Zero Prime Ventures
Venture capitalSan Francisco · Pre-Seed–Series B · 7 people tracked
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
from the firm's website
What they invest in
from 21 of 50 portfolio companiesData & Infrastructure ×17AI & Machine Learning ×15Enterprise Software ×12Developer Tools ×11Cloud Computing ×6SaaS ×6Marketing Tech ×2Construction Tech ×1
HQs:United States×15
Investments · 50 tracked
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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
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
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)inAleksandr Mashrabov(Executive Officer, Director)Yerzat Dulat(Executive Officer, Director)
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
Observability platform co-founded by Charity Majors.
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)in
San Francisco, US
William A. Falcon(Executive Officer, Director)Saurabh Giri(Executive Officer)Ozan Kaya(Executive Officer, Director)
BoardAmit Mukherjee(Director)Sam Yagan(Director)Carlos Delatorre(Director)
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)Hannes Mühleisen(Co-founder)Mark Raasveldt(Co-founder)Tino Tereshko
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
Herald is an AI SRE (site reliability engineering) agent that builds a context graph across observability data, codebase, CI/CD, docs, and dependencies to detect anomalies, investigate incidents, and deliver root-cause analyses before alerts fire.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper Tools
Runware provides a unified API platform that aggregates AI models across image, video, audio, 3D, and language tasks from multiple providers, offering lower-cost inference through custom hardware and billing infrastructure.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingDeveloper Tools
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)in
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
Billion-scale vector search on object storage.
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
Frequently asked questions
- 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.
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