Robert C. May

Co-Founder & Managing Partner

73 past transactions

Simbe Robotics

Seed Round in 2016
Simbe Robotics automates the most mundane, repetitive tasks in retail execution. It's first product, Tally, performs the repetitive and laborious tasks of auditing shelves for out-of-stock items, low stock items, misplaced items, and pricing errors. Tally operates safely during normal store hours alongside shoppers and employees.

Sentenai

Venture Round in 2019
Sentenai is cloud service that connects intelligent systems to the data they need to make better decisions in real-time. Sentenai’s product combines distributed systems and applied machine learning to automatically organize sensor data streams, making them searchable in real-time. Sentenai is an early-stage startup building data infrastructure for machine learning and predictive applications.

Zero Hash

Series B in 2017
Seed CX Ltd. operates an institutional exchange platform for digital assets. The company offers Seed CX, an institutional digital asset exchange for spot trading. It also maintains various regulated trading venues to give traders access to a range of tradable products connecting liquidity pools on a platform with deep institutional liquidity. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Chicago, Illinois. As of August 9, 2017, Seed CX Ltd. operates as a subsidiary of tastytrade, Inc.

Polly

Series A in 2019
Polly is a survey platform that helps teams to quickly collect feedback, allowing them to measure their workflows and improve employee and customer experiences. Its notable clients include Soylent, Auth0, and Grammarly. The company was founded in 2015 by former Microsoft engineers Samir Diwan and Bilal Aijazi‏. The startup is backed by Amplify Partners, Slack Fund, Fathom Capital, and Madrona Venture Group.

Efabless

Convertible Note in 2023
efabless connects a global community of chip designers with smart product customers. The company was founded to revive demand-driven innovation in the semiconductor industry. The company brings back the "Garage" to the vocabulary of the semiconductor industry. Efabless builds products that spark from effective customer-centric innovation, engineered by great talented minds across the globe and manufactured by their dependable foundry partners.

Zorus

Seed Round in 2019
Zorus, Inc. provides on-premises and cloud cyber security solutions to small and medium businesses. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Monroe, Connecticut.

Featureform

Seed Round in 2023
Featureform standardizes how features are defined, managed, and shared.

enaible

Series A in 2022
Enaible is an information technology company that specializes in the fields of artificial intelligence, leadership science, and machine learning. The company serves enterprise companies who are searching for a fresh way to drive their employees’ productivity. Enaible Inc was founded in 2018 and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Legit

Seed Round in 2017
With 15 out of the top 20 life science teams using the product, Legit™ is the industry-leading platform that helps companies discover and collaborate with experts in life sciences. Unlike traditional expert marketplaces, Legit™ powers the most successful collaborations by enabling companies to tap into internal, as well as external expertise.

Hubble Biosciences

Seed Round in 2022
Hubble Biosciences is an Oregon-based biotechnology company operating in stealth.

ReviveMed

Seed Round in 2022
ReviveMed is a precision-medicine platform that leverages the data from small molecules or metabolites. The company's technology is based on a network-based machine learning algorithm for integrative analysis of untargeted metabolomic data with other large-scale molecular information, including data from genes, proteins, drugs and diseases, transforming metabolomic data into actionable insights, enabling development of in-house therapeutics for patients suffering from liver diseases and ailments.

Melonfrost

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Melonfrost is a biotechnology company based in Brooklyn, New York.

TalkGo

Seed Round in 2022
TalkSocket is a mobile accessory that can be attached to phones for a seamless hands-free experience using Alexa or Google Assistant, even when the phone is locked. With TalkSocket, users don't need to unlock their phones, launch an app, and press a button to use a voice assistant. TalkSocket merges Alexa and PopSockets into one great experience allowing users to play music, answer questions, order on demand - all hands-free.

