About Zelkova Ventures
Zelkova Ventures is a venture capital firm founded in 2008. It is primarily based out of Miami, United States. As of Jun 2025, Zelkova Ventures has invested in 86 companies. It primarily invests in Seed round in United States based startups. Its investments are spread across a wide range of sectors from Enterprise Applications to Consumer and Retail. Most recently it participated in the $***** Series A round of Compyl Overall, Zelkova Ventures portfolio has seen 44 acquisitions including key companies like Superhuman, GameChanger Media and Fab. A lot of funds co-invest with Zelkova Ventures, with names like 500 Global sharing a substantial percentage of its portfolio. Zelkova Ventures has team of 1 people including 1 partners.Key Metrics
Team Members
Portfolio Count
Portfolio Sectors
Portfolio Locations
Rounds of Entry
Seed, Series A & 3 more
Portfolio Acquisitions
Zelkova Ventures' List of Top Investments
Zelkova Ventures has a portfolio of 86 companies. Their most notable investments are in Klout and ReTel Technologies.Their portfolio spans across United States, Canada, Israel and 1 more locations. They have invested in Enterprise Applications, Consumer, Retail and 23 other sectors, across stages such as Seed, Series A and 3 more. Here is the list of top investments by Zelkova Ventures:1. Superhuman
Provider of an AI-powered email scheduling app. It offers a browser extension that enables users to start up, search and send mail. It has undone send features, artificial intelligence to detect and highlight important emails, read status, mail scheduling and follow up.
Key facts about Superhuman
- Founded Year: 2014
- Location: San Francisco (United States)
- Last Known Valuation: $*****
- Stage: Acquired
- Total Funding till date: $118M
- Employee Count: 166 as on Jul 31, 2026
- Investors: HT Ventures, First Round Capital and 45 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series C, 2024, $*****
- Highlight: Acquired
One-tap app connecting youth sports communities, empowering athletes and families. This platform streamlines youth sports management, offering features for scheduling, live streaming, scorekeeping, and team communication. It provides tools for coaches, parents, and athletes to connect and share game day moments. The platform supports various sports, including baseball, softball, basketball, football, and more. It offers resources like content hubs and educational materials to enhance the youth sports experience. It is a SaaS platform that provides mobile application and web based services. It is a B2C platform that offers subscription and fan pricing. It is a software platform that offers features like login, streaming, scorekeeping, messaging, and scheduling.
Key facts about GameChanger Media
- Founded Year: 2009
- Location: New York City (United States)
- Stage: Acquired
- Total Funding till date: $17.4M
- Employee Count: 374 as on Mar 31, 2026
- Investors: Zelkova Ventures, firmgroupsinc.com and 6 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series B, Apr 03, 2014, $*****
- Highlight: Acquired
3. Fama
Fama is a cloud-based, SaaS platform that offers employers actionable insight into a candidate's social media background and digital footprint. A combination of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and human-based quality assurance automatically highlights references to bigotry, illegal drugs, discriminatory behavior, or any 'custom risk' that negatively impacts the enterprise. FirstAdvantage, a global background screening firm announced a partnership with Fama in September 2016.
Key facts about Fama
- Founded Year: 2015
- Location: Los Angeles (United States)
- Stage: Series B
- Total Funding till date: $14.2M
- Employee Count: 77 as on Jul 31, 2026
- Investors: Zelkova Ventures, Bullpen Capital and 13 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series B, Feb 22, 2022, $*****
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
4. Fab
Digital marketplace for content creators to discover, share, buy, and sell digital assets. It is unifying unreal engine marketplace and offer digital assets from studios, brands and millions of independent digital artists who will benefit from an industry. It is an open marketplace, offering content for a broad set of content creation tools, game engines, open worlds, and metaverse platforms.
Key facts about Fab
- Founded Year: 2010
- Location: New York City (United States)
- Last Known Valuation: $*****
- Stage: Acquired
- Total Funding till date: $336M
- Employee Count: 166 as on Jul 31, 2026
- Investors: First Round Capital, Atomico and 23 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series D, Aug 12, 2013, $*****
- Highlight: Acquired
5. Food52
Online retailer of home products and recipe content for the communities. The product catalog includes bakeware, grill pans, blenders, juicers, toasters, clocks, towels, and more. The platform consists of a recipe-sharing website, recipe contest, and cookbook. The platform for cooks to share their recipes to its networks.
