Zeno Partners

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

20 past transactions

Finta

Seed Round in 2023
Finta is the simplest way for startups to manage taxes, bookkeeping, and track financial metrics - all in one platform. It replaces your expense bookkeepers, Quickbooks, and Google Sheets. Finta gives you squeaky clean books, files your taxes compliantly on time, and access to a dashboard to track burn, cash, runway, and everything else about your finances. Finta lets you easily integrate with modern tech tools like Brex, Ramp, Mercury, Stripe, Gusto, Rippling, Pulley, Carta, and more. Finta is the source of truth for your financial data as you scale.

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 Instead of outdated, hard-to-drive trucks, their vans are modern, safe, and easy to drive.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.

Joy

Series A in 2021
Joy Life, Inc. is a San Francisco-based company that offers a comprehensive wedding planning portal and application designed to assist users from engagement through to their honeymoon. Founded in 2014, Joy's platform provides tools for organizing wedding details, including customizable checklists, wedding websites, and mobile applications. Users can manage guest lists, send digital or printed invitations, track RSVPs, and link gift registries. The application also fosters interaction among wedding guests by allowing photo sharing and comments on a private timeline. Additionally, Joy offers features for sending custom notifications and messages, enabling a seamless planning experience for couples and their wedding parties.

Jupiter

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Jupiter is a mobile e-commerce platform that focuses on the online shopping and delivery of groceries, fruits, vegetables, and other daily necessities. Headquartered in San Francisco, California, the company aims to revolutionize the grocery shopping experience by minimizing waste. By utilizing a unique logistics network, Jupiter ensures that products are delivered in a way that leaves no trace of plastics or packaging behind, thereby significantly reducing food waste. The company's innovative approach is designed to provide customers with precisely what they need, enhancing convenience while promoting sustainability.

Mighty Buildings

Series B in 2021
Mighty Buildings, Inc. is a San Francisco-based company founded in 2017 that specializes in the manufacture of custom houses using 3D printing technology. The company aims to disrupt the residential housing market by leveraging advanced automation, robotics, and composite materials to make housing more affordable. By focusing on modular construction, Mighty Buildings seeks to innovate the way homes are built, addressing challenges in the traditional construction industry. The company has garnered support from notable venture capital firms, reflecting its potential to transform the housing landscape.

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.

Mercury

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

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.

OneLocal

Series A in 2019
OneLocal is a Toronto-based software and services company that provides a comprehensive platform for businesses to manage their marketing needs. The company offers a range of solutions, including ContactHub for customer database management, FirstImpression for website creation, Quickconnect for text messaging between businesses and customers, ReferralMagic for generating referrals, and ReviewEdge for collecting online reviews and feedback. OneLocal serves various industries, including automotive, health services, home services, real estate, restaurants, retail, and salon and spa, among others. By combining powerful marketing tools with dedicated in-house marketing experts, OneLocal aims to simplify the marketing process for its clients.

Goodly

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.

Activeloop

Seed Round in 2018
Activeloop, formerly known as Snark AI, is a technology company founded in 2018 and based in San Jose, California. The firm specializes in a cloud computing platform that enhances deep learning training and deployment. Activeloop offers a comprehensive tool designed to accelerate deep learning processes while managing hybrid cloud environments. Its platform simplifies the infrastructure needed for machine learning and deep learning, effectively serving as an operating system for these applications. Additionally, the platform facilitates data-model tracking and analysis, providing users with efficient capabilities for both training and inference in deep learning tasks.

Phiar Technologies

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.

Applied Intuition

Series A in 2018
Applied Intuition, Inc. is a technology company that specializes in software infrastructure for the development, testing, and deployment of autonomous vehicles at scale. Founded in 2017, the company is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, with additional offices in Detroit, Tokyo, and Munich. Applied Intuition offers a suite of products that focus on simulation and analytics, providing robust tools designed to help industry-leading companies accelerate their autonomous vehicle development processes. The company's team consists of experts from prominent organizations in the software and automotive sectors, including Google, Amazon, Apple, Waymo, Tesla, Delphi, GM, and Bosch. This diverse expertise enables Applied Intuition to deliver comprehensive solutions that enhance safety and efficiency in the autonomous vehicle industry.

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.

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.

Aella

Seed Round in 2017
Aella Credit is a financial technology company based in Lagos, Nigeria, that specializes in providing personal loans to consumers. Utilizing a proprietary algorithm, Aella Credit streamlines the loan application process, offering instant credit solutions that are more accessible than traditional methods. The platform allows employees to borrow at competitive rates through their employers, thereby simplifying the borrowing experience. Aella Credit's services are available via a mobile application compatible with Android devices, catering to both individuals and organizations. The company also maintains offices in the United States, expanding its reach and impact in the lending market.

Snappr

Seed Round in 2017
Snappr Pty. Ltd. is a photography service that connects clients with professional photographers for various types of photo shoots. Clients can select the date, time, location, and specifics of their shoot, allowing Snappr to match them with a pre-vetted photographer. The company facilitates the organization of the shoot and delivers the final photographs for download or printing. Snappr offers services for a wide range of occasions, including corporate events, LinkedIn profiles, product photography, weddings, and graduations. The company operates in multiple locations across Australia, including major cities like Sydney, Melbourne, and Brisbane, as well as in San Francisco and San Jose, California. Founded in 2016, Snappr aims to make quality photography accessible through its online platform, which includes features like real-time job matching and an AI portrait photo-analysis tool. Snappr Pty. Ltd. is based in Surry Hills, Australia, and operates as a subsidiary of Snappr, Inc.

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.

Tizeti

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

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.
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