ZeroPrime VC is an early-stage venture capital firm that focuses on investing in technology startups, particularly in the artificial intelligence (AI) space. The firm seeks to support entrepreneurs and innovators who are building the next generation of AI-driven companies.

ZeroPrime Venture Capital

Zero Prime is pre-seed/seed fund that writes first checks for day 0 engineer-founders. We invest in early stage companies with a clear technical differentiation in data infrastructure, AI & ML platforms, devtools, security, cloud & blockchain infrastructure.

Built next to the Data Council conference series, we embody a network-based approach to venture that harnesses the power of a one-of-a-kind global community of deeply technical professionals.

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In an era where product innovation is key, it's crucial for companies to evolve their pricing strategies accordingly, but increased pricing flexibility comes with both power and risk. Alvaro Morales, Co-founder & CEO of Orb, knows all about this and shares his wisdom in our latest episode of the Zero Prime Podcast. 

Listen in for the full conversation on the experiences that sparked his engineer-founder journey, how AI is changing pricing/billing and more 👇

Excited to announce Zero Prime Ventures investment in Higgsfield AI! This team of rockstars efficiently trained their SOTA video-gen model using a proprietary framework that produces amazing results 🤯

The first-ever AI Launchpad was a hit! Our heartfelt thanks to everyone who joined us and a round of applause for the six stellar companies from the Data Council community that inspired us with their dynamic presentations and demos. Take a closer look at who made the cut this year:

- Phaselab (Josh Schwartz): smart automation to make companies’ data privacy programs more effective and efficient
- Dataland (Arthur Wu): the AI-powered internal tools platform. Dataland is the easiest way to deliver high-quality internal tools to your business users
- InQuery (YC W24) (Erick Enriquez & Khalil Miri): simplifies data lakehouse maintenance, saving your data team time and money
- sea.dev (Matt Arderne, Marya Bazzi & Vladimirs Murevics): breaking the constraints of existing data systems and NL2SQL with graph-based tools to allow LLM apps to reliably act on fintech data
- Parea AI (YC S23) (Joel Alexander): developer tools for evaluating, testing, and monitoring LLM-powered applications
- Stochastic (Glenn Ko): an end-to-end AI platform for enterprise knowledge work that provides personalized AI agents with zero setup or coding, yet with industry-leading performance and enterprise readiness

At Data Council, innovation is always in the air, and we look forward to continuing to spotlight the best up-and-coming tech to the top-notch DC audience. Can’t wait for next year!

🌟 Celebrating Our $48M Fund II at Zero Prime Ventures! 🌟

A monumental thank you to our community of engineer-founders, LPs, Data Council geeks and anyone who has supported us along the way for making this journey possible. 

We're excited for what lies ahead, and can't wait to see you all at Data Council in Austin! 🚀

Very cool things coming out of Daimon Labs! We're grateful to be a part of this team's journey as they work to build AI "machines of love and grace." Read more about how they dramatically reduced their model training costs and brought Adora into the world.

Exciting news from the fantastic team at Anomalo!

Exciting news from Abhishek Saxena and the team at unSkript, Inc as they work to solve age-old IT problems using the latest in generative AI. 

Congratulations to the team! We're grateful to be a part of your journey towards relieving technology teams of their mind-numbing, time-consuming, repetitive tasks and enabling identification of problems (+ suggested solutions) as they emerge.

Just in time for your New Year's travels, the latest episode of the Zero Prime Podcast is now live, featuring Erik Bernhardsson, co-founder of Modal Labs. 

Learn about his fascinating journey from Spotify engineer to startup founder, and hear his insights on leadership, overcoming imposter syndrome and making the leap into entrepreneurship. You'll also get a sneak peek into what his team has been building at Modal!

This episode is packed with wisdom for any engineer contemplating the jump to founder.

🔈 Listen now: https://lnkd.in/gR4hUHFg

The latest episode of the Zero Prime Podcast with Pete Soderling features Barry McCardel of Hex. Barry shares how cosmic coincidences, messy data workflows and even a few “unholy macros” ultimately led him to co-founding Hex.

Tune in to uncover the magic woven into Hex's DNA: https://lnkd.in/giU7XZWd

Founders, looking to monetize open-source projects? 

Tune into this episode of the #ZeroPrimePodcast with Guillermo Rauch, Founder of Vercel. Discover how he turned Next.js into Vercel's billion-dollar success. 

Full episode: 🔈https://bit.ly/3QvP7F

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