Participated · Seed · Aug 2026

Sonic Fire Tech develops an acoustic fire suppression system that deploys inaudible, low-frequency sound through ceiling piping to extinguish or contain fires within seconds. The company is testing systems for interiors of commercial buildings, kitchens, and homes for both new construction and retrofits, and has also been developing an exterior system for wildfire protection. Sonic Fire Tech emphasizes that its approach avoids the water and chemical damage associated with sprinklers and gaseous agents, potentially reducing cleanup and restoration times. Early tests show promise for containing lithium‑ion battery fires by preventing cell‑to‑cell spread, though full extinguishment has not been claimed. The startup is pursuing NFPA approval and is in talks with insurers about potential premium discounts. Financially, Sonic Fire Tech is supported by a recent $15 million round following a $3.5 million seed raise in October.

Participated · Series A · Feb 2024

Tracksuit provides an AI-powered, always-on dashboard that makes brand tracking intuitive and actionable for marketers, product teams, and executives. The platform tracks brand health metrics such as awareness, consideration, usage, preference, and perceptions across major global markets. Since launching in 2021, Tracksuit has scaled to serve 1,000 brands and is currently tracking 10,000 brands, including Athletic Brewing Company, Opendoor, Turo, Steve Madden, and The RealReal. The company positions itself at the intersection of renewed focus on brand-building and advances in AI-driven consumer insights, democratizing high-quality data for brands of all sizes. Tracksuit plans several new product launches later this year and aims to double its tracked-brand dataset to 20,000 by the end of 2025 to underpin those products. Tracksuit offers an always-on brand-tracking platform that surveys tens of thousands of consumers each week to measure awareness, consideration, preference, and sentiment, and to benchmark over 4,000 brands against competitors. The product targets growth consumer brands and provides marketers a single source of truth to understand and communicate brand health. Tracksuit plans to use new funding to officially launch into the US and UK, expand research and platform capabilities, and democratize previously unavailable market research data. The company highlights notable US customers including Athletic Brewing, Steve Madden, Opendoor, AWAY Luggage, Momofuku, Skillshare, and others. Founded in April 2021 by co-CEOs Matt Herbert and Connor Archbold, Tracksuit has grown to 60+ employees with offices in New York City, Auckland, Sydney, and London. Its team says the product is “always on” and designed to make brand metrics accessible and actionable for marketing teams. Tracksuit is a brand-tracking software-as-a-service launched in 2021 that provides an intuitive dashboard to monitor metrics such as brand awareness, consideration, preference and usage. The product measures performance against competitive sets and includes features like an "unprompted imagery" word cloud to capture unaided associations. The company charges a flat fee and says its service is roughly 10x cheaper than traditional market-research offerings, aiming to make brand insights accessible to smaller and mid-sized companies. Tracksuit currently tracks insights for more than 1,300 brands across New Zealand, Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States. It targets mid-sized, growing consumer brands across food and beverage, FMCG, retail, direct-to-consumer and financial services, with customers including Made by Nacho, Charity: Water and Athletic Brewing Company. The startup recently raised $5 million in its first external round and will use the money to expand further into the U.S., including hiring in New York City and building a 10-person team there.

Participated · Series A · Feb 2024

Power provides a patient-friendly platform aimed at improving access to clinical trial studies. Its proprietary AI translates medical jargon from trial descriptions into clear, accurate language and links patients with researchers to assess eligibility. The database already covers more than 30,000 clinical trials, 100,000 researchers and 10,000 medical conditions. Management expects the platform to serve over 500,000 patients in 2022. The company’s near-term focus is to broaden patient access and increase diversity within trials, goals that will be supported by its recent capital infusion. No revenue figures were disclosed in the article, but the scale of user engagement indicates early traction for the service.

Participated · Seed · Jan 2024

Isaac Health is a specialist-led dementia care platform that guides patients through four phases of care: screening, specialist diagnosis, treatment and ongoing neurocognitive care management. The company provides at-home risk assessments including biomarker tests, connects patients to a network of more than 40 neurologists and other providers led by Harvard-trained neurologist Dr. Joel Salinas, and delivers both medication (e.g., cholinesterase inhibitors) and non-drug interventions such as cognitive therapy. Launched in 2022 and based in New York City, Isaac's platform recently became available in all 50 states and targets older adults showing early signs of dementia as well as people in their 40s and 50s. Isaac is partnered with more than 10 health plans and several health systems, is in-network with most major insurers including Medicare, and has screened more than 5,000 users on its platform. Its revenue is supported mainly by health plans and partially by patients depending on co-pays and deductibles. The company intends to use new funding to expand access to specialist-led cognitive care across the U.S. Isaac Health operates a virtual brain health and memory clinic platform that harnesses predictive machine learning to identify patients with cognitive and brain health conditions and deliver center-of-excellence-level care at scale. The company partners with health systems and payers to screen, diagnose, treat, and manage populations with brain health conditions and also offers a direct-to-consumer memory clinic service at myisaachealth.com. Isaac Health was launched in 2022 and is headquartered in New York. The company positions itself to address widespread access gaps: the Society of Actuaries classifies more than 20 U.S. states as "dementia neurology deserts," and the articles cite that 61% of dementia cases and 92% of mild cognitive impairment cases go undiagnosed. Isaac Health cites the recent FDA approval of a disease-modifying therapy for early-stage Alzheimer’s disease as increasing the need for specialist evaluation and follow-up. The business recently completed an oversubscribed $5.7 million Seed financing to accelerate development of its provider platform, scale operations, and expand strategic partnerships. The company plans to further develop and expand its brain health provider platform to advance screening, diagnosis, treatment, and management across communities.

Participated · Seed · Sep 2023

Betterleap is an AI-powered candidate sourcing platform that helps recruiters source, engage, and convert candidates. The product leverages AI and data to deliver highly targeted candidate recommendations and integrates with Applicant Tracking Systems including Lever, Greenhouse, Ashby, Recruiterflow, and Clockwork. It includes a GPT-4–powered CoPilot feature to provide immediate insights and actionable responses to recruiters' queries. Betterleap has signed 1,000+ companies to its platform, with customers such as Prestige Development Group, Recruiting From Scratch, Boulevard, Chapter, and Costanoa Ventures. The company says it will use the funding to fuel growth, expand its team, and enhance its product offerings. Founded in 2020 and based in San Francisco, Betterleap officially launched alongside this seed raise.