HRtech startup Zeroramp raises £500,000 for better employee onboarding
This article covers Zeroramp, an HRtech startup, which has raised £500k in a pre-seed funding round to develop a privacy-first AI assistant for employee onboarding and internal knowledge discovery. The development aims to help HR and people teams and remote organisations surface accurate, context-aware answers from existing workplace tools while keeping data in place and offering predictable pricing.
Zeroramp, an HRtech startup founded by Tunde and Abidis, has raised £500,000 in a pre-seed funding round to develop a privacy-first AI assistant for employee onboarding and internal knowledge discovery. The capital will help the team iterate on Zeno, a fixed-price assistant that operates inside Slack and Teams and is designed to keep data in customers’ existing tools while answering questions about company policy, products and processes.
Why it matters
Onboarding and internal knowledge remain costly and fragmented for many organisations, particularly those operating remotely. Tools that can quickly surface accurate, context-aware answers from across an organisation’s knowledge stack could reduce time-to-productivity for new hires and lower support overhead for HR and people teams. Zeroramp’s focus on privacy and data sovereignty addresses growing concerns about sending internal data to third-party AI services and the unpredictable costs associated with token-based pricing.
Inside the product
Zeroramp’s core product, Zeno, connects to workplace repositories such as Notion, SharePoint, Confluence and CRM systems. The assistant is described as resolving conflicting signals across sources, responding within seconds, and leaving data in place rather than ingesting or centralising it in an external service.
A notable commercial choice is Zeno’s fixed-price model: it is offered at €45 per month, avoiding token-based metering and the hyperscaler dependency common to many generative AI tools. The company positions this as a way to deliver predictable costs for teams and to focus engineering effort on accuracy and efficiency rather than usage-driven upsells.
Who are the investors?
The round was completed via the FounderCatalyst platform, a fundraising service that the announcement describes as a cost-effective option for early-stage companies.
According to the company’s statement, the £500,000 will be used to continue developing Zeno, expand the customer base and roll out privacy-first AI tooling to teams across Europe and beyond.
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Founder perspective
Zeroramp positions itself as a fully remote team of experienced engineers and product builders led by founders Tunde and Abidis. The company frames its mission around respecting customer privacy and sovereign rights, emphasising architecture choices that keep data where companies already store it and prioritise predictable pricing over metered consumption.
The bigger picture
Zeroramp’s approach touches on two emerging dynamics in the European tech scene: demand for privacy-aware AI tooling that avoids indiscriminate data transfer to third-party clouds, and a market appetite for predictable commercial models from vendors serving HR and people teams. The funding route — using a paid fundraising platform rather than a traditional lead investor announcement — also highlights alternative capital-raising paths available to early-stage startups.
As companies across the UK and Europe wrestle with onboarding inefficiencies and regulatory scrutiny over data handling, products like Zeno will be a test case for whether privacy-first, fixed-price assistants can gain traction against large AI incumbents and plugin-style knowledge tools.
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