Coheso
Venture Round in 2025
Coheso is a technology company that specializes in providing an AI-driven platform for in-house legal and compliance teams. Their solution, a centralized intake system, automates responses to routine queries, tracks tasks, and integrates with various applications, enabling businesses to enhance operational efficiency by automating work product generation.
RoboForce
Venture Round in 2025
RoboForce, established in 2023, is an AI Robotics startup specializing in developing advanced robotic systems for automating labor-intensive tasks. Their flagship product, a precision AI-driven robotic workforce, offers significant labor cost savings and addresses growing labor shortages, initially targeting utility-scale solar and space industries, with potential applications in manufacturing and mining. Led by Leo Ma, a seasoned entrepreneur, and a team comprising top tech leaders from renowned institutions and companies, RoboForce is backed by prominent investors including Nobel Laureate Myron Scholes and Gary Rieschel.
BlastPoint
Seed Round in 2024
BlastPoint is a developer of a predictive AI-powered platform that offers big data solutions to help companies optimize revenue growth and enhance customer engagement. By providing tools to discover, target, and engage humans within their data, BlastPoint enables businesses across various sectors—such as energy, financial services, automotive, and nonprofit organizations—to generate immediate insights into customer engagement challenges. The platform equips clients to identify trends and unlock critical information relevant to specific territories, ultimately empowering them to find, reach, and satisfy customers throughout their lifetime.
CapSen Robotics
Seed Round in 2024
CapSen Robotics develops advanced computer vision systems that enable machines to comprehend and navigate cluttered environments. Their core technology, derived from MIT research on 3D object detection, empowers robots and automation systems in various industries such as manufacturing, logistics, and retail inventory management.
ViralMoment
Seed Round in 2024
ViralMoment is an innovative company that leverages artificial intelligence and computer vision to analyze consumer insights and enhance visual content strategies. By focusing on social video platforms, it offers enterprise clients a deeper understanding of video trends, moving beyond superficial metrics like hashtags to explore the content within videos. This approach allows ViralMoment to influence audience beliefs, behaviors, and purchasing decisions effectively. The company aims to provide clients and creators with actionable strategies for content creation while eliminating the confusion often associated with algorithm-driven platforms. Through its advanced technology, ViralMoment seeks to transform how businesses engage with consumers in the digital landscape.
Arieca LLC, founded in 2018 and based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, specializes in the development and distribution of Thubber, a thermally conductive rubber composite. This innovative material merges the compliance and elasticity of soft silicone rubber with the thermal conductivity of metal, making it suitable for various applications such as circuit wiring, sensors, and passive heat exchangers. Arieca's product addresses heat management challenges in the electronics industry, enhancing performance while ensuring safe interactions between devices and users. By providing an alternative to traditional rubber, Arieca aims to improve the efficiency of electronic components across multiple sectors.
Trainwell
Series A in 2022
Trainwell is an online coaching platform that offers personalized one-on-one fitness coaching. The company connects individuals with dedicated coaches who guide them through tailored workout plans and provide daily communication. This approach fosters lasting lifestyle changes by allowing clients to receive continuous encouragement and feedback throughout their fitness journeys. Through its platform, Trainwell aims to enhance the coaching experience, ensuring that users are supported at every step of their workout process.
Ecotone Renewables
Equity Crowdfunding in 2021
Ecotone Renewables develops sustainable solutions for food waste management. Their flagship product, 'Seahorse', converts organic waste into renewable energy and nutrient-rich fertilizer through anaerobic digestion, aiming to close the food loop.
Finish Robotics
Seed Round in 2021
Finish Robotics is a company that develops mobile robotics technology aimed at addressing the labor shortage in the construction industry. It specializes in creating semi-autonomous, collaborative robots constructed from standard industrial components. These robots are designed to assist contractors in overcoming challenges related to labor availability, thereby enhancing productivity on construction sites. By leveraging innovative robotics solutions, Finish Robotics seeks to provide effective tools that improve the efficiency and effectiveness of construction operations.
