• Braven

  Participated · Seed · Jun 2026

  Braven develops AI agents aimed at the insurance industry. The company worked closely with a single design partner and spent about six months building the product and commercial playbook before scaling sales. After that period, Braven acquired eight B2B clients within a three-week span. The founder, Carlos Chavez, relocated to San Francisco and pursued in-person outreach such as conference attendance and direct calls to prospective customers. Braven has completed a roughly $5 million seed round from San Francisco VCs according to the reporting. The articles do not disclose revenue figures, valuation, or detailed future product roadmaps.

• Scowtt

  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.

• Helios AI

  Participated · Seed · Sep 2025

  Helios AI is a Tysons, Virginia–based agtech company focused on bringing advanced data analytics to the food supply chain. Its core product, Helios Horizon, is an AI-powered co-pilot that integrates price forecasting and climate predictions across more than 75 agricultural commodities and 2,500 price series, covering staples such as coffee, soybeans and cocoa. The system relies on a multi-agent AI architecture that ingests billions of real-time signals and, according to internal benchmarks, delivers forecasting accuracy five times higher than traditional seasonality- and supply-demand-based models. By packaging Wall-Street-grade analytics into an accessible interface, Helios AI aims to help farmers, procurement leaders, CPG companies and retailers anticipate market shifts rather than react to crises. The company plans to channel new funding into expanding commodity coverage and hiring key talent. Founder and CEO Francisco Martin-Rayo positions the platform as “a team of Bloomberg analysts in your pocket 24/7,” underscoring its goal of democratizing sophisticated market intelligence. Financial details on revenue or users were not disclosed, but the firm is targeting a multi-trillion-dollar global food market.

• Sigo Seguros

  Participated · Series A · Sep 2024

  Sigo Seguros operates a digital-first platform underwriting non-standard auto insurance, enabling customers to buy policies in minutes from their phones and avoid onerous downpayment fees. The company targets working-class drivers and initially focuses on Hispanic and Latino communities by offering a full bilingual experience in Spanish. Its underwriting technology has produced profitable loss ratios, distinguishing it from other auto insurtech cycles. Sigo reported over 500% growth in Gross Written Premiums last year and payback periods measured in weeks. The financing is intended to fund expansion into new markets with large immigrant communities and limited suitable insurance options. As part of the investment, Rafael Varela will join Sigo’s board of directors. Sigo Seguros provides bilingual, mobile‑first auto insurance tailored to immigrant and working‑class drivers, with a focus on Latino and Spanish‑speaking communities. The company’s product eliminates additional fees and biased rating factors such as credit score and employment, and offers a bilingual end‑to‑end customer experience. It launched a proprietary product in August 2021 and is headquartered in Texas; the company was founded in 2019. Sigo reports it exceeded prior‑year sales in just the first half of 2023 and sees payback periods measured in weeks and months. The company plans to double its team by the end of the year and use new funding to expand customer‑facing technology, continue digitizing underwriting, and expand into new markets with large immigrant communities. Sigo Seguros is an Austin, TX-based insurtech founded in 2019 that provides affordable auto insurance for Spanish-speaking and immigrant communities. It offers a fully bilingual, mobile-first platform that simplifies the insurance experience and launched its inclusive auto insurance product in August 2021. The company provides transparent pricing without fees or biased rating factors and offers coverage to customers with foreign IDs or licenses. Sigo currently serves Texas and plans to expand into more states in 2023. It recently raised $5.4m in seed funding to expand operations and broaden access to equitable insurance for immigrant and working-class populations. The company has made key hires, including a Vice President of Insurance and a Senior Product Manager, and will continue hiring across insurance, technology, and business functions. Sigo is a managing general agency founded in 2019 that provides auto insurance to underserved immigrant and Latinx customers through a tech-enabled, bilingual, mobile-first direct-to-consumer platform. Headquartered in Jersey City, NJ, the company currently offers coverage in California and Texas. Sigo raised $1.5M in seed funding to support its growth. The company plans to use the funds to continue expanding operations and broaden the reach of its auto insurance product among immigrant and Latinx communities. The startup was founded by Néstor Hugo Solari and Júlio Erdos. No operating metrics were disclosed in the article.

• Encantos

  Participated · Seed · Nov 2020

  Encantos is an award-winning edtech company that creates blended digital and physical subscription products—apps, subscription boxes, animated series, books, puzzles and games—designed to teach 21st century learning, literacy, and life skills through character-led storyteaching. Its family brands include the Emmy-nominated, two-time Kidscreen award-winning bilingual preschool brand Canticos, the Day of the Dead–inspired Skeletitos, and Tiny Travelers. The company develops its products with an in-house curriculum and learning design team and an advisory council of education experts, emphasizing cultural authenticity and learner-centered play. Encantos is a female-owned, Latinx-led public benefit corporation headquartered in Culver City, California. The company announced a $5.7M financing that brings total funding to $8.5M; the new capital is intended to accelerate its subscription services and scale commercial and operational capabilities. Encantos also strengthened its leadership with hires including Julie Fleischer as Chief Growth Officer and Taylor Margis-Noguera as Chief Operating Officer to lead customer acquisition, retention, operations and strategy for the next phase of growth. Encantos builds purpose-driven, learner-centered family entertainment education brands for kids 14 and under through apps, books, subscription services, videos and physical hands-on craft activities. The company is best known for its bilingual preschool brand Canticos (Emmy-nominated and Kidscreen award-winning) and launched Tiny Travelers in October 2019; it also offers Skeletitos. Encantos develops character-led, story-based play experiences with an in-house curriculum and learning design team and an advisory council of education experts. Its content and products target parents seeking to teach 21st century learning, literacy, and life skills but who lack time or resources to curate lessons and materials. Encantos is a female-owned public benefit corporation headquartered in Culver City, California and emphasizes diversity, equality, and inclusion across its brands. The company plans to scale its direct-to-consumer subscription services and expand distribution of its digital and physical products. Encantos Media Studios, PBC is a purpose-driven family entertainment and education company that builds multicultural brands using a direct-to-consumer approach. Its flagship property, Canticos, is a Latino-inspired bilingual infant/toddler series created by Susie Jaramillo that combines nursery rhymes with bilingual learning across books, digital apps, and sing-along videos. Encantos partners with third parties to expand distribution and products, including a November 2017 partnership with Nickelodeon to bring Canticos to Nick Jr.’s digital platforms and to develop a Canticos infant/toddler consumer products collection. Canticos has received industry recognition, winning the 2018 Cynopsis Imagination Award for Best Short Form Content (Preschool). As a public benefit corporation, each Encantos brand supports a social benefit cause and the company emphasizes culturally authentic representation for multicultural families. The company recently closed an oversubscribed pre-seed financing and announced an advisory board to guide growth and brand development.

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