Participated · Seed · Aug 2026

Exclaim Robotics develops mobile robots that autonomously navigate data halls, access rack fronts and perform hands-on maintenance tasks inside live server racks. Its initial scope focuses on narrow, high-frequency interventions such as cleaning and replacing fibre-optic connectors and SFPs, handling copper cabling, and swapping failed drives. The company emphasizes operating safely inside live 800-volt racks and aims to reduce labour-intensive manual maintenance while improving operational efficiency for data centre operators. Founder Helen Oleynikova, who has prior robotics experience at Google, Microsoft, Nvidia, Willow Garage and ETH Zürich, leads the team alongside founding engineer Patrick Pfreundschuh, with two more founding engineers planned to join in 2027. Exclaim has positioned itself alongside startups such as Boost Robotics, Watney Robotics and Gecko Robotics in the data-centre robotics market and has stated goals of accelerating product development using its recent funding.

Led · Seed · Jul 2026

Founded in 2018 by siblings Maurício and Renata Betti and psychologist Jaqueline Padilha, Talent Academy develops a software platform with four core tools for behavioral profile analysis, climate and pulse surveys, socioemotional skills development and performance evaluation. Its platform uses people analytics to provide data and insights aimed at improving employee journeys, reducing turnover and increasing productivity and engagement. The company doubled its team in 2022 and closed contracts and partnerships with organizations including Raízen, Oracle and Gerando Falcões. Talent Academy has participated in global programs such as Berkeley SkyDeck and won multiple competitions and acceleration slots, including South Summit Brasil, Startup Olé Brasil and Porto Seguro’s Oxigênio, and won Meta Ventures’ Bring Your SaaS. The startup has previously raised roughly R$1.5 million from angels and existing investors and received about US$105,000 from Berkeley SkyDeck; it is currently eligible for a potential additional investment of up to R$1.5 million from Meta Ventures. With the new seed proceeds, the company intends to invest in product development and expand its commercial presence in Brazil and Latin America as it prepares to seek a Series A in 2024.

Participated · Series A · Jan 2026

Vennre operates a digital wealth platform tailored to HENRYs (High Earners, Not Rich Yet) across the Middle East, giving them vetted access to private market opportunities. The company curates investments in real estate, private equity, venture capital and private credit, packaging them in transparent, Shariah-compliant structures traditionally reserved for institutions and the ultra-wealthy. By removing conventional gatekeepers, Vennre seeks to democratize generational wealth creation for high-income professionals. Its marketplace has already processed more than USD 40 million in transaction value, evidencing early traction and investor confidence. Governance has been strengthened with the appointment of Dr. Ibrahim AlMojel as Chairman of its Saudi board. Fresh capital will be directed toward enlarging the client network, launching new platform features and intensifying the firm’s Saudi presence amid ongoing financial-sector liberalization. Ultimately, Vennre aims to guide clients through an end-to-end wealth journey built on discipline, trust and long-term alignment.

Participated · Series A · Oct 2023

Roofr is a software company that builds an end-to-end operating platform and CRM tailored to roofing businesses, offering tools such as measurement reports, lead capture, proposals, payments, invoicing, material ordering, workflow automation, event tracking, job boards, and customer communications. Since its 2016 inception the company has grown its remote team from about 10 to 150+ employees and says over 12,000 roofing companies rely on its platform. Roofr emphasizes a customer-first, people-first product approach and prices its software to be affordable for roofing businesses; the company notes many customers have scaled, with some grossing millions after adopting the platform. The product roadmap includes new features like canvassing, marketing, a document builder, job costing, and work orders. Roofr plans to use new funding to accelerate hiring across product, engineering, sales, support, customer success, G&A, and marketing to speed product delivery and scale operations. The company is headquartered in San Francisco and was founded in 2016. Roofr provides roof measurement reports, instant estimators, custom proposals and a recently launched CRM aimed at helping roofers streamline job management. The company plans to expand its product suite with payment processing, integrated financing, material purchasing and customer communications. Roofr intends to use new funding to accelerate development and launch of those roofing solutions and to improve existing tools. Its CRM includes job management features such as workflows, tasks, job boards and an analytics dashboard. The company emphasizes building features based on roofers' feedback and pain points to help contractors win more jobs. No operating metrics (revenue/users) were disclosed in the article. Roofr provides a SaaS roofing software platform that lets contractors generate instant estimates, measure roofs via aerial imagery, and create visual proposals. The platform functions as a sales toolbox for roofing contractors. Roofr recently partnered with CompanyCam to let roofers connect images and notes from in-person site visits with its digital sales solutions. The company intends to use proceeds to add new features including payments and lead acquisition, increase support and grow the team. Roofr is also focusing on strategic partnerships and integrations that benefit its users. The company raised $12m in Series A funding, bringing total funding to $19m. Roofr is a sales platform for roofing contractors that enables remote roof measurement and streamlined initial sales. It ingests high-definition imagery from partners like Nearmap and lets contractors draw measurement reports or pay Roofr $10 per report for measurements. The company also sells to independent insurance adjusters and counts some of North America’s largest roofing contractors among its customers while targeting small, fragmented roofing businesses (more than 100,000 registered in the U.S., most with five employees or fewer). New features include a subscription that auto-populates estimates based on materials lists and desired profit margins and a digital contracts capability. COVID-19 accelerated adoption by allowing contractors to send quotes without visiting job sites. Roofr is a five-year-old, 31-person company that has raised $8.25 million in total funding. Roofr uses aerial and satellite imagery to measure roofs and provide customers with an instant, free online roofing estimate, then connects them with a vetted roofing contractor for an in-person inspection and final proposal. The company assigns a dedicated project consultant to manage each job from start to finish. Roofr’s long-term goal is to offer roofers a suite of free tools to streamline operations and boost profitability. It plans to launch a free satellite measurement application so contractors can measure and estimate roofs from their desks. The company currently serves the Bay Area, the entire state of Florida, and Ontario, Canada. Roofr says it will use new funding to expand into additional marketplaces, including Texas, and to grow its engineering, sales, and marketing teams.

