Salen Churi

General Partner

Richard Deulofeut

Vice President

Brooke Fallon

Vice President

Connor McCarthy

Associate

Brian Tochman

General Partner

Ben Weaver

Associate

32 past transactions

Levels

Series A in 2023
Levels Health Inc. is a New York-based company that specializes in health and wellness through its innovative biowearable device utilizing continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) technology. Founded in 2019, Levels offers a platform that tracks real-time blood glucose levels, allowing consumers to understand how their diet and exercise affect their metabolic health. Through its online application, the company provides users with actionable feedback to optimize their lifestyle choices for better metabolic fitness. As a remote-first organization, Levels aims to empower individuals to take charge of their health by leveraging technology to monitor and improve their metabolic well-being.

Sana Benefits

Series B in 2022
Sana Benefits, Inc. is an insurance provider that specializes in offering health benefit packages tailored for small and medium-sized businesses as well as individuals. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Austin, Texas, the company provides a range of plans that include medical, dental, vision, telemedicine, mental wellness, physical wellness, and maternity care. Sana Benefits focuses on delivering simplified insurance solutions at transparent prices while emphasizing quality customer service. The company serves a diverse clientele, including employers, members, brokers, and healthcare providers.

PairTree

Seed Round in 2022
PairTree engages in modernizing the adoption process. It uses future-forward technology to connect adoptive parents with birth moms.

StellarFi

Seed Round in 2022
StellarFi is a Public Benefit Corporation focused on disrupting the cycle of poverty by providing individuals with flexible bill payment solutions that help them build credit. The company enables users to pay their bills on their own schedule, offering a service designed to enhance traditional credit reporting standards. By allowing customers to manage their financial obligations more effectively, StellarFi aims to improve credit scores and support users in achieving their financial goals. The service addresses the challenges associated with late payments and defaults, which are often significant factors that contribute to economic hardship.

The Helper Bees

Series B in 2022
The Helper Bees, Inc. is a company that facilitates connections between seniors and local helpers for various home care services across the United States. Founded in 2015 and based in Austin, Texas, the platform allows seniors to view, select, and hire assistance for tasks such as light housekeeping, transportation, grocery shopping, and personal care, including specialized services for conditions like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease. In addition to its direct services, The Helper Bees collaborates with major insurance carriers to enhance the home care experience through digital solutions, machine learning, and analytics. This approach aims to improve the accessibility and quality of care for families, ensuring they have the necessary resources and support for their loved ones.

Swimply

Venture Round in 2021
Swimply.com is an online market place that allows anyone to book undersized private pools by the hour.

Sana Benefits

Series A in 2021
Sana Benefits, Inc. is an insurance provider that specializes in offering health benefit packages tailored for small and medium-sized businesses as well as individuals. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Austin, Texas, the company provides a range of plans that include medical, dental, vision, telemedicine, mental wellness, physical wellness, and maternity care. Sana Benefits focuses on delivering simplified insurance solutions at transparent prices while emphasizing quality customer service. The company serves a diverse clientele, including employers, members, brokers, and healthcare providers.

Tinycare

Series A in 2021
Tinycare is a network of modern, micro centers that serves infants, toddlers, and preschoolers. It strives to provide the safest, cleanest, highest quality licensed daycares in San Francisco. It was founded by Michael Lai in 2018.

Steno

Seed Round in 2021
Steno Agency, Inc. is a Los Angeles-based company that specializes in court reporting and litigation support services for law firms. Founded in 2018, the company provides a comprehensive suite of services, including remote depositions, videography, and interpretation, along with an online dashboard that allows clients to track upcoming jobs and access previous cases. Steno's unique offering includes a non-recourse deferred payment process called DisbursePay, which helps clients manage financial challenges associated with legal proceedings. By focusing on innovation and exceptional customer service, Steno aims to enhance the efficiency of the litigation process while ensuring reliable and accessible support for its clients.

Dutch

Seed Round in 2021
Dutch is a pet telehealth service focused on addressing chronic conditions such as anxiety and allergies in pets. The company aims to improve pet healthcare by offering convenient virtual consultations with licensed veterinarians, allowing pet parents to connect with professionals from their smartphones. This approach alleviates the inconvenience and stress associated with traditional vet visits, which often lead to delayed care for pets. Dutch veterinarians work with pet owners over time to identify the root causes of their pets' ailments and develop tailored treatment plans. The service includes prescriptions and treatments that are medically-backed and delivered directly to the pet owner's home. Dutch currently operates in eight states, including New York, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey, and is expanding its reach to more locations. Pet parents can initiate consultations through the Dutch website.

Swimply

Series A in 2021
Swimply.com is an online market place that allows anyone to book undersized private pools by the hour.

SchoolHouse

Seed Round in 2021
SchoolHouse helps families set up at-home, in-person Learning Pods--groups of 4-8 students of same or similar-aged students learning, socializing, and developing together.

Avvir

Series A in 2021
Avvir unleashes the latent potential of BIM technology by finally closing the feedback loop and keeping building models continuously up-to-date. This enables construction teams to closely monitor progress and catch mistakes before major rework is required. We achieve this by automating the processes around data acquisition, visualization, and analysis, so that BIM updates can be made in hours rather than weeks.

Diptera

Seed Round in 2021
Developing technology to fight mosquitoes with mosquitoes.

Farcast

Seed Round in 2020
Farcast is a technology company based in Los Angeles that specializes in developing hardware and software for precision airdrop deliveries. Founded in 2017 and located in Hawthorne, California, the company designs drones that are mounted on commercial aircraft, helicopters, or UAVs to facilitate the delivery of packages in remote or otherwise inaccessible areas. Utilizing advanced mapping software, Farcast evaluates suitable drop points and enables autonomous release and landing of packages, ensuring they land safely within a designated area. This innovative approach allows for rapid and cost-effective delivery solutions, addressing the logistical challenges faced in rural regions.

