Tony Kim
Founder, CEO
Presales & solutions at Ripple, working with Tier-1 banks. Now also leads engineering at InlookAI and Ageospatial. Started Zephior after writing 150+ proposals by hand.
LinkedIn →Built by operators who lived the problem.
We started Zephior in 2024 because we saw the same pattern across every industry: organisations losing deals not because they weren't qualified, but because the proposal process was broken.
AI changes the economics of responding.
When generating a high-quality proposal response takes minutes instead of days, the entire procurement landscape shifts. Smaller companies can compete with incumbents. Qualified sellers stop losing to better-resourced ones. Buyers get better responses from a wider field.
We're not building a writing tool. We're building the Zephior Agent Platform so supplier teams can find the right opportunities, answer with evidence, and turn decisions into submission-ready work.
Small, senior, shipping.
Built by people who have written the proposals, run the compliance, and shipped the software.
Sebastien Thevenaz
Founding Engineer
Founded and led InvestGlass as CTO, a Swiss client-management platform for banking and wealth. 10+ years building enterprise software.
Bid and proposal specialists
Alessandro Ansa
Senior bid and proposal specialist
Nearly two decades across Oracle, Dell and SCC, covering bid strategy, governance, proposal writing and complex enterprise pursuits.
George Manolas
Commercial and RFP operations partner
Commercial and technology leader with experience in enterprise IT services, RFP operations, contract negotiation and delivery models.
Malcolm Ferguson
Procurement and sourcing specialist
Buyer-side experience across IT procurement, strategic sourcing, supplier negotiation and RFP and RFI processes.
Eduardo "Eddie" Angel
Proposal delivery and review specialist
Supports response drafting, compliance mapping, clarification work and final proposal review for Zelius engagements.
Advisors
