Participated · Series A · Feb 2026

Gruve.ai operates an Inference Infrastructure Fabric that pairs modular, high-density rack-scale pods with a low-latency edge network to run production-grade AI inference. The Redwood City company claims to have unlocked more than 500 MW of distributed inference capacity across the United States and is bringing 30 MW online immediately at four domestic sites. Its full-stack offering includes 24×7 AI-powered security operations, network services, and cluster management, targeting neocloud providers, enterprises running real-time agents, and AI-native startups moving from prototype to production. Gruve.ai argues that most current inference workloads sit on systems optimized for training, creating poor unit economics that its fabric can remedy. The firm intends to bypass multi-year data-center build cycles by quickly deploying capacity in power-available locations and plans near-term geographic expansion into Japan and Western Europe. Since inception it has raised a total of $87.5 million, including the recently announced $50 million follow-on Series A, to scale deployments, broaden strategic partnerships, and grow its agentic services layer.

Participated · Seed · Aug 2024

Aurascape offers an AI-native security platform called AI Activity Control that provides broad observability and controls for interactions with thousands of AI applications. The platform emphasizes AI-native protection, processing and protecting multimodal data (text, code, images, video, audio) and aims to reduce false positives while preventing AI-driven threats. Key capabilities include rapid identification of new AI tools for long-tail coverage, prompt and response decoding, automated policies, and context-aware remediation. The company emerged from one year of stealth with the platform in general availability and reports strong company growth. Aurascape’s founding team is composed of seasoned security and networking veterans, and the company is headquartered in Silicon Valley (Santa Clara, Calif.). Aurascape is positioned to address shadow AI, unsafe data sharing in prompts/responses, and governance for copilot deployments as described in the announcement. Aurascape AI builds AI-driven cybersecurity solutions designed to secure widespread enterprise adoption of artificial intelligence by leveraging patent-pending AI innovations. The company is led by CEO Rajiv Khemani and is based in Santa Clara, California. Aurascape is currently engaged in proof-of-concepts (POCs) with select customers as it develops its product. It plans to launch its first commercial product later in 2024. The company raised seed funding to accelerate product development and support its go-to-market efforts.