Portal AI
Pre Seed Round in 2024
Portal AI develops AI solutions that streamline business operations for small and medium enterprises, offering tools for marketing, finance, logistics, and more. Its platform also enables creators to convert written narratives into short‑form videos and expansive shared universes, allowing individuals and communities to produce and collaborate on content without requiring editing expertise.
Portal
Pre Seed Round in 2024
Portal is a cell engineering platform firm that enables next generation cell engineering and cell analytics in research and clinical settings.
Competera
Seed Round in 2024
Competera is an AI-driven price optimization company that helps retailers maximize revenue through optimal pricing. Founded in 2014, it operates globally with headquarters in West Hollywood, California and offices in London, Singapore, and Kyiv. Competera's platform continuously calculates billions of price combinations to minimize financial losses by up to 6% of gross margin. It offers category-level pricing driven by demand patterns, efficient pricing management for any number of price lists, and a plug-and-play solution with easy onboarding.
ControlRooms.ai
Series A in 2023
Founded in 2021, ControlRooms.ai is a SaaS company based in Austin, Texas. It specializes in AI-assisted troubleshooting for heavy industry, helping operators and engineers improve issue resolution by identifying trends and anomalies across plant systems.
ShapesXR
Seed Round in 2023
ShapesXR enables users to instantly create fully immersive scenes and populate them with crucial artifacts which were previously impossible for people without the time and resources to develop costly physical environments, mock-ups, or experience laboratories.
Bit2Me
Venture Round in 2023
Bit2Me is a comprehensive platform facilitating access to, trading of, and management of cryptocurrencies and digital assets for diverse users including individuals, exchanges, mining pools, token issuers, investment funds, governments, and organizations. It actively participates in the decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem by supporting initiatives, providing liquidity, and engaging with protocols for decentralized lending, margin trading, and other financial applications.
Hyperspec-ai
Seed Round in 2023
Only 3% of US roadways are covered by the high-definition master maps that today's self-driving cars require to navigate. Without a hard tether to these maps, or beyond their bounds, autonomous vehicles simply cannot operate. Worse, the coverage of these maps is expanding at a rate of only 2% every 5 years.
At Hyperspec AI we are expanding navigable roadways for autonomous vehicles to 95%, today, by equipping each car with our onboard vision hardware that localizes and navigates with true autonomy. Our high-frequency periodic calibration corrects for drift using satellite imagery to achieve continuous precise real-time positioning at a fraction of the cost.
Hyperspec AI is my third company and the second to focus on mapping and localization for autonomous vehicles. I am a serial entrepreneur with successful exits and the deep domain expertise required to lead this new generation of navigation technology. Today, my team includes top talent in computer vision, simulation, and high-performance edge computing.
With $860K raised and $750K in revenue booked to date with a $1.2M backlog, we have traction and momentum. Our focus is on partnership opportunities that accelerate our time-to-market to meet the immediate industry demand.
Rand App
Seed Round in 2023
Rand is a fintech firm that offers banking services, savings, deposits, and account opening.
Fuelfinance
Seed Round in 2023
We do your spreadsheets, graphs, and automations. You get P&L, CF, Financial Projections , Plan/Fact , Unit Economics, and finally, peace of mind. All in familiar to you Google Spreadsheets. Forget about months of integrations and insane setup costs. Starting from $1199/month.
Fuelfinance
Seed Round in 2022
We do your spreadsheets, graphs, and automations. You get P&L, CF, Financial Projections , Plan/Fact , Unit Economics, and finally, peace of mind. All in familiar to you Google Spreadsheets. Forget about months of integrations and insane setup costs. Starting from $1199/month.
Rand Network is a financial technology company focused on creating innovative banking solutions for future generations. It operates an app that offers users cashback or cash prizes through a gaming platform, alongside features like the Rand card, which facilitates automated recurring payments and easy money transfers between accounts at no cost. The company aims to build long-term wealth for its users by providing access to high-yield financial products. Rand Network specializes in managing the complexities of investment through due diligence on third-party partners, continuous rebalancing of staked positions, and reinvestment of yields. This approach allows users to earn better returns than traditional savings accounts by connecting them to real yields from proof of stake blockchains while mitigating risks associated with currency fluctuations.
Viable develops a qualitative AI designed for business teams. Its platform automates the qualitative analysis of customer feedback. With Feedback Analysis Reports, customer feedback is analyzed and distilled into top complaints, compliments, requests, questions, and more via natural language reports.
Rand Network is a financial technology company focused on creating innovative banking solutions for future generations. It operates an app that offers users cashback or cash prizes through a gaming platform, alongside features like the Rand card, which facilitates automated recurring payments and easy money transfers between accounts at no cost. The company aims to build long-term wealth for its users by providing access to high-yield financial products. Rand Network specializes in managing the complexities of investment through due diligence on third-party partners, continuous rebalancing of staked positions, and reinvestment of yields. This approach allows users to earn better returns than traditional savings accounts by connecting them to real yields from proof of stake blockchains while mitigating risks associated with currency fluctuations.
