platforms, and applications behind AI. The firm focuses on the production AI stack — including AI-native infrastructure, data platforms, and technical applications — and supports founders it describes as the most technical minds in AI and data. Its portfolio spans dozens of companies operating deep in the production AI ecosystem, and the firm also convenes a technical community through its AI Council conference.
Source: firm website, verified Aug 3, 2026.
Team · 7 people
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Founder mafia
3 people who came through Zero Prime Ventures went on to found or lead other companies.
What they invest in
from 46 of 57 portfolio companiesAI & Machine Learning ×38Data & Infrastructure ×27Developer Tools ×25Enterprise Software ×24SaaS ×18Cloud Computing ×9Marketing Tech ×5Fintech ×3
HQs:United States×28United Kingdom×2Canada×1Germany×1
Who they back
founder profiles across 30 portfolio companiesFounding team size:solo founder×92 founders×143 founders×64+ founders×1
Where their founders studiedfrom 44 founders with education data
Massachusetts Institute of Technology ×4Harvard University ×3UCL ×3University of Oxford ×3KU Leuven ×2Stanford University ×2UCLA ×2
What their founders studiedfrom 43 founders with field-of-study data
Computer Science ×26Engineering ×11Mathematics & Statistics ×8Physics ×3Business & Management ×2Design & Architecture ×2
Where their founders worked beforefrom 51 founders with career history
LinkedIn ×7Facebook ×3Modal Labs, Inc. ×3Asana ×2D. E. Shaw & Co. ×2Gameanalytics ×2Goldman Sachs ×2Google ×2
Accelerator rootsportfolio companies that came through a program
8 founders hold a PhD · 4 hold an MBA (of 47 with degree data)
Investments · showing 50 of 57
founders shown can be your intro pathBy year:2026 · 12025 · 22024 · 12023 · 15 dated
Anomalo provides AI-based data quality monitoring that detects anomalies and data issues in large data warehouses and lakehouses.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise Software
Elliot Shmukler(CEO)inJeremy Stanley(Chief Scientist)in
Co-investorsNextView VenturesNorwest Venture PartnersSignalFireSmith Point CapitalVillage GlobalDatabricks Ventures+1 more
Archestra provides security and guardrails for enterprise AI agents to prevent unauthorized data access and misuse.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareLondon, GB
Matvey Kukuy(CEO and Co-Founder)in
Co-investorsForewordRTP GlobalTenacity CapitalVisible VenturesRLC Ventures20VC
Base64 offers a document intelligence platform that uses multi-modal and generative AI to identify document types, extract fields, and return structured JSON from PDFs, images, and other file formats.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaSNew York City, US
Ozan Bilgen(Founder)in
Co-investorsData Community FundLong Journey Ventures
San Francisco, US
Tristan Zajonc(Founder)in
Co-investorsAmplify PartnersIlluminate VenturesInspired CapitalWayfinder VenturesGTMfund
Generative AI search engine for discovering and evaluating novel materials with specific properties for energy and technology applications.
Co-investorsGiant Ventures Global LlpHoxton VenturesKleiner PerkinsLightspeed Venture PartnersNorthzoneTouring Capital
CuspAI develops AI models for materials science and discovery, and leads the AI Materials Foundry initiative that combines accelerated computing infrastructure with chemistry data and materials expertise.
AI & Machine LearningDeep TechNew MaterialsCambridge, GB
Max Welling(Co-Founder)inChad Edwards(Co-Founder & CEO)in
Co-investorsBasis Set VenturesHoxton VenturesKleiner PerkinsLightspeed Venture PartnersNew Enterprise Associates (NEA)Northzone+10 more
Dagster Labs develops Dagster, an open-source data orchestration platform with a commercial cloud offering.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsSan Francisco, US
Nick Schrock(Founder)in
Co-investorsAmplify PartnersCoatue Managementf7 VenturesOSS Capital8VCGeorgian+3 more
DataHub provides a metadata platform and data catalog that enables AI systems and data teams to discover, govern, and understand enterprise data at scale.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwarePalo Alto, US
Shirshanka Das(Co-founder)inSwaroop Jagadish(Co-founder)inJohn Joyce(Founder)in
Co-investors8VCBessemer Venture PartnersNext Play VenturesSINEWAVE VENTURESWebb Investment NetworkIndex Ventures
Emdash is a free, open-source agentic development environment that runs coding agents like Claude Code and Codex in parallel across isolated Git worktrees, schedules recurring agent runs, and lets developers review diffs, PRs, and CI in one place.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsSaaSSan Francisco, US
Co-investorsY Combinator
Freshpaint provides a platform for healthcare marketers to securely connect and activate customer data across marketing channels while maintaining privacy compliance.
