# Zelkova Ventures

> Zelkova Ventures is a VC fund in New York backing Software and SaaS. See 101 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 101
- Last investment: Jun 2025
- Lead investor: 4%
- Last fund: Nov 2014
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/zelkova-ventures/
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/zelkovavc
- Website: http://www.zelkovavc.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Zelkova-Ventures/136478366369951

Zelkova Ventures is a venture capital firm committed to helping entrepreneurs build companies. The firm primarily looks to invest in early stage companies, many times pre-revenue. In many instances they provide a company's first outside/institutional capital. They look to take an active role and partner with the companies they investin. Along with their capital, Zelkova brings expertise, insight and execution to all of their portfolio companies.Zelkova, although not exclusively, focuses on several key sectors - Software Services, Internet Technologies, Environmental Technologies and Consumer Products.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $750k–$3.7M |
| Series A | $1.2M–$9.2M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 37 | 37% |
| SaaS | 19 | 19% |
| Analytics | 11 | 11% |
| E-Commerce | 10 | 10% |
| Internet | 9 | 9% |

151 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 49 | 49% |
| Series A | 23 | 23% |
| Funding Round | 6 | 6% |
| Angel | 4 | 4% |
| Pre-Seed | 4 | 4% |

10 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 76 | 75% |
| Canada | 2 | 2% |
| Israel | 1 | 1% |
| Sweden | 1 | 1% |
| Australia | 1 | 1% |

6 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Christina Juzdan | Assistant | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/christina-juzdan |
| Jay Levy | Co - Founder & Partner | 6 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jay-levy |
| Larry Scheinfeld | Co-Founder & Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/larry-scheinfeld |
| Maureen Ruggles | Team Member | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/maureen-ruggles |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Compyl | Eliminate the need for multiple security tools, gain enterprise-level insights and grow with a scalable GRC ecosystem. Compyl monitors and assigns workflows in a single location to ensure regulatory requirements and IT frameworks are continuously met by establishing a proper information security foundation across the entire organization. | $12M | Series A | Jun 04, 2025 |  |
| Respondology | Respondology develops a customizable comment moderation tool for businesses or anyone with a large online audience. It enables brands of all types to regain control of their presence in social media by immediately and discreetly removing damaging social comments and bots across paid, organic, and influencer social marketing. | $5M | Series A | Apr 23, 2025 |  |
| Ocient | Ocient is a startup building a near-real-time database and data analytics platform for petabyte- to exabyte-scale data sets. Ocient was founded by the talent behind the largest software startup exit in Chicago’s history. Ocient is a well-funded company, with an engineering team comprised of brilliant computer scientists hailing from the world’s topuniversities and organizations. | $42.1M | Series B | Apr 22, 2025 |  |
| Basil | Basil is embedded workforce management software that powers how teams onboard and grow their 1099 workforce for projects/campaigns, with enriched talent data, ML-powered planning tools, and instant onboarding/payment flows. |  |  | Sep 01, 2024 |  |
| FORA | Fora is a revolutionary executive relationship management (ERM) platform that is ready to alter C-suite decision-making using cutting-edge AI technology. | $3.8M | Pre-Seed | Jan 31, 2024 |  |
| Respondology | Respondology develops a customizable comment moderation tool for businesses or anyone with a large online audience. It enables brands of all types to regain control of their presence in social media by immediately and discreetly removing damaging social comments and bots across paid, organic, and influencer social marketing. | $11M | Series A | Apr 06, 2023 |  |
| myPocketCFO | MyPocketCFO is an integrated platform that simplifies financial management for small and medium-sized consumer brand businesses. The platform comprehends the entire company's financial picture, easily controls accounting, analysis, financing, and fundraising, enables users to automate bookkeeping, and instantly creates insight reports andfinancial statements. |  | Pre-Seed | Nov 08, 2022 |  |
| Notably | Notably offers a qualitative research intelligence platform for building a SaaS product & offering qualitative research. | $1.5M | Seed | Oct 12, 2022 |  |
| Teal | Teal helps individuals advocate for themselves and build meaningful careers. The company provides content, tools, and support to help people navigate change and drive their careers. Users can create, manage, and track multiple versions of their resumes, making it easier to tailor applications for different job opportunities. Teal simplifies the jobsearch process by allowing users to track their job applications and manage contacts efficiently. | $6.3M | Seed | Jun 07, 2022 |  |
| Vitally | Vitally is a customer engagement platform for B2B SaaS companies to drive a world-class customer experience and eliminate churn. Vitally's easy-to-use platform integrates all customer data and provides a 360-degree view into the metrics that matter most to you, allowing clients to set up health scores and notifications, and create automationplaybooks. Vitally.io is a modern customer success platform that teams actually use. | $9.2M | Series A | Jul 21, 2021 |  |

10 of 101 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Zelkova Ventures invest in?

Zelkova Ventures invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Analytics startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 101 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 Zelkova Ventures's check size?

Zelkova Ventures typically joins rounds of $750k–$3.7M at Seed and $1.2M–$9.2M 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 Zelkova Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact Zelkova Ventures?

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### Who are the partners at Zelkova Ventures?

The team at Zelkova Ventures includes Christina Juzdan (Assistant), Jay Levy (Co - Founder & Partner) and Larry Scheinfeld (Co-Founder & Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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