Zachary Bookman
Partner @ Formation 8
San Francisco, United States
Zachary Bookman is a seed investor at Formation 8 in San Francisco focused on Software and FinTech. Zachary Bookman is based out of San Francisco, California and is the Co-Founder and Chairman Emeritus of OpenGov. Zachary previously worked at Formation 8 as a Partner. Zachary Bookman attended the University of Maryland.
- Total investments:
- 17
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 18%
Last updated:
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Industries Zachary Bookman invests in
Stages Zachary Bookman invests in
Countries Zachary Bookman invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
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Round size
- Seed
- $1.4M–$10M
- Series A
- $6.9M–$130M
- Series B
- $15M–$60M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 9 (53%)
- FinTech 3 (18%)
- Financial Services 3 (18%)
- SaaS 2 (12%)
- Big Data 2 (12%)
Stage
- Seed 7 (41%)
- Series A 4 (24%)
- Series B 3 (18%)
- Angel 1 (6%)
- Pre-Seed 1 (6%)
Country
- United States 11 (65%)
- Israel 1 (6%)
- Mexico 1 (6%)
- United Kingdom 1 (6%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| UpSmith is significantly enhancing lives by giving people access to training in practical skills and long-lasting careers. | $10M / Series A / Oct 05, 2026 | ||
| White-label OS helps city managers rebuilding a sense of place, reach their communities where they are and increasing community resilience | $10M / Seed / Sep 18, 2024 | ||
| SewerAI is an artificial intelligence software company that optimizes the inspection and analysis of sewer systems. The company is building a system to help assist operators in the field in identifying defects using deep learning and help engineers analyze data using machine learning. Its systems enable cities to quickly and accurately understandtheir sewer systems and plan rehabilitation. | $15M / Series B / Jun 18, 2024 | ||
| Grupago is pioneering digital microcredit for small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs) in Latin America, leveraging artificial intelligence, group collateral and community distribution to extend credit to micro-SMBs across the region who have been shut out of traditional SMB lending avenues. | $4.3M / Seed / Mar 12, 2024 | ||
| Zamp is the sales tax technology provider of solution that eliminates the need for you to manage the software. | $4M / Seed / May 10, 2023 | ||
| Pano offers hardware and software technology solutions for fire professionals to detect threats. Pano provides tools to the government, utilities, insurers, and private landowners in order to mitigate wildfire threats and protect lives, property, and the environment. Pano is a unified enterprise solution that combines cutting-edge hardware,artificial intelligence, and software. | $20M / Series A / Sep 19, 2022 | ||
| VADE brings convenience to parking through mobile applications. It provides drivers around the country with a mobile application that shows real-time spot availability and provides governments, businesses, and municipalities with crucial data on the driving and parking habits of their clients and citizens. The company uses proprietary IoT camerasand computer vision to power real-time parking spot availability and automated payments.Founded in 2017 by Ritwik Pavan, Christian Burke, and Matty Schaefer, VADE is headquartered in Raleigh, North Carolina. | $4.3M / Seed / Mar 04, 2022 | ||
| Binti builds modern software to help every child have a safe, loving, and stable family. 300+ child welfare agencies across 33 states use Binti's tools to care for over 30% of children in child welfare in the US. Our software covers the end-to-end of child welfare, from helping agencies efficiently recruit, license, and match foster parents,to supporting families of origin in getting back on their feet and reunifying with their children. Our products are designed specifically to address the complexities of child welfare. Agencies working with us have licensed 80% more families on average in their first year on Binti, with a 16% reduction in time to approve and 20-40% savings in social worker time. Binti is a for-profit, mission-driven company. Investors include Founders Fund, First Round Capital, Kapor Capital, and others. | $45M / Series B / Aug 27, 2021 | ||
| Airbase is a software development company that provides spend management software for bill payments, reporting, corporate cards, and AP automation. The software combines accounts payable automation, expense management, virtual cards, and vendor payment services. | $60M / Series B / Aug 01, 2021 | ||
| Trullion is a financial workflow automation platform that takes unstructured data such as PDFs and translates them into real-time financial images, including Lease Accounting and Revenue Recognition. | $3M / Seed / Mar 16, 2021 | ||
| See all 17 investments → | |||
Co-Investors
About Formation 8
Formation 8 is a venture capital firm that provides financial and strategic capital to early growth smart enterprise and energy technology companies. They support entrepreneurs who seek to transform the most important global industries by solving hard problems with technology solutions. Partnership is in their DNA. Formation 8 value trusted relationships with entrepreneurs, investors, and strategic partners through their global network. As a partner to young companies, Formation 8's goal is to create long-term, sustainable value through operational expertise and business development partnerships. Formation 8 leverage their deep and distributed networks to provide the market knowledge, deployment expertise, sales channels, and relationships needed to expand into and thrive in Asia. With local teams in Korea, China and Singapore, Formation 8 connect Silicon Valley start-ups to dynamic multinational corporations in these geographies.
Formation 8 Contacts
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Amit Mehta
Venture Partner
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Bon Woong Koo
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Bon Woong Koo
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Drew Oetting
Partner
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Haitao Zhang
Business Development Partner- China
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FAQ
What does Zachary Bookman invest in?
Zachary Bookman invests primarily in Software, FinTech and Financial Services startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 17 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Zachary Bookman invest in?
Zachary Bookman typically joins rounds of $1.4M–$10M at Seed, $6.9M–$130M at Series A and $15M–$60M at Series B. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Zachary Bookman's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Zachary Bookman took part in.
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When did Zachary Bookman last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Zachary Bookman closed in Oct 2026. Shizune tracks 17 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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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 Nov 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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