Data & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsDigital HealthEnterprise SoftwareHealthtechMarketing TechSaaSSan Francisco, US
Steven Fitzsimmons(Founder)inMichael Malis(Founder)inRay Mina(Chief Executive Officer)inTom Spiegelman(Chief Product & Technology Officer)in
Co-investorsAbstraction CapitalSignalFireThreshold VenturesVibe CapitalY Combinator
Great Expectations provides a data quality and governance platform that enables teams to define, test, and monitor data expectations across their data systems with automation and collaborative tools.
Data & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise Software
Co-investorsCRV (Charles River Ventures)Fourth RealmSAV (Scale Asia Ventures)MedMountain Ventures
Trace builds a data analysis platform using metric trees that transform business performance into computable models, enabling AI and analytics to automate analysis that previously required manual work.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureSaaS
Co-investorsLayout VenturesLorimer VenturesOceans Ventures
Herald is an AI-powered incident detection and root cause analysis platform that automatically identifies anomalies in software systems and investigates issues before they impact customers.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingDeveloper ToolsEnterprise Software
Vikram Sreekanti(Co-founder & CEO)inChenggang Wu(Co-founder & CTO)Joey Gonzalez(Co-founder & Chief AI Officer)
Co-investorsRedpoint Ventures
Hex builds tools for data analysis and visualization, serving data teams, analysts, and organizations that need to work with data.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareSaaSSan Francisco, US
Barry McCardel(Founder)inCaitlin Colgrove(Founder)inGlen Takahashi(Founder)in
Co-investors137 VenturesAmplify PartnersAndreessen HorowitzDash VCLorimer VenturesNext Legacy Partners+9 more
Higgsfield is a platform for creating and generating visual content, including images, videos, and cinematic scenes using AI models.
AI & Machine LearningCreator EconomyMedia & EntertainmentLos Gatos, US
Alex Mashrabov(Founder & CEO)inYerzat Dulat(Executive Officer, Director)inMahi De Silva(Co-founder)in
Co-investors1982 VenturesAccelAlpha Intelligence CapitalAlpha Square GroupAngel Collective Opportunity FundBitkraft Esports Ventures+13 more
Hightouch builds a data activation platform that integrates with existing enterprise data infrastructure to enable marketing and business teams to activate customer data at scale.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareMarketing TechSan Francisco, US
Kashish Gupta(Founder)inTejas Manohar(Founder)inJoshua Curl(Founder)in
Co-investorsAllison Pickens VenturesAmplify PartnersDash VCDorm RoomEarl Grey CapitalGeodesic Capital+16 more
HoneyHive is an OpenTelemetry-native platform for observability and evaluation of AI agents, letting teams instrument agents on any stack, debug behavior, evaluate live traces, and catch regressions before release.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsNew York City, US
Dhruv Singh(Founder)in
Co-investorsAIX VenturesFirestreak Ventures468 Capital
Kolena provides an AI platform that automates document-heavy workflows—reviewing, validating, generating, and acting on documents such as leases, claims, and financial packages.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareFintechSaaSOakland, US
Mohamed Elgendy(Executive Officer, Director)inGordon Hart(Founder)in
Co-investors11.2 CapitalAIX VenturesLobby CapitalSAV (Scale Asia Ventures)SignalFireBloomberg Beta
LanceDB is an AI-native multimodal lakehouse platform that unifies training data across multiple systems to accelerate model development and dataset creation at scale.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US
Chang She(Founder)inLei Xu(Founder)in
Co-investorsAngel Collective Opportunity FundCRV (Charles River Ventures)Swift VenturesThe E14 FundTheory VenturesWayfinder Ventures+5 more
Lightning AI, creator of PyTorch Lightning, runs an end-to-end AI development cloud and merged with GPU provider Voltage Park in 2026.