Key facts about Food52
- Founded Year: 2009
- Location: New York City (United States)
- Stage: Acquired
- Total Funding till date: $33.3M
- Employee Count: 153 as on Jul 31, 2026
- Investors: Walden Venture Capital, HT Ventures and 15 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series B, Nov 06, 2023, $*****
- Highlight: Acquired
Zelkova Ventures' Year-on-Year Investment Trends
Zelkova Ventures has invested in 86 companies over the last 17 years, with an average of 2 new investments annually in the last 10 years. In 2025, it made 3 investments. Its most recent first time investment was in Compyl and most recent follow-on round was in Respondology.Year | No. of Investments | ||
|---|---|---|---|
1st Round | Follow-on | Total | |
2026 (YTD) | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2025 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
2024 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
2023 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
2022 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2021 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
2020 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2019 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
2018 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
2017 | 6 | 0 | 6 |
Zelkova Ventures' Investments by Stage
Zelkova Ventures has made 39 investments in Seed stage with an average round size of $1.93M, 16 investments in Series A stage with an average round size of $4.33M, 2 investments in Angel stage with an average round size of $595K, 1 investment in Convertible Debt stage with an average round size of $225K and 1 investment in Series B stage with an average round size of $48M.Stage of entry | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
Seed | 39 |
Series A | 16 |
Angel | 2 |
Convertible Debt | 1 |
Series B | 1 |
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
Zelkova Ventures' Investments by Sector
Zelkova Ventures has a diverse portfolio, with companies operating in the Enterprise Applications, Consumer, FinTech, Vertical SaaS and Enterprise Infrastructure. Notably, it has invested in 74 Tech companies, 66 Enterprise (B2B) companies, 53 Software companies and at least 40 companies focusing on Saas.Sector | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
Enterprise Applications | 42 |
Consumer | 12 |
FinTech | 10 |
Vertical SaaS | 10 |
Enterprise Infrastructure | 6 |
Others | 41 |
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
Zelkova Ventures' Investments by Geography
Zelkova Ventures has made most investments in United States (57), followed by Israel where it has made 1 investment.Country | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
United States | 57 |
Israel | 1 |
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
Zelkova Ventures' recent investments
Zelkova Ventures has not made any investment in 2026 so far.Here are the most recent investments by Zelkova Ventures:
Filter this listDate | Company | Location | Round Details | Round Amount | Co-Investors |
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Jun 04, 2025 | United States | Series A | 9904 | [+5] | |
Apr 22, 2025 | United States | Series B | 6925 | [+4] | |
Apr 08, 2025 | United States | Series A | 2355 | [+3] | |
Jan 31, 2024 | United States | Seed | 3909 | [+3] | |
Apr 13, 2023 | United States | Series A | 5180 | [+4] |
Acquired companies in Zelkova Ventures' Portfolio
44 companies from Zelkova Ventures' portfolio have been acquired. The most recent acquisition was Machinery Partner in May 2026 by Phoenix Tailings for $*****.Here are Zelkova Ventures' portfolio companies that got acquired most recently:
Company | Acquisition Date | First Invested on | First Round of Investment | Round Size |
|---|---|---|---|---|
May 08, 2026 | - | - | 2529 | |
Mar 31, 2026 | - | - | 4056 | |
Jul 01, 2025 | - | - | 1994 | |
Jun 16, 2023 | May 27, 2016 | Seed | 6197 | |
May 17, 2022 | Jan 14, 2010 | Series A | 5735 |
Team profile of Zelkova Ventures
Zelkova Ventures has a team of 1 member located in United States. Zelkova Ventures' team does not sit on the board of any company as of now.Co-investors of Zelkova Ventures
Over the past 17 years, 369 investors have co-invested in Zelkova Ventures's portfolio companies. This includes funds and angels.
- Invested before Zelkova Ventures: Techstars, Right Side Capital Management and 49 others have invested in rounds before Zelkova Ventures. There are 13 companies where Techstars has invested before Zelkova Ventures and 3 companies where Right Side Capital Management has invested before Zelkova Ventures.
- Top Co-investors of Zelkova Ventures: 185 investors entered a company along with Zelkova Ventures. These include investors like 500 Global (7 companies).
- Invested after Zelkova Ventures: A total of 133 investors have invested in Zelkova Ventures's portfolio after their investments. Top Investors include Mayfield (2 companies), SV Angel (2 companies) and Longworth Venture Partners (2 companies).
Recent News related to Zelkova Ventures
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Compyl Closes $12 Million in Series A FundingYahoo•Jun 04, 2025•Newark Venture Partners, Venture Guides, Compyl, Zelkova Ventures and 4 others
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Respondology Secures $5 Million in Series A-1 Fundingintelligence360•May 05, 2025•Respondology, Iron Gate Capital, SJF Ventures, Zelkova Ventures and 2 others
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Fora Raises $3.8 Million in Pre-Seed RoundThe SaaS News•Feb 02, 2024•FORA, Converge ICT Solutions, GTMfund, Zelkova Ventures and 3 others
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Teal Raises $6.3M in Seed FundingFinSMEs•Jun 07, 2022•Teal, City Light Capital, Rethink, Human Ventures and 5 others
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