OWL Autonomous Imaging
Series A in 2022
Owl Autonomous Imaging, Inc. is a technology company founded in 2018 and headquartered in Fairport, New York. The company specializes in developing advanced imaging solutions, including a two-color infrared camera designed for the US Air Force and a cutting-edge 4D camera that integrates 1550nm Flash-LiDAR with thermal imaging. These innovations target the automotive mobility and industrial markets, offering Monocular 3D Thermal Ranging™ capabilities that enhance safety in various conditions by leveraging deep learning techniques to produce dense range maps from heat signatures without the need for external illumination. Co-founded by Chuck Gershman, who has extensive experience in the semiconductor industry and a track record of successful entrepreneurial ventures, Owl Autonomous Imaging aims to revolutionize how sensing technology is applied in autonomous vehicles and other sectors.
Bnext is a Madrid-based fintech platform that operates as a digital banking platform and marketplace for financial products. It enables users to open a current account quickly and connect external bank accounts and other financial information within a single app. Through a curated marketplace, users can access a range of financial and insurance products from selected fintechs and banks, compare offers, and purchase or manage products without leaving the app. The company emphasizes collaboration with its partners to provide competitive, well-matched options, including offerings across real estate investment, mutual funds, loans, crowdlending, and microloans. By aggregating accounts and products, Bnext aims to simplify personal finance and expand access to diverse financial services.
Swan Bitcoin
Series A in 2021
Swan Bitcoin provides a platform that enables automatic Bitcoin purchases through savings plans, allowing users to buy weekly, monthly, or with a paycheck starting with small amounts. The service converts dollars into Bitcoin savings and delivers the coins to a wallet or stores them for free with a secure, licensed, and regulated custodian. By automating recurring purchases, the platform supports a simple, long-term approach to wealth preservation and highlights Bitcoin's fixed supply. Users connect a major US bank account and the system handles the rest, making Bitcoin ownership straightforward without requiring active market timing.
Tippsy is an online e-commerce platform dedicated to promoting a modern lifestyle centered around Japanese sake. The company offers over 200 bottles of sake on its product pages, featuring visual metrics to simplify the selection process for consumers. Additionally, Tippsy provides a monthly subscription service called Tippsy Sake Box, which delivers three mini bottles each month, allowing subscribers to explore the diverse flavors and characteristics of different brews. By democratizing access to a wide selection of sake and providing comprehensive information, Tippsy aims to shift the perception of sake from an exotic, cheap spirit often only consumed at restaurants to a sophisticated beverage with a rich cultural heritage comparable to wine.
NFTpay is a fintech company that develops software enabling credit card transactions on websites and applications for buying non-fungible tokens (NFTs). It offers a digital multi-chain platform serving as an NFT marketplace, allowing creators to launch their NFTs and facilitating transactions between artists, content creators, celebrities, influencers, gamers, clubs, and enterprises.
GritWell
Seed Round in 2021
GritWell Ltd is a digital health platform that specializes in addressing chronic health conditions through a holistic approach. Founded in 2018 and based in San Francisco, the company connects patients with a variety of health professionals, including nutritionists, health coaches, and naturopathic doctors. GritWell's platform facilitates secure video consultations, direct messaging, and online scheduling, allowing for personalized treatment plans and credible advice tailored to individual needs. By focusing on root cause treatment rather than mere symptom management, GritWell employs clinically validated symptom assessments to guide patients toward appropriate care while integrating natural treatment options. This innovative approach aims to improve health outcomes by enabling patients to find practitioners who can address the underlying issues of their chronic symptoms, such as insomnia, migraines, and anxiety.
OWL Autonomous Imaging
Seed Round in 2021
Owl Autonomous Imaging, Inc. is a technology company founded in 2018 and headquartered in Fairport, New York. The company specializes in developing advanced imaging solutions, including a two-color infrared camera designed for the US Air Force and a cutting-edge 4D camera that integrates 1550nm Flash-LiDAR with thermal imaging. These innovations target the automotive mobility and industrial markets, offering Monocular 3D Thermal Ranging™ capabilities that enhance safety in various conditions by leveraging deep learning techniques to produce dense range maps from heat signatures without the need for external illumination. Co-founded by Chuck Gershman, who has extensive experience in the semiconductor industry and a track record of successful entrepreneurial ventures, Owl Autonomous Imaging aims to revolutionize how sensing technology is applied in autonomous vehicles and other sectors.
SKAEL, Inc. is a technology company that operates an online digital workforce platform designed to enhance business efficiency through intelligent cognitive automation. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, SKAEL develops a hyper-automation platform that integrates automation and conversational AI technologies to create digital employees. This platform enables companies to automate repetitive tasks across various applications, data sources, and documents, thereby streamlining workflows and minimizing human error, bias, and delays. Its features include plug-and-play integration with existing back-end systems, data flow engines, and digital assistant services, which collectively empower organizations to optimize their operations and improve decision-making through predictive and prescriptive insights.
