Helsinki's Zero raises $10.3M seed to challenge CRM incumbents with AI agents
The Finnish startup, backed by founders of Lovable, Supercell and Langdock, wants to replace legacy CRM systems with an autonomous go-to-market platform.
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Zero, a Helsinki-based startup developing what it calls a go-to-market operating system for the AI era, has raised a seed round of 8.93 million euros ($10.3 million), the company announced as it opened to the public.
The round was led by New York-based Primary Venture Partners, with participation from Inception Fund, Defiant, Greens, and the founders of Lovable, Supercell, Langdock and Silo AI. According to Tech.eu, the company described the round as one of the largest seed rounds ever raised by a Finnish tech company.
Zero's earlier backers include 20VC (led by Harry Stebbings), PostHog co-founder James Hawkins, and operator funds tied to executives from Spotify, Wolt, Shopify, Dropbox, Meta and OpenAI. In December 2024, the company raised 2.34 million euros ($2.7 million) in pre-seed funding led by 20VC.
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