- Inventor, engineer, and Venture Investor
- USC Iovine & Young Academy, VU Venture Partners
Year Zero Ventures Group
Building the infrastructure behind scientific and industrial progress.
Year Zero partners with founders, researchers, and institutions developing the tools, systems, and technologies that expand what humanity can discover, build, and manufacture.
What We Believe
Progress begins upstream.
The technologies that reshape industries are often not consumer products. They are the tools, infrastructure, and enabling systems that make new discoveries and capabilities possible.
We focus on scientific and industrial infrastructure because improvements at the foundation create compounding effects throughout entire sectors.
Focus Areas
Where foundational improvement compounds.
Robotics and Hardware
Physical automation, advanced hardware, and the machines that act on the world.
Bio-engineering and Human Enhancement
Platforms that expand biological capability, human health, and performance.
Space Technology
Systems enabling the next generation of space access, operations, and industrialization.
Industrial Technology
Manufacturing, automation, logistics, and the production base beneath the economy.
Post-Hydrocarbon Energy Technology
Abundant, resilient, and scalable energy beyond hydrocarbons.
Dual-use and Defense Technology
Technologies that strengthen national capability and serve both civilian and defense needs.
Research and Development Tools for Scientific Discovery
Instruments and platforms that accelerate experimentation, simulation, and discovery.
Research Commercialization
From Lab to Reality
Many of the most important technologies originate inside universities, national laboratories, and research institutions.
We maintain relationships across research ecosystems to better understand emerging technologies and the pathways required to transform scientific breakthroughs into real-world impact.
Institutions we source from include MIT, UC Berkeley, USC, Princeton, SLAC, Lawrence Berkeley, and many others where transformative, input-layer technologies originate. We see—and back—these breakthroughs long before they are seen at demo days.
Team
Operators and technologists.
- Entrepreneur, engineer, and operator
- MIT, Pinterest, Harvard
Ecosystem
Built on relationships across the frontier.
We collaborate and engage with the communities and institutions where foundational work happens — learning alongside the people advancing the state of the art.
- Universities
- National laboratories
- Research institutions
- Accelerators
- Technical communities
- Industry experts