The Venture Codex

Participated · Series B · Aug 2025

Asylon Robotics builds integrated robotic perimeter security solutions that combine autonomous drones, ground robotics and AI-driven command software. The company serves commercial and government customers with high-security needs, protecting critical infrastructure, corporate campuses, logistics hubs and defense installations. Founded in 2015 and based in Carmel, Ind., Asylon has completed more than 250,000 robotic security missions. Its products are US-built and positioned for rapid response and automated, tech-enabled physical security. Asylon says it will use recent funding to expand engineering, operations and go-to-market teams and to accelerate product development across its robotic platforms. The company also plans to deepen partnerships across defense, logistics and critical infrastructure sectors. Asylon Robotics builds and deploys next-generation robotic systems designed to perform high-risk tasks in hazardous and austere environments, protecting U.S. personnel. The company is a dual-use technology provider that partners with the U.S. Department of Defense and offers a 24/7 robotic security service for commercial sites. Over the past 18 months Asylon has been awarded multiple SBIR contracts and a $12M STRATFI contract with Air Force Global Strike Command. Leonid Capital Partners has provided a tailored loan structured to leverage Asylon’s Air Force contract portfolio to accelerate the company’s work. The financing is intended to help scale Asylon’s business across domains and advance development of new life‑saving robotic capabilities. Asylon’s leadership framed the partnership as a catalyst for growth and continued deployment of its defense and commercial offerings. Asylon Robotics develops advanced automated air and ground security robotics systems that combine drones, robots, software, and artificial intelligence to deliver continuous security operations. The company positions its products as force multipliers to streamline security workflows. Led by CEO Damon Henryand, Asylon serves defense and security customers and intends to further strengthen its defense portfolio. Asylon received an investment reported on 09/02/2023; the amount of the deal was not disclosed. The company said it will use the funds to bolster its defense offerings. No revenue or user metrics were disclosed in the article. Asylon designs and manufactures the DroneCore System, an open-architecture hardware-and-software platform that manages unmanned ground and aerial robots to execute pre-programmed patrol missions and deliver security data intelligence. The company sells DroneCore as an end-to-end, white-glove service for advanced perimeter security and positions the system as an American-made, fully automated aerial and ground guard. Asylon reports technical maturity of the DroneCore product and cites sales to a number of Fortune 100 customers. Its growth has been driven by adoption in both commercial and federal markets, and the company is working with the Air Force on base security modernization and remote surveillance. Leadership describes the solution as enabling extended autonomous operations with minimal human intervention. No revenue, valuation, or specific financial metrics are disclosed in the article.

Led · Series A · Nov 2024

Serenity provides an AI-powered Environmental, Health, and Safety (EHS) software platform that delivers flexible, ready-to-use solutions for organizations both within and beyond the ServiceNow ecosystem. The product includes cloud-based tooling and an AI copilot designed to generate actionable EHS insights to help manage safety, compliance, and operational risk. Serenity says its platform improves employee engagement around safety, enhances compliance, and streamlines operations to protect brand reputation. The company plans to use new funding to accelerate product development, expand its team, and drive sales and marketing to unlock new markets. Serenity announced a $5.5 million Series A led by Allegion Ventures with follow-on participation from existing investor Base10 Partners. The company emphasizes scalable, modern cloud software and a user-focused experience as it seeks to reshape the EHS landscape. Serenity EHS develops Environmental, Health, Safety, and Sustainability software built natively on the ServiceNow platform. The company has brought to market solutions focused on EHS Incident, Inspection & Audit, Operational Risk & Compliance, Sustainability, and Physical Security. It is an Elite ServiceNow partner and serves name-brand customers in the federal government, manufacturing, retail, and energy sectors. Co-founded by CEO Peter Oneppo and Kris Markham, the company was founded at the beginning of 2020 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA. Serenity EHS plans to use its recent funding to increase headcount and expand its operational workflow product offerings on the ServiceNow platform. The company raised a $5M Seed round in August 2022.

Led · Equity · Oct 2023

Ambient.ai is a unified, AI-powered physical security platform that uses computer vision intelligence to help enterprise organizations reduce risk, improve security operations efficiency, and surface critical insights. The company is based in San Jose, CA and was founded in 2017 by CEO Shikhar Shrestha and CTO Vikesh Khanna. Its platform is used by multiple Fortune 500 organizations, including Adobe, VMware, and Impossible Foods. Ambient.ai plans to use the new capital to expand its partner ecosystem, build integrations with other security products, and further invest in research and development. Financially, the company announced a $20M strategic growth investment from Allegion Ventures and has previously raised $52M in venture funding across Series A and Series B rounds led by Andreessen Horowitz. Ambient.ai offers a central visual-processing AI platform that ingests live security camera feeds and breaks video into behavioral “primitives” that are combined into roughly 100 suspicious-behavior “signatures.” The system is designed without facial recognition and is built around privacy-by-design, aiming to reduce bias by keeping individual activity inferences auditable. Its models use contextual signals—posture, interactions, time of day, indoor/outdoor status—to create descriptive signatures (for example: tailgating, loitering, climbing a fence) that can be tuned per site. The company says the platform reduces common alarms by 85–90% and has delivered concrete operational results in tests (for example, tailgating incidents identified fell from 2,000 to 200 in a week and later to about 10 per week). Ambient.ai has active customers, including five of the largest U.S. tech companies by market cap, and plans to double its signature library over the next year. Financially, the company announced a $52 million funding round led by a16z to support continued growth.

