# Jake Zeller

> Jake Zeller is a seed investor at Spearhead (Stanford) backing Software and SaaS. See 11 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Spearhead](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/spearhead-e8e9)
- Location: Stanford, United States
- Total investments: 11
- Last investment: Jul 2023
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jake-zeller-79923454
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/jake_zeller
- Website: http://www.jakezeller.com/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hostgator

Jake Zeller is a Venture Hacker at AngelList and investor in early-stage technology companies.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $500k–$5.4M |
| Series A | $5M–$7.2M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 4 | 36% |
| SaaS | 3 | 27% |
| Enterprise Software | 3 | 27% |
| Internet | 2 | 18% |
| Cloud Computing | 2 | 18% |

28 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 6 | 55% |
| Series A | 2 | 18% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 9% |
| Series B | 1 | 9% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 9% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 6 | 55% |
| India | 2 | 18% |
| Israel | 1 | 9% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Florida Street | PIXEL GG INC. | $5.4M | Seed | Jul 11, 2023 |  |
| Gondi | Gondi is a non-custodial decentralized NFT lending protocol designed to build the most effective NFT credit market. The protocol allows for ongoing underwriting and full and partial refinancing of all outstanding loans, resulting in a more dynamic and liquid market. | $5.4M | Seed | Jul 11, 2023 |  |
| dWallet Labs | dWallet Labs provides a web3 control solution. | $5M | Pre-Seed | Aug 18, 2022 |  |
| Fashinza | Fashinza is a B2B marketplace that solves trend forecasting and sourcing for fashion brands and retailers. Fashinza's AI platform crunches data across multiple layers and platforms to predict the upcoming trends and designs. It combines the design platform with its cloud connected network of 200 factories to source products while providing acompletely online experience. | $60M | Series B | May 17, 2022 |  |
| Upstash | Upstash develops serverless data platform for developers of data-intensive applications using a consumption-based pricing model. | $1.9M | Seed | Mar 17, 2022 |  |
| Kitchens Centre | Kitchens Centre offers turnkey solutions to cloud kitchens – right from providing commercial space and kitchen infrastructure to assisting with branding, order management, delivery, and maintenance services. | $500K | Seed | Apr 02, 2020 |  |
| MaintainX | MaintainX is a software company that provides maintenance and asset management tools for industrial and frontline operations. Its platform helps organizations manage work orders, preventive maintenance, inspections, reporting, asset tracking, and parts inventory through a centralized digital system. The company integrates AI-powered features thatassist teams with troubleshooting, data collection, operational analysis, and predictive maintenance workflows. MaintainX is used across industries such as manufacturing, facilities management, food and beverage, retail, and distribution to improve equipment uptime and streamline maintenance processes. The platform also supports compliance and safety procedures by digitizing workflows and standardizing maintenance operations across multiple sites. | $3.8M | Seed | Mar 26, 2019 |  |
| Avochato | Avochato is a mobile messaging platform designed for customer relationship management. It enables business teams to connect with customers and deliver a seamless and efficient messaging experience every step of the way, from lead capture and nurturing to post-sale support. | $5M | Series A | Dec 07, 2018 |  |
| AuditFile | AuditFile is an information technology company that offers cloud-based auditing solutions for CPA firms.AuditFile's cloud-based solution for CPA firms that enables unparalleled management of the audit process. AuditFile automates key parts of the audit process, from uploading the trial balance to generating financial statements. They'vealso developed proprietary algorithms that help auditors identify potential fraud.It was founded in 2011 and headquartered in Walnut Creek, California. | $3M |  | Aug 13, 2014 |  |
| Tachyus | Tachyus develops a technology platform to optimize energy production for the oil and gas industry. Its platform provides prescriptive and predictive analytics, descriptive analytics, integration, and measurement features. Tachyus offers solutions for production optimization in cyclic steaming, steam-flooding, CO2-flooding, water-flooding, pumpoptimization, workover prioritization, and shale fracking. It production responses to stimulation, relationships between completion design and initial production, and optimal injection rates through its platform enables users to predict mechanical equipment failure. Tachyus serves through iOS applications. Dakin Sloss, Francisco Leport, and Paul Orland founded Software Revolution in 2013 that became Tachyus in April 2013. It has its headquarters in San Mateo in California. | $7.2M | Series A | Apr 10, 2014 |  |

10 of 11 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Amity Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/amity-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Elevation Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/elevation-capital-6e8a) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Foundation Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/foundation-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Hack VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hack-vc) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Third Kind Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/high-line-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Myelin VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/myelin-vc) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Spearhead

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

Dedicated to backing and mentoring founders.

1 contacts available at Spearhead.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Jake Zeller | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jake-zeller |

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## FAQ

### What does Jake Zeller invest in?

Jake Zeller invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Enterprise Software startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 11 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 Jake Zeller's check size?

Jake Zeller typically joins rounds of $500k–$5.4M at Seed and $5M–$7.2M 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 Jake Zeller participates in.

### When did Jake Zeller last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Jake Zeller closed in Jul 2023. Shizune tracks 11 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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