Zetta Venture Partners
San Francisco, California · Invests in US; North America; Europe · Website
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🔒 $•• – $••Thesis
AI and ML techniques represent a transformational competitive edge with clear value delivery. Technical founders building intelligent B2B products will drive the next wave of billion-dollar companies across biotech, infrastructure, security, and enterprise software.
Likely not a fit for
Non-technical founding teams, consumer-focused AI products, companies without clear B2B business models, businesses treating AI as feature rather than core to product
How they invest
- Lead or follow
- Usually leads
- Typical decision
- ~2 weeks
- Warm intro
- Preferred
- Involvement
- Takes a board seat
- Fund status
- Actively deploying
- Assets under mgmt
- $160M
- Decision process
- Partnership vote
Partners & team
6 contacts on file
Portfolio
Domo is an AI and Data Products Platform that offers a comprehensive suite of tools for data integration, business intelligence, and intelligent automation, enabling organizations to leverage their data for better decision-making.
Kaggle is the world's largest community of data scientists, known for hosting competitions and providing tools for machine learning.
Domino Data Lab is an AI company that provides a data science platform for enterprises, enabling teams to collaborate on data projects and leverage machine learning models effectively.
Weaviate is an open-source vector database designed for AI applications, enabling developers to build and deploy AI-powered solutions with ease. It supports various functionalities like embeddings, hybrid search, and agentic AI.
Clearbit provides real-time data enrichment solutions for B2B teams, helping them convert leads and improve customer segmentation by utilizing a vast array of public and proprietary data sources.
Tractable is an AI company that specializes in intelligent automation for auto appraisal, providing faster and more accurate damage assessments for repairers, recyclers, insurers, and more.
LILT is an AI-powered business translation platform that enables organizations to create high-quality multilingual communications quickly and efficiently. It combines advanced AI technology with expert human feedback to ensure accuracy and brand consistency across various languages.
Faro is an AI platform designed for clinical development, helping biopharma teams optimize study design and execution through intelligent automation and data-driven insights.
MotherDuck is a serverless data warehouse built on DuckDB, designed to provide analytics solutions for data teams, software engineers, and data scientists, enabling them to query data easily using SQL or natural language.
Tabular is a vendor-neutral data store based on Apache Iceberg, enabling organizations to manage their data lakes with ease and efficiency.
Nabla Bio is focused on designing better medicines through generative drug design and human-relevant testing, aiming to make drug development a true design discipline.
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STAT
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FinSMEs
Phylo Raises $13.5M in Seed Funding
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FinSMEs
Sumble Raises $38.5M in Seed And Series A Funding
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GeekWire
Seattle startup Gable lands $20M to coordinate data changes between teams
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The SaaS News
Guardrails AI Closes $7.5 Million in Seed Round
Feb 2024
Lowenstein Sandler LLP
Lowenstein Represents Zetta Venture Partners in Seed Funding Round in Guardrails AI
Feb 2024
Stacey on IoT
Golioth raises $4.6 million in a tough environment
May 2023
SiliconANGLE
Weaviate reels in $50M for its AI-optimized vector database
Apr 2023
PR Newswire
Zetta Venture Partners Names Apoorva Pandhi Managing Director
Nov 2022
Business Wire
VideaHealth Raises $20 Million to Expand AI in the Dentist’s Chair for Millions of Patients
Mar 2022
Startup Daily
CBA is tipping $28 million into startups via VC funds
Jul 2020
Pulse 2.0
Zetta Venture Partners Announces $180 Million AI Fund
Apr 2020
PR Newswire
Zetta Venture Partners Fuels the Future of AI with $180 Million Fund
Apr 2020
Hypepotamus
Inventory Optimization Startup AUTIT Closes $2.7M Seed On the Heels of Venture Atlanta
Oct 2018
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Inventory Optimization Startup AUTIT Closes $2.7M Seed On the Heels of Venture Atlanta
Oct 2018
The Business Journals
These VCs think startups that aren't using AI are sort of stupid
Aug 2017
The Business Journals
Artificial intelligence will create more jobs than it terminates, this VC says
Apr 2017
Fortune
Zetta Venture Partners Hires Jocelyn Goldfein
Jan 2017
Forbes
Zetta Venture Partners Launches $100 Million Fund To Invest In Software Powered By AI
Oct 2016
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