Z5 Capital

Z5 Capital is a venture capital firm based in Palo Alto, California, founded in 2018. The firm specializes in investing in early-stage enterprise companies, focusing on sectors such as enterprise software, artificial intelligence, machine learning, data management, infrastructure and cloud technology, and security. Z5 Capital primarily serves customers in the United States, seeking to support innovative startups that are poised for growth in these dynamic fields.

Nanda Krish

Co-Founding General Partner

Arun Ramamoorthy

Co-Founding Partner

13 past transactions

Nirmata

Venture Round in 2025
Nirmata, Inc. is a technology company based in San Jose, California, that develops and operates a platform designed to assist organizations in delivering and managing cloud-native applications. Its offerings include Kubernetes-as-a-Service, which automates operations, application modernization for containerization, and multi-cloud cluster management that enhances the portability of application stacks across various cloud providers. Nirmata is also the creator and core maintainer of Kyverno, a widely adopted policy engine for Kubernetes, with significant usage across regulated industries such as banking, healthcare, and life sciences. The company focuses on providing unified governance, security, and compliance solutions for cloud-native infrastructure, leveraging policy as code to address security concerns and facilitate real-time management of configurations. With a strong emphasis on enterprise observability and integration, Nirmata serves a diverse clientele, including many Fortune 2000 companies, and has positioned itself as a leader in the automation of open-source and cloud-native technologies since its incorporation in 2013.

Clientell

Seed Round in 2024
Clientell is a developer of a no-code revenue intelligence platform specifically designed for contract research organizations. The platform utilizes artificial intelligence to empower businesses to create tailored AI models efficiently, enabling functionalities such as predictions, uplift modeling, churn analysis, look-alikes, and scenario simulations. This approach allows organizations to understand pipeline risks, enhance deal closure rates, and achieve accurate forecasts. By leveraging systematic, data-driven decision-making, Clientell's solution helps business leaders improve marketing and product strategies, increase deal conversions, and automate customer relationship management processes.

Secuvy

Seed Round in 2023
Secuvy is a data security and privacy company that provides an AI-driven platform focused on data governance, security, and compliance. Their offerings include automated data discovery and classification, which uses artificial intelligence to identify and categorize sensitive data across various environments. The platform also features data security posture management, enhancing visibility and control over data security in hybrid, multi-cloud, and on-premises systems. Additionally, Secuvy streamlines compliance operations by automating workflows for data protection and privacy impact assessments. It conducts automated risk assessments to identify misclassifications and potential security threats, along with providing remediation capabilities. The platform also supports secure collaboration through policy-based file encryption and integration with digital rights management systems, effectively reducing the risk of data leakage during external interactions.

StepFunction.ai

Seed Round in 2022
StepFunction is a market leader in revenue growth solutions for SaaS. Based on a data-driven, real-time understanding of customer intent, it assists leading SaaS companies in significantly increasing the amount and predictability of their subscription revenues. By applying advanced analytics to customer behavior signals and operational data, the company hopes to turn SaaS operations into a science. The StepFunction Customer Intent Engine uses machine learning to provide SaaS clients with data-driven, real-time, and actionable insights for customer retention and upsell. With bullseye targeting, SaaS clients can achieve top-line growth through increased customer retention, reduced churn, and targeted upselling, as well as bottom-line growth by lowering customer acquisition costs.

qiibee

Seed Round in 2022
Qiibee is a software company that specializes in providing a blockchain-based platform for businesses and consumers to manage loyalty programs efficiently. By offering plug-and-play solutions, Qiibee enables enterprises to implement and operate their loyalty applications on the blockchain within hours. The company is focused on creating a decentralized loyalty ecosystem built on Ethereum, allowing for the tokenization of loyalty applications. Additionally, Qiibee equips businesses with tools to collect and analyze data securely, enhancing their ability to understand customer behavior and expand their market reach. With its innovative approach, Qiibee aims to set a new standard for loyalty programs globally.

Nirmata

Seed Round in 2021
Nirmata, Inc. is a technology company based in San Jose, California, that develops and operates a platform designed to assist organizations in delivering and managing cloud-native applications. Its offerings include Kubernetes-as-a-Service, which automates operations, application modernization for containerization, and multi-cloud cluster management that enhances the portability of application stacks across various cloud providers. Nirmata is also the creator and core maintainer of Kyverno, a widely adopted policy engine for Kubernetes, with significant usage across regulated industries such as banking, healthcare, and life sciences. The company focuses on providing unified governance, security, and compliance solutions for cloud-native infrastructure, leveraging policy as code to address security concerns and facilitate real-time management of configurations. With a strong emphasis on enterprise observability and integration, Nirmata serves a diverse clientele, including many Fortune 2000 companies, and has positioned itself as a leader in the automation of open-source and cloud-native technologies since its incorporation in 2013.

ArmorCode

Seed Round in 2021
ArmorCode is a cybersecurity company based in Palo Alto, California, founded in 2020. It provides an AppSecOps platform aimed at simplifying application security and reducing application exposure and risk. The platform offers comprehensive features for application security posture, vulnerability and compliance management, and DevSecOps automation. By integrating with the broader security ecosystem, ArmorCode's solution helps organizations de-duplicate, correlate, and orchestrate security findings, ultimately enhancing their protection against third-party attacks. The company aims to deliver significant improvements in application security efficiency, achieving a tenfold increase in AppSec force multiplier impact for various prominent enterprises.

Prescient Devices

Seed Round in 2021
Prescient Devices is a provider of SaaS-based IoT application development solutions. The company offers Prescient Designer, which is a low-code design automation software that enables system integrators, IT/OT engineers, and data scientists to build sensor-to-cloud IoT and edge computing solutions. Its platform builds and manages integrated cloud apps, interactive dashboards, and edge apps on a single platform, with enterprise-grade security and scale. Founded in 2018 by Andy Wang, Prescient Devices is headquartered in Concord, Massachusetts.

CoreStack

Series A in 2020
CoreStack is a cloud management platform founded in 2016 and headquartered in Bellevue, Washington. The company focuses on enabling enterprises to achieve continuous cloud compliance and autonomous cloud governance. Its platform assists organizations in managing observability, consumption, compliance, and costs by utilizing cloud-native technology and facilitating connector-less integration, dynamic discovery, and orchestration of multi-cloud inventory. By leveraging these capabilities, CoreStack empowers businesses to maximize agility and enhance their operational efficiency, ultimately delivering predictable outcomes aligned with their budgets and policies. The platform is utilized by numerous global enterprises across various industries, underscoring its effectiveness in automating cloud operations and ensuring compliance.

CoreStack

Venture Round in 2018
CoreStack is a cloud management platform founded in 2016 and headquartered in Bellevue, Washington. The company focuses on enabling enterprises to achieve continuous cloud compliance and autonomous cloud governance. Its platform assists organizations in managing observability, consumption, compliance, and costs by utilizing cloud-native technology and facilitating connector-less integration, dynamic discovery, and orchestration of multi-cloud inventory. By leveraging these capabilities, CoreStack empowers businesses to maximize agility and enhance their operational efficiency, ultimately delivering predictable outcomes aligned with their budgets and policies. The platform is utilized by numerous global enterprises across various industries, underscoring its effectiveness in automating cloud operations and ensuring compliance.
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