Atypical

Atypical Ventures is a venture capital firm founded in 2019, with its headquarters in Beijing, China, and a presence in New York. The firm specializes in investing in high-tech and internet sectors, providing funding services to entrepreneurs, emerging businesses, and start-up companies. Atypical Ventures focuses on supporting innovative ventures that demonstrate significant growth potential in the rapidly evolving technology landscape.

Lili Rogowsky

Principal

Joshua Weissburg

Venture Partner

41 past transactions

Brooklyn Investment Group

Venture Round in 2024
Brooklyn Investment Group operates as an A.I.-powered wealth management platform that leverages advanced technology to enhance investment strategies. The company develops a digital platform that integrates institutional-grade portfolio optimization with automated tax-loss harvesting. By utilizing machine learning and natural language processing, Brooklyn Investment Group's platform efficiently decodes complex data for investment management, allowing clients to convert intangible developments into measurable outcomes. This approach aims to simplify wealth management and optimize financial performance for its users.

Greptime

Series A in 2024
Greptime specializes in industrial services centered around time-series data, catering to sectors such as IoT, autonomous driving, smart manufacturing, and financial markets. The company has developed GreptimeDB, an open-source and cloud-native distributed time-series database that effectively separates storage and compute functions, resulting in a reduced total cost of ownership while enhancing both agility and scalability. Currently, Greptime is refining this database and is in the process of launching Greptime Cloud, a fully managed database service that aims to offer clients real-time capabilities and a more flexible pricing structure. Through these innovations, Greptime seeks to provide superior solutions for storing, extracting, and analyzing large volumes of time-series data.

Norm AI

Seed Round in 2024
Norm AI offers an AI-driven regulatory compliance platform tailored for the legal and compliance sectors. The platform addresses the regulatory sludge problem by transforming complex regulations into AI agents capable of making autonomous compliance decisions. This allows compliance teams to assign tasks to the regulatory AI using high-level instructions, while ensuring the quality of the output through validation at various levels of detail. Norm AI’s innovative solutions streamline compliance processes, improving efficiency and accuracy for organizations navigating intricate regulatory landscapes.

Buddy

Venture Round in 2024
Buddy operates an innovative insurance platform designed to streamline the management and sale of insurance products for software companies. Its Insurance Gateway serves as a comprehensive connection to the insurance market, allowing software companies to source, connect, transact, fulfill, and analyze various insurance offerings seamlessly. By integrating insurance products into their transaction flows quickly, Buddy enhances the value of these transactions, simplifying the insurance selection process for customers and enabling companies to embed relevant insurance offerings within their software platforms efficiently.

Klarity Health

Series A in 2023
Klarity operates an online treatment management platform specifically designed for individuals with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and related symptoms. The platform aims to make professional diagnosis and treatment for ADHD more accessible and affordable. By offering customized treatment plans based on thorough evaluations, Klarity connects patients with the resources they need to manage their condition effectively. The service seeks to simplify the healthcare experience for those affected by ADHD, ensuring they receive personalized care tailored to their unique needs.

Lonestar

Seed Round in 2023
Lonestar is an information technology company that provides secure, immutable storage and edge processing services to customers. They provide data services to the moon for both the terrestrial archival market and to support space operations with data analytics, archival services, and broadband relay to terrestrial public and private clouds.

Recycleye

Series A in 2023
Recycleye Limited, founded in 2019 and based in London, United Kingdom, specializes in developing artificial intelligence-powered machine learning tools for waste management. The company's technology focuses on the characterization, tracking, and automated sorting of waste, providing valuable analytics to enhance efficiency in recycling processes. By enabling smarter waste management practices, Recycleye aims to support businesses in their transition towards a circular economy, where resources are reused and waste is minimized.

Rodeo

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Rodeo provides services like generating new product email outreach for the beauty brands and starting campaigns for inactive marketers.