Deft

Seed Round in 2022
Search with natural language and images (or both), across all product sites. (https://shopdeft.com)

Katch

Seed Round in 2023
Katch is an entertainment data analytics company that sells data-driven insights to movie studios and production companies to help in their decision-making process. The company develops a user-facing application that has gamified the movie- and series-rating process. These user ratings and granular user-profile data, integrated with the Katch Media Genome, provide a plethora of data that can help distinguish not only how users feel about certain content, but why they feel this way. With this data, Katch is able to help entertainment executives and creatives through every phase of the content lifecycle. Simultaneously, the company will be able to make near-perfect recommendations for individuals and groups about what to watch next in this overcrowded media landscape. It was established in Woodside, California in 2018.

Mymee

Seed Round in 2019
Mymee, Inc. designs and develops a software as a service health coaching platform. The platform identifies the root causes by detecting non obvious triggers for symptoms. The platform offers personalized gathering and analysis of observational data from the users daily life and provides behavioral change through feedback to the users based on that data. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in New York, New York.

AI Foundation

Venture Round in 2023
AI Foundation develops revolutionary new interfaces between humans and AI open up a whole new universe of AI-powered jobs. Truly personal AI requires deep interactions between users and AI for collaboration and training, which must be natural and more like hobby or play.

LocateAI

Venture Round in 2018
LocateAI is using geospatial data and machine learning to transform the antiquated, $4T real estate industry. Founded by Stanford computer scientists, the team is building a predictive analytical platform that generates unique insights on how to make smarter and faster transactions. Our forecasts are custom-tailored and backed by millions of data points. Our core technologies include data mining, machine learning, and data visualization.

Legal Robot

Venture Round in 2019
Legal Robot uses machine learning techniques like deep learning to understand legal language, then compare the language with other contracts to identify boilerplate vs. custom, measure the complexity and readability of the language, and identify the responsibilities, rights, and terms of an agreement. The information is presented in a way that encourages exploration of the contract in a way that is far more interesting and understandable than legal language. This allows people to quickly interpret the components of the contract, quantify specific risks, as well as identify and resolve defects so people can be more confident in what they sign.

Reality AI

Venture Round in 2021
Reality Analytics, Inc. (Reality AI) was founded by Jeff Sieracki and Stuart Feffer in 2015 to make software that helps R&D engineers develop products using sensors. Reality AI uses proprietary algorithms for optimized feature discovery and model generation, component selection and specification setting, BoM optimization, and data collection / synthetic augmentation/curation. Use cases include sound recognition, gesture recognition, and predictive maintenance using vibration, accelerometer, sound, radar, current/voltage/capacitance, and other sensor modalities. Customers in the automotive, industrial, and consumer/commercial products sectors. Reality AI has 14 US patents and 6 more pending, all in the areas of feature discovery and machine learning as applied to sensor and signal problems. Offices in Columbia, MD, Sunnyvale, CA and Tokyo, Japan.

Yegii

Venture Round in 2016
Yegii, Inc. develops and builds platform for business intelligence. The company provides its platform with data generated by human and machine. The company’s index includes publications in various industry clusters, including, energy, healthcare, financials, technology, and manufacturing. It also offers asset ranking, question and answer session, and enterprise edition services. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is headquartered in Wellesley, Massachusetts.

Kemvi

Venture Round in 2017
Founded by a team from Columbia and MIT, Kemvi brings together years of expertise in solving difficult real-world data problems. They’ve advised the CIA on economic stability, published papers on black hole physics, worked with the SEC and the Federal Reserve on market regulations, and they’ve had their work covered by the New York Times, Wired, and Forbes.

Mythic

Series A in 2016
Mythic Inc. designs and develops silicon chips and intelligence processing unit (IPU) based on artificial intelligence (AI). Its AI platform puts desktop GPU compute capabilities and neural networks onto a button-sized chip. The company was formerly known as Isocline Engineering Corporation. Mythic Inc. was founded in 2012 and is based in Redwood City, California with an additional office in Austin, Texas.

