ZAMP backs the companies building what comes next — investing in ambitious founders pursuing breakthrough opportunities across artificial intelligence, robotics, and frontier technologies, wherever innovation can reshape entire markets. We are not passive capital.
Built on conviction before consensus.
The biggest outcomes rarely come from consensus. They come from seeing structural change before the rest of the market fully understands it. We look for founders with urgency, conviction, and the ability to turn bold ideas into durable companies.
ZAMP seeks companies positioned at the intersection of six forces — where a real market is moving and a founder is built to move with it.
- 01 Large market shifts
- 02 Technological acceleration
- 03 Founder-led execution
- 04 Real-world demand
- 05 Scalable business models
- 06 Strategic capital needs
Our areas of interest.
Twelve companies, organized around three theses — defense, green energy, and frontier technology. Tap any company to learn more.
Defense
04 companies
A European defense innovator building AI-driven autonomous drone systems — from drone motherships that release FPV swarms to drone strike batteries and a full battlefield AI suite. Fast cycles, low cost, high tech.
Next-generation battleships — autonomous, all-electric, and equipped with an integrated drone platform. Developed with attention to emerging U.S. Navy requirements.
Autonomous underwater robots that detect and neutralize mines and unexploded ordnance in oceans and other bodies of water.
The operating layer for autonomous machines. Its Nimbus platform manages, controls and deploys entire fleets of robots, sensors and edge devices — from the cloud or on-prem.
Green Energy
02 companies
A direct lithium extraction (DLE) approach designed to produce lithium faster, more cleanly, and at lower cost than conventional mining. Operating in Salt Lake City.
An EV charging network expanding nationally with access to Tesla’s current-generation superchargers — handling station implementation and network management end-to-end.
Frontier Tech
06 companies
Sovereign “AI factories” — GPU-dense, NVIDIA-certified infrastructure for the most demanding AI workloads, pairing high-density compute and liquid cooling with a sovereign-grade software stack to deploy and scale AI in production.
A credit-infrastructure platform that unlocks financing for smallholder farmers across Africa — de-risking loans banks could not underwrite before.
A platform built to orchestrate the whole legal process — connecting families, lawyers, mediators and courts in one digital system.
Oil & gas outsourcing and mineral-management solutions — institutional-grade processes across the upstream value chain.
WEBINT and OSINT solutions that mine real-time, actionable intelligence from open online sources for enterprise and government.
A new premium secondary school delivering the Cambridge International curriculum — online worldwide and in-person — under license from RGS Worcester, England.
The companies shown are organizations ZAMP is partnering with and evaluating as part of its pipeline. They do not represent completed investments — ZAMP has not yet invested in these companies.
Positioning the world can’t jam.
Merlin TPS is building a terrestrial positioning system — a resilient, GPS-independent layer for timing and positioning that critical infrastructure and defense increasingly depend on. ZAMP backed the company early through its first special purpose vehicle.
As GPS jamming and spoofing intensify, a sovereign timing-and-positioning backbone becomes essential infrastructure across navigation, telecom, energy, and defense — a market Merlin TPS calls the “Holy Grail for timing and positioning.”
Company information is based on statements by Merlin TPS and third-party sources and has not been independently verified. This page is informational and is not an offer to sell or a solicitation to buy any security.
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