about Time Zero Capital

Time Zero Capital LP partners with remarkable founders to build responsible and
promising technology businesses.

portfolio

Companies

HIstorical investments

Time Zero Capital brings inception capital to remarkable founders designing a better world - one we shape with care, inventiveness, and a hint of fairy dust.
Climate & Sustainability
Frontier Tech & AI
Enterprise SaaS
Marketplaces

our Guiding Values

Operate With Integrity

We value ethical & moral decision-making, transparency, and steady communication when solving challenges as a team. Adhering to a strong moral compass is non-negotiable and should be embedded in company culture.

Embrace Kaizen

We embrace Kaizen - a concept of continuous improvement in our working practices. We value solving problems, embracing improvements, and striving to be better individually and as a team.

Cultivate Leaders

We partner with founders with unlimited aptitude to learn, grow, and adapt. It is our responsibility to help leaders evolve to build technological innovations that shape the enduring businesses of tomorrow.

Relationships Matter

We believe relationships transcend institutions. We do not simply invest in transactions. We invest in people. No amount of capital or time competes with dedicated, remarkable people.

Reflect On Mistakes

We're human. We make mistakes. It's whether we recognize them and reflect on the learning. Why do we fall? Perhaps it's to learn to pick ourselves back up.

Respect One Another

We value new, creative, and disruptive ideas just as much as we value mutual respect, trust, and humility among founders, employees, and investors.

Our Team

Dinesh Moorjani
Founding Partner
Shan Yu
Advisor
Geoff Trukenbrod
Advisor
Peter Horan
Advisor
Fahad Nabi
Associate

Geoff Trukenbrod

Geoff is CFO of LanzaTech (NASDAQ: LNZA), a carbon capture and waste transformation company. He has over 25 years of experience building and leading companies through rapid expansions, turnarounds, and exits as an operating executive, equity and debt investor, and board director.

He led finance & corporate development for multiple venture & private equity backed businesses in analytics, biotech, financial services, and social impact industries. Geoff led the financial strategy & operations of Obama for America, the $1.2 billion 2012 re-election campaign of President Barack Obama as its Chief Financial and Budget Officer. Geoff was a private equity & debt investor, sourcing and structuring investments across the capital structure and serving as an advisor to the management teams. He began his career as a management consultant managing acquisition integration, due diligence, strategic sourcing and operational improvement projects.

Geoff completed his BA in Public Policy and Economics at Hamilton College and received his MBA with Honors from the University of Chicago.

Shan Yu

Shan is the CEO and Co-founder of Verre Vert, Inc., an innovative and high-sustainability solution for the wine and spirits industry. She also founded Lianju Capital, an early stage venture fund in China, and serves as advisors for enterprise software and technology companies.  

Shan started her career with EY San Francisco serving multi-billion alternative investment companies and subsequently joined Sequoia Capital leading the fund operations and finance functions.

Shan received her MS in Management from Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Dinesh Moorjani
Dinesh Moorjani is a serial tech founder & CEO, venture capital investor, and adjunct professor. Dinesh was the Founder and CEO of Hatch Labs Inc., where he cofounded numerous software companies from ground up, including Tinder (NASDAQ: MTCH). Dinesh started several other software businesses, including Saffronart - a global eCommerce marketplace for Indian fine art and collectibles, backed by Sequoia Capital.  He cofounded Kleverbeast, a no-code SaaS application development platform, and Monet Analytics, an AI SaaS business that decodes human emotion.

Dinesh served in numerous executive leadership roles at multinational corporations, including as Managing Director at Comcast Ventures, Sr. Vice President and Group Head of Mobility at IAC/InterActive Corp, and in various leadership roles at Samsung Electronics in the US and Asia. He built his early career in the Global Energy Practice at AD Little, Goldman Sachs, and as an early employee at Mainspring (IPO 2000, acquired by IBM 2001). Dinesh served as an independent board director at Alight (NYSE: ALIT) and on the advisory boards of Fortune 500 companies including American Express, Assurant, and Cox Automotive. He held the board observer seat at Zoox (acquired by Amazon), a leader in autonomous vehicles. Dinesh served as an advisor to Warburg Pincus, the global private equity firm, where he was previously an EIR sitting on company boards and co-investing alongside the firm.

Dinesh is a faculty advisor and senior lecturer at the UCLA Anderson School of Management, and guest lectures at Harvard, Stanford, and MIT. He serves on the Harvard Business School California Research Center Advisory Board. Dinesh supports disenfranchised youth and education through his non-profit work as a board director at the United Friends of the Children and the Organization for Social Media Safety. He also serves as a board trustee at the University of California, Merced. Dinesh earned his B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Northwestern University and MBA from Harvard. He is currently a Stanford University engineering doctoral student focused on climate innovation and sustainable finance.
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