# Zillionize

> Zillionize is a VC fund in Palo Alto backing Software and SaaS. See 132 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Palo Alto, United States
- Total investments: 132
- Last investment: Aug 2024
- Lead investor: 2%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/zillionizeangel
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/@zillionize
- Website: https://www.zillionize.com/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Zillionize/

Zillionize is a seed round startup investor. We focus on early-stage investing in founders who see the future and startups that create the future. We are self funded experienced operators. Our team live and breath enterprise software on a day to day basis and are equally as passionate about other areas of technology.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $120k–$4M |
| Series A | $4.1M–$33M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 40 | 30% |
| SaaS | 16 | 12% |
| Internet | 12 | 9% |
| E-Commerce | 12 | 9% |
| Information Technology | 12 | 9% |

224 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 108 | 82% |
| Funding Round | 6 | 5% |
| Series A | 5 | 4% |
| Pre-Seed | 4 | 3% |
| Angel | 1 | 1% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 104 | 79% |
| India | 4 | 3% |
| United Kingdom | 3 | 2% |
| Brazil | 2 | 2% |
| Ghana | 1 | 1% |

13 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Ben Li | Founding Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ben-li |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Thera | All things money movement. Built for global teams. Thera is an ecosystem of apps designed to save you money - Payroll, Banking, AP/AR. Whether you're looking to use one of our products or the full suite, we've got you covered. | $4.5M | Seed | Aug 22, 2024 |  |
| Tavus | Tavus offers a suite of products and services that enable developers and businesses to embed human-like artificial intelligence into video, voice, and text experiences. It offers real-time APIs and video generation tools that allow users to create digital avatars capable of seeing, hearing, speaking, and acting in conversational settings. Tavus’splatform supports proactive and adaptive AI agents that integrate with workflows across email, calendar, documents, and more, while its foundational models deliver perception, emotion, and rendering capabilities. The company serves both standalone developer use cases and enterprise deployments, allowing the embedding of white-label, multimodal conversational experiences at scale. | $6.1M | Seed | Mar 20, 2023 |  |
| Metriport | Metriport is an open-source platform that makes it easy for healthcare organizations to access and exchange medical data for their patients. | $2.4M | Seed | Dec 21, 2022 |  |
| Impossible Metals | Impossible Mining is building underwater robotics vehicles which mine battery metals responsibly from the seabed. It transitions to carbon-neutral energies and will continue to demand critical metals in volumes. The company's dredge-based technology can’t - the preservation of the seafloor environment.Impossible Mining was established in2020 in Pasadena, California. | $10.1M | Seed | Jun 21, 2022 |  |
| VantedgeAI | The goal of Vantedge AI, formerly known as 8vdx, is to provide an Agent Marketplace of curated agents to enable investors to get an investing edge to generate alpha by leveraging AI. Our insight to build this marketplace comes from our experience from running a credit hedge fund for 15 years and as a Y Combinator backed startup, we understand thecomplexities of AI and are here to offer a complete infrastructure to funds and startups alike. Our platform is built to serve the investment community with the highest security, compliance, and infrastructure tailored for institutional investors. | $3M | Seed | May 06, 2022 |  |
| Tavus | Tavus offers a suite of products and services that enable developers and businesses to embed human-like artificial intelligence into video, voice, and text experiences. It offers real-time APIs and video generation tools that allow users to create digital avatars capable of seeing, hearing, speaking, and acting in conversational settings. Tavus’splatform supports proactive and adaptive AI agents that integrate with workflows across email, calendar, documents, and more, while its foundational models deliver perception, emotion, and rendering capabilities. The company serves both standalone developer use cases and enterprise deployments, allowing the embedding of white-label, multimodal conversational experiences at scale. |  | Seed | May 01, 2022 |  |
| Heimdal | Heimdal is on a mission to decarbonize the world. Every year the world emits 40 billion tonnes of CO2 into the atmosphere. Using our process we permanently capture and store carbon dioxide from the sky. |  | Series A | Nov 29, 2021 |  |
| Phonic | Phonic is an application that allows users to record audio surveys that provide audio survey recordings for companies who are looking to get market research. | $2.2M | Seed | Oct 06, 2021 |  |
| Turion Space | Turion Space provides a spacecraft to remove orbital debris and services to existing satellites. The spacecraft will rendezvous and dock with current satellites and large debris objects using vision sensors and robotic arms. Utilizing the onboard propulsion system, the spacecraft will either deorbit or change the orbit of the debris object orsatellite. | $6.2M | Seed | Sep 01, 2021 |  |
| Alba Orbital | Alba Orbital build and design small commercial satellite platforms. Traditionally satellites have been very expensive, even the smallest commercial satellites like CubeSats cost six-figure amounts to build and launch. Alba Orbital develops pico-Satellites which weigh <1kg and cost significantly less. While offering almost all of the advantagesof a CubeSat. Being leaders in this niche, they are closely partnered with ESA and provide research in this area to them. | $3.4M | Seed | May 14, 2021 |  |

10 of 132 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Y Combinator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/y-combinator) — VC Fund, 74 deals together
- [Soma Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/soma-capital) — VC Fund, 12 deals together
- [FundersClub](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fundersclub) — VC Fund, 11 deals together
- [Liquid 2 Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/liquid2-ventures) — VC Fund, 10 deals together
- [Ludlow Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ludlow-ventures-llc) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [SV Angel](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sv-angel) — VC Fund, 6 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Zillionize invest in?

Zillionize invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Internet startups, most often at Seed and Funding Round stage. Most of the 132 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 Zillionize's check size?

Zillionize typically joins rounds of $120k–$4M at Seed and $4.1M–$33M 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 Zillionize participates in.

### How do I contact Zillionize?

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### Who are the partners at Zillionize?

The team at Zillionize includes Ben Li (Founding Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### 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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