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Annual · summit side-event
ZK Prime Invitational
The big one. Played live around the summit week, finished online on CoinPoker. Founders, LPs and a few guests.
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AI Venture Capital · Incubation · Launchpad
FULL-CYCLE AI VENTURE CAPITAL
ZK Prime Capital backs founders early and builds beside them: idea → MVP → grant → incubation → token launch. Not just a check — hands-on support all the way to your round.
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AUM$48.0M
Deployed$12.4M
Portfolio37
Raised$94.2M
Grants$3.1M
Launchpad TGE14
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How it worksIdea → TGE in ~90 days
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Idea
You bring the thesis
02
Grant
$5K–$75K to start
03
MVP
Built with our team
04
Incubation
3–6 mo · $50K–$250K
05
TGE
Launchpad + 120+ LPs
Founder or investor? Grab the ZK Prime one-pager — the whole story in 30 seconds.
The fund in numbers
Numbers, not promises
$48M
Capital under management (committed)
37
Portfolio companies
$94.2M
Raised by portfolio across rounds
14
Token launches via our launchpad
$3.1M
Grants deployed to 60+ teams
120+
Private investors in the coalition
90 days
Average idea-to-TGE timeline
18
AI agents in the active portfolio
What we do
A full stack of support — from idea to round
You bring an idea or an early product. We cover the rest: capital, engineering, liquidity and growth.
01 — Launchpad
Launchpad
We prep you for TGE: tokenomics, ICO/IDO structure, listings and market making, plus access to our investor and exchange network.
ICO · IDO · listings02 — Incubation
Incubation
We take projects end-to-end: strategy, hiring, product and ops. We work like co-founders, not spectators.
3–6 months · hands-on03 — MVP Studio
MVP development
Our team ships a working smart-contract MVP in weeks — from prototype to audit to deploy.
contracts · frontend · audit04 — Grants
Grants for ideas
We fund strong ideas at the earliest stage — no dilution upfront. $5K–$75K to validate the hypothesis.
pre-seed · idea → prototype05 — Growth & Marketing
Marketing & growth
KOLs, community, content and performance. We launch the narrative so the whole market is talking about your token.
KOL · community · PR06 — AI & ZK Thesis
AI focus
On-chain AI agents are our core thesis. We join every strong round — from inference and DeFAI to zk-rollup infrastructure.
AI agents · DeFAI · zk-rollupsPortfolio
We back on-chain AI, DeFAI, and the ZK stack beneath it
From decentralized compute and modular liquidity to zero-knowledge L2s and autonomous agents — a selection of projects we’ve backed.
$REPX
RepoSwap
★ Lead · IncubatedAI agent for swaps and liquidity routing.
$ELX
Elixir Network
Series BModular liquidity network for order-book DEXs.
$IO
io.net
RealizedDecentralized GPU compute network for AI.
$ATH
Aethir
RealizedDecentralized GPU cloud for AI & gaming.
COMPUTE
Gensyn
Early-stageDecentralized compute protocol for ML training.
zkL2
Aztec
Token · VestingPrivacy-focused zero-knowledge L2 on Ethereum.
DATA
PublicAI
SeedDecentralized data network for AI.
AI·DAO
Waggle Network
Early-stageAI agents for on-chain governance & DeFi.
DEFI
Terrace
Early-stageOn-chain asset management platform.
Case study
RepoSwap — from idea to $3.4M
$REPX
RepoSwap · AI Swap Agent
The team came to us with a prototype AI agent for optimal swaps. We led the round, built the MVP with them, packaged the tokenomics and took it to the launchpad.
“ZK Prime closed the capital, the product and the narrative for us. One cycle turned an idea into a real round.”
$3.4M
raised in the round
+312%
$REPX since TGE
9 wks
from MVP to listing
Lead
ZK Prime role in round
Investor coalition
The ZK Prime private syndicate — now open
We open our deal flow to private investors. Get into the same rounds as the fund, on the same terms.
Access to deal flow
Early rounds in AI agents and infrastructure before the public launch.
Fund allocations
The same allocation and terms ZK Prime gets as lead.
Due diligence done for you
Our team vets the team, the contracts and the tokenomics on your behalf.
Closed community
Private research, alpha and calls with portfolio founders.
Terms of entry
Minimum check$5,000
Deal cadencemonthly
Members now120+
Seats openlimited
On the ground
Reputation, earned in person
No Telegram channel. No paid callers. We're known by the rooms we show up in and the founders we back. Here's ZK Prime live at global crypto summits.
$0 spent on hype.
We don't run a shill channel or a paid-callers desk. Founders and LPs find us through the deals we close and the events we attend — that's the only marketing we trust for ourselves.
