# Zypsy

> Zypsy is a VC fund backing Internet and Information Technology. See 2 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 2
- Last investment: Dec 2024
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/zypsy/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/zypsycom
- Website: https://zypsy.com/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/zypsycom/

Zypsy is an award-winning design team for founders. Providing brand, product, engineering execution, and investments, where design can unlock outsized outcomes. The company’s vision is to design tomorrow’s most valuable companies with today’s most exceptional people..The founding team brings experience from IDEO, Meta, Fantasy, Microsoft, andSaatchi & Saatchi. Since its inception, Zypsy has collaborated with over 40 startups and launched more than 40 new ideas to market; clients collectively report more than $2B in valuation gains.In 2023, Zypsy introduced Design Capital, an investment program that exchanges intensive design services-for-equity (8–10 weeks, up to ~$100k). Zypsy also manages Zypsy Capital, its venture fund that invests cash in founders, with design support available on a “hands-if” basis—hands-on when useful, hands-off when not.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for Zypsy. Shizune tracks 3 team members at Zypsy. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/zypsy?utm_source=investor_profile

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Internet | 1 | 50% |
| Information Technology | 1 | 50% |

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 1 | 50% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 50% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Kaz Tamai | Founder | 0 | — |
| Kazuhiro Hashimoto | Co-founder and Product designer | 0 | — |
| Matt Kim | CEO | 0 | — |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Sekai | Sekai makes it easy to create, share, and monetize interactive narratives. | $3.1M | Seed | Dec 05, 2024 |  |
| Zylon | Zylon seeks to use the funding to expand the team and extend the existing SaaS solution to support entrepreneurs, small and medium-sized businesses that lack AI technical team skills and must construct their own GenAI tools and associated infrastructure. | $3.2M | Pre-Seed | Feb 13, 2024 |  |

2 of 2 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Hashed](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hashed-f96b) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [a16z crypto](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/a16z-crypto) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- Azuki — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Felicis](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/felicis-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [LifeX Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lifex-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Orange DAO](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/orange-fund) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Zypsy invest in?

Zypsy invests primarily in Internet and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 2 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Spain. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Zypsy?

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### Who are the partners at Zypsy?

The team at Zypsy includes Kaz Tamai (Founder), Kazuhiro Hashimoto (Co-founder and Product designer) and Matt Kim (CEO). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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