Ash Rust

Managing Partner

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Kyte

Series A in 2021
Kyte’s mission is to offer the most compelling and most customer-centric way to get a car for consumers on top of fully virtualized cloud fleet ecosystem.

Breinify Inc.

Seed Round in 2019
Breinify Inc. develops artificial intelligence (AI) as-a-service platform for predictive personalization of customer's behavior. The company through its platform allows users to predict consumers' interests and preferences. It combines various signals to form patterns to generate predictions about an individual's interest and intent. It serves retail, consumer goods, travel, financial services, and banking industries. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Cupertino, California.

Five to Nine

Seed Round in 2019
Five to Nine provides culture solutions to increase workplace connectivity and inclusion. The platform allows HR administrators to use culture-building opportunities to elevate work culture while leveraging employee experience data to drive business outcomes.

Pico Networks Inc.

Seed Round in 2019
Pico designs and develops audience relationships management software solutions for online businesses. The company offers pre-made templates, with high-converting Facebook and Google sign-in buttons built-in. It offers its solutions for newsletters, e-commerce, subscriptions, memberships, and donations. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in New York, New York.

Breinify Inc.

Seed Round in 2020
Breinify Inc. develops artificial intelligence (AI) as-a-service platform for predictive personalization of customer's behavior. The company through its platform allows users to predict consumers' interests and preferences. It combines various signals to form patterns to generate predictions about an individual's interest and intent. It serves retail, consumer goods, travel, financial services, and banking industries. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Cupertino, California.

Pico Networks Inc.

Series A in 2023
Pico designs and develops audience relationships management software solutions for online businesses. The company offers pre-made templates, with high-converting Facebook and Google sign-in buttons built-in. It offers its solutions for newsletters, e-commerce, subscriptions, memberships, and donations. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in New York, New York.

Hopthru

Convertible Note in 2019
Hopthru, Inc. develops a mobile ticketing platform for public transit agencies. It offers Hopthru app that enables riders to purchase passes anytime, anywhere and present them while boarding. Its Hopthru also enables riders may purchase passes with their credit card, debit card, or commuter benefits card and then store them until they are ready to ride. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Amper Technologies, Inc.

Series A in 2022
Amper Technologies, Inc. develops and operates a clip-on device that helps factory owners and managers to analyze power consumption of their machines, predict downtime, and deploy predictive maintenance. It offers hardware and software to improve productivity and OEE. The company offers a solution from the hardware to the software, including non-invasive sensors, Internet-connected gateway, and web dashboards, as well as online dashboard to configure and see alerts, real-time status, key metrics, and rich reports. Its technologies also provides plant managers in factories to increase machine and labor productivity by having retrofit sensor that monitors across machine types. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Chicago, Illinois.

Breinify Inc.

Seed Round in 2017
Breinify Inc. develops artificial intelligence (AI) as-a-service platform for predictive personalization of customer's behavior. The company through its platform allows users to predict consumers' interests and preferences. It combines various signals to form patterns to generate predictions about an individual's interest and intent. It serves retail, consumer goods, travel, financial services, and banking industries. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Cupertino, California.

Five to Nine

Seed Round in 2022
Five to Nine provides culture solutions to increase workplace connectivity and inclusion. The platform allows HR administrators to use culture-building opportunities to elevate work culture while leveraging employee experience data to drive business outcomes.

Botco.ai

Seed Round in 2021
Botco.ai, Inc. develops a conversational marketing platform that enables chat between businesses and their customers. It offers Botco.ai, an AI powered intelligent chat solution that helps businesses to answer customer’s questions and simplify the buying process. The company’s Botco.ai allows businesses to incorporate conversation templates; answer common questions; and know exactly what their user base is experiencing. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is based in Milpitas, California.

Pulse Q&A

Seed Round in 2018
Pulse Q&A Inc. develops an artificial intelligence based platform that provides crowdsourced data for technology executives. It offers Pulse Q&A to test messaging and positioning in real time before campaign launches for a new product launch or a message refresh. The company’s platform is used to make and shape decisions by enabling users to create questions and serve it to peers, customers, or prospects, and collect data. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Orderspot

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Orderspot is the easiest way for your business to go digital. Whether you are an independent restaurant or a national hospitality chain, you can launch a digital store on Orderspot where customers can view your products, order, and pay right from their mobile phones. Join 60+ restaurants, hospitality groups, and food suppliers in the US in delighting customers with a convenient, personalized, and contactless experience. Using QR technology, Orderspot is entirely web-based and zero commission. No app or special device required. We are currently offering free Contactless Digital Menus to help restaurants go contactless as we adjust to new customer behavior as well as social distancing guidelines. Visit our website and apply today!

Nova Credit

Series A in 2018
Nova Credit helps you access credit in the U.S. by translating your international credit score into a U.S.-equivalent credit score. This translated score is made available to U.S. financial institutions so you can apply for credit cards, loans, housing and more without having to build a U.S. credit score from scratch. Founded by newcomers, the company has a diverse team from around the globe who are creating a world beyond borders to help newcomers arrive and thrive.

Smarty

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Smarty Smarty develops an application designed to automate and manage all the tasks. The application is an automation tool that focuses on business tasks like scheduling meetings, making introductions, and finding flights for out of town meetings.

Pulse Q&A

Seed Round in 2017
Pulse Q&A Inc. develops an artificial intelligence based platform that provides crowdsourced data for technology executives. It offers Pulse Q&A to test messaging and positioning in real time before campaign launches for a new product launch or a message refresh. The company’s platform is used to make and shape decisions by enabling users to create questions and serve it to peers, customers, or prospects, and collect data. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Compaas

Seed Round in 2018
Compaas helps growing companies make smarter decisions around compensation, communicate better with their employees, and avoid mistakes. It offers a Compensation Intelligence Platform that helps companies manage their operating expense: employee compensation. The platform provides compensation analytics and strategy tools for startups and enterprise companies. In 2017, Lisa Dusseault and Bethanye Blount founded the company in San Francisco, California.

Breinify Inc.

Seed Round in 2021
Breinify Inc. develops artificial intelligence (AI) as-a-service platform for predictive personalization of customer's behavior. The company through its platform allows users to predict consumers' interests and preferences. It combines various signals to form patterns to generate predictions about an individual's interest and intent. It serves retail, consumer goods, travel, financial services, and banking industries. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Cupertino, California.

Sempre Health

Series A in 2018
Sempre Health, Inc. owns and operates a platform and offers behavior-based healthcare pricing to healthcare industry. The company works with health plans and pharmaceutical manufacturers to dynamically adjust a patient's co-payment based on individual adherence and behavior. It parses prescription records to predict the right price based on the patient's adherence to taking medicines in time. The company provides the patients access to their current discounts, why they got those discounts, and guidance on how to improve their health, via SMS. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Brainbase

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Brainbase Inc. develops and markets a platform for licensing business. It offers Brainbase Assist, a tool that enables users to manage and collaborate on their licensing business. The company’s tool also allows users to track metrics, such as total sales and royalties, rights availability, and upcoming events. In addition, its tool helps users to compare licensee performance, and measure quarterly and annual growth rates. Brainbase Inc. was founded in 2016 and is based in Los Angeles, California.

Brainbase

Seed Round in 2019
Brainbase Inc. develops and markets a platform for licensing business. It offers Brainbase Assist, a tool that enables users to manage and collaborate on their licensing business. The company’s tool also allows users to track metrics, such as total sales and royalties, rights availability, and upcoming events. In addition, its tool helps users to compare licensee performance, and measure quarterly and annual growth rates. Brainbase Inc. was founded in 2016 and is based in Los Angeles, California.