Zero Prime Ventures
VC Fund
San Francisco, United States
Zero Prime Ventures is a VC fund in San Francisco focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. Pre-seed/seed fund writing first checks into engineer-led enterprise startups focused on data technologies (AI/ML/deep learning/data infra)
- Total investments:
- 92
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 8%
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Zero Prime Ventures invests in
Stages Zero Prime Ventures invests in
Countries Zero Prime Ventures invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
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Round size
- Seed
- $1.5M–$13M
- Pre-Seed
- $497k–$3.4M
- Series A
- $12M–$31M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 40 (43%)
- Artificial Intelligence 25 (27%)
- Analytics 18 (20%)
- Machine Learning 17 (18%)
- Information Technology 17 (18%)
Stage
- Seed 40 (43%)
- Series A 26 (28%)
- Pre-Seed 15 (16%)
- Series B 7 (8%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 1 (1%)
Country
- United States 48 (52%)
- United Kingdom 7 (8%)
- Germany 2 (2%)
- The Netherlands 2 (2%)
- Israel 1 (1%)
Team
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Pete Soderling
General Partner
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General Partner | Total investments: 13 | Find email | |
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Yang Tran
Partner
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Partner | Total investments: 15 | Find email |
Investments
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Structured AI is an AI-powered tool designed to help users organize their days more easily and quickly by creating and managing tasks in a timeline. | $4.2M / Seed / Jun 10, 2026 | |
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Build powerful, safe, interconnected AI agents without the technical overhead. | $10M / Seed / Jun 02, 2026 | |
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Qontext is an AI platform that acts as a unified context layer for businesses. It ingests data from tools like HubSpot, Notion, and Google Drive, automatically structuring it into dynamic "Context Vaults"—living knowledge graphs that capture entity relationships and stay updated without manual effort. | $2.7M / Pre-Seed / Feb 05, 2026 | |
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Runware provides lightning-fast text-to-image and image-to-image generation speeds—0.3 seconds for SD 1.5 and 0.9 seconds for SDXL, all through one powerful API. | $50M / Series A / Dec 11, 2025 | |
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LizzyAI is a human-resources technology company that offers an AI-driven interviewing and candidate-assessment platform. Its core services include structured AI-based interview generation, real-time candidate scoring tied to job-relevant evidence (rather than appearance or resume alone), transcript and highlight-reel delivery, and integration withApplicant Tracking Systems (ATS). The platform is designed to comply with global data-protection and fairness regulations—including GDPR, CCPA and the upcoming EU AI Act—by excluding factors like gender, accent or background from assessments and providing audit-ready decision trails. | $5M / Seed / Dec 02, 2025 | |
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Mabyduck makes it easy to evaluate AI generated content. | Pre-Seed / Nov 01, 2025 | |
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Higgsfield is a video AI firm aimed to making social media content creation accessible to everyone. | $50M / Series A / Sep 09, 2025 | |
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Runware provides lightning-fast text-to-image and image-to-image generation speeds—0.3 seconds for SD 1.5 and 0.9 seconds for SDXL, all through one powerful API. | $13M / Seed / Sep 09, 2025 | |
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Build powerful, safe, interconnected AI agents without the technical overhead. | $3.4M / Pre-Seed / Aug 14, 2025 | |
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Structured AI is an AI-powered tool designed to help users organize their days more easily and quickly by creating and managing tasks in a timeline. | $497.1K / Pre-Seed / Jul 30, 2025 | |
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FAQ
What does Zero Prime Ventures invest in?
Zero Prime Ventures invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Analytics startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 92 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 Zero Prime Ventures's check size?
Zero Prime Ventures typically joins rounds of $1.5M–$13M at Seed, $497k–$3.4M at Pre-Seed and $12M–$31M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Zero Prime Ventures participates in.
How do I contact Zero Prime Ventures?
Public channels for Zero Prime Ventures include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.
Who are the partners at Zero Prime Ventures?
The team at Zero Prime Ventures includes Pete Soderling (General Partner) and Yang Tran (Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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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