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Zero Prime Ventures

San Francisco, CA · Invests in US · Website

Thesis

We back deeply technical engineer-founders building the infrastructure, platforms, and applications powering AI and data. We support pre-incorporation teams and write first checks for exceptional technical talent.

Likely not a fit for

Consumer applications, games, hardware, non-technical founding teams, mature stage companies

How they invest

Lead or follow
Usually leads
Typical decision
~2 weeks
Warm intro
Preferred
Involvement
Takes a board seat
Fund status
Actively deploying
Assets under mgmt
$48M
Decision process
Partnership vote

Partners & team

3 contacts on file

YT

Yang Tran

PartnerPartner · Primary contact

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y•••@ze•••.vc

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PS

Pete Soderling

General PartnerGeneral Partner & Founder

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p•••@ze•••.vc

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DR

Diana Rhie

Platform & OpsHead of Operations

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d•••@ze•••.vc

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Portfolio

ModalEnterprise Software

Modal provides high-performance AI infrastructure designed for developers, enabling them to run inference, training, and batch processing with low latency and instant autoscaling.

DagsterEnterprise Software

Dagster is a modern data orchestrator platform that enables users to manage data workflows, ensuring data quality and integration across various sectors.

HoneyHiveEnterprise Software

HoneyHive provides a platform for modern AI observability and evaluation, enabling teams to systematically evaluate and improve AI agents in production through features like distributed tracing, online evaluations, and collaboration with domain experts.

Acryl DataEnterprise Software

Acryl Data provides DataHub, a modern data catalog and metadata platform that transforms enterprise data into trusted context for both humans and AI agents.

DecodableEnterprise Software

Decodable provides a fully-managed, serverless platform for real-time ETL/ELT and stream processing, built on Apache Flink and Debezium, enabling easy development of real-time data pipelines using SQL, Java, and Python.

AnomaloEnterprise Software

Anomalo is an automated AI enterprise data quality platform that helps organizations ensure the accuracy and integrity of their data across various industries.

MotherduckEnterprise Software

MotherDuck is a serverless data warehouse built on DuckDB, designed to provide analytics solutions for data teams, software engineers, and data scientists, enabling them to query data easily using SQL or natural language.

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EmdashEnterprise Software

Emdash is an open-source agentic development environment that allows engineering teams to run multiple coding agents in parallel, each in its own Git worktree, enhancing software development efficiency.

QontextEnterprise Software

Qontext is the independent context layer for AI, aggregating fragmented company knowledge into a governed, continuously evolving company state to enable AI processes to run on a reusable context base.

LizzyAIHr Tech Work

LizzyAI automates candidate interviews with structured, unbiased AI conversations, significantly reducing recruiter workload and improving hiring efficiency and fairness.

CuspAIBiotech Life Sciences

CuspAI is a startup developing AI models for chemistry, focusing on the discovery and production of new materials using advanced AI techniques. The company aims to accelerate the development of breakthrough materials for various applications, including semiconductors and environmental solutions.

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Zero Prime Ventures Research Investment Thesis & Philosophy Zero Prime Ventures is a specialized early-stage venture capital fund focused on backing deeply technical engineer-founders building the infrastructure, platforms, and applications powering the AI and data revolution. The fund operates under a "Day Zero" investment philosophy, supporting pre-incorporation startups founded by exceptional t

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