Fasting Health Platform Zero Secures $2.8M in Seed Funding to Accelerate Growth and Product Expansion

VCBeat (WeChat ID: vcbeat) recently learned from foreign media that Zero, a fasting health platform headquartered in San Francisco, California, has raised an additional $2.8 million in funding. This round of investment was supported by True Ventures and Trinity Ventures.

To date, the company has raised $4 million in seed funding and announced the appointment of Dr. Peter Attia and Nick Robinson to its executive team, further enhancing its professional expertise to accelerate its growth plans and new product expansion.

Zero was originally founded by Kevin Rose and is now led by CEO Mike Maser, a former founder of Fitstar (acquired by Fitbit in 2016). Zero provides a health and wellness platform for iOS and Android users via the App Store and Google Play. The company’s fasting protocols do not focus on short-term results or specific diets; instead, they emphasize when people eat rather than what they eat. The app connects individuals interested in fasting with relevant tools, resources, and a community to help them identify the optimal fasting regimen for their health. Since its launch, the app has been downloaded more than 2.5 million times, and users have completed over 35 million fasts to date.

True Ventures, founded in 2005, is a Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm that invests in early-stage technology startups. The firm manages over $2 billion in assets and provides seed and Series A financing to entrepreneurs in some of today’s fastest-growing markets. To date, True Ventures has helped more than 250 companies launch and scale their operations, creating over 10,000 jobs worldwide. In 2018, it was named Venture Capital Firm of the Year by the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA).

Trinity Ventures, established in 1986, is an early-stage venture capital firm managing over $1 billion in assets. Trinity focuses on early-stage and seed investments in technology, with a particular emphasis on social commerce, entertainment, digital media, SaaS, cloud computing, and infrastructure.