Zenith Ventures
As customer-obsessed entrepreneurs, cybersecurity professionals, and leaders, Zenith Ventures is passionate about scaling companies from zero to multibillion-dollar revenues. Our stage-agnostic investment approach offers high flexibility to meet your company’s needs.
We’re excited to partner with you and accelerate your growth!
Zenith Ventures is committed to making strategic investments with entrepreneurs who thrive on solving tough cybersecurity problems while leveraging the Zscaler security cloud.
Proven, world-class team
Leverage our experience in building a high-growth business through every stage of the startup journey.
Zero Trust Exchange Partner Ecosystem
Integrate with our industry-leading platform to enhance your customers' cloud experience.
Large enterprise focus
We prioritize the evolving needs of Global 2000 enterprises, and we look forward to sharing our expertise with you.
Global reach
With 30+ offices, 6,000+ employees, and 150+ data centers worldwide, we see cybersecurity as a global opportunity.
Humble beginnings and hard work
“We had humble beginnings as a startup, and our journey was not straight up. We had ups and downs, but ultimately—with a lot of hard work—we reached where we are today. Zscaler is a big startup, hungry for our next phase of growth. Let’s partner on the journey.”
Jay Chaudhry, CEO, Chairman, and Founder of Zscaler
Successful Nasdaq IPO in March 2018
“On March 16, Zscaler became a publicly traded company on the Nasdaq market. An incredible milestone for any company, it was for me a humbling and gratifying moment in our journey.”
Jay Chaudhry, CEO, Chairman, and Founder of Zscaler
Zenith Ventures
Portfolio Spotlights
Next-Generation SOAR and Threat Intelligence
Cyware delivers an innovative approach to cybersecurity that unifies threat intelligence, automation, threat response, and vulnerability management with data insights gleaned from assets, users, malware, attackers, and vulnerabilities.
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"Partnering with Zscaler has been an important part of our success. Drawing on their experience building a billion dollar plus ARR business has helped us scale."
Anuj Goel, CEO and Co-founder of Cyware
Deep Learning Built Exclusively for Cybersecurity
Deep Instinct takes a prevention-first approach to stopping ransomware and other malware using the world’s first and only purpose-built, deep learning cybersecurity framework.
Visit Deep Instinct
“Deep Instinct is proud to work with investors who share our vision and invest in like-minded growth companies like Zscaler who are on a mission to enable the digital world to run safely and securely for all enterprises.”
Lane Bess, CEO of Deep Instinct
Simple, Yet Effective API Security
FireTail allows customers to solve all the most critical problems facing APIs today by sitting at the application layer, with full visibility and run-time blocking controls.
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“We believe that a shift-left and application-centric approach to API security is the next frontier in securing modern enterprises, and partnering with a category creator like Zscaler is instrumental to our success.”
Jeremy Snyder, CEO and Founder of Firetail
Intelligent API Security at Enterprise Scale
Traceable is the industry's leading API security platform that discovers, manages, and secures all of your APIs across your development lifecycle.
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"Widespread use of APIs has led to a significantly larger attack surface. Traceable is committed to protecting these APIs from malicious usage and abuse. We are excited to collaborate with a market leader like Zscaler to help accelerate our mission."
Jyoti Bansal, CEO and Co-Founder Traceable
What is Zenith Ventures
looking for in a company?
Experienced and passionate team
Market opportunity and growth prospects
Significance and complexity of problem statement
Participation from other lead venture investors
Let’s start a conversation
We look forward to the opportunity to invest and partner with you.