PhiGent Robotics

Series A in 2022
PhiGent Robotics specializes in autonomous driving solutions by developing advanced technologies that enhance vehicle safety and navigation. The company focuses on artificial intelligence-driven visual imaging and 3D vision radar systems to improve the performance of autonomous driving sensors. By leveraging these cutting-edge technologies, PhiGent Robotics aims to accelerate the advancement of mid-to-high-level autonomous driving capabilities, contributing to the evolution of the transportation industry.

Ness

Seed Round in 2022
Ness builds a credit card-first wedge into healthcare. It allows its user to earn rewards for healthy purchases and access exclusive perks to complement their lifestyle. It was established in 2021 and is based in New York, United States.

Leading Magpie Technology

Series A in 2022
Magpie Technology focuses on research, development and production of construction robots, with an emphasis on building and decorating.

Phosphorus Cybersecurity

Series A in 2022
Phosphorus Cybersecurity is an IoT security management and breach prevention platform for the xTended Internet of Things. Designed to secure the rapidly growing and often unmonitored world of Things across the enterprise xIoT landscape, our Unified xIoT Security Management Platform delivers attack surface management across every industry vertical, providing intelligent active discovery and risk assessment, hardening and remediation, and detection and response. It brings enterprise xIoT security to every cyber-physical system in your enterprise environment. With unrivaled IoT Intelligent Active Discovery and risk assessment, Phosphorus automates the remediation of the most significant IoT, OT, IoMT, and IIoT device vulnerabilities – including unknown and inaccurate asset inventory, out-of-date firmware, default credentials, risky configurations, and out-of-date certificates.

Duro

Seed Round in 2021
Duro is a developer of a cloud-based software-as-a-service platform that offers a product lifecycle management (PLM) solution tailored for hardware companies. The platform simplifies the design and manufacturing processes of custom hardware products by integrating features such as bill of material (BOM) management and automated data entry and validation. This ensures adherence to industry standards and best practices in hardware product development. Duro’s workflow management system is user-friendly, resembling a spreadsheet while providing real-time production status reports and supply chain risk alerts through an accessible dashboard. This comprehensive solution aims to enhance efficiency and streamline operations for hardware product companies.

Zhongyu Assembly

Series B in 2021
Zhongyu Home is a manufacturer specializing in prefabricated interior components and provides a range of integrated interior decoration services. The company focuses on the research and development of building materials and components, offering solutions that encompass material design, housing decoration, and architectural renovation. By streamlining the decoration process, Zhongyu Home enables clients to enhance efficiency and reduce costs in their interior projects.

Invisv

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Invisv is a deep tech, patent pending company. They provide mobile and Internet privacy services. Pretty Good Phone Privacy is a fundamental mobile security service that gives private mobile connectivity. Invisv created a peer reviewed security technique that enables us to periodically change the international mobile subscriber identity to a new random international mobile subscriber identity.

Mojito

Seed Round in 2021
Mojito is a Web3 engagement platform designed to enhance revenue and customer engagement for brands and creators. The company offers a comprehensive suite of features that includes minting Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs), accepting cryptocurrency payments, creating token-gated content, and providing redeemable NFTs. These services enable businesses to gain valuable customer insights and foster stronger relationships with their audiences. By leveraging innovative blockchain technology, Mojito empowers brands to connect with their customers in meaningful ways, facilitating a new era of digital engagement.

Metaphor

Seed Round in 2021
Metaphor is a language-model-based search engine that simplifies how users carry out web searches.

Exa

Seed Round in 2021
Exa builds a language

Recycleye

Seed Round in 2021
Recycleye Limited, founded in 2019 and based in London, United Kingdom, specializes in developing artificial intelligence-powered machine learning tools for waste management. The company's technology focuses on the characterization, tracking, and automated sorting of waste, providing valuable analytics to enhance efficiency in recycling processes. By enabling smarter waste management practices, Recycleye aims to support businesses in their transition towards a circular economy, where resources are reused and waste is minimized.