Led · Series A · Feb 2023

Stuf partners with property owners to turn basements, garages and other spaces in commercial buildings into rentable storage, creating cash-flow opportunities for landlords and convenient amenities for nearby customers. Its digital-first platform lets users book, pay for and access storage via mobile devices, while the company employs IoT, access control and security solutions to remotely manage its national portfolio. Founded in 2020 and led by CEO Katharine Lau, Stuf combines real-estate partnerships with technology to scale physical storage capacity without heavy property ownership. The company plans to use its recent funding to expand nationally and grow its footprint in existing and new markets. It also intends to invest in brand awareness among consumers and landlords and to expand its teams across real estate, engineering, marketing and operations. The business model emphasizes turning underused commercial building spaces into monetizable storage assets through a technology-enabled operating stack. Stuf transforms basements and other unused spaces into self-storage locations by signing revenue-sharing deals with landlords and converting the spaces for use. The company emphasizes interior design to create a warm, inviting environment rather than the sterile feel of traditional facilities. Stuf can tour a site and open it for storage in four to six weeks. It currently operates three locations in San Francisco and New York, and its initial spaces reached roughly 90% capacity within three months. Pricing is reported to be on par with traditional self-storage (example Brooklyn listings: $172.51/month for a 10×6 and $43 for a 5×3). The startup aims to open new locations nationwide and launch more than 100,000 square feet of storage space in 2021.

Participated · Series C · Jul 2022

Robin builds a modern workplace platform that empowers employees to work regardless of location, supporting offices, homes, co-working spaces and other physical locations. The company positions itself as a category-leading provider of modern work software for distributed teams. Founded in 2014 and datelined Boston in the announcement, Robin focuses on platform innovation and expanding global reach. Financially, Robin recently completed a $30 million Series C and has raised more than $60 million in total capital. The company says it will leverage strategic partnerships and investments to accelerate growth and bring Robin to more companies and users worldwide. Robin is an office-reservation platform that launched in 2014 as a conference-room scheduling app and has since expanded to desk booking, room reservation and guest management available on web and mobile. The product includes guest check-in, equipment reservations, office utilization analytics and a Global Hybrid Trends Dashboard that benchmarks usage against similar companies. On the back end, managers can track how spaces are used over time, calculate ideal seat counts and receive auto-suggested desks near colleagues. Robin says it anonymizes usage data and aggregates it across spaces, floors and buildings, though the extent of anonymization was not detailed. Thousands of teams — including governments, militaries and customers such as Toyota, Twitter, Mailchimp and Peloton — use the platform. The company employs over 190 people and plans to invest in platform development, international expansion and further headcount growth. Robin Powered began as part of One Mighty Roar and was spun out in 2014 by co-founder Sam Dunn and two co-founders. The company integrates with Google Calendar and Outlook to surface available meeting rooms and activity spaces, and provides tablet signage, seating charts, office maps, and usage insights. Robin aims to give companies visibility into office “inventory” and how space is used so they can identify shortages or excesses of meeting rooms and collaboration areas. It charges clients per room ($300) and per desk ($24–$60) as part of its monetization. The company positions its technology as a backbone for clients’ offices similar to the services WeWork provides alongside physical space. Robin has raised capital to scale these products and insights, with a total of $30 million raised to date. Robin offers a scheduling and space-management platform that lets employees find, book, and see equipment availability for meeting rooms via mobile apps and the web. The software can be installed on tablets mounted outside rooms to display schedules and is searchable for specific needs (e.g., video conferencing equipment at a given time). Robin integrates beacon technology to auto-detect attendees’ arrival and departure and provides analytics on space usage so employers can better plan office workflows and space allocation. It also integrates with Slack and Aruba Meridian to enable easy booking and indoor navigation to booked rooms. Pricing is charged per space per month with discounted per-room pricing for larger offices. The company recently raised new funding, strengthening its financial position to expand product deployment and adoption. Robin provides a software layer for office buildings that uses iBeacon and Bluetooth LE beacons to detect people, automate conference-room bookings, and update nearby devices. The product includes iOS and Android apps, zone-based beacons (one covers up to 30 meters), and an analytics dashboard for office-wide overview. Pricing is tiered from $100 to $1,000 per month depending on number of zones, with a free tier planned for a limited number of zones. The company spun out of One Mighty Roar; the 15-person team includes founders Sam and Zach Dunn and partners Brian Muse (CTO) and Apollo Sinkevicius (COO). Robin is running a summer pilot with about 20 locations (including a News Corp floor and Blade) and has a wait list approaching 100 offices for a wider fall release. The recently raised seed funding will support product development, growth of Robin-powered offices, and modest hiring.