Participated · Equity · Feb 2026

Founded by former SoundCloud executives Jeff Ponchick and Joey Mason, Mogul offers artists a royalty-tracking and catalog-management platform that has already surfaced $1.5 billion in previously unclaimed or misallocated royalties. The product ingests first-party data from numerous collection societies and distributors to flag missing registrations, suggest corrections and even complete bulk registrations on the artist’s behalf. Recent enhancements include cross-platform data fixes, a bulk registration tool and a catalog valuation feature that estimates track-level earnings potential across services like Spotify and Apple Music. On average, users report a 20% increase in royalty revenue after adopting the service. Mogul currently employs six people and plans to hire additional staff with its new capital. The company eliminated its free tier to focus on higher-value, revenue-generating users. Looking ahead, management is preparing for the complexities of AI-generated music royalties while positioning its data pipeline to accommodate evolving regulatory standards. To date, Mogul has raised more than $6.3 million in venture funding.

Participated · Seed · Jan 2026

Overworld is a Providence, Rhode Island-based startup building AI-native world models that function locally on devices such as gaming PCs and Chromebooks. Its core technology pairs diffusion models with real-time, responsive systems so open-ended, human-directed digital environments can operate without data-center latency or cloud dependence. By running on local GPUs, the company aims to reduce environmental overhead while delivering seamless interactive experiences. A recently released research preview demonstrated that its diffusion models can serve as continuous, interactive worlds on consumer hardware, validating the feasibility of its approach. Led by CEO Louis Castricato and Chief Science Officer Shahbuland Matiana, Overworld positions itself at the intersection of generative AI and immersive computing. The company plans to use fresh capital to deepen R&D, build a foundation for scalable AI-native world models, and advance its on-device technology stack. No revenue, user, or other operating metrics have been publicly disclosed.

Participated · Seed · Dec 2025

Pryzm Dynamics Inc. has built a shared, AI-driven platform that connects government acquisition teams with technology vendors, giving both sides real-time visibility into budgets, market intelligence, and program activity. Founded by alumni of Palantir and Lockheed Martin, the company targets the U.S. government’s $900 billion annual defense and national-security spend by replacing fragmented, paperwork-heavy processes with a unified digital thread. Over the past year the platform achieved IL5 and FedRAMP High authorizations, was selected by the Defense Innovation Unit for its eWARP effort, and supported capture activities for contractors such as Forterra, HII, Vannevar Labs, and REGENT Craft. Pryzm recently opened an Arlington, VA office while expanding its Boston headquarters. With fresh capital, management plans to grow engineering and go-to-market teams, deepen deployments with current customers, pursue additional compliance certifications, and layer next-generation AI capabilities into the product. These moves aim to cement Pryzm as the operating system for faster, more transparent, and more competitive federal procurement.

Participated · Seed · Feb 2025

Mavvrik is the financial control center for modern IT, delivering complete visibility, automation, and governance across cloud, AI, SaaS, and on‑prem infrastructure. Its platform gives CFOs, FinOps, and IT teams real‑time control over spend, with features for full cost visibility, automated cost allocation and chargebacks, budget guardrails, anomaly detection, and per‑model AI/GPU spend tracking. Mavvrik integrates with public clouds (AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, Oracle Cloud), private environments (VMware, Kubernetes), AI providers (Meta, Anthropic, OpenAI, Mistral, Amazon Bedrock, Gemini) and SaaS such as Databricks and MongoDB to enable Cost‑to‑Serve and unit‑level economics. The company says it helps enterprises reduce waste, enforce financial accountability, and optimize AI and hybrid cloud spend. The announced $6.2MM seed will fund go‑to‑market expansion and product innovation. As part of its growth plan Mavvrik is expanding its leadership team, adding Paul Franz as VP of Sales, Chris Paap as VP of Product Management, and Lindsey Tishgart as VP of Marketing. DigitalEx develops CloudCompare™, an AI-driven platform for monitoring, analyzing, and optimizing cloud costs across public and private clouds. The product provides real-time visibility and control over cloud spend and integrates data from diverse cloud platforms to enable intelligent cost optimizations. The company plans to use proceeds from a $2M pre-seed round to accelerate CloudCompare development and expand market reach. DigitalEx was established by Safi Siddiqui and Darmawan Suwirya, who have a combined 20 years of cloud experience, and is led by CEO Sundeep Goel. An early customer, XpressDocs, reported improved cloud cost management and more collaborative workflows after adopting DigitalEx. The article positions the funding as enabling execution on the CloudCompare roadmap amid recent AI developments.

Participated · Seed · Aug 2023

Cascade Bio’s core technology, branded as Body Armor for Enzymes, uses affordable, scalable materials to protect enzymes from early degradation and extend their useful lifespan from hours to months. The company deploys these fortified enzymes in cell-free systems, aiming to simplify scale-up, speed reaction rates, reduce purification steps, and lower manufacturing costs compared with microbial-host approaches. Cascade has applied its stabilization platform to more than thirty distinct enzymes and reports a consistent track record of improved durability. Early partnerships with chemical, flavor and fragrance companies, food-ingredient manufacturers, and pharmaceutical firms have demonstrated integration into existing processes and meaningful cost savings. The founding team brings expertise from Zymergen, Stanford, and the University of Colorado Boulder, supporting technical development and commercial collaboration. Headquartered in Denver with satellite teams in California and New York, Cascade plans to accelerate the transition from petrochemical processes to enzyme-driven manufacturing. Cascade Biocatalysts has developed a patent-pending Body Armor for Enzymes™ technology that improves enzyme performance and longevity to enable cost-effective, cell-free biomanufacturing. The company reports working on 15 different enzymes and achieving 100% success at improving stability under industrial conditions, including multiple paying customers at the lab scale. Initial projects target applications such as carbon dioxide capture, fragrance manufacturing, and wastewater treatment, demonstrating broad commercial potential. Cascade plans to scale its technology from the lab bench to pilot scale and support an initial wave of customers. The founders, Alex Rosay and James Weltz, combine chemical engineering backgrounds and industry experience; James invented the technology during his PhD. Headquartered in Denver, the company also has a presence in California and New York.