San Francisco, US
William Falcon(Founder)inSaurabh Giri(Executive Officer)inOzan Kaya(Executive Officer, Director)
BoardAmit Mukherjee(Director)inSam Yagan(Director)inCarlos Delatorre(Director)
Co-investorsCisco InvestmentsCoatue ManagementIndex VenturesSherpalo VenturesSV AngelCorazon Capital+3 more
lizzyAI automates large-scale candidate screening, running structured interviews to produce data-backed shortlists for hiring teams and recruitment clients.
AI & Machine LearningHR TechSaaS
Yannis Niebelschuetz(Founder)inShai Meital(Founder)in
Co-investorsAngel InvestHeartfelt CapitalNew Enterprise Associates (NEA)Speedinvest
Modal provides a cloud platform that lets developers define compute, hardware, and application logic in Python and deploy to the cloud, with fast-booting containers and autoscaling GPUs.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingDeveloper ToolsNew York, US
Erik Bernhardsson(Founder)inAkshat Bubna(Founder)in
Co-investorsAmplify PartnersLux CapitalRedpoint VenturesCreandumGeneral CatalystAbstraction Capital+9 more
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MotherDuck provides a serverless cloud analytics database built on DuckDB, enabling users to query and understand their data more easily.
Cloud ComputingData & InfrastructureSeattle, US
Jordan Tigani(Co-founder and Chief Duck-Herder)inHannes Mühleisen(Co-founder)Mark Raasveldt(Co-founder)Tino TereshkoinRyan Boyd(Founder)in
Co-investorsAmplify PartnersAndreessen HorowitzEastlink Capital PartnersFelicis VenturesFirestreak VenturesKearny Jackson+7 more
Onehouse offers Table Optimizer, a managed service that automatically handles clustering, compaction, and data cleaning to improve performance and reduce cost for data lakehouses.
Cloud ComputingData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSaaSSunnyvale, US
Vinoth Chandar(Founder (CEO))inGaetan Castelein(Head of Go-To-Market)inKyle Weller(Product Lead)inTiffany Jordan(Talent & Global Business Operations)inNilesh Mahajan(Founding Engineer, Platform Engineering Lead)inRajesh Mahindra(Systems Engineer)in
Co-investorsAdditionCraft VenturesGreylock Partners
Orama builds search and AI infrastructure, offering OramaJS (an open-source search library), Orama Cloud Pro (managed search with AI answers at a flat monthly price), and Orama Zetta (an enterprise platform deployed in a customer's own cloud, on-premises, or dedicated infrastructure).
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsSaaS
Co-investorsSAV (Scale Asia Ventures)
Orb provides billing and revenue infrastructure for software companies, enabling usage-based and hybrid pricing models.
Data & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareFintechSaaSSan Francisco, US
Alvaro Morales(Co-Founder & CEO)inKshitij Grover(Co-Founder & CTO)inJosh Buckler(Head of Sales)inBas de Goei(Head of Marketing)inJustin Chuan(Head of Design)in
BoardSaam Motamedi(Board Member / Investor Representative (Partner, Greylock))in
Co-investorsAngel Collective Opportunity FundData Community FundESSENCE VCFOG VenturesGreylock PartnersMayfield Fund+8 more
Philolabs builds a verification layer for visual AI, focused on alignment and safety infrastructure for video understanding and generation models.
AI & Machine LearningDeep TechEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US
Pydantic provides runtime data validation and serialization using Python type hints, primarily for developers building APIs, data processing systems, and applications requiring type safety.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper Tools
Co-investorsSequoia Capital
Readyset is a database scaling platform that sits in front of existing MySQL and PostgreSQL databases to accelerate read performance with sub-millisecond latencies.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsBeverly Hills, US
Alana Renda(Founder)inNatalie Lao(Founder)in
Co-investorsAmplify PartnersIndex VenturesThe E14 FundAmplify Partners CVEssence Venture Capital
Rill builds real-time data tooling covering data transformation, database architecture, and metrics exploration to help data teams create and explore operational dashboards.
