Glasswing Ventures

Glasswing Ventures is a Boston-based venture capital firm established in 2016, specializing in investments in early-stage technology companies, particularly in artificial intelligence and frontier technologies. The firm focuses on pre-seed, seed, and startup investments, primarily targeting sectors such as AI software, intelligent enterprise technology, and cybersecurity. Glasswing Ventures aims to support exceptional entrepreneurs who are driving innovation in these areas, leveraging talent from leading academic institutions on the East Coast. It typically invests between $1.5 million and $3 million in each company, with a preference for opportunities in the New York City and Boston areas. Through its investments, Glasswing Ventures seeks to foster growth within its ecosystem and facilitate the transformation of markets and industries.

Jessica Mullins Camburn

CFO

Kyle Dolce

Chief of Staff

Sarah Fay

Managing Director

Richard Grinnell

Co-Founder & Managing Partner

Ali Mahmoud

Senior Associate

Kleida Martiro

Principal

Katharine Panessidi

Vice President of Platform and Marketing

André Rocha

Senior Investment Associate

Vlad Sejnoha

Venture Partner

50 past transactions

Basetwo AI

Seed Round in 2022
Developer of a low-code artificial intelligence platform intended to enable process engineers to optimize their manufacturing processes in real-time. The company connects to its production and lab/quality databases and uses that data to build explainable hybrid artificial intelligence simulation models and receive recommendations to optimize its critical equipment, to prove a track record of achieving cycle time and operational cost reductions across the pharmaceuticals, materials/chemicals, and aerospace manufacturing industries, enabling manufacturing engineers to foster manufacturing across the global supply chain in less time and costs.

Retrocausal

Venture Round in 2022
Retrocausal builds intelligence augmentation systems that help frontline workers train better, be more efficient at their daily jobs, and improve the processes they drive. Their RetroActivity platform for human activity analysis automatically builds computational models of a complex physical task, given only a handful of recorded demonstrations of the task. Once such a model is built, RetroActivity can finely track the job status from live video, to guide a worker through the task, provide independent training, and perform analytics.

Allure Security

Seed Round in 2022
Allure's anti-phishing solution defends enterprise customers from attacks. Allure detects phishing campaigns in near real-time from the first customer attack. It identifies which customers are being phished and devalues anything the cybercriminal may have stolen from the customer and assists the enterprise in destroying the malicious site by taking it down. It was developed with $10M in DARPA funding by a team of Columbia University scientists. It is headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts.

Verusen

Series B in 2022
Verusen is a supply chain intelligence company that leverages artificial intelligence to enhance visibility and digitization in complex global supply chains. Its platform integrates and harmonizes disparate material data across various ERP systems, facilitating accurate master data management to lower inventory costs and improve production reliability. By implementing intelligent controls, Verusen enforces inventory management procedures to mitigate the risk of inventory spikes, while its predictive capabilities optimize allocation and procurement processes. This approach provides businesses with a reliable data foundation, enabling them to adapt swiftly, innovate, and support initiatives related to Industry 4.0. Founded in 2015 and based in Atlanta, Georgia, Verusen primarily serves Fortune 500 manufacturers and their supply chains.

Base Operations

Seed Round in 2021
Base Operations Inc. is a company that specializes in providing street-level threat analysis services, primarily for global companies operating in emerging markets. Founded in 2016 and based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the company offers a platform that aggregates and visualizes crime data through heat maps. Its solutions include detailed threat assessments, neighborhood ratings, and tools that assist security personnel in making informed location-based decisions. By leveraging micro-intelligence and crowdsourced data, Base Operations helps organizations enhance their operational safety, address supply chain risks, and ensure the security of their workforce. The platform also features AI-powered predictive analytics, enabling faster response times and improved decision-making for enterprise security.

Inrupt

Series A in 2021
Inrupt is an open-source platform that uses a set of modular requirements to decentralize the web. The platform allows consumers and organizations to distinguish their information from the apps using it. It enables clients to develop, handle and safeguard their internet personal online data store (POD) while using the same information to simultaneously search for distinct apps. The company is founded in 2017 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.

Cognitive Space

Seed Round in 2021
Cognitive Space is a technology firm specializing in the automation of command and control for satellite operations through its proprietary CNTIENT-SC3 platform. The company leverages artificial intelligence to streamline mission planning and management for constellations of Earth-observing and telecommunications satellites. By providing a software-as-a-service solution, Cognitive Space addresses the evolving demands of the space market, enabling commercial satellite operators to optimize their assets in response to dynamic conditions. The leadership team, boasting over 50 years of experience in space systems and software development, is committed to enhancing the efficiency of satellite operations. This innovation facilitates improved monitoring of Earth for various applications, including economic, environmental, and national security purposes.