Hospital on Mobile
Seed Round in 2021
Hospital on Mobile is a personalized mobile health company that develops camera and voice-based vital signs monitoring solutions for disease prediction and remote patient monitoring. Using a smartphone camera or webcam, users can measure their heart rate, heart rate variability, respiratory rate, and oxygen saturation level via contact (by putting their fingertip on the camera) or contactless (selfie video) measurement options.
Additionally, Hospital on Mobile can analyze users' volunteer coughs for whether an infectious disease is developed or not. All measurements and results are displayed in seconds.
Founded in 2018, Sonatus develops software that enhances vehicle connectivity and data collection, enabling automobile manufacturers to offer improved customer services. Its platforms facilitate continuous improvements in cost efficiency, capabilities, reliability, and user experience throughout a vehicle's lifespan.
Klarna
Venture Round in 2021
Klarna is a technology-driven payments company that provides a platform for connecting consumers and merchants with flexible payment options for online and offline shopping. It offers direct payments, pay-after-delivery options, and installment plans, supported by a mobile app that enhances the shopping experience with flexible payment options and cashback rewards. The company operates across multiple countries and serves merchants with payment solutions and tailored advertising services, including messaging and insights features. Klarna is known for its buy now, pay later model, enabling interest-free financing for purchases divided into installments.
OWL Autonomous Imaging
Seed Round in 2021
Owl Autonomous Imaging, Inc. is a technology company founded in 2018 and headquartered in Fairport, New York. The company specializes in developing advanced imaging solutions, including a two-color infrared camera designed for the US Air Force and a cutting-edge 4D camera that integrates 1550nm Flash-LiDAR with thermal imaging. These innovations target the automotive mobility and industrial markets, offering Monocular 3D Thermal Ranging™ capabilities that enhance safety in various conditions by leveraging deep learning techniques to produce dense range maps from heat signatures without the need for external illumination. Co-founded by Chuck Gershman, who has extensive experience in the semiconductor industry and a track record of successful entrepreneurial ventures, Owl Autonomous Imaging aims to revolutionize how sensing technology is applied in autonomous vehicles and other sectors.
Hyperspec-ai
Seed Round in 2021
Only 3% of US roadways are covered by the high-definition master maps that today's self-driving cars require to navigate. Without a hard tether to these maps, or beyond their bounds, autonomous vehicles simply cannot operate. Worse, the coverage of these maps is expanding at a rate of only 2% every 5 years.
At Hyperspec AI we are expanding navigable roadways for autonomous vehicles to 95%, today, by equipping each car with our onboard vision hardware that localizes and navigates with true autonomy. Our high-frequency periodic calibration corrects for drift using satellite imagery to achieve continuous precise real-time positioning at a fraction of the cost.
Hyperspec AI is my third company and the second to focus on mapping and localization for autonomous vehicles. I am a serial entrepreneur with successful exits and the deep domain expertise required to lead this new generation of navigation technology. Today, my team includes top talent in computer vision, simulation, and high-performance edge computing.
With $860K raised and $750K in revenue booked to date with a $1.2M backlog, we have traction and momentum. Our focus is on partnership opportunities that accelerate our time-to-market to meet the immediate industry demand.
Omnitron Sensors
Seed Round in 2021
Omnitron Sensors specializes in developing semiconductor process platforms that enhance performance, reliability, and reduce costs for applications such as autonomous navigation, augmented reality, and AI workflows. Its MEMS-based technology enables high-volume industries to achieve more efficient production and advanced functionality.
Allocations
Venture Round in 2021
Allocations is a technology company based in Miami, Florida, established in 2019. It specializes in fund administration, assisting in the creation of venture capital, real estate, and cryptocurrency funds.
SKAEL, Inc. is a technology company that operates an online digital workforce platform designed to enhance business efficiency through intelligent cognitive automation. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, SKAEL develops a hyper-automation platform that integrates automation and conversational AI technologies to create digital employees. This platform enables companies to automate repetitive tasks across various applications, data sources, and documents, thereby streamlining workflows and minimizing human error, bias, and delays. Its features include plug-and-play integration with existing back-end systems, data flow engines, and digital assistant services, which collectively empower organizations to optimize their operations and improve decision-making through predictive and prescriptive insights.
MaintainX
Seed Round in 2019
MaintainX is a software-as-a-service platform that digitizes work orders and procedures for frontline and maintenance teams. The platform supports workflow digitization, collaboration, and analytics, along with environmental and training checklists, tooling and gauge reporting, auditing and inspection workflows, and quality control inspections, with capabilities to communicate and upload photos. It helps manufacturing facilities, restaurants, hotels, and other business groups streamline maintenance operations, manage asset information, and support regulatory compliance and audits. The solution emphasizes IoT-enabled features and real-time field insights to improve efficiency and reliability in maintenance, reliability, and operations. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, MaintainX provides a mobile-first platform designed to empower frontline workers with a modern digital workflow.