PhiGent Robotics

Angel Round in 2021
PhiGent Robotics specializes in autonomous driving solutions by developing advanced technologies that enhance vehicle safety and navigation. The company focuses on artificial intelligence-driven visual imaging and 3D vision radar systems to improve the performance of autonomous driving sensors. By leveraging these cutting-edge technologies, PhiGent Robotics aims to accelerate the advancement of mid-to-high-level autonomous driving capabilities, contributing to the evolution of the transportation industry.

Twosense

Seed Round in 2021
Twosense specializes in providing continuous authentication and access evaluation services for employee identity and access management (IAM). The company develops behavioral software that enables continuous biometric authentication in the workplace. By monitoring and modeling the behavioral fingerprint of each authorized user, Twosense's solution effectively reduces the risk of fraud and denies access to potential attackers. This approach allows businesses to enhance the security of their applications by seamlessly and invisibly authenticating employees based on their unique behavior.

Carta Healthcare

Series A in 2021
Carta Healthcare, Inc. is a technology company that specializes in developing a software-as-a-service platform aimed at improving hospital patient management. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in San Mateo, California, the company leverages data from existing IT systems to map the patient journey through hospitals. Its platform utilizes machine learning to identify similarities between current patients and past patients, allowing healthcare providers to personalize care based on individual needs. Additionally, it predicts potential bottlenecks, such as recovery bed shortages and cancellations, offering alerts that help hospitals optimize their operations. By combining artificial intelligence with human expertise, Carta Healthcare enhances the efficiency and quality of healthcare data management, ultimately aiming to provide a better experience for patients.

Sivo

Seed Round in 2021
Sivo is a financial technology company that specializes in providing debt management services. The company offers risk scoring and debt funding tailored for fintechs, neobanks, and gig platforms, enabling them to lend money to their users at scale. Sivo's platform facilitates rapid access to debt while promoting innovation in risk assessment, ultimately aiming to enhance financial inclusion for various lending entities. By bridging the gap between funding and risk management, Sivo supports its clients in meeting the needs of their user base effectively.

Leading Magpie Technology

Angel Round in 2021
Magpie Technology focuses on research, development and production of construction robots, with an emphasis on building and decorating.

Nextmv

Series A in 2021
Nextmv is a DecisionOps platform designed to enhance the efficiency of optimization AI teams by providing tools for deployment, testing, continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD), collaboration, and management of decision models. The platform enables developers to create scalable and customizable decision services, including unique API endpoints and integration options with various solvers and modeling solutions. As a globally distributed startup, Nextmv has received backing from notable investors, including FirstMark Capital and YCombinator, along with industry leaders from companies like Stripe, Twilio, and GitHub.

Recycleye

Seed Round in 2020
Recycleye Limited, founded in 2019 and based in London, United Kingdom, specializes in developing artificial intelligence-powered machine learning tools for waste management. The company's technology focuses on the characterization, tracking, and automated sorting of waste, providing valuable analytics to enhance efficiency in recycling processes. By enabling smarter waste management practices, Recycleye aims to support businesses in their transition towards a circular economy, where resources are reused and waste is minimized.

Tailos

Series B in 2020
Tailos is on a mission to bridge the gap between robots and humans - starting with Rosie - the world's very first housekeeping robot for hotels and commercial buildings. Like a self-driving car, Rosie navigates intelligently through the space while cleaning floors and collecting invaluable operational and environmental data. Tailos' automated systems deliver unprecedented value to hotel operators, room attendants, and hotel guests. There are three major issues Tailos is tackling: *Housekeeping is the highest variable cost regardless of the hotel. *Room attendants have the highest injury rates in the service sector. *Current commercial cleaning practices are inconsistent and hard to objectively manage. By using Tailos' systems, hotel and commercial cleaning operators will see an increase in profitability; healthier and happier staff; and higher guest satisfaction. In addition, room attendants will be able to focus on less strenuous tasks - ultimately reducing injury rates. Finally, guests will have a more enjoyable experience through consistent cleanliness and more flexible check-in and check-out times. Given the size and scale of the hospitality market, a lack of innovation in the field, and the potential to improve the health and safety of room attendants; Tailos transforms the industry by leveraging the power of robotics. By solving the two biggest issues in housekeeping – time and injuries – Tailos revolutionizes commercial cleaning - one bot at a time.

