Participated · Series A · Mar 2026

Highlight builds a shared team memory and proactive command center that captures, models, and retrieves high-fidelity context across tools like Slack, Zoom, Linear, and Figma in real time. The platform combines user-controlled capture with a unified memory engine to synthesize meetings, decisions, ownership, and follow-up actions, and can draft follow-ups, create tasks, and sync documentation across systems. Highlight positions itself as an operating layer above apps to reduce coordination overhead and preserve institutional context as teams scale or roles change. The company announced a $40 million Series A to fund expansion and product work and appointed Sergei Sorokin, formerly VP of Product at Discord, as CEO. With the new capital, Highlight plans to double headcount and hire engineers, operators, and marketers in San Francisco to accelerate product development and go-to-market execution.

Participated · Seed · May 2025

TaleMonster Games was founded by former Peak Games veterans to push the boundaries of casual mobile gaming. Its debut title, Match Valley, blends classic puzzle play with hero and tower-defence elements, delivering higher user engagement and longer average playtimes than typical genre peers. The team believes modern casual players demand greater depth, and it aims to satisfy this by producing broadly appealing games with distinctive mechanics. Early traction for Match Valley has validated the approach, with investors highlighting strong monetisation and retention metrics. Financially, the company has now raised a total of $37 million, comprising a $7 million seed round closed eight months ago and the new $30 million Series A. The fresh capital will fund continued development of Match Valley and the expansion of TaleMonster’s game portfolio, supporting its mission to surprise and challenge players.

Led · Seed · May 2025

Layer is an AI-powered content creation platform built specifically for game developers, offering a professional suite to build, manage, and refine 2D, 3D and video assets. The platform integrates generative AI directly into existing pipelines to reduce production time and scale content while preserving brand consistency and creative control. Layer is enterprise-ready and is used by more than 200 studios, including Zynga, Tripledot, SciPlay, Huuuge Games and Machine Zone. The founding team includes industry veterans from Unity and MIT; Volkan Gurel is co-founder and CEO and is referenced alongside co-founder Burcu. With its seed financing, Layer plans to expand the team and build additional features to support a broader range of games and production pipelines. The company is based in San Francisco. Layer AI offers an enterprise-ready, creator-first AI-assisted canvas that enables professional artists to generate images in their own art styles and iterate on them. The product focuses on 2D generation for games, targeting mobile studios first and then AAA teams. The team emphasizes style-consistent output quality and seamless workflow integrations to reduce redundant overhead for artists. Leadership is led by CEO Volkan Gurel. Layer plans to expand capabilities to generate spine and sprite animations from text, images, and other animations, and to extend into 3D workflows. The company also intends to build integrations for non-gaming workflows such as marketing and advertising. With a new $1.8M seed round, Layer will use the funds to expand operations and development efforts.

Led · Seed · Mar 2025

Good Job Games is one of Türkiye’s fastest-growing mobile game studios, focused on creating timeless, high-quality games for a global audience. Its core product is Match Villains, a modern, social, endlessly replayable Match-3 game that the company says is redefining the genre. The team emphasizes creativity, speed and data-informed decision-making to deliver sticky, satisfying player experiences. The company plans to use the funding to scale Match Villains globally and to build a generational entertainment brand through socially-driven games. Article commentary highlights glowing user feedback and exceptional early metrics, though no specific revenue or user numbers were disclosed. Good Job Games lists investors including Arcadia Gaming Partners, Menlo Ventures, Anthos Capital, and Bessemer Venture Partners. Good Job Games is a mobile game company founded in 2017 in Türkiye that built a portfolio of hyper-casual and match-3 titles including Zen Match, Wonder Blast and Match Villains. The company grew organically and remained bootstrapped until this round, achieving more than 3 billion downloads in its first two years and building a team of over 100 developers, designers, and artists. Good Job Games sold its genre-defining title Zen Match and has shifted focus to innovating the match-3 category, scaling its recent hit Match Villains. The studio emphasizes design, quality, and teamwork as it seeks to expand and maintain its entertainment portfolio. With the new capital, management says it plans to scale its games and grow its player base to build a legacy entertainment company for players of all ages. Financially, the company has opened its first external financing with a $23M seed round led by Menlo Ventures and Arcadia.

Participated · Equity · Jul 2019

Clearco offers non-dilutive financing tailored to ecommerce operators, supporting needs such as inventory, always-on marketing, major purchase orders and expansion across DTC, wholesale, retail, marketplaces and social commerce. The company provides qualifying brands access to up to $10 million with estimated terms of 4 to 12 months and states its offers include no personal guarantees and no all-asset liens. Clearco has delivered more than $3.3 billion in funding to over 11,000 businesses to date. In August 2026 it secured a $100 million asset-backed financing facility from Macquarie Group to expand its capacity to fund larger and longer-term commitments. Clearco's management, led by CEO Andrew Curtis, positions the business to support brands as they scale and diversify channels. The company markets its financing as flexible capital for inventory, marketing and growth initiatives.