NoRILLA develops a proprietary mixed-reality educational system that bridges physical and virtual environments to improve STEM learning. The company's Intelligent Science Stations provide interactive feedback and guidance to children as they experiment and discover in their environment, fostering skills such as scientific thinking, inquiry, physics, logic, math, geometry, productive dialogue and collaboration. Based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, NoRILLA aims to enable personalized, hands-on exploration through technology and established learning methods.
Wisy is a technology company that develops an artificial intelligence platform aimed at enhancing retail operations through real-time insights. Its on-device AI utilizes image recognition to collect shelf and retail data at the point of sale, providing brands with detailed visibility into product performance and inventory levels. By streamlining inspection processes for field teams, Wisy significantly reduces the time spent in stores. The platform empowers goods manufacturers and retailers to minimize out-of-stock situations and waste, ultimately driving profitable revenue growth. With features like augmented analytics, smart tasks, and remote coordination, Wisy enables consumer product companies to optimize their sales and improve operational efficiency.
Sparkline
Pre Seed Round in 2020
Sparkline is an intelligent outdoor monitoring system for properties such as shops, office buildings, multi-family homes, and surface parking lots. For proactive property management, they offer a full range of cutting-edge capabilities. They can detect misplaced packages, automate parking enforcement, identify delivery drivers, manage parking utilization, and provide parking sales to consumers.
Trainwell
Pre Seed Round in 2019
Trainwell is an online coaching platform that offers personalized one-on-one fitness coaching. The company connects individuals with dedicated coaches who guide them through tailored workout plans and provide daily communication. This approach fosters lasting lifestyle changes by allowing clients to receive continuous encouragement and feedback throughout their fitness journeys. Through its platform, Trainwell aims to enhance the coaching experience, ensuring that users are supported at every step of their workout process.
Bloomfield Robotics
Convertible Note in 2018
Bloomfield Robotics specializes in the assessment of plant health and performance through innovative technology. The company operates a digital platform designed for breeders, growers, and scientists, enabling them to study plants more efficiently. By utilizing deep learning and portable cameras, Bloomfield collects detailed data on various aspects of plant health, including growth rate, water usage, and nutrient uptake. This valuable information supports the enhancement of plant breeding programs, optimizes crop management practices, and advances scientific research. Ultimately, Bloomfield Robotics aims to assist farmers in improving crop yield and quality while minimizing environmental impact and fostering the development of new plant varieties.
Bloomfield Robotics
Convertible Note in 2018
Bloomfield Robotics specializes in the assessment of plant health and performance through innovative technology. The company operates a digital platform designed for breeders, growers, and scientists, enabling them to study plants more efficiently. By utilizing deep learning and portable cameras, Bloomfield collects detailed data on various aspects of plant health, including growth rate, water usage, and nutrient uptake. This valuable information supports the enhancement of plant breeding programs, optimizes crop management practices, and advances scientific research. Ultimately, Bloomfield Robotics aims to assist farmers in improving crop yield and quality while minimizing environmental impact and fostering the development of new plant varieties.
Solvvy Inc. is a machine learning startup based in San Mateo, California, that specializes in enhancing customer interactions through its intelligent conversational platform. Founded in 2013 by technologists Mehdi Samadi and Justin Betteridge, along with CEO Mahesh Ram, Solvvy has developed a self-service customer support solution known as Solvvy for Support. This platform utilizes natural language processing and advanced machine learning techniques to create an answer graph from various internal data sources, such as knowledge bases and ticket histories, enabling businesses to provide accurate and timely responses to customer inquiries. By streamlining the customer support process, Solvvy aims to improve customer satisfaction while reducing operational costs. The company has gained the trust of prominent brands like UpWork, TaskRabbit, and Rover.com, and is recognized for delivering rapid deployment and immediate financial benefits to its clients.
