Zeno Ventures

Zeno Ventures invests in early stage technology enabled companies addressing consumer and enterprise markets. Zeno Ventures likes to back exceptional entrepreneurs before their businesses have scaled and often even before their business models are formed. Zeno Ventures seeks to partner with talented and passionate founders solving difficult problems that were illuminated by their personal experience.

Christopher Kile

Managing Partner

Duarte Moreira

Managing Partner

19 past transactions

Snark AI

Seed Round in 2018
Activeloop (formerly Snark AI) introduces a Deep Learning tool designed to enable up to faster Deep Learning training, fully managed Hybrid Cloud, and comprehensive data-model tracking and analysis. It provides a platform that unifies and abstracts away infrastructure for easier and highly efficient machine learning and deep learning. You can think of it as an operating system for machine learning applications on the cloud.

Mercury Technologies

Series A in 2019
Mercury Technologies in a information technology based company.

Fetch

Series A in 2022
Fetch was born out of the frustration of trying to rent other trucks. They hated the long lines, hidden charges for mileage and insurance, and anxiety in remembering to refill the gas tank. They just wanted to get their job done as quickly as possible. They're changing the model. Instead of quoting one price, but charging for every small add-on, they provide everything in one simple hourly price. Instead of having to travel to a rental center, they'll deliver your Fetch rental to you. Instead of outdated, hard-to-drive trucks, their vans are modern, safe, and easy to drive. You're their partner; not just a customer. Transportation should be convenient and fast. You have a job to do, and Fetch helps you get it done.

Fetch

Convertible Note in 2021
Fetch was born out of the frustration of trying to rent other trucks. They hated the long lines, hidden charges for mileage and insurance, and anxiety in remembering to refill the gas tank. They just wanted to get their job done as quickly as possible. They're changing the model. Instead of quoting one price, but charging for every small add-on, they provide everything in one simple hourly price. Instead of having to travel to a rental center, they'll deliver your Fetch rental to you. Instead of outdated, hard-to-drive trucks, their vans are modern, safe, and easy to drive. You're their partner; not just a customer. Transportation should be convenient and fast. You have a job to do, and Fetch helps you get it done.

Goodly Inc.

Seed Round in 2019
Goodly makes it easy for companies to offer student loan debt repayment as an employee benefit. Companies that offer this simple to use platform cut down the time that their employees would otherwise be in debt by an average of 8 years. A meaningful benefit for companies who care.

Joy

Series A in 2021
Joy Life, Inc. develops a wedding planning portal and application tools. Its portal and applications enable users to add photos, choose wedding colors and fonts, invite guests, send and store RSVP information, send messages, control social network sharing, import spreadsheets, register gifts, send digital RSVPs, and send custom notifications and messages. The company’s portal also allows guests to take and upload photos to private moments timeline, comment, and show love for photos. Joy Life, Inc. was founded in 2014 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Shield Bio

Series A in 2018
At Shield, we’re ensuring that antibiotic resistance doesn’t become more deadly than cancer. In 2050 more people will be dying of antibiotic resistant pathogens than cancer. Infections that were once treatable with a simple oral antibiotics are now requiring complex, painful treatments and resulting in serious health complications for patients. Gonorrhea is one such infection, having become resistant to over 10 different antibiotics, they have only one treatment that is still effective and resistance to this has already begun to emerge. With 820,000 new infections every year in the US, antibiotic resistance will spread quickly, which is why the CDC has resistant gonorrhea at an urgent threat level, the highest level available. Shield's novel genomic testing platform enables STI clinics to identify the antibiotic resistant strains of gonorrhea and other pathogens that their patients have, so they can select the correct antibiotics and halt the spread of antibiotic resistance.

Talar

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Jupiter is a products appear magically in your kitchen, leaving no trace of plastics or boxes behind them, where food waste is almost non-existent, because we bring exactly what you’re gonna use. We’re building the first logistics network committed to waste reduction.

