Apoorva Pandhi
Managing Director at Zetta Venture Partners
San Francisco, California
Overview
Work Experience
Managing Director
2022 - Current
Zero to one capital and hands-on support for builders of AI Native applications, infrastructure, and developer tools. Over the past few years, we've backed companies like Domino Data Labs, Kaggle, Tractable, Domo, Clearbit and Weaviate amongst others.
Seed Investor / Board
2024
Cleric is an AI teammate that frees software engineers up from on-call support.
Raised $4,300,000.00 from Zetta Venture Partners.
Seed Investor / Board
2023
Guardrails AI empowers humanity to harness the unprecedented capabilities of foundation AI models.
Raised $7,500,000.00 from Zetta Venture Partners, Factory, Lip-Bu Tan, M12 - Microsoft's Venture Fund, Bloomberg Beta, Ian Goodfellow, GitHub, Logan Kilpatrick, Pear VC and SCB 10X.
Seed Investor / Board
2023
Gable is a B2B data infrastructure SaaS that offers a platform for collaboration to write and execute data contracts.
Raised $24,804,985.00 from Angel Collective Opportunity Fund.
Seed/A + Series B Investor
2021
Tabular is building an independent data automation platform.
Raised $37,000,000.00 from Altimeter Capital, Andreessen Horowitz and Zetta Venture Partners.
Seed & Series A Investor
2022
MotherDuck provides data infrastructure and analytics for both small and big data.
Raised $100,000,000.00 from Zero Prime Ventures, Altimeter, Andreessen Horowitz, Madrona, Felicis, Redpoint and Amplify Partners.
Partner
2019 - 2022
I focused on seed and inception stage investments in data, AI/ML and software infrastructure. Some of my select seed investments include companies like Outerbounds (OSS Metaflow), Electric Sheep, Motherduck (OSS Duckdb), Fennel, Tabular (OSS Iceberg), and Bluesky amongst others. Foundation Capital is an early stage fund broadly focused on consumer and enterprise sectors. Foundation has backed 170+ companies globally, including market leaders like Netflix, Solana, Lending Club, Uber, Chegg, MobileIron, Mode Analytics, Cohesity and Eightfold.AI amongst others.
Foundation Capital is a venture capital firm made up of former entrepreneurs and helps companies and businesses grow.
Seed Investor
2022 - 2022
Bluesky is a tech startup that provides workload optimization and cost governance tools to data-driven organizations.
Raised $8,800,000.00 from Firsthand.vc, Greylock, Jeff Hammerbacher, Johannes Gehrke, Zero Prime Ventures and Ashish Thusoo.
Seed Investor / Board
2022 - 2022
We are an ex-Facebook/Google team that’s on a mission to enable everyone to harness the power of Machine Learning.
Seed & Series A Investor / Board
2021 - 2022
Outerbounds provides human-centric infrastructure for ML and data science based on Metaflow, an open-source framework created at Netflix
Raised $24,250,000.00 from Costanoa Ventures, Foundation Capital, Greenoaks and Amplify Partners.