# Zest AI funding: rounds and investors

> Zest AI has raised $200M across 2 rounds since 2024. Investors include Insight Partners. Every round with its source.

Source: https://millionrounds.com/company/zest-ai (Millionrounds; every figure on the page links to its filing or article)

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# Who invested in *Zest AI*

2 rounds we have observed, with the one investor named in them. Every figure came from a named source, and where the company reported a raise to the SEC itself, that is shown beside it.

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Funding summary Updated 5 Nov 2026

**$200M** raised across 2 rounds since 2024, from 2 sources

- **Latest round:** Round Jan 2025
- **Biggest round:** $200M Growth · Dec 2024
- **Investors:** 1 (1 led)

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## The funding story

Each circle is a round, placed by date and sized by amount. The line above is the running total.

2025

**$200M** Growth

**?** Round

- **First round:** Growth, $200M
- **Biggest round:** $200M
- **Between rounds:** 2 months

## The rounds

- **Jan 2025** Round **Amount undisclosed** No investor was named in the report. Reported by AlleyWatch
- **Dec 2024** Growth **$200M** *1 new* [Insight Partners](https://millionrounds.com/fund/insight-partners) Lead Reported by TechStartups

## Founders and team

From Zest AI's own website: 5 on the team.

- **Mike de Vere** Chief Executive Officer
- **Dan Chiazza** Chief Operating Officer
- **Marc Levin** Chief Administrative Officer & General Counsel
- **Sean Kamkar** Chief Technology Officer
- **Stay Focused** Lead with Heart

## Everyone who backed them

[Insight Partners](https://millionrounds.com/fund/insight-partners) Company **1** round, led 1

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## Also claim to have backed them

These 3 firms list Zest AI as a portfolio company on their own websites, but no report of a round names them. They are the firms' own claims, kept apart from the rounds above.

[Matrix Partners](https://millionrounds.com/fund/matrix-partners) VC firm Per its own site

[Curql](https://millionrounds.com/fund/curql) VC firm Per its own site

[Next Level Ventures](https://millionrounds.com/fund/next-level-ventures) VC firm Per its own site

## Quick answers about Zest AI

### Who invested in Zest AI?

Zest AI's investors include Insight Partners.

### How much has Zest AI raised?

Zest AI has raised $200M across 2 rounds since 2024. One round did not disclose an amount, so the total is a floor.

### When did Zest AI last raise?

Zest AI's most recent round was in Jan 2025.

### What was Zest AI's biggest round?

Zest AI's largest round on record is $200M (Growth), in Dec 2024, led by Insight Partners.

### Who backed Zest AI first?

Zest AI's first round on record, in Dec 2024, was backed by Insight Partners.

### What stage is Zest AI at?

Zest AI's latest named round is a Growth, in Dec 2024.

### Where is Zest AI based?

Zest AI is based in the United States.

### Who led Zest AI's rounds?

Insight Partners led the Growth in 2024.

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