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Back Syndicate
$158.8k
Typical Investments
123
Deals Last 12 Months
5004
Unique LPs have invested
Note from Zachary Ginsburg || Calm Ventures' Syndicate

Important – if you learned about Calm Ventures via a referral, social media or other means outside of AngelList please note it in your application.


Zachary Ginsburg is the Founder/General Partner at Calm Ventures. Prior to Calm, Zachary was an investor at Growth Equity Firm OCV Partners, headed by CIM ($31B+ AUM) Founder/Managing Partner and the prior J2 Global ($3B+ public internet holding co) CEO, and investment banker at San Francisco-based Viant Capital. Zachary received his B.A. from the University of Southern California and attended Columbia Business School before dropping out to pursue venture capital full time.

Zachary has invested in 500+ startups over a decade including FalconX (Seed), Motion AI (Seed), Colossal (Series A), Coinbase (growth), AngelList (growth), Enable (Series A), Bear Flag Robotics (Seed+), Perplexity (growth), Substack (Seed), Ava Labs, Turing (growth), Brex (growth), Regent (Seed), Jackpocket (growth), Shield AI (growth), SecondFront Systems (Seed+), Chalk (Seed), Databricks (growth) and Airbnb (growth), among others.

Our syndicate has invested in companies alongside top venture capital funds including: Andreessen Horowitz (20x+ times), 8VC (20x+ times), First Round Capital (10x+ times), Founders Fund (15x+ times), Box Group (10x+ times), Kleiner Perkins (10x+ times), Khosla Ventures (10x+ times), QED (10x+ times), among many others.

Due to confidentiality, we do not offer LPs information rights on our deals.

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Investment Disclaimer: 1) most startups fail and investors could lose their entire investment. Even successful startups may take years to provide returns 2) startup investments are highly illiquid with no established secondary market. LPs should expect to hold their investment for 5-10 years with limited exit opportunities, 3) startups often lack proven business models and experienced management teams. They may fail to execute their business plans or adapt to market changes, 4) unlike public companies, startups have limited reporting requirements and investors may receive incomplete information for decision-making, 5) a single SPV investment provides limited diversification compared to a traditional venture fund portfolio. Please consider these and other risk factors above before you invest in startups.

Dealflow

We are a network driven VC firm in the truest sense of the word. We are venture partners at several funds, run an active scout program and frequently partner with many of the top VC GPs globally.

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Investments
SpaceX
Anthropic
Perplexity AI
Turing
Mistral AI
Kraken Digital Asset Exchange
Groq
Second Front Systems
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Zachary Ginsburg || Calm Ventures' Syndicate is a supervised person of or otherwise affiliated with ZZG CAPITAL LLC, an “Exempt Reporting Adviser” under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940. Important information regarding ZZG CAPITAL LLC, CRD Number 298061, can be found on its Form ADV available  here. Zachary Ginsburg || Calm Ventures' Syndicate’s relationship with ZZG CAPITAL LLC may give rise to potential conflicts of interest or conflicting duties, which could materially impact the performance any deals led by this syndicate.
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