Finnish startup Zero has secured $10,3 million in a seed funding round. The investment was led by Primary Venture Partners, with additional participation from Inception Fund, Defiant, Greens, and several individual founders, including those from Lovable, Supercell, Langdock, and Silo AI.
The company claims this is one of the largest seed rounds ever raised by a Finnish technology firm. Previous investors in Zero include 20VC, James Hawkins of PostHog, and various operator funds backed by executives from companies such as Spotify, Wolt, Shopify, Dropbox, Meta, and OpenAI.
Zero was established by Tuomo Riekki and Santtu Koivumäki. Both founders previously worked at the AI advertising platform Smartly, where they helped scale the business to $100 million in annual recurring revenue. Riekki co-founded the platform, while Koivumäki managed its go-to-market strategy across five markets.
The startup develops AI agents designed to automate tasks such as building prospect lists, sending outbound emails, and monitoring customer relationships. The platform aims to replace traditional CRM systems and various revenue operations tools with a single autonomous system, reducing manual administrative work for teams.