Black Kite

Series B in 2021
NormShield Inc. develops a cyber risk rating system. It offers NormShield that provides visibility into a vendor’s cyber position, using the same open-source intelligence tools and techniques hackers use. The company’s NormShield platform combines various assessments to provide fidelity and streamline the process of assessing third-party risk, such as financial, compliance, and technical assessments. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is based in Vienna, Virginia.

Plannuh

Venture Round in 2021
Plannuh, Inc. provides an artificial intelligence driven software for building, managing, and sharing marketing plans, budgets, and goals. It offers Plannuh, a cloud-based system that enables marketers to optimize marketing spend and plan performance, as well as automates marketing strategy and tactics. The company provides solutions for CMOs, marketing operations, and marketing budget owners. Plannuh, Inc. was founded in 2017 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.

Armored Things

Series A in 2021
Armored Things Inc. is a Boston-based company that specializes in security management software designed for security agencies. Founded in 2016, it offers the Armored Things Crowd Intelligence Platform, which consolidates data from various sources to enhance operational and security-related decision-making. This platform features analytics, reporting, and visualization tools that provide real-time insights into crowd dynamics and movement within a given space. Additionally, the software automates incident response by connecting with existing devices in venues, such as lights, cameras, locks, and sensors. Armored Things focuses on enhancing safety in large shared environments, including schools, stadiums, and public spaces, by utilizing its predictive incident and emergency response capabilities integrated with IoT and mobile devices.

Noetic Cyber

Series A in 2021
Noetic Cyber provides a proactive approach to cyber asset and controls management, empowering security teams to see, understand, fix and improve their security posture and enterprise ecosystem.

CloudTruth

Seed Round in 2021
CloudTruth centrally manages configuration parameters, templates, environment variables, and secrets enhancing your existing tools and supporting all cloud platforms. CloudTruth coordinates configuration across your stack(s) preventing stale configurations that cause unplanned downtime. • Gain a centralized view of your configuration • Maintain distinct configurations across different environments • Replace static configuration with dynamic templates • Update your application settings without restarting or redeploying

Nth Party

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Nth Party’s “collaboration without sharing” software enables secure, confidential computation over data without ever creating a central database of proprietary or sensitive information, creating an opportunity for workflows where PII can never be leaked between internal teams or to external companies. Nth Party leverages Multi-Party Computation (MPC), a technology that has introduced opportunities to reduce or eliminate the need to handle or store sensitive data. MPC is based on theories that emerged in the 1980s, based on the idea that parties may jointly compute a function over their inputs while keeping those inputs private. There is huge value across the Healthcare/FinTech/MarTech ecosystems and it upends existing business models.

Labviva

Seed Round in 2021
Labviva is a digital marketplace for life science products that connects researchers with suppliers of reagents, chemicals, and instrumentation. It leverages the scientific context as the organizing principle, connecting researchers with suppliers in an intuitive user-friendly platform while making it easy for suppliers to provide and manage the content for their products. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

TWOSENSE.AI

Seed Round in 2021
TWOSENSE.AI provides invisible, continuous multi-factor authentication for the workplace through behavioral biometrics. It is an artificial intelligence that learns to recognize the user by their behavior through deep learning and mobile sensors. TWOSENSE.AI was founded in 2015.

Reprise

Series A in 2021
Reprise, Inc. develops and operates a demo creation platform that allows sales and marketing teams to create, edit, and deploy software product demos. The company was incorporated in 2019 and is based in Jackson, Wyoming.

Verusen

Series A in 2021
Verusen is a supply chain intelligence company that leverages artificial intelligence to enhance visibility and digitization in complex global supply chains. Its platform integrates and harmonizes disparate material data across various ERP systems, facilitating accurate master data management to lower inventory costs and improve production reliability. By implementing intelligent controls, Verusen enforces inventory management procedures to mitigate the risk of inventory spikes, while its predictive capabilities optimize allocation and procurement processes. This approach provides businesses with a reliable data foundation, enabling them to adapt swiftly, innovate, and support initiatives related to Industry 4.0. Founded in 2015 and based in Atlanta, Georgia, Verusen primarily serves Fortune 500 manufacturers and their supply chains.

