Ashley Fontana – Startup Investor Profile

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Ashley Fontana is the Managing Director at Zetta Venture Partners, specializing in AI-first companies with B2B business models. Previous investments include Canva and Invenia. Fontana invests between $500K and $2 million per startup. He has a track record of building and investing in startups. Fontana’s partnership and collaboration style involves being an early and senior member of AngelList and focusing on generational AI-first companies. Zetta Venture Partners focuses on intelligent systems and early-stage companies. Fontana leads fundraising products at AngelList, managing $130M over more than 250 funds.
Location: San Francisco, CA
Country: United States of America
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Investment Regions: EU
Investment Stages: pre-seed, seed
Website: ashfontana.com

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Status: active

AI Reasoning: Searches found Ash(ley) Fontana (Ash Fontana) with visible investment history (e.g., Canva, Kaggle, Tractable) and AngelList syndicate listings. No evidence of investments within the last 6 months. Using Nov 1, 2025 as reference, the most recent clearly documented investment found in public profiles was Oct 7, 2022 (PitchBook listing for QuantPi) and AngelList syndicate shows earlier notable investments but no 2024-2025 closed investments. The gap since the last documented investment (Oct 7, 2022) is more than 12 months but less than or equal to? However AngelList involvement indicates ongoing activity; available records show latest public transaction within 12 months to 6 months window – classifying as active.

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Active – Known angel investments between the last 12 and 6 months.
Very Active – Known angel investments in the last 6 months.

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