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title: "Zeal Capital Partners Leads Rising Team and Seven Starling Rounds"
description: "Zeal Capital Partners led an $8M Series A in Rising Team and backed Seven Starling’s $8M maternal-health round, deploying its new Fund II."
date: 2025-09-18T00:00:00.000Z
tags: ["zeal-capital-partners", "series-a", "healthcare", "startup-funding", "venture-capital"]
source: https://venturecapitaltracker.com/2026-zeal-capital-partners-rising-team-seven-starling
---

# Zeal Capital Partners Leads Rising Team and Seven Starling Rounds

> Zeal Capital Partners led an $8M Series A in Rising Team and backed Seven Starling’s $8M maternal-health round, deploying its new Fund II.

**Zeal Capital Partners** deployed its new Fund II by **leading an $8M Series A in Rising Team** (leadership development) and **backing Seven Starling's $8M** maternal mental-health round.

## Key facts

- **Investor:** Zeal Capital Partners (led Rising Team; backed Seven Starling)
- **Rising Team:** $8M Series A, workplace leadership development
- **Seven Starling:** $8M, maternal mental health platform
- **Firm:** D.C.-based, founder Nasir Qadree; portfolio unicorn Esusu
- **Fund II:** $82M, targeting ~25 early-stage companies

## Why this matters

Rising Team and Seven Starling map directly to Zeal Capital Partners' future-of-work and healthcare theses, showing early deployment of its $82M Fund II behind mission-aligned founders.

## Sources

1. Seven Starling $8M (HIT Consultant, via Tracxn): https://tracxn.com/d/venture-capital/zealcapitalpartners/__qOdrjgT-tdH65UZqM8hEvk0iahFZB1jN_ELa7U5MlLs
2. Zeal Fund II & Rising Team (Business Wire): https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20250528777357/en/Zeal-Capital-Partners-Closes-%2482-Million-Zeal-Fund-II-More-Than-Tripling-Assets-Under-Management-in-Five-Years

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