ChaosSearch

Series B in 2020
ChaosSearch develops a data platform designed for scalable log analytics. The ChaosSearch Data Platform indexes customer’s cloud data rendering it fully searchable and enabling data analytics at scale with a massive reduction of time, cost, and complexity. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Paper Crane

Seed Round in 2020
Paper Crane is a startup inventing foundational artificial intelligence technologies that make advanced geospatial data insights highly accessible. We make Location Intelligence for Everyone a reality.

Reprise

Seed Round in 2020
Reprise, Inc. develops and operates a demo creation platform that allows sales and marketing teams to create, edit, and deploy software product demos. The company was incorporated in 2019 and is based in Jackson, Wyoming.

Black Kite

Series A in 2020
NormShield Inc. develops a cyber risk rating system. It offers NormShield that provides visibility into a vendor’s cyber position, using the same open-source intelligence tools and techniques hackers use. The company’s NormShield platform combines various assessments to provide fidelity and streamline the process of assessing third-party risk, such as financial, compliance, and technical assessments. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is based in Vienna, Virginia.

CloudTruth

Seed Round in 2020
CloudTruth centrally manages configuration parameters, templates, environment variables, and secrets enhancing your existing tools and supporting all cloud platforms. CloudTruth coordinates configuration across your stack(s) preventing stale configurations that cause unplanned downtime. • Gain a centralized view of your configuration • Maintain distinct configurations across different environments • Replace static configuration with dynamic templates • Update your application settings without restarting or redeploying

Terbium Labs

Series B in 2020
Terbium Labs offers Matchlight, the world’s most comprehensive and only fully private dark web data monitoring solution, capable of quickly finding stolen data and minimizing the damage caused by a data breach. Terbium Labs was founded by Michael Moore and Danny Rogers in 2013 and is based in Baltimore, Maryland.

Narrative

Series A in 2020
Narrative I/O, Inc., develops software platform. The company offers data streaming, data acquisition, data monetization. Furthermore, Narrative I/O, Inc., also provides solutions by competitive intelligence, customer data enrichment, identity resolution, business intelligence, marketing, data engineering, data science, product management, sales and legal & compliances. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in New York, New York.

Armored Things

Seed Round in 2020
Armored Things Inc. is a Boston-based company that specializes in security management software designed for security agencies. Founded in 2016, it offers the Armored Things Crowd Intelligence Platform, which consolidates data from various sources to enhance operational and security-related decision-making. This platform features analytics, reporting, and visualization tools that provide real-time insights into crowd dynamics and movement within a given space. Additionally, the software automates incident response by connecting with existing devices in venues, such as lights, cameras, locks, and sensors. Armored Things focuses on enhancing safety in large shared environments, including schools, stadiums, and public spaces, by utilizing its predictive incident and emergency response capabilities integrated with IoT and mobile devices.

Common Sense Machines

Seed Round in 2020
Common Sense Machines is building artificial intelligence that learns to translate the world into a 3D simulation. Our platform, Real-to-Sim-to-Real, leverages the flexibility of human-like learning and the speed and precision of machines to enable one-shot 3D perception and manipulation of everyday objects.

Plannuh

Seed Round in 2020
Plannuh, Inc. provides an artificial intelligence driven software for building, managing, and sharing marketing plans, budgets, and goals. It offers Plannuh, a cloud-based system that enables marketers to optimize marketing spend and plan performance, as well as automates marketing strategy and tactics. The company provides solutions for CMOs, marketing operations, and marketing budget owners. Plannuh, Inc. was founded in 2017 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.

Inrupt

Seed Round in 2019
Inrupt is an open-source platform that uses a set of modular requirements to decentralize the web. The platform allows consumers and organizations to distinguish their information from the apps using it. It enables clients to develop, handle and safeguard their internet personal online data store (POD) while using the same information to simultaneously search for distinct apps. The company is founded in 2017 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.

Craft

Venture Round in 2019
Craft is a data and analytics platform that leverages machine learning to create a comprehensive "Source of Truth" on companies and the global economy. By aggregating financial, operational, and human capital data from a multitude of sources, Craft offers detailed sector and company profiles that cater to a wide range of organizations, from startups to large corporations. The platform features tools such as signal alerts, trend analysis, and benchmarking to help users monitor and optimize their supply chains and enterprise ecosystems. Its cloud-based portal is designed to seamlessly integrate into existing workflows, enabling clients to access valuable insights and compare key metrics across various companies worldwide.