Kylie.ai

Venture Round in 2017
Kylie.ai, Inc., doing business as Kylie.ai, develops consumer data analytics software which is designed to automate customer care conversations. Its software uses artificial intelligence algorithms to understand the context and sentiment of a customer complaint, determine ways to respond and make proper decisions based on company-centric data points, monitors all incoming communications to a company's help desk and then generates an automated response for an agent to review, approve and send out, enabling users to reduce the workload for customer support agents who would no longer have to look up answers to customer queries and could instead rely on artificial intelligence to predict and solve it. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in San Francisco, California. As of November 12, 2019, Kylie.ai, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Directly Software, Inc.

Raven[Ops]

Seed Round in 2018
Our mission is to foster a thriving ecosystem of hundreds of innovative robotics companies as they solve an array of important problems. To succeed, they are going to need access to the same quality of development tools and data infrastructure that made the web and mobile revolutions possible, but built to their needs. That's where Raven[Ops] comes in.

Smartvid io

Series A in 2017
Smartvid.io enables the AEC industry to significantly reduce jobsite risk by combining the best of human and artificial intelligence. Smartvid.io's Safety Suite includes Safety Observations, Safety Monitoring and Predictive Analytics products that combine to give project teams and management the ability to predict and prevent incidents - saving lives and preserving timely project delivery. Getting started is easy with pre-built integrations to Autodesk BIM360, Procore, Oracle Aconex, SharePoint, Egnyte, Box, and other data sources. See it in action at www.smartvid.io.

hydra.ai

Venture Round in 2019
Build your own A.I. models in a few clicks to find valuable insights from your data. Hydra relays these insights to your marketing, sales, and customer success platforms to support a range of use cases including automatic customer segmentation, prioritization, and personalization. Hydra helps companies turn their data into a competitive advantage.

Jellyfish

Series A in 2020
Jellyfish is the leading Engineering Management Platform, providing complete visibility into engineering organizations, the work they do, and how they operate. By analyzing engineering signals and contextual business data, Jellyfish enables engineering leaders to align engineering decisions with business initiatives and deliver the right software, efficiently, on time. With Jellyfish, engineering leaders can focus their teams on what matters most to the business, driving strategic decisions and delivering results.

Refresh AI

Venture Round in 2021
Refresh.AI is a CRM that builds itself and talks to Reps in plain english - integrated right into Salesforce, Gmail, and Slack. The company was founded by Krishan Gupta in 2017 and has its main office at San Francisco, California.

Glasp

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Glasp is a social web highlighter that allows users to collect what truly matters to them from the web, express themselves through the collection, and learn from like-minded people including future generations. With AI, users can grasp hidden insights that they haven't figured out.

LBRY

Venture Round in 2018
LBRY revolutionizes content publishing and consumption through the blockchain. The LBRY protocol provides a complete decentralized network for accessing, discovering, and publishing all types of content and information, from books to movies.

Scotty Labs

Venture Round in 2020
Scotty Labs is a spin-out of SRI International. They are a driving company. They believe that the true opportunities for the future of autonomy lie in unlocking the ability for human and machine to work together to solve the most difficult problems driverless vehicles face. The path of progress for the autonomous vehicle is blocked by the idea that complete vehicle autonomy is the goal. They believe safe tele-operation subsumes level 5 autonomy, so instead of removing humans from the driving experience entirely, we’re keeping the humans in, virtually.

Phiar Technologies

Private Placement in 2018
Phiar is an ultra-lightweight AI company, building the world's most advanced Ultra-Lightweight Spatial AI Engine to enable every vehicle to see its surroundings, running real-time at the edge, using just commodity mobile-grade processors and existing automotive computing platforms with a single camera. Focused first on powering our Intelligent AR Navigation Platform, as the anchoring/foundational use-case to transform driving experience and safety, and to ultimately enable the next-gen connected cars and ADAS services.

Phiar Technologies

Seed Round in 2018
Phiar is an ultra-lightweight AI company, building the world's most advanced Ultra-Lightweight Spatial AI Engine to enable every vehicle to see its surroundings, running real-time at the edge, using just commodity mobile-grade processors and existing automotive computing platforms with a single camera. Focused first on powering our Intelligent AR Navigation Platform, as the anchoring/foundational use-case to transform driving experience and safety, and to ultimately enable the next-gen connected cars and ADAS services.