Steno

Series A in 2020
Steno Agency, Inc. is a Los Angeles-based company that specializes in court reporting and litigation support services for law firms. Founded in 2018, the company provides a comprehensive suite of services, including remote depositions, videography, and interpretation, along with an online dashboard that allows clients to track upcoming jobs and access previous cases. Steno's unique offering includes a non-recourse deferred payment process called DisbursePay, which helps clients manage financial challenges associated with legal proceedings. By focusing on innovation and exceptional customer service, Steno aims to enhance the efficiency of the litigation process while ensuring reliable and accessible support for its clients.

Sana Benefits

Series A in 2020
Sana Benefits, Inc. is an insurance provider that specializes in offering health benefit packages tailored for small and medium-sized businesses as well as individuals. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Austin, Texas, the company provides a range of plans that include medical, dental, vision, telemedicine, mental wellness, physical wellness, and maternity care. Sana Benefits focuses on delivering simplified insurance solutions at transparent prices while emphasizing quality customer service. The company serves a diverse clientele, including employers, members, brokers, and healthcare providers.

ICON

Series A in 2020
ICON is an advanced construction technologies company using 3D printing robotics, software and advanced materials to shift the paradigm of homebuilding for all of humanity.

Degree Insurance Co.

Seed Round in 2020
Developing a new insurance product for students to de-risk their educational attainment

Legalpad

Seed Round in 2020
Legalpad Inc. develops a platform that bridges the gap between law and technology by focusing on repeatable legal tasks and workflows that are ripe for automation. Its platform supports O-1 and EB-1, H-1B, and B-1 visas. Legalpad Inc. was incorporated in 2018 and is based in Seattle, Washington.

Veryable

Seed Round in 2020
Veryable is the on-demand marketplace for manufacturing, logistics and warehousing labor. Our platform delivers a flexible labor solution to businesses by granting them direct access to high-quality operators at the click of a button, enabling higher productivity and minimizing administrative burden. For our operators, Veryable provides immediate access to diverse work experiences, the ability to build their own flexible schedule, the opportunity to expand their skill sets, and daily pay.

Blueprint Power

Seed Round in 2020
Blueprint Power Technologies, Inc. is a New York-based technology company that specializes in developing machine-learning tools for the management and market transactions of energy assets. Founded in 2017, the company focuses on transforming buildings into power plants by automating energy solutions for real estate applications. By enabling regional groups of real estate companies to optimize their portfolios, Blueprint Power helps generate excess energy supply, which can be sold to meet the increasing demand for high-quality electricity. The company is supported by a team of experienced innovators from leading firms and backed by prominent leaders and investors from the real estate, energy, and technology sectors.

Sana Benefits

Seed Round in 2019
Sana Benefits, Inc. is an insurance provider that specializes in offering health benefit packages tailored for small and medium-sized businesses as well as individuals. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Austin, Texas, the company provides a range of plans that include medical, dental, vision, telemedicine, mental wellness, physical wellness, and maternity care. Sana Benefits focuses on delivering simplified insurance solutions at transparent prices while emphasizing quality customer service. The company serves a diverse clientele, including employers, members, brokers, and healthcare providers.

Meati

Venture Round in 2019
Meati, also known as Emergy Foods, is a consumer goods company based in Boulder, Colorado, founded in 2016. The company specializes in producing whole muscle, nutritious plant-based meats designed to promote healthier lifestyles and environmental sustainability. By utilizing proprietary, clean technologies, Meati offers nutrient-dense meat alternatives that aim to appeal to a wide audience, ensuring that consumers can enjoy meals that are both good for their health and the planet.

Levels

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Levels Health Inc. is a New York-based company that specializes in health and wellness through its innovative biowearable device utilizing continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) technology. Founded in 2019, Levels offers a platform that tracks real-time blood glucose levels, allowing consumers to understand how their diet and exercise affect their metabolic health. Through its online application, the company provides users with actionable feedback to optimize their lifestyle choices for better metabolic fitness. As a remote-first organization, Levels aims to empower individuals to take charge of their health by leveraging technology to monitor and improve their metabolic well-being.

Veryable

Seed Round in 2019
Veryable is the on-demand marketplace for manufacturing, logistics and warehousing labor. Our platform delivers a flexible labor solution to businesses by granting them direct access to high-quality operators at the click of a button, enabling higher productivity and minimizing administrative burden. For our operators, Veryable provides immediate access to diverse work experiences, the ability to build their own flexible schedule, the opportunity to expand their skill sets, and daily pay.

Visibly

Series B in 2018
Visibly, Inc., a healthcare technology company, provides online eye examination services to patients in the United States. It provides a refractive eye exam that measures a person’s prescription for glasses or contact lenses. The company was formerly known as Opternative, Inc. and changed its name to Visibly, Inc. in November 2018. Visibly, Inc. was incorporated in 2013 and is based in Chicago, Illinois.

ICON

Seed Round in 2018
ICON is an advanced construction technologies company using 3D printing robotics, software and advanced materials to shift the paradigm of homebuilding for all of humanity.

Oklo

Series A in 2018
Oklo Inc. is a company that specializes in the development of a new type of small, portable nuclear reactor designed to be emission-free and carbon negative. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, Oklo aims to create megawatt-scale atomic generators that address energy needs while minimizing environmental impact. The company's innovative approach focuses on making nuclear reactors more appealing and accessible to a broader audience, contributing to a sustainable energy future.