Led · Seed · Apr 2026

Wavelet Medical develops an AI-powered fetal electroencephalography (EEG) platform that captures non-invasive EEG signals through the mother’s abdomen and reconstructs auditory-evoked brain responses with proprietary algorithms. The technology, developed at Yale, aims to identify neurological distress without invasive scalp electrodes or added risk to mother or baby. The company was founded by Liz Golden, Dr. Emily Lee, and Dr. Jose Cortes-Briones and is headquartered in New Haven, CT. Wavelet is currently being tested at three clinical sites and is preparing for expanded clinical trials. Financially, the company completed a $7M Seed round led by Aegis Ventures and will use the proceeds to expand operations and development. No revenue or user metrics were disclosed in the article.

Led · Equity · Feb 2025

Avandra operates a federated network and marketplace for de-identified medical images and clinical data, positioning itself as the world’s largest such network. Its core product is an imaging-centric data platform that indexes and makes multimodal last-mile data available to biopharma, researchers, providers, and AI companies. The company aims to crawl, index, and make available up to 1 trillion images and says over 90% of imaging data research requests go unfulfilled by existing solutions. Avandra plans to expand its data network through partnerships with leading health systems and integrate its platform into broader health-data ecosystems. The company recently formed a strategic partnership with Datavant to enable seamless, privacy-preserving integration into Datavant’s ecosystem. The announced funding will be used to further develop the platform and scale commercial initiatives with biopharma and medical researchers.

Participated · Equity · Aug 2024

Sahara AI offers a decentralized blockchain platform designed to ensure security, equity, accessibility, and provenance for AI development and deployment. The platform is built to support open and equitable AI, with features that prioritize sovereignty and provenance of AI models and data. The company is used by 35+ tech innovators and research institutions, including Microsoft, Amazon, MIT, Motherson Group, and Snap. Sahara AI has partnered with strategic angels and advisors from industry and academia, such as Laksh Vaaman Sehgal, Rohan Taori, Teknium, Vipul Prakash, and Elvis Zhang. The company intends to use new funding to expand its global team, enhance the performance of its AI blockchain, and grow its developer ecosystem. Sahara AI is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA. Sahara operates a decentralized AI network built around personalized Knowledge Agents that let businesses and individuals monetize proprietary data and expertise while preserving privacy. The company also offers Sahara Data, a data infrastructure service providing data annotation and AI model training services that has attracted interest from more than 30 enterprise clients, including Fortune 500 companies and unicorn startups. Sahara describes a Collaborative Economy model that rewards knowledge developers, providers, compute providers, execution node operators, validators, and knowledge consumers for their contributions. The team announced coming out of stealth on March 5, 2024 and reported rapid community demand: more than 50,000 people joined the waitlist within five days. Founders Sean Ren and Tyler Zhou have discussed the product and web3 architecture in interviews with Coindesk, emphasizing transparent tracking of contributions and rewards via blockchain. The company is actively building community engagement on Discord, Twitter, and LinkedIn as it develops Sahara Knowledge Agents and expands Sahara Data enterprise traction.