Zetta Venture Partners, a San Francisco, CA-based VC firm exclusively focused on investing in AI, announced that Apoorva Pandhi has joined as a managing director.
In his new role, Pandhi will be responsible for co-managing the firm’s fund alongside Zetta’s managing director and Silicon Valley veteran, Jocelyn Goldfein, and the firm’s founder and managing director Mark Gorenberg.
The firm is committed to investing in pre-product-market-fit, AI-first startups with B2B business models that are redefining or pioneering new categories, with the power of Machine Learning. This includes companies such as Kaggle, Tractable and Domino Data Lab.
Pandhi comes to Zetta from Foundation Capital where he served as a Partner, and invested in a number of early breakout ML, data and developer companies. Some of his select seed investments include companies like Outerbounds (OSS Metaflow), Electric Sheep, Motherduck (OSS Duckdb), Fennel, Tabular (OSS Iceberg), and Bluesky amongst others. Prior to Foundation Capital he was Vice President of Enterprise Sales at Quid, a growth-stage NLP and ML platform and he was the co-founder of Funnl Labs, a ML platform focused on aggregating and personalizing communication across email, social media and messaging. He also started his investor journey at Lightspeed Venture Partners, where he focused on enterprise and consumer investments.
Founded in 2013, Zetta Venture Partners focuses exclusively on investing in AI. The firm manages $365M in assets across three funds leading investment rounds in pre-traction, AI-first companies with B2B business models, including Kaggle, Domo, Domino Data Lab,and Tractable. Visit for more information.
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22/11/2022