Zachary Sims
Angel Investor
New York, United States
Zachary Sims is a Series A investor in New York focused on Artificial Intelligence and Software. Zach is the cofounder and CEO of Codecademy, the leading online education company closing the skills gap by teaching programming. Codecademy has reached millions of users in every country in the world. Codecademy’s investors include Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers, Index Ventures, Richard Branson, Yuri Milner, and more. Zach has worked withGroupMe (acq. by Skype) and drop.io (acq. by Facebook). Zach was named to Inc. Magazine and Forbes Magazine’s 30 Under 30 lists, was selected as a Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum, and was voted as one of TIME Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People of 2013.
- Total investments:
- 14
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 0%
Last updated:
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Industries Zachary Sims invests in
Stages Zachary Sims invests in
Countries Zachary Sims invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
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Round size
- Seed
- $3.7M–$10M
- Series A
- $12M–$30M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Artificial Intelligence 7 (50%)
- Software 6 (43%)
- Enterprise Software 4 (29%)
- SaaS 3 (21%)
- Analytics 3 (21%)
Stage
- Series A 8 (57%)
- Seed 5 (36%)
- Series B 1 (7%)
Country
- United States 12 (86%)
- India 1 (7%)
- Canada 1 (7%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| OuterSignal provides AI-driven customer data enrichment and persona insights for ecommerce and digital brands. | $22M / Series A / Sep 30, 2026 | ||
| Naïve provides infrastructure for AI agents and applications, including compute, databases, identity, payments, communications, model routing, and tool integrations. Its platform enables users to deploy AI agents, build and host applications, automate business operations, and manage agent permissions, spending, credentials, and workflows through aunified infrastructure layer. | $28.5M / Series A / Aug 07, 2026 | ||
| Kernel is a developer platform that provides Crazy Fast Browser Infrastructure for AI agents to use the internet. | $6.6M / Seed / Sep 09, 2025 | ||
| Build AI Automations & Assistants Trained on Your Business. | $3.7M / Seed / Aug 20, 2024 | ||
| Better Stack is a cloud-based observability platform that helps developers monitor uptime, logs, and system performance in real time. It combines monitoring, logging, and incident management into a single unified dashboard. The platform is designed to improve reliability and help teams quickly detect and resolve system issues. | $18.6M / Series A / Jul 20, 2022 | ||
| Community scales your business, resources, and presence in ways that traditional marketing or advertising channels cannot. When done right, community enables and improves customer acquisition, streamlines support and success, bolsters retention, and provides crucial product insights. Visit https://commsor.com/ to learn more. | $50M / Series B / Mar 01, 2022 | ||
| Circle is a community platform that brings together the creators' discussions, memberships, and content. The company was founded by Sid Yadav, Rudy Santino, and Andrew Guttormsen. | $24.9M / Series A / Nov 24, 2021 | ||
| Practice's tools will help you fulfill your potential as a coach. With all your clients' details at your fingertips, you'll never lack the right information when you need it. | $10M / Seed / Oct 28, 2021 | ||
| By using data, technology, and high quality medical expertise, we aim to deliver an empathetic people-centric healthcare experience that helps people live longer. | $12M / Series A / Sep 30, 2021 | ||
| SproutFi is an application that allows investing in the US stock market and works as a social network. | $5.5M / Seed / Sep 30, 2021 | ||
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FAQ
What does Zachary Sims invest in?
Zachary Sims invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Software and Enterprise Software startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 14 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 Sims invest in?
Zachary Sims typically joins rounds of $3.7M–$10M at Seed and $12M–$30M at Series A. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Zachary Sims's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Zachary Sims took part in.
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When did Zachary Sims last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Zachary Sims closed in Sep 2026. Shizune tracks 14 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 Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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