Base Operations

Seed Round in 2019
Base Operations Inc. is a company that specializes in providing street-level threat analysis services, primarily for global companies operating in emerging markets. Founded in 2016 and based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the company offers a platform that aggregates and visualizes crime data through heat maps. Its solutions include detailed threat assessments, neighborhood ratings, and tools that assist security personnel in making informed location-based decisions. By leveraging micro-intelligence and crowdsourced data, Base Operations helps organizations enhance their operational safety, address supply chain risks, and ensure the security of their workforce. The platform also features AI-powered predictive analytics, enabling faster response times and improved decision-making for enterprise security.

Tuono

Seed Round in 2019
Tuono is a public cloud management platform that automates public cloud infrastructure with less code, less time,​ and less complexity. They also deliver operational velocity and multi-cloud flexibility with 50-80% less code and dramatically less complexity. The company's SaaS-based platform manages multi-cloud infrastructure as code, enabling the user to simplify the orchestration, automation, and management of their cloud infrastructure. Tuono's unique cloud management technology allows for unparalleled simplicity in discovering, deploying, and maintaining complex cloud environments. It was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Boston, MA, USA.

Labviva

Seed Round in 2019
Labviva is a digital marketplace for life science products that connects researchers with suppliers of reagents, chemicals, and instrumentation. It leverages the scientific context as the organizing principle, connecting researchers with suppliers in an intuitive user-friendly platform while making it easy for suppliers to provide and manage the content for their products. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Narrative

Seed Round in 2019
Narrative I/O, Inc., develops software platform. The company offers data streaming, data acquisition, data monetization. Furthermore, Narrative I/O, Inc., also provides solutions by competitive intelligence, customer data enrichment, identity resolution, business intelligence, marketing, data engineering, data science, product management, sales and legal & compliances. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in New York, New York.

Black Kite

Seed Round in 2019
NormShield Inc. develops a cyber risk rating system. It offers NormShield that provides visibility into a vendor’s cyber position, using the same open-source intelligence tools and techniques hackers use. The company’s NormShield platform combines various assessments to provide fidelity and streamline the process of assessing third-party risk, such as financial, compliance, and technical assessments. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is based in Vienna, Virginia.

SmartHive

Pre Seed Round in 2019
SmartHive, founded in 2016, offers a cyber-security platform that facilitates real-time, relevant, and actionable intelligence sharing among organizations. The platform is designed to empower clients to build proactive cyber-security programs by providing them with essential information at their fingertips. SmartHive's services include peer, vendor, and supply-chain benchmarking, all while ensuring privacy and remaining vendor agnostic. This approach enables organizations to detect and mitigate cyberattacks independently. The company is led by former security executives who recognize the longstanding challenges in effective information sharing, aiming to transform how organizations manage their cyber-security efforts.

Inrupt

Funding Round in 2019
Inrupt is an open-source platform that uses a set of modular requirements to decentralize the web. The platform allows consumers and organizations to distinguish their information from the apps using it. It enables clients to develop, handle and safeguard their internet personal online data store (POD) while using the same information to simultaneously search for distinct apps. The company is founded in 2017 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.

otto-js

Seed Round in 2018
otto by DEVCON develops advanced runtime application security software aimed at enhancing internet safety and simplifying security measures for businesses. The software is designed to help organizations quickly secure their digital environments with minimal coding required, integrating seamlessly with major content delivery networks, cloud marketplaces, and content management systems. By providing real-time intelligence on security vulnerabilities and dynamic threats, otto protects brand integrity and customer data from various cyber risks, including client-side attacks and data breaches. Additionally, the platform offers automated tools for monitoring and mitigating risks associated with third-party scripts and outdated libraries. With a commitment to democratizing cybersecurity, otto provides a Chrome extension that alerts users to potential threats while gathering crowd-sourced threat intelligence. This continuous feed of information enhances the software's capabilities, fostering a self-healing technology that adapts to emerging threats. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Memphis, Tennessee, DEVCON is dedicated to safeguarding consumers and businesses alike from the growing landscape of cyber threats.