PieceMaker
Seed Round in 2015
PieceMaker Technologies Inc., based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, specializes in manufacturing and distributing 3D printing solutions. The company offers a range of services, including custom and replacement parts, software for digital content management, and maintenance services such as installation, calibration, and repair. Notably, PieceMaker has developed 3D printing kiosks for in-store use, allowing customers to create and print personalized toys or jewelry in under 30 minutes. These kiosks cater to non-technical users and small businesses, primarily in the northeastern United States.
Collected
Convertible Note in 2014
Collected Inc., established in 2013 and headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, specializes in a hosted application that enhances productivity by providing contextually relevant content from users' cloud-storage documents and presentations as they type. The application supports various workflows, including Microsoft Word and PowerPoint, and integrates with popular cloud-storage platforms such as Google Drive, Dropbox, Box, Gmail, and OneDrive. It analyzes users' documents to identify reusable content, displaying related snippets unobtrusively in the sidebar for insertion into the current document or viewing of the original document.
Rebion is a medical device manufacturing company focused on developing advanced diagnostic tools for pediatric vision care. Specializing in data analytics, Rebion creates innovative vision scanners that utilize neural performance scanning technology to detect serious eye conditions in children, such as lazy eye and traumatic brain injury. The company's devices are designed to identify life-altering diseases resulting from functional impairments in the brain, facilitating early intervention and treatment. By offering a speedy, efficient, and safe scanning process, Rebion aims to eradicate vision loss in children and improve health outcomes through timely diagnosis.
NoWait, Inc. is a technology company based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, that specializes in a mobile application designed to enhance the dining experience. Founded in 2010, the company offers a restaurant reservation and waitlist management system that connects consumers with casual dining establishments across the United States. Through its app, users can join waitlists and manage reservations digitally, allowing them to streamline their restaurant visits. By providing a comprehensive platform for both diners and restaurant management, NoWait enables quick access to dining options while improving operational efficiency for restaurants. In 2017, NoWait became a subsidiary of Yelp Inc.
Voci is a technology company specializing in advanced speech recognition solutions that transform voice data into actionable insights. Utilizing hardware-accelerated speech recognition and artificial intelligence, Voci provides businesses with highly accurate transcriptions and valuable analytics, including insights on gender, sentiment, emotion, and speaker biometrics. The company's services are particularly beneficial for organizations in highly regulated sectors, as they help ensure compliance and mitigate risks related to fraud and regulatory violations. Additionally, Voci offers automatic speech-to-text services that enhance voicemail outputs for telecommunications providers, contributing to improved customer experience and optimized contact center operations. Through its innovative approach, Voci empowers companies to analyze audio data effectively, track call center performance, and gain a deeper understanding of customer interactions.
Carnegie Speech
Series A in 2007
Carnegie Speech Company, Inc. is a technology firm specializing in software that assesses and teaches spoken language skills, particularly in English. Founded in 2001 and based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the company offers a range of products designed to enhance language proficiency for both individuals and organizations. Its flagship product, Carnegie Speech Assessment, provides precise evaluations of pronunciation, grammar, and fluency, enabling users to make informed decisions in hiring and training contexts. The NativeAccent software delivers targeted pronunciation training, utilizing advanced techniques in speech recognition and artificial intelligence to identify and correct specific errors. Additionally, Carnegie Speech offers Climb Level 4, tailored for international pilots and air traffic controllers preparing for aviation English certification. The company's solutions are accessible through various platforms, including desktop and web, and are distributed via resellers and its online store, serving sectors such as business, education, aviation, and healthcare globally.
Carnegie Learning
Series B in 2001
Carnegie Learning is a publisher and education technology provider focused on mathematics education. It develops research-based curricula for middle school, high school, and postsecondary students and delivers differentiated instruction to schools across the United States to support math achievement and graduation readiness. Its education technology platform serves regional school districts with math curricula, textbooks, professional development, and data analytics services, emphasizing conceptual learning, developmental support, and project-based computer science content with adaptive, personalized instruction.