Duro

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Duro is a developer of a cloud-based software-as-a-service platform that offers a product lifecycle management (PLM) solution tailored for hardware companies. The platform simplifies the design and manufacturing processes of custom hardware products by integrating features such as bill of material (BOM) management and automated data entry and validation. This ensures adherence to industry standards and best practices in hardware product development. Duro’s workflow management system is user-friendly, resembling a spreadsheet while providing real-time production status reports and supply chain risk alerts through an accessible dashboard. This comprehensive solution aims to enhance efficiency and streamline operations for hardware product companies.

Precious Payload

Seed Round in 2020
Precious Payload offers mission management services designed to simplify the planning and execution of space missions. The company provides a unified format and set of APIs that help space entrepreneurs test business and technology hypotheses more efficiently, enabling them to achieve results ten times faster and at a significantly lower cost. By managing mission progress, outsourcing licensing and export regulations, and tracking mission roadmaps, Precious Payload supports clients in navigating the complexities of the space industry, ultimately facilitating a more streamlined approach to launching and managing space-related projects.

Atomic Alchemy

Seed Round in 2020
Atomic Alchemy addresses a critical issue in the United States: the lack of a dedicated domestic supplier for medical radioisotopes, particularly Molybdenum-99. As the largest consumer of radiopharmaceuticals globally, the U.S. relies heavily on university research reactors, which fall short of meeting the increasing demand. This situation is exacerbated by geopolitical tensions and natural disruptions that can lead to significant shortages, impacting up to 50,000 medical procedures daily. To combat this problem, Atomic Alchemy develops radioisotopes for various applications, including nuclear medicine, industry, defense, and space exploration. The company operates a bank of non-power atomic reactors to produce these essential radioisotopes, facilitating advancements in diagnostic imaging, biological tracing, and cancer treatments for medical, research, and exploration sectors.

Nextmv

Seed Round in 2020
Nextmv is a DecisionOps platform designed to enhance the efficiency of optimization AI teams by providing tools for deployment, testing, continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD), collaboration, and management of decision models. The platform enables developers to create scalable and customizable decision services, including unique API endpoints and integration options with various solvers and modeling solutions. As a globally distributed startup, Nextmv has received backing from notable investors, including FirstMark Capital and YCombinator, along with industry leaders from companies like Stripe, Twilio, and GitHub.

Fabrica

Seed Round in 2020
Fabrica Inc. is a technology company based in San Francisco, California, that specializes in facilitating online real estate transactions. Founded in 2008, the company has developed a platform that automates various aspects of real estate transactions, including paperwork, document signing, notarization, ownership transfer, payment processing, and tax filing reminders. The platform is designed to simplify the buying and selling of properties, allowing property owners to manage transactions efficiently and conveniently. Additionally, Fabrica's software incorporates decentralized finance (DeFi) principles to enhance the transaction process, enabling users to trade real estate through innovative methods such as non-fungible tokens (NFTs). By leveraging technology, Fabrica aims to transform the traditional real estate landscape, providing users with greater control and flexibility in managing their real estate holdings.

Brooklyn Investment Group

Seed Round in 2019
Brooklyn Investment Group operates as an A.I.-powered wealth management platform that leverages advanced technology to enhance investment strategies. The company develops a digital platform that integrates institutional-grade portfolio optimization with automated tax-loss harvesting. By utilizing machine learning and natural language processing, Brooklyn Investment Group's platform efficiently decodes complex data for investment management, allowing clients to convert intangible developments into measurable outcomes. This approach aims to simplify wealth management and optimize financial performance for its users.

