Participated · Seed · Dec 2025

Quickture is a Los Angeles–based provider of an AI video-editing platform that transforms hours of raw footage into clear narratives in a fraction of the usual time. The software integrates directly with Avid Media Composer and Adobe Premiere Pro, allowing editors to find key moments, test alternate scenes, assemble rough cuts in minutes, and collaborate interactively. Designed for long-form, dialogue-heavy projects such as reality TV, documentaries, news, sports, and corporate videos, the platform aims to reduce costs and editor burnout while encouraging creative experimentation. In conjunction with its financing, the startup launched Quickture Vision, a visual-analysis engine that lets editors search and edit footage by what is happening on screen and automates many post-production tasks. The founding team includes CEO Irad Eyal, CPO Ron Eyal, CTO Gary Grossman, and CSO Matt Hanna. Quickture has emerged from stealth with $1.9 million in pre-seed funding, providing resources to deepen integrations with Avid and Adobe and to broaden its reach to more creators, studios, and storytellers worldwide.

Participated · Seed · Jul 2018

Dishq builds a business-to-business personalization engine for the food and beverage industry that it says leverages food science and machine learning to predict individual tastes. The company claims to have developed a ‘food brain’ that forecasts both individual preferences and broader industry trends. Its first product is powering more than 30 million recommendations each month and has customers across six markets. Dishq was launched in December 2015 by Kishan Vasani (CEO) and Sai Sreenivas Kodur (technology head), both with prior experience at online food-ordering companies. The startup has raised $400,000 in a pre-seed round and will use the funds to expand its engineering team and accelerate sales and marketing. It is headquartered in Bengaluru.

Participated · Equity · Apr 2014

Kenshoo engineers cloud-based digital marketing solutions and predictive media optimization technology for large-scale digital advertising. The company is a Facebook strategic Preferred Marketing Developer with native API solutions for ads across Facebook, FBX, Twitter, Google, Yahoo, Yahoo Japan, Bing, Baidu and CityGrid. It recently emerged its Halogen predictive modeling engine from beta to automatically optimize campaigns. Kenshoo delivers more than 1 trillion digital advertisements annually and tracks over $200 billion in annualized online client sales revenue. Led by co-founder and CEO Yoav Izhar-Prato, the company serves clients including CareerBuilder, Expedia, Facebook, KAYAK, Sears, Tesco, Walgreens and Zappos. The company plans to use the financing to further expand operations. Kenshoo offers three main products — Kenshoo Enterprise, Kenshoo Local, and Kenshoo Social — for managing search, local and social advertising campaigns. The company manages more than $3 billion annually in search engine marketing and delivers more than 1.5 billion search marketing and 1 billion social marketing impressions per day. Clients include Expedia, Facebook, Hitwise, Kayak, LendingTree, Omnicom Media Group, Sears, Starcom MediaVest Group, Tesco, Travelocity, Walgreens, and Zappos. Kenshoo recently raised $12M in new funding and says the proceeds will be used to fund continued growth, expand in key geographic markets, and create new products that address the entire purchase funnel. The company also reports its valuation has tripled since its last round in 2010 and its total funding now stands at $30M. KENSHOO offers search marketing campaign management and optimization tools, with flagship products KENSHOO Search and KENSHOO Local, and automation solutions across channels like Google, Yahoo, Bing, Facebook, AOL, Baidu, and Yandex. The company is profitable and has doubled in valuation since 2009. It currently operates from nine locations on four continents, including a recently added office in Sydney, Australia. Armed with fresh funds from Sequoia’s Growth Fund, KENSHOO plans to open two new European offices (in Paris and an unnamed German city) and expand its presence in Asia. The new funding will also enable expansion into additional domains such as new social media advertising channels and the development of re-targeting technologies. Kenshoo provides an “end-to-end” search engine marketing (SEM) product that automates the creation and management of labor-intensive search marketing campaigns. The platform is designed to free marketers to focus on driving traffic, raising conversion rates, and improving ROI. Kenshoo evaluates campaign quality in addition to bid management, differentiating it from basic bid-management tools. It competes with offerings from DoubleClick, aQuantive’s Atlas Solutions, and Omniture. The company has attracted VC interest, and new funding is intended to support further marketing into Europe. Kenshoo automates the end-to-end process of creating and managing search-engine marketing campaigns, including finding relevant keywords across search engines and adjusting campaigns to maximize returns. Its software evaluates campaign quality beyond traditional bid-management tools. The company competes with bid-management offerings from DoubleClick, aQuantive's Atlas Solutions, and Omniture. Prior to this round it raised about $1 million from angel investors and had been funding itself from operations. Sequoia Capital has invested in Kenshoo in its first venture round; terms were undisclosed though an Israeli paper reported the amount as a few million dollars. Kenshoo plans to use the new funds for a marketing push into the UK and parts of Europe in Q1 2008 and into the U.S. in Q2 2008.

Led · Equity · Sep 2013

We Are Pop Up operates a marketplace that connects potential tenants with short-term shops, restaurants, art projects and one-off events to available retail and commercial spaces. Launched in 2012 by Nicholas Russell, Alastair Moore and Mike Salter, the platform offers landlords an efficient way to access new tenants. To date more than 1,400 businesses and brands have applied to run over 900 projects in over 100 commercial spaces, and the service reports over 3,500 registered users. Over 120 properties are currently listed on the platform, provided by partners including BOXPARK Shoreditch, Cushman and Wakefield, Jones Lang LaSalle, Brighton & Hove City Council and Camden Town Unlimited. Listed sites include local collaboration spaces, shipping containers, independent shops and traditional units in shopping centres across London, Birmingham and other UK cities. Tenants using the platform range from artists and restaurateurs to online retailers. We Are Pop Up operates a double-sided online marketplace that lets brands and entrepreneurs submit proposals to use empty retail properties, while landlords and agents choose which tenants to accept. The platform asks potential tenants to put together proposals for pop-up stores or art projects and gives landlords access to curated creative businesses. The company launched in August 2012 and had four employees at the time of the article. Early traction included Boxpark contacting them two days after launch, more than 20,000 page views and 150 retail concepts submitted, and Boxpark filling three shops from the campaign. The business model is subscription and transaction fees, supplemented by a portfolio of value-added services for both landlords and brands. The founders frame the product as enabling "space as a service" to unlock vacant retail and speed up leasing transactions.

Led · Equity · Jul 2012

RollUp Media offers a bespoke suite of platform, tools and services that give bloggers and news sites ad and publishing capabilities and support in content generation. The company can operate publisher properties and recently announced a partnership to launch and operate Everyday Health’s flagship properties. The funding will be used to expand its service offering for publishers. RollUp now services over 30 publishers across health and lifestyle, family and parenting, style and fashion, and career verticals in the UK and Australia. The company was founded by a team drawn from Google, DoubleClick, Brightcove and Lycos and is led by CEO Ben Regensburger. Financially, the startup has raised a total of €2M since founding, including the most recent round.