About Zero

About Zero

We're building the future of B2B growth. Zero is an AI-powered CRM that runs your entire customer lifecycle on autopilot - discovering leads, engaging prospects, and growing customers without clicks.

We're building the future of B2B growth. Zero is an AI-powered CRM that runs your entire customer lifecycle on autopilot - discovering leads, engaging prospects, and growing customers without clicks.

Our story

The modern sales tech stack is broken. As founders who scaled Smartly.io to $100M+ ARR, we lived this reality firsthand. B2B companies are drowning in point solutions, each promising small gains but collectively creating a maze of complexity.

Even early-stage startups are forced to implement and maintain a dozen separate tools just to run basic GTM. This results in fragmented data, broken workflows, and hours spent on manual updates. And most importantly - lost human connection in B2B growth. All time away from activities that actually moves the needle.

We started Zero because we believe there's a better way.

What we're building

Zero isn't just another CRM or point solution – it's reimagining how modern growth companies should run their go-to-market. We're building a GTM Operating System with a zero-click experience as a guiding principle.

What does "zero-click" mean? Imagine a world where:

  • Your CRM comes preloaded with enriched data about your current and future customers

  • AI agents automatically research, update, and monitor buying signals

  • Smart email and LinkedIn sequences run in a single, streamlined workflow

  • Tasks are automatically mined from your communications

  • Every piece of customer data lives in one unified platform

Our vision is ambitious but clear: Zero will know who your best next customer is, who to contact, how to contact them, and when to reach out.

Our team

We're a small but mighty team of builders, based in Helsinki but working with the most ambitious companies across San Francisco, New York, Berlin, London, Stockholm, Copenhagen and other global startup hubs.

Our backgrounds span enterprise SaaS, B2B sales, product development, customer success, design, and growing startups into scaleups. What unites us is our obsession with craft and our belief that B2B software should be both powerful and a joy to use.

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Tuomo Riekki

Co-Founder

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Tuomo Riekki

Co-Founder

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Santtu Koivumäki

Co-Founder

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Santtu Koivumäki

Co-Founder

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Tuomas Peltonen

Founding Engineer

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Tuomas Peltonen

Founding Engineer

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Niko Salkola

Founding Designer

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Niko Salkola

Founding Designer

TR

Tuomo Riekki

Co-Founder

SK

Santtu Koivumäki

Co-Founder

TP

Tuomas Peltonen

Founding Engineer

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Niko Salkola

Founding Designer

What do we believe in

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Speed first

We execute faster than anyone else, with a foundation of quality. Quick decisions and rapid shipping are our defaults, but we won’t compromise on doing things right.

Clean code and magically fast product experiences that help our customers outpace their competition.

Speed first

Customer intimacy

Elegantly powerful

Global ambition

All-in

Founder mindset

1

Speed first

We execute faster than anyone else, with a foundation of quality. Quick decisions and rapid shipping are our defaults, but we won’t compromise on doing things right.

Clean code and magically fast product experiences that help our customers outpace their competition.

Speed first

Customer intimacy

Elegantly powerful

Global ambition

All-in

Founder mindset

1

Speed first

We execute faster than anyone else, with a foundation of quality. Quick decisions and rapid shipping are our defaults, but we won’t compromise on doing things right.

Clean code and magically fast product experiences that help our customers outpace their competition.

Speed first

Customer intimacy

Elegantly powerful

Global ambition

All-in

Founder mindset

1

1

Speed first

We execute faster than anyone else, with a foundation of quality. Quick decisions and rapid shipping are our defaults, but we won’t compromise on doing things right.

Clean code and magically fast product experiences that help our customers outpace their competition.

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Customer intimacy

We don't just talk regularly to our customers - we build alongside them. We seek out forward-thinking partners who challenge us and shape our product. Daily engagement with users isn't a chore, it's our secret weapon.

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Elegantly powerful

We believe best B2B softwares marry powerful automations with well designed and crafted opinionated interfaces for your daily work.

Most of today’s business tools feel like they were designed with too many cuts and compromises, built for the enterprises requiring 1000s of customizations. We're bringing product craftsmanship back to B2B.

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Global ambition

We're here to challenge Salesforce, HubSpot, and hundreds of point solutions head-on. Our goal is to become the default platform for next-gen companies worldwide.

While we're building our core team in Helsinki, we work daily with the best customers, talent and investors globally.

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All-in

We are not here to build a second or third best company in its category, but the absolute best. This requires hard work and commitment to our vision over the coming years.

Zero is not your typical 9-to-5 workplace but at the same time we also believe in the right balance to recharge and finding new ideas from outside of work regularly.

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Founder mindset

We all act like founders and there’s no micromanaging (but expect occasional founder obsession with the right details). We trust our team with real ownership and big responsibilities from day 1.

Many of us have been founders and early startup employees before and we seek to hire self-driving teammates.

Backed by the best

Reinventing CRM isn't for the faint-hearted

We've spent countless hours building companies using bad tools. At Zero we want to transform one of the largest software categories in the world.

Want to join us in building this future? We're looking for exceptional builders.

Tuomo Riekki

Co-Founder

Santtu Koivumäki

Co-Founder

Niko Salkola

Founding Designer

Tuomas Peltonen

Founding Engineer

Reinventing CRM isn't for the faint-hearted

We've spent countless hours building companies using bad tools. At Zero we want to transform one of the largest software categories in the world.

Want to join us in building this future? We're looking for exceptional builders.

Tuomo Riekki

Co-Founder

Santtu Koivumäki

Co-Founder

Niko Salkola

Founding Designer

Tuomas Peltonen

Founding Engineer

Reinventing CRM isn't for the faint-hearted

We've spent countless hours building companies using bad tools. At Zero we want to transform one of the largest software categories in the world.

Want to join us in building this future? We're looking for exceptional builders.

Tuomo Riekki

Co-Founder

Santtu Koivumäki

Co-Founder

Niko Salkola

Founding Designer

Tuomas Peltonen

Founding Engineer

Reinventing CRM isn't for the faint-hearted

We've spent countless hours building companies using bad tools. At Zero we want to transform one of the largest software categories in the world.

Want to join us in building this future? We're looking for exceptional builders.

Tuomo Riekki

Co-Founder

Santtu Koivumäki

Co-Founder

Niko Salkola

Founding Designer

Tuomas Peltonen

Founding Engineer