Buddy

Seed Round in 2019
Buddy operates an innovative insurance platform designed to streamline the management and sale of insurance products for software companies. Its Insurance Gateway serves as a comprehensive connection to the insurance market, allowing software companies to source, connect, transact, fulfill, and analyze various insurance offerings seamlessly. By integrating insurance products into their transaction flows quickly, Buddy enhances the value of these transactions, simplifying the insurance selection process for customers and enabling companies to embed relevant insurance offerings within their software platforms efficiently.

OASIS

Seed Round in 2019
OASIS is a deep technology company focused on real-time photorealistic video communication powered by generative AI. We are building the universal human communication platform, delivered as a suite of zero marginal cost AI-native software to make human communication effortless that includes a patented, peer-to-peer video & VR chat protocol (with integrated biometrics) that uses 100x less bandwidth than Zoom. Our proprietary AI avatar technology uses ~10,000x less compute than state-of-the-art generative AI models and is able to render photorealistic humans in real-time on consumer smartphones and laptops.

OASIS

Pre Seed Round in 2019
OASIS is a deep technology company focused on real-time photorealistic video communication powered by generative AI. We are building the universal human communication platform, delivered as a suite of zero marginal cost AI-native software to make human communication effortless that includes a patented, peer-to-peer video & VR chat protocol (with integrated biometrics) that uses 100x less bandwidth than Zoom. Our proprietary AI avatar technology uses ~10,000x less compute than state-of-the-art generative AI models and is able to render photorealistic humans in real-time on consumer smartphones and laptops.

Ribbon Health

Seed Round in 2019
Ribbon Health, Inc. operates a software as a service (SaaS) platform that delivers essential data on healthcare providers, insurance plans, and the quality and cost of care. The platform includes features such as provider directories, referral management, care navigation, and insurance enrollment. Ribbon Health serves various clients, including health insurance companies, third-party administrators, clinics, hospitals, and digital health solutions. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is headquartered in New York, New York. Originally named HealthWiz, Inc., it rebranded to Ribbon Health, Inc. in March 2018.

Walrus Security

Seed Round in 2019
Walrus Security is a cybersecurity company headquartered in New York that focuses on enhancing the safety of push payments through advanced authentication technology. Its primary offering, Walrus DoubleCheck, is a platform designed to facilitate the secure exchange of payment details among funds, banks, and companies for various transactions, including wires, cryptocurrency transfers, and stock distributions. The DoubleCheck solution utilizes multifactor authentication, an innovative user experience, and advanced artificial intelligence to not only secure financial transfers but also improve their efficiency. In addition to payment security, Walrus Security addresses broader cybersecurity challenges, including the analysis and prevention of fraudulent emails, identity theft, and electronic hijacking, thereby helping clients maintain the integrity of their information and payment systems.

Pienso

Seed Round in 2017
Pienso Inc. is a machine learning platform based in Brooklyn, New York, that specializes in transforming text data into actionable insights. Established in 2016, the company employs innovative lensing techniques to enhance both algorithms and user interactions, creating a real-time system for validation and adaptation. Its platform is designed specifically for non-programming analysts, researchers, and domain experts, allowing them to create and train machine learning models independently, without requiring external assistance. By providing feedback loops between users and machine analysis, Pienso facilitates improved data mining, prediction, and the visualization of associations, ultimately empowering its clientele to derive meaningful insights from their data.

Phosphorus Cybersecurity

Seed Round in 2017
Phosphorus Cybersecurity is an IoT security management and breach prevention platform for the xTended Internet of Things. Designed to secure the rapidly growing and often unmonitored world of Things across the enterprise xIoT landscape, our Unified xIoT Security Management Platform delivers attack surface management across every industry vertical, providing intelligent active discovery and risk assessment, hardening and remediation, and detection and response. It brings enterprise xIoT security to every cyber-physical system in your enterprise environment. With unrivaled IoT Intelligent Active Discovery and risk assessment, Phosphorus automates the remediation of the most significant IoT, OT, IoMT, and IIoT device vulnerabilities – including unknown and inaccurate asset inventory, out-of-date firmware, default credentials, risky configurations, and out-of-date certificates.
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