ZK Prime Capital × CoinPoker
Private tables. Our circle only.
Co-founders, CEOs and core teams from across the portfolio — plus LPs and partners — at password-locked tables CoinPoker builds for us. No public lobbies, no leaderboards: a table is where the real deal talk happens.
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ZK PRIME CAPITAL×COINPOKER
Official partner tables · password-locked rooms built for the fund
THE TABLE IS THE NETWORK
Sponsored tournaments prize pool: the fund
ZK Prime puts up the prizes. Co-founders, CEOs and team members from portfolio projects play for them — plus LPs and a few guests.
Host tables prize pool: the players
Equal buy-ins pool into one bank. The fund holds it as organizer and guarantor, takes a small disclosed fee, and the table plays for the rest.
Pros at the table. We also invite well-known poker players to our games — the field stays strong and the lineup is never the same twice.
House rules
PlatformCoinPoker · locked rooms
Entryinvite only
Prize poolsfund / pooled
Fund rolesponsor · guarantor
GamesNLH · PLO
At the tablefounders · CEOs · LPs
MonthlyS02
Monthly · online
Founders Table
Co-founders, CEOs and core team members from across the portfolio. One table a month, one topic on the side — hiring, tokenomics, launch war stories.
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QuarterlyS03
Quarterly · online
LP Night
For coalition members. Deal-flow preview before the cards, then a deep-stack game. Our way of saying thanks to the 120+.
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Open to applicantsS04
Seasonal · online
Builder Freeroll
Free entry for teams that applied to the launchpad this season. The final table gets a fast-track review with the partners.
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Host formatS05
On demand · online · CoinPoker locked room
Host tables — we hold the bank
Sometimes the fund doesn't sponsor the pool — it guarantees it. Players seat with equal buy-ins into one pot, ZK Prime runs the table as dealer-organizer, takes a small disclosed fee from the bank, and the rest is played for.
How the bank works ▸
Play responsibly.
Private games between people who know each other, not a product. Invitations are personal and non-transferable. On sponsored tournaments the prize pool comes from the fund; on host tables the organizer’s fee is disclosed before cards are dealt. 18+ / 21+ where applicable, subject to local law.
Confidential
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Journal · since 2023
What we think about the market
Theses, deal breakdowns and the fund's view on crypto-AI. We've been doing this in a private circle since 2023.
Thesis
Sep 8, 2026
Agent summer is over. The stack is consolidating.
Most agent tokens died. The rails underneath them didn't — and that's where our capital went.
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Note
Sep 1, 2026
Why a venture fund hosts poker nights
Closed tables, locked CoinPoker rooms, invited pros. The story behind the newest section on this site.
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Thesis
Aug 26, 2026
Why we're all-in on on-chain AI agents
Why autonomous agents are the defining narrative of the cycle — and where the real value sits versus the hype.
Read ▸Playbook
Aug 12, 2026
Fourteen TGEs later: timing beats everything
Fourteen launches through our launchpad, one lesson above the rest: the calendar is part of the product.
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Playbook
Jul 15, 2026
Inside the launchpad: idea to TGE in 90 days
A step-by-step look at our incubation process: product, tokenomics, marketing and getting to the round.
Read ▸Case
Jun 3, 2026
RepoSwap: how we built a $3.4M raise
The full $REPX breakdown — from the first call with the team to listing and token performance.
Read ▸Thesis
Nov 18, 2025
The DeFAI thesis: agents that move capital
Where autonomous agents stop being demos and start managing real on-chain liquidity — and how we underwrite it.
Read ▸Playbook
Jul 2, 2025
Tokenomics that survive the first 90 days
The launch-day mistakes that quietly kill projects — and the design choices we insist on before any TGE.
Read ▸Note
Mar 14, 2025
Why we stay private
No public channel, no paid callers. How a closed circle of founders and LPs became our entire distribution.
Read ▸Playbook
Oct 9, 2024
Grants over hype: funding ideas before product
Why we started writing small checks at the idea stage — and what a year of grant-stage bets taught us.
Read ▸Thesis
May 21, 2024
Our first on-chain AI-agent bets
Before the narrative had a name. The early agent experiments that convinced us this was the cycle's core.
Read ▸Note
Sep 5, 2023
Founding ZK Prime: a private circle for builders
How the fund started — a handful of operators pooling capital and time to back founders nobody else would.
Read ▸Independently verified
Real fund. Verifiable data.
Our firm data — portfolio, funds, and track record — is listed and verified on the platforms institutional investors actually use.
Since 2023
$94.2M
raised by the 37 companies we backed. Fourteen of them went to TGE with us. One started as a deck.
14token launches+312%$REPX since TGE120+private investors90 daysidea to TGE
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