Team

Not your typical VC

We're engineers turned investors who understand the technical trends shaping the AI market.

We don't just write checks, we help you solve the problems that matter as a founder. Whether you need company building support, critical introductions, or anything in between, we deliver.

Pete Soderling | Founding Partner

Meet our people

Pete Soderling
Founding Partner
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San Francisco
Pete is an engineer, turned founder, turned investor. His passion is helping other engineers start companies. In launching Zero Prime, Pete's goal is to help 10k engineers launch startups.
Yang Tran
Partner
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San Francisco
Yang invests in AI/ML, devtools, enterprise data and cloud infra startups and has worked with numerous day 0 founders as an investor and board member.
Diana Rhie
Head of Operations
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San Francisco
Diana's operational background spans across venture capital, corporate innovation, and building high-growth startups.
Angela Winegar
Venture Partner
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San Francisco
Angela lives at the intersection of technology, growth, and investing. She currently leads marketing and strategy for Invisible Technologies, an AI Training & Deployment unicorn. She previously led growth at Carta and was a seed-stage investor at Floodgate Fund, and holds an MBA and MPP from Harvard. As an active angel investor, she loves working with founders from the earliest stages of company creation.
Isaac Roth
Venture Partner
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San Francisco
Issac was founder/CEO/CTO of three enterprise infrastructure startups which were acquired by public companies and became major product lines. Makara (Red Hat 2010 - OpenShift), StrongLoop (IBM 2016 - API Connect), and LeakSignal (F5 2024 - AI Gateway). From 2019-2022 xe was one of four Managing Directors at Shasta Ventures.