AdTechAI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureSaaSSan Francisco, US
Michael Driscoll(Founder)inNishant B(Founder)
Co-investorsDCVC (Data Collective)Sierra VenturesSwift Ventures468 CapitalBloomberg Beta
Herald is an AI-powered incident investigation platform that detects anomalies in software environments, automatically identifies root causes of issues, and prevents customer impact through autonomous analysis.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise Software
Vikram Sreekanti(Co-founder & CEO)Chenggang Wu(Co-founder & CTO)Joey Gonzalez(Co-founder & Chief AI Officer)
Co-investorsRedpoint VenturesEssence Venture Capital
Runware provides a single API and inference platform for running AI models across image, video, audio, 3D, vision and LLM tasks, giving developers one endpoint, authentication and billing to switch between open-source and closed-source models.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingDeveloper Tools
Ioana Hreninciuc(Founder)inFlaviu R.(Founder)in
Co-investorsBegin CapitalCoho DeeptechComcast VenturesDawn CapitalA16Z SpeedrunInsight Partners+1 more
Soda automates data quality monitoring to detect and prevent issues before they impact downstream systems.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareSaaSChicago, US
Maarten Masschelein(Founder)inTom Baeyens(Founder)in
Co-investorsHummingbird VenturesPoint NineSingular
StarTree provides a real-time analytics platform built on Apache Pinot that enables organizations to query petabyte-scale data at speed and cost efficiency.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareMountain View, US
Kishore Gopalakrishna(Executive Officer, Director)inXiang Fu(Founder)in
Co-investorsCRV (Charles River Ventures)Notable CapitalSapphire VenturesBain Capital Ventures
Structured uses AI and computer vision to automatically review architectural and engineering drawing packages, checking for compliance violations, coordination conflicts, and scope gaps across disciplines including architecture, structural, MEP, and civil engineering.
AI & Machine LearningConstruction TechDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwarePropTechNew York City, US
Raymond Zhao(Founder)inIssy Greenslade(Founder)inBrandon Abreu Smith(Founder)in
Co-investorsY Combinator20VCAirTree VenturesCherry VenturesFCVCTranspose Platform Management
Tabula is a revenue operations platform that consolidates customer data from CRM, marketing automation, and sales tools to provide a unified view of prospects and leads.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareMarketing TechSaaSSales Tech
Co-investorsBalderton CapitalCrosslink CapitalDag VenturesNew Enterprise Associates (NEA)
Turbopuffer is a search engine designed to make large datasets searchable and queryable at scale.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsOttawa, CA
Simon Hørup Eskildsen(Co-founder & CEO)inJustine Li(Co-founder & CTO)in
Co-investorsLachy GroomThriveThrive Capital
Wasmer makes software universally available, providing solutions that enable developers and companies to maximize their potential through its platform and tools.
Cloud ComputingData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSector AgnosticSan Francisco, US
Syrus Akbary(Founder)in
Co-investorsOSS CapitalY Combinator468 Capital
Other
Tracked investments with no reachable website or further public details — typically companies that wound down, renamed, or were absorbed.
HoneycombOpentacoTeampatternTheseusai
Portfolio news
latest coverage across their companiesHerald · herald.wales · Aug 22, 2026
CuspAI · cdomagazine.tech · Jul 27, 2026
Anomalo · funderintel.com · Jul 16, 2026
Soda · healthscaping.substack.com · Jul 15, 2026
LanceDB · startupintros.com · Jul 13, 2026
Freshpaint · geo.sig.ai · Jul 10, 2026
Higgsfield AI · masternodeai.com · Jul 2, 2026
Orb · Adyen (press release) · Jul 1, 2026
Frequently asked questions
- How many investments has Zero Prime Ventures made?
- Zero Prime Ventures has 57 tracked investments, 2 of which have exited, including 6 dated in the last 24 months.
- What stage does Zero Prime Ventures invest at?
- Zero Prime Ventures invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A, Series B stages.
- What is Zero Prime Ventures's typical check size?
- Zero Prime Ventures typically writes checks of $500K – $1.5M.
- What sectors does Zero Prime Ventures focus on?
- Zero Prime Ventures focuses on AI & Machine Learning, Cloud Computing, Data & Infrastructure, Deep Tech, Developer Tools, Enterprise Software.
- Where is Zero Prime Ventures located?
- Zero Prime Ventures is headquartered in San Francisco, US.
- Does Zero Prime Ventures lead rounds?
- Yes, Zero Prime Ventures leads investment rounds.
- Who does Zero Prime Ventures co-invest with?
- Zero Prime Ventures most often shares deals with Amplify Partners, Y Combinator, SAV (Scale Asia Ventures), among 117 tracked co-investors.
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