Participated · Series A · Mar 2024

Yulift operates the mobile coding education app 'CodingValley,' designed to make programming approachable for beginners through short-form lectures and narrative "coding learning dramas." The service emphasizes ease and fun, offering one-minute short lessons alongside dramatized learning to simplify complex programming concepts. CodingValley provides 21 courses comprising 621 lectures covering Python, web development, and essential IT literacy. The app reached number one in Google Play's coding-education revenue category one month after its launch in August last year. Yulift is expanding the 'coding learning drama' IP to overseas markets including Japan and the U.S., with roughly 50 episodes already produced and a goal of over 100 by year-end. The company plans to use new funding to enhance content, extend AI-based coding education, and broaden junior-targeted services to complete a comprehensive curriculum across learner segments.

Participated · Seed · Feb 2024

Dapple Security builds a passwordless digital security platform designed to protect human digital identity through responsible biometrics and privacy-by-design principles. The platform enables secure logins without storing sensitive identity data, reducing the data attack surface. It aims to prevent phishing and related attacks that rely on stolen credentials. The company is led by founder and CEO Gadalia Montoya Weinberg O’Bryan and is based in Denver, CO. Dapple intends to use the new funding to expand operations and accelerate development efforts. No revenue or user metrics were disclosed in the article.

Participated · Equity · Nov 2023

Founded in 2021 and based in Boulder, Colorado, RADICL Defense has built an autonomous virtual security operations center (vSOC) tailored for small and mid-sized businesses operating in regulated or high-risk environments such as the defense industrial base and critical infrastructure. The company’s cybersecurity-as-a-service platform blends AI-driven “agentic operators” with human expertise to identify, assess, and respond to cyberattacks at machine speed, providing nation-state-level defense-in-depth and managed compliance. RADICL’s modular offerings unify workflows for agentic and human operators, the customer, and managed service providers, aiming to make SOC operations increasingly autonomous and software-led. Its vSOC helps SMBs improve both compliance and security posture in the face of emerging automated, AI-powered threats. The firm positions itself as a proactive answer to the growing “AI-enabled threat tsunami” that disproportionately affects resource-constrained organizations. With total funding now at $42 million, RADICL plans to accelerate AI-native vSOC development, launch new products, and drive broader market adoption.

Participated · Equity · Jun 2023

GoodBuy Gear operates an online resale marketplace for baby and kid gear that enables parents, brands and retailers to safely and sustainably recirculate quality-used products. It offers white-glove selling services in Denver, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., and New York City (and surrounding metro areas), and provides nationwide shopping and shipping. Led by CEO and co-founder Kristin Langenfeld and founded in 2016, the company has sold over 270,000 secondhand items and helped more than 12,000 families resell their items to date. In the first months of 2023 GoodBuy Gear expanded to sell pre-owned, quality-inspected car seats and doubled its base of brand and retail partners. The company raised $14M in funding to further scale its online marketplace and solidify its market position. Carl Sparks of Interlock Partners joined the company's board in conjunction with the financing. Good Buy Gear operates a recommerce marketplace for second‑hand and open‑box baby and children’s items, picking up sellers’ goods, performing quality checks, cleaning and listing them for resale. The company ships nationwide and offers local delivery in Denver and Dallas. Founded in 2016, it has grown rapidly (about four times since March) and has an 11-person workforce with plans to add five hires. Good Buy Gear has raised $8 million to date, including a $6 million Series A and prior $2.8 million in seed funding. The new capital will fund product evolution, strategic partnerships, and market expansion to provide pickup and delivery beyond Denver and Dallas. The company is pursuing partnerships with large retailers to access returns and open‑box inventory and is working with partners to improve sustainability and reduce waste. Good Buy Gear operates an online marketplace and consignment service for previously owned baby and kids’ products, including strollers, furniture and toys. The company manages the full transaction from pickup to payout, allowing parents to avoid consignment stores or meet-ups with strangers. It currently serves the Boulder and Denver metro areas and offers nationwide shipping on many items. Led by CEO Kristin Langenfeld and COO Jessica Crothers, Good Buy Gear secured seed financing to support growth. The company plans to use the funds to expand to more cities throughout the U.S. The financing reflects early-stage capital to accelerate its geographic expansion.

Participated · Series C · Jan 2023

PeopleFund operates a P2P lending marketplace that matches retail borrowers with investors and develops AI-powered risk management and credit-scoring systems. The company plans to use new capital to further advance its AI credit-scoring tech and to launch a B2B service providing customized AI-enabled credit scoring to financial institutions. As of December 2022 PeopleFund reported a loan balance of $264.3 million and total loans deployed of about $1.3 billion, with 20,688 borrowers and 2,943,883 lenders; year-over-year growth in borrowers was 56.7% and lenders 9.6%. The startup has previously raised equity and in 2022 secured $240 million in debt financing from Goldman Sachs, CLSA Lending Ark Asia and Bain Capital. PeopleFund reported it was making a loss and cut about 10% of staff in Q4 2022; it had nearly 150 people as of December 2021. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Seoul. PeopleFund operates a peer-to-peer lending marketplace that connects near-prime and subprime borrowers with individual and institutional lenders, including through a partnership with Kakao Pay. Its core product is an AI- and machine learning-powered credit-scoring system (CSS 4.0) built on roughly 480,000 registered loan customers to optimize mid-rate loans. The company claims it has managed over $1 billion in loans as of October 2021 with a delinquency rate of 2.06% and average borrower interest rates around 11.25% per annum. Refinancing loans make up about 66% of its total loans, and lenders on the platform target roughly 6%–9% annual returns. PeopleFund says its data-driven underwriting produces a 3%–5% lower loss rate than other non-bank players and it targets Korea’s roughly $67 billion personal credit loans market. The company expects to generate profit in 2022 and plans to expand its AI and alternative-data capabilities to further personalize lending products. PeopleFund, founded in 2015, operates a peer-to-peer lending marketplace that connects borrowers and investors across consumer, SME, and mortgage/property lending. Consumer and personal loans represent around one-quarter of volume, SMEs 17 percent, and the remainder comes from mortgage and property loans including real estate developers. The company has reached about $300 million in loans to date and reported 823% annual growth in 2017, hitting a record monthly origination of roughly $31 million in September. September also saw a shift toward institutional capital, with 69% of loans provided by institutional investors that month. PeopleFund employs about 90 staff and plans to use the new funding to expand headcount—particularly R&D hires—and to further develop its credit-rating model and risk-pricing for loans and mortgages. The business previously raised $5.7 million in June 2017 and counts 500 Startups, Wooshin Venture Investment, D3 Jubilee and DAYLI Financial Group among its investors.