OneLocal

Series A in 2019
OneLocal, a software and services company, offers marketing tools to help businesses to manage their marketing needs from one platform. Its solutions include ContactHub to build, manage, and monetize customers’ database; FirstImpression that helps to create professional websites; Quickconnect, a business to customer text messaging solution; ReferralMagic to generate referrals through customers’ preferred channels; and ReviewEdge to get online reviews and simplify collecting feedback. The company serves businesses in automotive, health services, home services, real estate, restaurants, retail, salon and spa, and various other sectors. OneLocal is based in Toronto, Canada.

Aella Credit

Seed Round in 2017
Aella Credit provides instant credit solutions that eliminates the hassle of standard loan applications and enables employee to borrow at competitive and fair rates through their employers. Individuals can download the application through Android devices. Benefits of the platform are offered to employees, companies, and investors. The offices of the company are located across the United States and Nigeria.

AvantStay

Series A in 2019
AvantStay is a technology-first hospitality brand for group travel. It delivers affordable, world-class, authentic, tech-enabled short-term rental (STR) group experiences targeted at the millennial generation. AvantStay was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.

Phiar Technologies, Inc.

Seed Round in 2018
Phiar is an ultra-lightweight AI company, building the world's most advanced Ultra-Lightweight Spatial AI Engine to enable every vehicle to see its surroundings, running real-time at the edge, using just commodity mobile-grade processors and existing automotive computing platforms with a single camera. Focused first on powering our Intelligent AR Navigation Platform, as the anchoring/foundational use-case to transform driving experience and safety, and to ultimately enable the next-gen connected cars and ADAS services.

Mighty Buildings

Series B in 2021
Mighty Buildings is a developer of 3D printing technology and automation platform to make housing more affordable for customers. It is a modular construction company working on disrupting the residential housing market with 3D printing tech, robotics, and composite materials backed by notable top tier venture capital firms. It was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Tizeti Network Limited

Seed Round in 2017
Tizeti provides broadband internet services to densely populated urban centers in Africa. Tizeti is leveraging the large wireless capacity available with Wi-Fi and plummeting cost of solar panels to create a low CAPEX/OPEX network of owned and operated towers to offer disruptive, customer-friendly pricing for unlimited internet service right across Africa.

Labdoor, Inc.

Series A in 2016
Labdoor, Inc. sells supplements and energy drinks online. The company sells fish oils, herbal supplements, magnesium supplements, melatonin supplements, probiotic supplements, protein supplements, and zinc supplements. It also offers supplement testing and rating service. Labdoor, Inc. was formerly known as Labrdr Inc. The company was incorporated in 2012 and is based in South San Francisco, California.

wifi.com.ng

Seed Round in 2017
TIZETI (wifi.com.ng) has been deploying high speed internet access to estates, offices, multi-tenant building using next generation wi-Fi technology. They deploy unlimited internet to residential and business customers which allow customers get the full benefit of the internet with no data or time caps. They also offer VOIP and Video on Demand services.

Snappr

Seed Round in 2017
Snappr is a photography network developing web and mobile-based platforms to make photography accessible to anyone. Its platform provides real-time matching of customer jobs to pre-vetted top professional photographers. It also provides the Snapper Photo Analyzer, an AI portrait photo-analysis tool to connect professional photographers with businesses and consumers who need quality photography for an amazing price. Snappr was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

AvantStay

Series A in 2018
AvantStay is a technology-first hospitality brand for group travel. It delivers affordable, world-class, authentic, tech-enabled short-term rental (STR) group experiences targeted at the millennial generation. AvantStay was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.

Applied Intuition

Series A in 2018
Applied Intuition provides software infrastructure to safely develop, test, and deploy autonomous vehicles
 at scale. Applied’s suite of products, focused on simulation and analytics, delivers sophisticated infrastructure built for scale. Industry leading companies of all sizes use Applied to comprehensively test and rapidly accelerate their autonomous vehicle development. Headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices in Detroit, Tokyo, and Munich, Applied is composed of software and automotive experts from the top companies in their respective fields (such as Google, Amazon, Apple, Waymo, Tesla, Delphi, GM, and Bosch).