Tastry

Seed Round in 2018
Tastry, Inc. develops an artificial intelligence powered platform that combines analytics, flavor preferences, and machine learning for tracking consumer preferences to drive sensory based products sales. It serves retailers, suppliers, and customers. The company was formerly known as The Bottlefly, Inc. and changed its name to Tastry, Inc. in September 2018. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in San Luis Obispo, California.

Koniku

Seed Round in 2019
Koniku is the world's first Neurocomputation company. We start with a premise that the human brain is the most powerful computer ever devised. We show that capturing that computational power is an engineering problem. Koniku proceeds to meet that challenge with clear solutions. We have built a neurochip with actual biological neurons. This chip is capable of sensing particles in parts per trillion using only 64 neurons. Such sensitivity is unprecedented. Its our intention to expand on the number neurons we have on our device just like traditional silicon processors. Eventually we will have millions of neurons per chip. Only with such a device is true cognitive computation possible - AI. We are shipping our fist devices at the end of the year. Koniku is also working on developing COVID-sniffing robots as a fast testing alternative.

WEVO

Pre Seed Round in 2017
Wevo, Inc. provides a marketing technology platform to optimize digital experiences before going live. It offers Wevo, an artificial intelligence and crowd sourcing online platform for digital marketers that tests and improves website conversion before going live. The company’s Wevo Pinpoints why visitors aren't converting; compares which page will do best before launching; provides actionable recommendations to increase conversion; and diagnoses webpages by pinpointing the reasons preventing more customers from converting. Wevo, Inc. was founded in 2016 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.

Audible Reality

Seed Round in 2019
Audible Reality Inc. designs and develops an artificial intelligence (AI) based three dimensional (3D) audible reality solutions. The company solution uses AI to offer 3D audio and also processes sound through multiple channels. The company also develops Audible Reality Player, a device which uses the company's software and offers customized audio solutions. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Montreal, Canada.

Syllable Life Sciences

Seed Round in 2018
Syllable Life Sciences using cutting-edge machine learning and computer vision to automatically decipher body language in humans and laboratory animals. They're looking for folks with experience in computer vision and time-series modeling to help extend and strengthen their behavioral analysis tools. They've already used their system successfully to classify drugs, and have partnerships with two large pharmaceutical companies to help make better drugs for movement disorders like Lou Gehrig's disease, and neurodegenerative diseases like Parkinson's and Alzheimer's.

openigloo

Seed Round in 2022
openigloo is a review platform for tenants.

Sensory Cloud

Seed Round in 2022
Sensory Cloud designs products that help to breathe better and clear away the tiny airborne particles. The company was founded in 2019 by David Edwards and it is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

PatternAI

Seed Round in 2023
PatternAI automates the end-to-end data science process, deploys it the cloud, and delivers it as cloud based SaaS.

LeadIQ

Venture Round in 2016
LeadIQ is transforming the sales prospecting landscape, by providing the fastest way to capture leads, discover emails and contact info, and enrich data with company information and social profiles. LeadIQ integrates with a large number of data source and finds the most comprehensive data to enrich profiles so sales teams can prequalify leads and focus on leads that really matter. Less time spent on unqualified leads means more time for closing deals and increasing the bottom line.
Virgo provides a user friendly, low cost, HIPAA compliant cloud video platform for GI endoscopy. Prior to Virgo, gastroenterologists had to use DVD's and thumb drives to capture video from procedures such as colonoscopies and upper endoscopies. Virgo simplifies video capture and consumption for GI's, enabling them to use video for patient care, quality improvement, research, training, and more.

Open Bionics

Venture Round in 2017
Brunel Hand is a robotic hand with nine degrees of freedom for researchers. They use 3D printing to make their devices customized for each customer and accessible by anyone! They're developing the perfect medical grade materials to give their hands the right strength and grip and to make them last.

