Led · Series B · Jun 2026

California Naturals, founded in 2023 by Shelby Wild, is a natural-beauty brand. The company is pursuing retail expansion into national chains including Target, Ulta, and CVS and plans new category launches. Leadership is shifting as COO Hayden Hiatt—who previously held multiple leadership roles at Glossier—moves into the CEO role while founder Shelby Wild remains involved. Financially, the brand reported finishing the year 220% above its 2023 sales forecast and is projecting 800% year-over-year revenue growth. The company has raised more than $40 million across three funding rounds to date, including the recently closed Series B led by Align Ventures with participation from Elizabeth Street Ventures.

Participated · Series A · May 2026

Hark is an ambitious AI startup developing what it calls the world's most advanced personal intelligence platform. The company is building a suite of custom native hardware devices paired with end-to-end speech, text, and vision models and deeply personalized memory systems. The goal is to create an AI that thinks like you — and sometimes ahead of you — to offload mental workload and handle tasks autonomously. Unlike general-purpose AI tools, Hark's systems are multimodal, built from scratch, and designed to interact with the world the way humans do: listening, speaking, seeing, remembering, and taking action. Currently in beta, Hark envisions bringing this kind of super-intelligence to everyone, freeing people to focus on meaningful work, creativity, and the people they care about.

Participated · Series B · May 2026

RADAR provides a vertically integrated system of overhead RFID sensors, software, and analytics that captures a full inventory snapshot every eight seconds and delivers roughly 99% item-level inventory accuracy. Its platform converts continuous location signals into operational actions such as automated replenishment alerts, omnichannel fulfillment routing, loss-prevention triggers, and merchandising intelligence. The company is deployed across more than 1,400 stores with major U.S. retailers including American Eagle Outfitters and Old Navy and processes more than 100 billion item-level events per day. RADAR positions its dataset as a foundation for forecasting demand, optimizing assortments, and understanding in-store customer interactions. The company plans to advance sensor hardware, expand AI capabilities, pursue autonomous checkout, and grow internationally while scaling operations under new CFO Abi Viswanathan.

Led · Series A · Apr 2026

Scout AI develops vision-language-action-based AI models and command-and-control software for military autonomous vehicles and drones. Its flagship model effort, "Fury," is being trained to operate and command assets for logistical missions and, in time, weaponized systems; the company also projects a command product called "Ox" for soldier-facing orchestration of multiple platforms. Scout conducts real-world training at a range it calls Foundry on a U.S. military base, using ATVs and drones to generate reinforcement learning data and to test agents in challenging off-road conditions. The startup participates in Army experiments—its technology is among vendors used by the 1st Cavalry Division—and has active contracts with DARPA and the Army Applications Laboratory. Scout says it currently builds on pretrained models from major hyperscalers while planning to invest its capital in training and compute to develop its own foundation models.

Participated · Series B · Feb 2024

Founded in 2022 by serial entrepreneur Brett Adcock, Figure is developing the Figure 01 bipedal humanoid robot aimed at performing repetitive, labor-intensive tasks in warehouses and factories. The company hit its self-imposed milestone of achieving a walking prototype within a year and recently demonstrated the robot operating at roughly 16.7% of human speed while carrying a warehouse tote. Figure is pursuing "general-purpose" capability by integrating large language models that enable natural language command and reasoning, a goal it is advancing through a new partnership with OpenAI. Microsoft is providing Azure infrastructure for training and storage, and the startup has already secured a deployment agreement with BMW. The 80-person firm plans to scale headcount and accelerate go-to-market efforts with its fresh capital. Financially, Adcock initially bootstrapped the company with $100 million, followed by a $70 million Series A in May 2023. Its latest $675 million Series B values Figure at $2.6 billion post-money, underscoring significant investor confidence in its vision of commercial humanoid robotics.