Participated · Seed · Jul 2026

Linker Finance provides a unified, modular platform designed to help community banks grow deposits, streamline onboarding, and deliver white-label mobile and online retail and commercial banking experiences. The platform supports deposit account opening, commercial onboarding workflows, treasury and payments functionality, fraud and identity integrations, CRM and Customer Intelligence tools, and integrations with leading core providers and third-party services. Linker says its turnkey approach enables community banks to launch and go live in as little as eight weeks and is live with more than 10 customers across cores including Fiserv Premier, CSI and FIS (with DCI coming soon). The company is developing an Agentic AI layer called Grandir to help banks understand customer needs, identify growth opportunities, and reduce manual work, and is currently piloting that product. Linker plans to expand its payments rails, including cross-border and stablecoin-enabled capabilities, while continuing product development across retail and business banking. Financially, Linker has raised $8.7 million in total Seed funding following the latest $5 million infusion.

Participated · Series A · Dec 2025

Founded in 2024, Scowtt has built an AI-powered advertising optimization platform that replaces proxy signals with real-time, predictive insights drawn from a brand’s own CRM data. Its technology feeds purchase-likelihood and lifecycle predictions directly into ad networks, enabling advertisers to acquire customers more efficiently without changing existing workflows. Early enterprise users have reported sizable gains, including a 59% increase in Purchase ROAS at LaserAway, a 64% lift for Advanced Hair Restoration, and a 38% ROAS boost for a leading education advertiser. The company addresses a post-cookie landscape by focusing on durable first-party data rather than look-alike targeting. Longer term, Scowtt plans to evolve into a full “operating system for growth,” layering Agentic AI to automate both marketing and sales tasks. Operating in a $300 billion performance-marketing market, the company is positioning itself as a next-generation alternative to traditional adtech optimized around network-level goals. Scowtt is headquartered in Seattle and led by CEO and founder Eduardo Indacochea, a two-decade veteran of Meta, Google, and Microsoft advertising teams. The recent $12 million Series A provides its primary financial runway; no additional revenue or user metrics were disclosed.

Participated · Series A · Dec 2023

Founded in 2019, Charlottesville-based Poppy Flowers operates a technology-driven marketplace that matches couples with local floral designers whose style, budget, and vision align with their needs. The company has already served more than 6,000 couples nationwide, positioning itself as a fast-growing player in the $71 billion U.S. floral industry. Poppy’s platform streamlines the traditionally fragmented wedding-florist experience by handling design matching, logistics, and fulfillment. With fresh capital, the team plans to accelerate an expansion into business-to-business offerings, roll out new technology features, and hire key leadership roles. Management believes these moves will widen its customer base beyond consumer weddings and deepen engagement with professional florists. Investors cite the company’s clear category leadership and scalable model as reasons for continued support. Financial details beyond the most recent and prior capital raises were not disclosed in the article.

Participated · Seed · Apr 2022

CoreChain provides a white-label, API-centric blockchain payments network that lets ERPs, B2B software platforms, banks, and payment networks offer digital B2B payments and financing to enterprise customers. The platform supports ACH, eChecks, Virtual Cards and digital assets such as stablecoins, and automates transaction data and fund exchange via enterprise DLT. CoreChain also unlocks lending opportunities to finance working capital tied up in approved but unpaid invoices. Since launching in September 2020, the company has processed over $1 billion in B2B payments for enterprise buyers, including channel transactions. It has a partnership with Scanco Software to integrate CoreChain into warehouse, manufacturing and supply-chain management solutions. Management intends to use the new funding to accelerate product development, sales and marketing and continue growing payments volume. CoreChain is a digital B2B payments network built on enterprise blockchain that automates exchanges of transaction data and funds for enterprise buyers and suppliers. The company offers an API-centric, white-label platform that allows ERP and business process automation providers, banks, and payment networks to offer blockchain-based B2B payments. Its platform reduces manual reconciliation, mitigates fraud risk, and natively supports settlement via digital assets and exchanges with cryptographic networks such as Ethereum. Launched in September 2020, CoreChain has processed over $300 million in B2B payments for enterprise buyers, including transactions for channel partners like PaymentWorks. The company is integrating a trade finance "instant pay" solution to allow suppliers to accelerate invoice payments and unlock lending opportunities for working capital tied up in unpaid invoices aging 30–120 days. CoreChain raised $1.25 million in pre-seed funding to accelerate enterprise customer adoption and expand its payments and financing network.

Led · Series A · Feb 2022

Canela Media operates AVOD streaming platform Canela.TV and music service Canela Music, both focused on culturally relevant Spanish-language and Latino-oriented content. Canela.TV launched in 2020 and is approaching 10 million downloads; Canela Music launched in 2021. The company reports reaching over 50 million users across its OTT products and 180+ Spanish-language sites. Canela Media plans to use new funding to accelerate product development, produce original programming for Canela.TV and Canela Music, and expand further into Latin America. Later in the year the company intends to roll out a Canela Kids app focused on children's programming and add 95 new positions across engineering, operations and programming. Headquartered in New York, Canela Media is minority- and female-owned and is noted in the article as among the most-funded Latino- and female-led companies in the media industry. Canela Media is a NYC-based, Latina-owned digital media tech company led by founder and CEO Isabel Rafferty that offers brands a complete ecosystem to connect with multicultural audiences. Its core product is Canela.TV, a recently launched free streaming service providing on-demand Latino-focused movies and TV across multiple platforms. The company also reaches more than 20 million unique Hispanics via its 180+ premium Spanish-language sites and influencer database. Combined with proprietary data, Canela Media aims to create culturally relevant connections with U.S. Hispanic audiences. The new capital will be used to drive continued growth of Canela.TV and expand the company’s audience and platform offerings.