Participated · Series B · Mar 2023

Wingtra, founded in 2016 out of ETH Zurich, develops the WingtraOne VTOL drone and complementary software for survey-quality 2D and 3D aerial data. The company recently launched WingtraCLOUD to simplify flight planning, site-based file organization, 3D planning and cloud syncing. Its products are used by major organizations including NASA, CEMEX, Rio Tinto and the US Air Force. Wingtra employs over 100 people, with more than 30 dedicated to research and development. The integration of hardware, data processing and user-friendly software is aimed at reducing engineering costs and improving decision-making on construction, defense and other commercial projects. The firm is pursuing commercial growth and expanded defense deployments following its recent fundraise. Wingtra makes vertical take-off-and-landing (VTOL) mapping drones and develops software for fully autonomous aerial survey flights. Based in Zurich with offices in Fort Lauderdale and Zagreb, the company was founded in 2014 and employs nearly 200 people. Its flagship WingtraOne VTOL and the WingtraOne Gen II (released in 2021) produce survey-grade 2D and 3D maps with high-resolution RGB cameras. Wingtra says its drones are used by hundreds of organizations in 96 countries — including NASA, the Army Corps of Engineers, Texas A&M and Kenya Red Cross — and collectively fly more than 100,000 missions each year, mapping 18 million acres. A single Wingtra flight covering over 100 hectares can be digitized at 0.5 in/px, which the company says is up to 30x faster and 90% cheaper than terrestrial surveying. The company plans to use new funding to improve its technology and add features toward a long-term vision of fully automated data collection, processing, and analysis to reduce manual work and improve data timeliness. Wingtra develops the WingtraOne, a VTOL (vertical takeoff and landing) mapping drone equipped with high-resolution mapping cameras for accurate aerial surveys. The drone is used in surveying, mining and other industries and can take off and land like a multicopter while covering wide areas. Since its market entry in 2017, Wingtra has partnered with more than 50 major survey equipment dealers and expanded sales from Switzerland to more than 40 countries. The company has grown rapidly over the past two years, increasing headcount from about 30 to more than 70 employees. Wingtra says it will use the funds to scale operations globally, expand sales, and invest in R&D to improve its product and advance the aerial survey and mapping industry. Wingtra builds the WingtraOne, a VTOL drone that takes off and lands like a multicopter and flies as a fixed-wing aircraft, enabling safer landings and heavier payloads such as 40MP cameras. WingtraOne is managed through mission-planning software WingtraPilot and collects survey-grade aerial data that can be post-processed into high-resolution 2D orthomosaics and 3D models for surveying, mapping, construction, forestry, agriculture and other industries. The company raised an additional $5.8M, bringing total fundraising to $10M, which it says will support accelerated market entry and international expansion. Wingtra reports having overachieved company revenue targets and cites traction in the professional drone segment. The company was founded as a spin-off from ETH Zurich and is led by founders Basil Weibel, Maximilian Boosfeld and Elias Kleimann; it is headquartered in Zurich and has assembled a team of about 40 employees. Wingtra points to a Goldman Sachs estimate that the drone market could reach $100B by 2020 as a supporting market tailwind.