Biobot Analytics

Venture Round in 2021
Biobot Analytics is a wastewater epidemiology company that is transforming wastewater infrastructure into public health observatories. Its wastewater monitoring technology analyzes urine and stool samples to create a health database that is independent of hospital reporting systems, free from societal biases affecting who can and can’t seek care, and most importantly, rapidly adaptable to new and emerging public health threats.

ClosedLoop.ai

Venture Round in 2019
ClosedLoop uses the power of AI to identify at-risk patients and recommend the best interventions for each individual.ClosedLoop provides a wide array of off-the-shelf predictive models for common healthcare use cases and creates customized models to meet each organization's specific needs.

Invisible

Venture Round in 2019
Invisible Technologies Inc. develops and operates a platform that automates business operations. It provides an agent that offers services, such as scheduling a meeting, lead sourcing, lead generation, booking a reservation, managing reservations, onboarding a team member, inventory upkeep, record management, web scrapping, verifying a lead, lead qualification, and record management. Invisible Technologies Inc. was formerly known as Socrates X Inc. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Simbe Robotics

Venture Round in 2016
Simbe Robotics automates the most mundane, repetitive tasks in retail execution. It's first product, Tally, performs the repetitive and laborious tasks of auditing shelves for out-of-stock items, low stock items, misplaced items, and pricing errors. Tally operates safely during normal store hours alongside shoppers and employees.

Omelas

Venture Round in 2020
Omelas brings together the world's best developers from Google, Facebook, RedHat, PwC and more with field-defining experts in defense, diplomacy, and intelligence to prevent the violence we've seen tear apart communities, stymie development, and spread suffering across the world. We began by applying the tech advertisers use to understand why people become loyal to brands to understand why people become loyal terrorist groups. With foiled attacks and presentations before four national intelligence chiefs under our belts, we expanded to propaganda of al kinds and then to violence of all kinds.

Deftr

Venture Round in 2019
Deftr develops and operates a real time platform that facilitates streamlining of the patent process for inventors under the brand name Legit Patents. Its product enables founders to protect their ideas and patents in real time and also interact and share experiences online. Matthew Osman founded Deftr in 2016. It has its headquarters in Cambridge in Massachusetts.

Eager Labs

Venture Round in 2020
Eager Labs, Inc. offers an online platform for talent engagement, assessment, and improvement for scaling companies. It offers performance measurement, professional development, learning and development, professional coaching, human resources, people operations, leadership development, and career development services. Eager Labs, Inc. was founded in 2017 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.

Root AI

Seed Round in 2018
Root AI, Inc. manufactures artificial intelligence robots for indoor farming. It offers Virgo 1, an agricultural robot to pick tomatoes without bruising them, and detect ripeness better than humans. The company’s robot is an autonomous tomato harvesting platform. The company was incorporated in 2017 and is based in Woburn, Massachusetts.

Visor

Venture Round in 2020
RocketVisor Corporation offers a platform that acts as a spreadsheet or planning tool for engineering and product managers to obtain a holistic view of various projects. Its spreadsheet-like tool integrates with Jira and allows large and small companies to plan and track their work. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is based in New York, New York.

Jobble

Series A in 2019
Jobble, Inc. develops an online job search portal and application. The platform allows companies to create a job, select candidates that match expectations, and monitor the performance. The company offers a range of jobs in the areas of event services, field marketing and sales, retail, hospitality, transportation, supply chain logistics, general labor, and others. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.

Datazoom

Venture Round in 2020
Datazoom Inc. develops and markets an adaptive video logistics platform that offers real time data collection, integration, and automation solutions. The company through its software-as-a-service (SaaS) based platform captures data from end-users in real time via video player, data is then sent to a platform via dedicated connection, and it is forwarded to a third party system via data pipes. It is used by broadcasters, telecommunication, and media companies to deliver better video experience. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in New York City, New York.

Jabbrrbox

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Jabbrrbox LLC develops and provides private workspace booths to mobile workers in commercial and public spaces. Its product also provides features, including motion sensors, speakers, universal serial bus (USB) charging, wifi, and smoke detectors. The company allows reservation through a smart phone application. Its users receive a door passcode and wifi password at the time of reservation. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Long Island City, New York.