About Zero Prime Ventures
Zero Prime Ventures is a venture capital firm founded in 2020. It is primarily based out of San Francisco, United States. As of Jun 2026, Zero Prime Ventures is an active investor, having invested in 51 companies, with 4 new investments in the last 12 months. 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 High Tech and Enterprise Infrastructure. Most recently it participated in the $***** Seed round of Structured Data Overall, Zero Prime Ventures portfolio has seen 3 unicorns, 1 IPO and 6 acquisitions including key companies like ServiceNow, Cloudera and Hightouch. A lot of funds co-invest with Zero Prime Ventures, with names like SignalFire sharing a substantial percentage of its portfolio. Zero Prime Ventures has team of 4 people including 2 partners.Key Metrics
Team Members
Portfolio Count
Portfolio Sectors
Portfolio Locations
Rounds of Entry
Seed, Series A & 1 more
Portfolio IPOs
Deals in last 12 months
Zero Prime Ventures' List of Top Investments
Zero Prime Ventures has a portfolio of 51 companies, including 3 unicorns. Their most notable investments are in HoneyHive and Runware.Their portfolio spans across United States, Germany, United Kingdom and 3 more locations. They have invested in Enterprise Applications, High Tech, Enterprise Infrastructure and 10 other sectors, across stages such as Seed, Series A and 1 more. Here is the list of top investments by Zero Prime Ventures:1. ServiceNow
Cloud based platform offering unified IT management software. It provides a platform to streamline and automate various business processes and IT operations through a system of records. It provides automation and orchestration platform for threat and incident response and vulnerabilities. It provides variours products including IT service management, operations management, automated service ops, telecommunications service operations management, security operations, and more.
Key facts about ServiceNow
- Founded Year: 2004
- Location: Santa Clara (United States)
- Annual Revenue: $1B+ as on Dec 31, 2025
- Stage: Public
- Total Funding till date: $83.7M
- Employee Count: 35,081 as on May 31, 2026
- Investors: TrueBridge, Alcor Fund and 9 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Grant (prize money), Oct 01, 2023, $*****
- Highlight: Public
2. Cloudera
Provider of hybrid data platform, data management, and AI solutions. The company delivers cloud-native agility for data and AI applications. It offers data flow streaming, data engineering, data warehousing, and operational database services. The company enables users to ingest, prepare, analyze, predict, and publish data. It also provides data catalog, data lineage, observability, and data visualization tools.
Key facts about Cloudera
- Founded Year: 2008
- Location: Palo Alto (United States)
- Annual Revenue: $500M - $1B as on Jan 31, 2021
- Last Known Valuation: $*****
- Stage: Acquired
- Total Funding till date: $1.04B
- Employee Count: 3,446 as on May 31, 2026
- Investors: Glynn Capital, ADS Ventures and 38 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series F, 2015, $*****
- Highlight: Acquired
3. Lightning
Provider of low code AI application development software. The platform offers solutions to build multi-cloud AI and ML applications. It also offers different components that can be integrated into the application.
Key facts about Lightning
- Founded Year: 2017
- Location: New York City (United States)
- Valuation: $*****
- Stage: Series C
- Total Funding till date: $127M
- Employee Count: 265 as on May 31, 2026
- Investors: Cisco Investments, Mantis VC and 10 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series C, Nov 22, 2024, $*****
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
4. Hightouch
Provider of an AI-powered marketing and customer data platform. It helps teams create, personalize, and launch omnichannel campaigns using real-time customer data and automation. It combines audience management, real-time personalization, AI-powered campaign generation, reverse ETL, and integrations with hundreds of enterprise tools to enable scalable, data-driven marketing operations.
Key facts about Hightouch
- Founded Year: 2019
- Location: San Francisco (United States)
- Valuation: $*****
- Stage: Series D
- Total Funding till date: $322M
- Employee Count: 573 as on May 31, 2026
- Investors: Sapphire Ventures, NewView Capital and 23 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series D, Apr 29, 2026, $*****
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
5. Modal
Provider of serverless platform for developing and deploying AI applications. The platform offers tools for scaling machine learning inference, data processing, and other compute-intensive tasks. It provides features such as autoscaling, container management, and integration with cloud storage solutions. The platform supports various use cases, including generative AI, fine-tuning, and batch processing.
