Participated · Seed · Aug 2024

Heeyo offers an AI chatbot for kids aged 3–11 plus over 2,000 interactive games and activities, including books, trivia and role‑playing adventures. The app lets parents and children design custom AIs and create new learning games tailored to family values and interests. Heeyo emphasizes safety and privacy: it is COPPA‑compliant, immediately deletes children’s voice data, does not store demographics, and includes parental controls and age‑appropriate rules in its engine. Technically, the product blends models — using OpenAI for chat, ElevenLabs and Microsoft Azure for text‑to‑audio, and Stable Diffusion for images — with its own rules around developmental milestones. The team includes children’s book authors, former creatives from Nickelodeon and Sesame Workshop, child psychologists and pediatricians. Heeyo monetizes via in‑app tokens (examples: $4.99 for 200 tokens, $9.99 for 500, $59.99 for 4,000) and plans a possible creator/developer ecosystem; proactive parental alerts are planned soon.

Led · Equity · Nov 2023

Founded in 2015, Belgium-headquartered Sunrise Group pairs FDA-cleared sleep-diagnostic hardware—most notably its mandibular movement sensor—with a full-stack software platform to power Dreem Health, its U.S. digital sleep clinic. Patients connect online with licensed sleep specialists who diagnose and treat conditions such as sleep apnea and insomnia entirely from home and with insurance coverage. Sunrise has regulatory clearances in all 50 states, contracts with payors that collectively insure more than 170 million Americans, and a clinical network exceeding 500 referring providers. The company operates with a team of 80+ clinicians, engineers, and researchers and positions its integrated tech-and-care model as a scalable answer to the severe shortage of sleep physicians. Revenue figures were not disclosed, but the firm secured a $29 million capital infusion to fund nationwide expansion and next-generation hardware and software development. Future plans include enlarging clinical services, accelerating U.S. market penetration, and continuing R&D on detection, monitoring, and treatment technologies for a broad range of sleep disorders.

Participated · Series B · Apr 2023

Span began by selling internet-connected electrical panels that give homeowners real-time insight and control over circuits, enabling easier integration of EV chargers, batteries, heat pumps, and rooftop solar. Over 2025 the company expanded its focus from individual residences to utilities, targeting regions facing rapid load growth and ambitious decarbonization mandates, such as California. In partnership with Landis+Gyr, Span launched the SPAN Edge, an at-the-meter device utilities can deploy to avoid costly upgrades to poles, wires, and transformers while still accommodating higher demand. The technology was field-tested in PG&E’s virtual power plant pilot that coordinated 400 Span smart panels and 1,500 Sunrun-managed batteries to relieve feeder constraints. Span continues to sell its $2,550 smart panel for new and existing homes, but sees the larger growth opportunity in utility deployments now moving from pilot to rollout phase. Hiring plans include utility delivery roles and an expanded development team in Bangalore, signaling execution on this broader market strategy. Prior to the current raise, Span had secured more than $200 million in funding from investors such as Wellington Management, Fifth Wall, and Munich Re Ventures.

Participated · Series B · Jan 2023

Scythe builds the M.52, an electric robotic mower purpose-built for commercial landscapers to autonomously mow large-scale properties such as corporate campuses, parks, sports fields, and HOA complexes. The M.52 is engineered to handle steep slopes, tough terrain and the rough treatment of daily commercial operations, including loading, unloading and jumping curbs. The company began delivering the mower to customers in Texas late last year and has started deliveries in Florida. Scythe has 7,500 existing reservations and will use the new funding in part to fulfill those orders. The company is just over 50 people and plans to hire dozens more across engineering, manufacturing and customer teams over the next 12 months. To-date funding is north of $60 million following the new round. Scythe Robotics develops an autonomous, all‑electric commercial mower offered through a Robot‑as‑a‑Service (RaaS) rental model that charges customers based on acres mowed. The mower features eight HDR cameras and a suite of sensors to avoid people, animals and obstacles while collecting data to improve efficiency. The company positions itself as a technology partner for commercial landscape contractors to help them operate emissions‑free and grow their businesses. Scythe plans to use funding to increase headcount in its Colorado, Texas and Florida offices, continue R&D on additional products, and expand customer deployment. Founded in 2018 and based in Boulder, Colorado, the startup has raised a total of $18.6 million to date.

Participated · Seed · Oct 2021

Geopipe operates a deep-learning platform that generates metadata-rich 3D “digital twins” from raw sensor data and a semantic engine, enabling interactive-ready reproductions of real-world environments. Its models capture terrain, buildings, vegetation, infrastructure and other scene elements and can be layered with additional data for planning, analysis, and presentations. The platform integrates with existing 3D software and gaming/VR engines via an SDK/API and can stream data directly into applications such as Unity; commercial access starts at about $100/month. Geopipe licenses its data on monthly or annual terms and targets use cases including training simulations, city planning, coastal resiliency, construction, and gaming. The company reported a $2.4M seed round and says total equity funding now stands at $2.52M; it has also received roughly $2M in grants. Near-term plans include rapid hiring—especially deep learning and product roles—and rolling out the next level of digital-twin detail to expand coverage and capability from its New York headquarters and Burlington, VT engineering office.