ChaosSearch

Series A in 2018
ChaosSearch develops a data platform designed for scalable log analytics. The ChaosSearch Data Platform indexes customer’s cloud data rendering it fully searchable and enabling data analytics at scale with a massive reduction of time, cost, and complexity. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Zylotech

Series A in 2018
Zylotech is a customer analytics company that specializes in developing a self-learning platform designed to enrich customer profiles, predict purchasing behavior, and deliver relevant recommendations. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with additional locations in Sunnyvale, California, and Bengaluru, India, Zylotech offers a comprehensive Customer Data Platform (CDP) that provides B2B organizations with a unified view of their customer data. This enables cross-functional teams to enhance their agility and efficiency. The platform leverages artificial intelligence and machine learning to create a data layer that organizes and standardizes customer profiles, while its analytics layer drives insights throughout the customer journey. Zylotech's Revenue Operations Framework further supports organizations in overcoming silos between marketing, sales, and customer operations, facilitating better alignment among customer-facing teams to adapt to evolving market demands.

Inrupt

Seed Round in 2018
Inrupt is an open-source platform that uses a set of modular requirements to decentralize the web. The platform allows consumers and organizations to distinguish their information from the apps using it. It enables clients to develop, handle and safeguard their internet personal online data store (POD) while using the same information to simultaneously search for distinct apps. The company is founded in 2017 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.

Verusen

Seed Round in 2018
Verusen is a supply chain intelligence company that leverages artificial intelligence to enhance visibility and digitization in complex global supply chains. Its platform integrates and harmonizes disparate material data across various ERP systems, facilitating accurate master data management to lower inventory costs and improve production reliability. By implementing intelligent controls, Verusen enforces inventory management procedures to mitigate the risk of inventory spikes, while its predictive capabilities optimize allocation and procurement processes. This approach provides businesses with a reliable data foundation, enabling them to adapt swiftly, innovate, and support initiatives related to Industry 4.0. Founded in 2015 and based in Atlanta, Georgia, Verusen primarily serves Fortune 500 manufacturers and their supply chains.

Armored Things

Seed Round in 2018
Armored Things Inc. is a Boston-based company that specializes in security management software designed for security agencies. Founded in 2016, it offers the Armored Things Crowd Intelligence Platform, which consolidates data from various sources to enhance operational and security-related decision-making. This platform features analytics, reporting, and visualization tools that provide real-time insights into crowd dynamics and movement within a given space. Additionally, the software automates incident response by connecting with existing devices in venues, such as lights, cameras, locks, and sensors. Armored Things focuses on enhancing safety in large shared environments, including schools, stadiums, and public spaces, by utilizing its predictive incident and emergency response capabilities integrated with IoT and mobile devices.

BotChain

Venture Round in 2018
BotChain enables universal registration, identity validation, audit, and coordination of A.I. agents and autonomous software. The BotChain was created by the team at Talla. After more than two years of building intelligent, AI-driven bots for the enterprise, Talla began pursuing their idea for BotChain. The leadership team represents decades of experience in software development, Artificial Intelligence, startups, and innovation.

Elsy

Seed Round in 2018
Elsy is a media technology company that uses algorithms and artificial intelligence to deliver next-generation media planning, resulting in greater media ROI and improved efficiency. The company helps US advertisers and their agencies achieve greater returns on their entire portfolio of media investments through superior planning across traditional, social, digital, and programmatic media channels. Its solution is powered by proprietary intelligence and technology, and delivered through managed services. Elsy is a New York-based company which was founded in 2015 by Laurent Colard and Rimon Erez.

Allure Security

Seed Round in 2018
Allure's anti-phishing solution defends enterprise customers from attacks. Allure detects phishing campaigns in near real-time from the first customer attack. It identifies which customers are being phished and devalues anything the cybercriminal may have stolen from the customer and assists the enterprise in destroying the malicious site by taking it down. It was developed with $10M in DARPA funding by a team of Columbia University scientists. It is headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts.

Terbium Labs

Series A in 2017
Terbium Labs offers Matchlight, the world’s most comprehensive and only fully private dark web data monitoring solution, capable of quickly finding stolen data and minimizing the damage caused by a data breach. Terbium Labs was founded by Michael Moore and Danny Rogers in 2013 and is based in Baltimore, Maryland.

Talla

Series A in 2017
Talla, Inc. is an AI and automation platform that specializes in transforming customer support operations for businesses. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Brookline, Massachusetts, Talla enhances customer satisfaction and boosts the productivity of support representatives by automating support workflows. The platform allows users to self-serve accurate answers to their inquiries while continuously learning and improving through machine learning. Talla also integrates seamlessly with various tools used by support teams, differentiating itself from other providers in the market.