# Andrew Filev

> Andrew Filev is a seed investor at Zencoder (San Jose) backing Software and Advertising. See 3 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Zencoder](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/zencoder-2c99)
- Location: San Jose, United States
- Total investments: 3
- Last investment: Jun 2022
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/filev
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/andrewsthoughts
- Website: https://x.com/andrewsthoughts
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/projectsoftware

Andrew Filev is a seed investor at Zencoder in San Jose focused on Software and Advertising. Andrew Filev is based out of San Jose, California and is the Founder and CEO of Zencoder. Andrew previously worked at Wrike as a Founder and CEO.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.5M–$3.1M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 2 | 67% |
| Advertising | 2 | 67% |
| Drones | 1 | 33% |
| Google | 1 | 33% |
| Big Data | 1 | 33% |

16 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 2 | 67% |
| Series A | 1 | 33% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Adwisely | Our mission is to make digital advertising easy and efficient. In our vision, human involvement in ads creation and optimization should be minimized. To get the maximum possible returns on advertising investments, people must focus on improving the product/service quality - the ads can be fully automated by software. | $1.5M | Seed | Jun 27, 2022 |  |
| Insense | Insense is a Creator Marketplace for UGC & Creator Content at scale. Our global community of 20,000+ vetted creators delivers cost-efficient creator mobile-first assets in just 10 business days, whilst our managed service provides creative editing & media buying for high performance. Our customers have seen 4x reduction in production costs,3x higher CTR, and up to 12x ROAS. | $3.1M | Seed | Feb 01, 2022 |  |
| TraceAir | TraceAir is a construction site development acceleration platform providing software and services to land developers home builders and contractors.Their software helps measure, verify, and quantify the progress of construction during the site work stage, significantly reducing budget and timeline uncertainty for developers, contractors, and otherparties involved in a project. With the power of drones, it is times faster, cheaper, and more convenient than traditional methods. It provides valuable insights, not just images or raw data. | $3.5M | Series A | Jan 20, 2021 |  |

3 of 3 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [AvanTech Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/avantech-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [CABRA VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cabra-vc) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Digital Consumer Brand Laboratory](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/digital-consumer-brand-laboratory-9981) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [ENGEO](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/engeo) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Flyer One Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/flyer-one-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Gaingels](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gaing) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Zencoder

VC Fund · Campbell, United States

Zencoder is an innovative AI coding agent platform that enhances software development by enabling developers to leverage embedded AI agents in their workflow, leading to faster product delivery. Zencoder leverages embedded AI agents to improve the code generation of the LLMs and reduce hallucinations through deep syntactic and semantic analysis ofthe developer's repository and the generated code. Further, the agentic workflow helps correct the code generated by the LLMs, giving developers time to focus on high-value tasks.

3 contacts available at Zencoder.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Andrew Filev | Founder & CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andrew-filev |
| Alex Shershebnev | Head of ML/DevOps | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alex-shershebnev |
| Archie Sharma | COO, GTM | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/archie-sharma |

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## FAQ

### What does Andrew Filev invest in?

Andrew Filev invests primarily in Software, Advertising and Drones startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 3 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Andrew Filev's check size?

Andrew Filev typically joins rounds of $1.5M–$3.1M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Andrew Filev participates in.

### When did Andrew Filev last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Andrew Filev closed in Jun 2022. Shizune tracks 3 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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