Participated · Series B · Sep 2025

HiveWatch, headquartered in El Segundo, California, offers a cloud platform that acts as the “digital brain” of a Global Security Operations Center (GSOC), unifying disparate security systems and automating routine alarm workflows. Its flagship feature, AI Operator, can triage, classify, and resolve or escalate alarms, automating roughly 90 percent of a GSOC’s alarm-response tasks. More than 90 percent of new customer contracts include AI Operator, underscoring rapid adoption. The company claims that 95 percent of Americans have interacted with a product, service, or brand protected by HiveWatch-secured organizations. With fresh capital, HiveWatch plans to accelerate development of AI Operator, deepen program-level intelligence and task automation, and grow headcount across engineering, product, customer success, marketing, and sales. The recent Series B brings total funding to over $65 million, supporting the firm’s vision of making each security operator ten times more effective through continuous platform improvement.

Participated · Series B · Jul 2025

QI Tech offers a comprehensive API platform that enables financial institutions, fintechs, and enterprises to rapidly deploy and scale banking, payments, lending, investments, and insurance products. The company has pursued product diversification, launching an insurance-as-a-service platform that issued over $27 million in premiums in six months and is developing a digital foreign-exchange infrastructure. QI Tech processes more than 20 million anti-fraud transactions per month, has validated over 90 million individual registrations, and protects roughly $13 million in potentially fraudulent transactions monthly. Following acquisitions of Zaig (2021), Singulare (2023), and Builders Bank (2023), QI Tech became the leading FIDC custodian with $17 billion in assets under custody and $25 billion in assets under management. The company serves more than 400 clients, including 99, Shopee, and QuintoAndar, and is expanding across Latin America while emphasizing scalability, compliance, and M&A-driven growth. QI Tech offers a modular API platform that enables companies to build credit, payment and banking solutions—allowing partners to act like banks. The company holds a Direct Credit Society (SCD) license and claims to be the first SCD approved by the Brazilian Central Bank. Its product suite includes digital registration, data validation, credit scoring, digital account opening, wire transfers, Pix, bank slips and credit underwriting for multiple verticals. QI Tech serves more than 300 customers (including Shopee, Vivo Telefonica and 99/Didi) and charges via a pay-as-you-go model with a fixed fee per transaction. The company reports it has been profitable since its first year of operation; in H1 2023 it recorded $21.2 million in net revenues, up 89% year-over-year. QI Tech has grown headcount to 120 employees and plans to use new capital for strategic M&A, aggressive growth, lending-as-a-service, expanded banking-as-a-service offerings and its QI DTVM broker-dealer capabilities.

Participated · Series A · Apr 2024

Akad Seguros is a digital insurance company that operates property risks and financial lines and offers protection products for cyclists and service providers. The company recently obtained authorization from the Superintendence of Private Insurance (SUSEP) to operate in the personal insurance business, a market the article says already exceeds R$60 billion. Led by CEO Danilo Gamboa, Akad plans to use technology to differentiate service quality and expand the range of products and solutions offered to brokers and partners. The company intends to use the new funding to expand operations and accelerate development efforts. Management emphasized that investor experience will support the company’s growth and its intensive use of technology to improve partner services.

Led · Series A · Apr 2024

Akad is an insurer that deploys AI, big data and machine learning to automate the insurance journey for brokers and clients. The company operates a digital platform for brokers and develops embedded insurance partnerships for SMEs, with more than 80% of its issued policies fully automated. Akad recently received SUSEP authorization to operate in the life-insurance segment and plans to debut life products to broaden its offering to brokers and partners. The firm emphasizes technology to increase efficiency, simplify the customer journey and improve broker performance. In the most recent year Akad issued R$926 million in gross written premiums, representing 50% annual growth since 2021, while embedded-insurance partnerships for SMEs have grown 130% annualized since 2021. The company has previously received investments from GP Investimentos and Cyberlabs and will use new capital to scale its digital platform and product suite.