# Z5 Capital

> Z5 Capital is a VC fund backing Software and Artificial Intelligence. See 15 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Palo Alto, United States
- Total investments: 15
- Last investment: Feb 2025
- Lead investor: 27%
- Fund size: $4.3M
- Last fund: Jan 2020
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/z5-capital/
- Website: https://www.z5capital.com/

Z5 Capital is a VC fund in Palo Alto focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. Z5 Capital operates as a venture capital firm and invests in early-stage enterprise companies. Z5 Capital serves customers in the United States.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 8 | 53% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 6 | 40% |
| SaaS | 4 | 27% |
| Information Technology | 4 | 27% |
| Cyber Security | 3 | 20% |

24 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 9 | 60% |
| Series A | 2 | 13% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2 | 13% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 7% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 10 | 67% |
| India | 1 | 7% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 7% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Arun Ramamoorthy | Co-Founding Partner | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/arun-ramamoorthy-5073 |
| Arun Ramamoorthy | Founding Partner | 5 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/arun-ramamoorthy |
| Nanda Krish | Co-Founding General Partner | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nanda-krish |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Nirmata | Nirmata is a fast-growing technology startup that provides an easy-to-use, software-as-as-service for unified governance, security, and compliance for cloud-native applications and infrastructure. Nirmata is the creator and core maintainer of Kyverno, the popular CNCF policy engine. Kyverno has rapidly become the de-facto standard for Kubernetespolicy management, with over 2.5 billion downloads and 4.5K GitHub stars. Nirmata’s solutions are deployed by thousands of Kubernetes users across all verticals, especially in regulated industries like banking and financial services, utilities, healthcare, and life-sciences. Nirmata’s commercial solutions build on Kyverno and provide enterprise observability, workflows, and integrations for Fortune 2000 customers. | $9.6M | Venture - Series Unknown | Feb 10, 2025 |  |
| Tursio | Tursio helps turn databases into generative AI machines, without no additional infrastructure or data movement involved. Alekh Jindal, Shi Qiao and Rony Chatterjee founded the company, which is headquartered in Seattle area, Washington. | $1.8M | Venture - Series Unknown | Feb 05, 2025 |  |
| Clientell | Salesforce runs revenue. But using it still requires developers. Clientell changes that. We build autonomous AI agents that let RevOps, admins, and consultants execute complex Salesforce tasks — building reports, updating configs, deploying automations — through plain language. No code. No dev dependency. No 3-week sprint. The result: ops teamsmove at the speed they think, not the speed IT responds. Clientell is built for the teams that live inside Salesforce but have never owned it. Manufacturing ops leads who need pipeline visibility now. SaaS RevOps teams running lean with no Salesforce developer on staff. Consultants managing 10 orgs at once. We're not a copilot. We're not a chatbot wrapper. We're the execution layer that sits on top of your Salesforce org and gets things done. | $2.5M | Seed | Apr 15, 2024 |  |
| Tursio | Tursio helps turn databases into generative AI machines, without no additional infrastructure or data movement involved. Alekh Jindal, Shi Qiao and Rony Chatterjee founded the company, which is headquartered in Seattle area, Washington. | $1.5M | Venture - Series Unknown | Feb 07, 2024 |  |
| Alltius | Alltius's platform KNO allows product owners to harness the power of Generative AI in a secure, accurate, and reliable manner to add conversational capabilities to their products. KNO is currently being used as a no-code Help SaaS tool that is trained on product knowledge bases, support tickets, and video tutorials. It reduces the time peoplespend looking for answers by 100x, increasing customer NPS and reducing support costs by 40–70%. The "Humans of Alltius" include professors from CMU and the University. of California, consultants from BCG and McKinsey, and engineers from Facebook, Google, Rippling, and D.E. Shaw are driven by the obsession of augmenting human intelligence through AI. | $2.4M | Pre-Seed | May 30, 2023 |  |
| Secuvy Inc | Secuvy is a Next-Generation Cloud Platform to automate Data Security, Privacy Compliance and Governance via AI-Driven workflows. Best in class Data Intelligence especially for Unstructured data. Single Click Deploy within minutes. Agentless, No Patching and Upgrade needed. Auto-classification eliminates any manual rules. Data Intelligence atPetabyte Scale. No Rules or Policies. Drastic reduction in costs, time and errors. |  | Seed | Mar 16, 2023 |  |
| StepFunction.ai | StepFunction.ai provides a growth solution for SaaS AI platforms that provide rich customer intent signals to SaaS providers. | $5M | Seed | Aug 31, 2022 |  |
| qiibee | qiibee is a software company that offers a solution for businesses and consumers in its blockchain-based platform. Through qiibee’s plug-and-play solutions, enterprises worldwide are running and operating their loyalty programs on the blockchain in just a few hours. The company is creating a decentralized, Ethereum infrastructure-based loyaltyecosystem by providing a loyalty platform and developer interface on which every loyalty application can be tokenized. qiibee enables companies all around the world to run their loyalty applications on the blockchain. The cutting-edge, easy-to-use solutions set the new global standard for loyalty. | $4.8M | Seed | Jul 05, 2022 |  |
| Nirmata | Nirmata is a fast-growing technology startup that provides an easy-to-use, software-as-as-service for unified governance, security, and compliance for cloud-native applications and infrastructure. Nirmata is the creator and core maintainer of Kyverno, the popular CNCF policy engine. Kyverno has rapidly become the de-facto standard for Kubernetespolicy management, with over 2.5 billion downloads and 4.5K GitHub stars. Nirmata’s solutions are deployed by thousands of Kubernetes users across all verticals, especially in regulated industries like banking and financial services, utilities, healthcare, and life-sciences. Nirmata’s commercial solutions build on Kyverno and provide enterprise observability, workflows, and integrations for Fortune 2000 customers. | $4M | Seed | Aug 11, 2021 |  |
| Flexmoney | Flexmoney is to re-invent consumer credit as an instant digital service at the point of sale for lenders and merchants. | $4.8M | Series A | Jun 15, 2021 |  |

10 of 15 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Z5 Capital invest in?

Z5 Capital invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and SaaS startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 15 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Z5 Capital?

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### Who are the partners at Z5 Capital?

The team at Z5 Capital includes Arun Ramamoorthy (Co-Founding Partner), Arun Ramamoorthy (Founding Partner) and Nanda Krish (Co-Founding General Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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