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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.
Tim Wu
Head of Marketing
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San Francisco
Tim is a marketing leader who has guided two SaaS startups from launch to successful exit. He leads strategic marketing for Zero Prime and AI Council.
Diana Rhie
Head of Operations
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San Francisco
Diana Rhie is Head of Operations at Zero Prime Ventures. She brings over a decade of experience building and scaling operations across venture capital, corporate innovation, and high-growth startups
Isaac J 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.