Key facts about Modal
- Founded Year: 2021
- Location: New York City (United States)
- Valuation: $*****
- Stage: Series C
- Total Funding till date: $466M
- Employee Count: 165 as on May 31, 2026
- Investors: Accel, Menlo Ventures and 13 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series C, May 21, 2026, $*****
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
Zero Prime Ventures' Year-on-Year Investment Trends
Zero Prime Ventures has invested in 51 companies over the last 3 years, with an average of 4 new investments annually in the last 3 years. In 2025, it made 5 investments, while as of Jun 2026, it has made 2 investments in this year. Its most recent first time investment was in Structured Data and most recent follow-on round was in Runware.Year | No. of Investments | ||
|---|---|---|---|
1st Round | Follow-on | Total | |
2026 (YTD) | 2 | 0 | 2 |
2025 | 4 | 1 | 5 |
2024 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
2023 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
Zero Prime Ventures' Investments by Stage
Zero Prime Ventures has made 7 investments in Seed stage with an average round size of $7.67M, 2 investments in Series A stage with an average round size of $24.1M and 2 investments in Series B stage with an average round size of $41.6M.Stage of entry | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
Seed | 7 |
Series A | 2 |
Series B | 2 |
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
Zero Prime Ventures' Investments by Sector
Zero Prime Ventures has a diverse portfolio, with companies operating in the Enterprise Applications, High Tech, Vertical SaaS, Chemicals and Materials Tech and Consumer. Notably, it has invested in 48 Tech companies, 47 Enterprise (B2B) companies, 46 Software companies and at least 37 companies focusing on Saas.Sector | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
Enterprise Applications | 10 |
High Tech | 4 |
Vertical SaaS | 2 |
Chemicals and Materials Tech | 1 |
Consumer | 1 |
Others | 3 |
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
Zero Prime Ventures' Investments by Geography
Zero Prime Ventures has made most investments in United States (8), followed by United Kingdom where it has made 2 investments.Country | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
United States | 8 |
United Kingdom | 2 |
Germany | 1 |
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
Zero Prime Ventures' recent investments
Zero Prime Ventures has made 2 investments in 2026 so far - Structured Data and Qontext.Here are the most recent investments by Zero Prime Ventures:
Filter this listDate | Company | Location | Round Details | Round Amount | Co-Investors |
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Jun 11, 2026 | United States | Seed | 9242 | [+5] | |
Feb 05, 2026 | Germany | Seed | 8867 | [+4] | |
Dec 02, 2025 | United States | Seed | 2440 | ||
Sep 09, 2025 | United Kingdom | Seed | 4287 | [+2] | |
Aug 14, 2025 | United Kingdom | Seed | 9779 | [+8] |
Unicorns in Zero Prime Ventures' Portfolio
Zero Prime Ventures has 3 unicorns in its portfolio - CuspAI, Modal and Hightouch. The most recent unicorn in their portfolio is CuspAI. It became a unicorn in 2026, 2 years after Zero Prime Ventures first invested in it.Here is a list of unicorns in Zero Prime Ventures' portfolio:
Tracxn Score | Company | Short Description | Founded year | Sector | Location | Company Stage | First Investment/ Acquisition Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
63 | AI-enabled platform for materials research and applications | 2024 | Cambridge | Series B | stclqgl | ||
69 | Provider of serverless platform for developing and deploying AI applications | 2021 | New York City | Series C | jibwegn | ||
73 | Provider of an AI-powered marketing and customer data platform | 2019 | San Francisco | Series D | wcehmmb |
IPOs and Publicly Listed companies in Zero Prime Ventures' Portfolio
1 of Zero Prime Ventures' portfolio company became public - ServiceNow. It got listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), in Jun 2012 at marketcap of $2.17BHere are Zero Prime Ventures' portfolio companies that went public:
Company | IPO Date | First Invested on | First Round of Investment | Round Size |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Jun 29, 2012 | - | - | 9213 |
Acquired companies in Zero Prime Ventures' Portfolio
6 companies from Zero Prime Ventures' portfolio have been acquired. The most recent acquisition was Orb in Jun 2026 by Adyen for $*****.Here are Zero Prime Ventures' portfolio companies that got acquired most recently:
Company | Acquisition Date | First Invested on | First Round of Investment | Round Size |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Jun 11, 2026 | - | - | 2574 | |
Sep 17, 2025 | - | - | 5955 | |
May 01, 2025 | - | - | 8473 | |
Oct 18, 2024 | - | - | 8107 | |
Aug 01, 2024 | - | - | 7854 |
Team profile of Zero Prime Ventures
Zero Prime Ventures has a team of 4 members including 2 Partners located in United States. Zero Prime Ventures' team does not sit on the board of any company as of now.Co-investors of Zero Prime Ventures
Over the past 3 years, 83 investors have co-invested in Zero Prime Ventures's portfolio companies. This includes funds and angels.
- Invested before Zero Prime Ventures: Y Combinator, Andreessen Horowitz and 9 others have invested in rounds before Zero Prime Ventures. There are 3 companies where Y Combinator has invested before Zero Prime Ventures and 1 company where Andreessen Horowitz has invested before Zero Prime Ventures.
- Top Co-investors of Zero Prime Ventures: 52 investors entered a company along with Zero Prime Ventures. These include investors like SignalFire (2 companies).
- Invested after Zero Prime Ventures: A total of 20 investors have invested in Zero Prime Ventures's portfolio after their investments. Top Investors include Insight Partners (1 company), Dawn Capital (1 company) and Speedinvest (1 company).
Recent News related to Zero Prime Ventures
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German Qontext Raises $2.7M Funding in Pre-Seed RoundStartup Rise EU•Feb 10, 2026•Zero Prime Ventures, HV Capital, Qontext
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Runware Secures $3M in FundingFinSMEs•Oct 02, 2024•Runware, Andreessen Horowitz, Lakestar, Lunar Ventures and 4 others
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Cambridge-based CuspAI, advised by ‘Godfather of AI’, aims to combat climate change using AI; secures €28MSilicon Canals•Jun 18, 2024•, Hoxton Ventures, Basis Set Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners and 7 others
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Microsoft, Google execs’ CuspAI bags $30M for AI-powered next-gen materials startupTech Funding News•Jun 18, 2024•Google, Microsoft, Zero Prime Ventures, Tiferes Ventures and 7 others
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CuspAI raises $30M to create a Gen-AI-driven search engine for new materialsTechCrunch+•Jun 18, 2024•, Hoxton Ventures, Basis Set Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners and 5 others
