Muzzammil (MZ) Zaveri is a Founding Partner at Audacious Ventures, an early-stage venture fund launched in 2021. See sector focus and contact routes.
Muzzammil (MZ) Zaveri is a Founding Partner at Audacious Ventures, an early-stage venture fund launched in 2021, after previously serving as a Partner at Gradient Ventures (Google’s AI fund) and Kleiner Perkins. His investment thesis targets bold early-stage founders across sectors including ClimateTech, Hardware, Enterprise SaaS, Health, and Messaging, with a geographic focus on the U.S. Bay Area. Zaveri typically invests between $100K and $25M, with an $8M sweet spot, and has made 14 recorded investments, often participating as a lead or significant follow investor. Notable portfolio companies include Figma, Labelbox, Unit21, and Pine Park Health, where he led or co-led investments during his time at Gradient and KPCB. Before investing, Zaveri was an engineer and product manager at Google (working on Street View and Checkout), Palantir, and Clarium Capital, and co-founded Proxino, a Y Combinator S11 developer tools startup. He has not published distinctive public writing or a widely cited point of view beyond his firm’s general focus on early-stage, cross-sector innovation.
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