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Yang Tran

Partner at Zero Prime Ventures

San Francisco, California

Overview 

Yang Tran is a Partner at Zero Prime Ventures and a Venture Partner at Speedinvest, specializing in AI/ML, Devtools, Data & Cloud Infra. With a background in financial analysis and venture capital, Yang has successfully invested in various sectors and stages, including Sales & CRM and SMB Software, demonstrating a strong track record in diverse investments and supporting female and diverse founders. Yang's career highlights include holding key roles at Zero Prime Ventures and Speedinvest, focusing on investments in cutting-edge technologies and sectors, as well as actively supporting female and diverse founders through their venture capital work.

Work Experience 

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Zero Prime Ventures

  • Partner

    2024 - Current

    Zero Prime Ventures invests in Day 0 engineer-founders focused on the massive disruption potential surrounding data technologies like AI/ML, data eng, dev tools, security, and cloud infrastructure. Backed by top venture funds and institutional LPs, we guide technical founders through early startup stages, leveraging our expert network to bring groundbreaking tools to market.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Pre-seed/seed fund writing first checks into engineer-led enterprise startups focused on data technologies (AI/ML/deep learning/data infra)

zeroprime.vc
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Speedinvest

  • Venture Partner

    2024

    Speedinvest is a pan-European venture capital fund with more than €1.2bn under management and offices in London, Berlin, Paris, Vienna and Munich.

  • Principal

    2019 - 2024

    Active Investments: Sona, Qovery, ClusterFudge, Opal, DQC.ai, Blocktorch, Genie Cloud, Mokker.ai Focusing on SaaS, AI, Devtools and Infra

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Plug and Play Tech Center

  • Ventures Analyst

    2018 - 2019

    Plug and Play Ventures is the investment arm of Plug and Play and invests in early-stage startups ranging from Seed to Series A. Success stories including PayPal, Dropbox, N26, SoundHound, Lending Club, Rappi, Honey, etc.

Plug & Play Topeka is a Venture Capital company that offers corporate Innovation, open Innovation, and accelerator Programs.

plugandplaytechcenter.com

Res Privata

  • Analyst

    2017 - 2018

    Alternative investment fund with a focus on active investments in Europe & North America.

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Berenberg

  • Intern

    2016 - 2016

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UBS

  • Intern

    2015 - 2016

UBS Realty Investors is an institutional investment advisor that managed real estate equity assets on behalf of its clients.

ubs.com

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