Participated · Seed · Jan 2025

1up develops an AI Knowledge Automation platform that leverages large language models to help sales teams answer questions, RFPs, and security questionnaires faster. The platform targets Account Executives, Sales Engineers, Solutions Consultants, RFP Managers, and IT professionals to automate workflows and boost productivity. Customers include WalkMe, Gladly, Deliveroo and other global enterprises. Led by CEO and Founder George Avetisov, the company plans to use new funds to accelerate sales and marketing efforts and expand its customer base. Financially, 1up completed a Seed round that increased its total funding to $8.5M. The company is based in New York City. 1up.ai is a New York City–based provider of a knowledge automation platform for sales teams. The platform combines a company’s external and internal knowledge sources and leverages multiple large language models to generate accurate, up-to-date answers in seconds. Businesses use the product to answer complex sales questions, respond to customer objections, and quickly complete RFP questionnaires. The company is led by Founder and CEO George Avetisov and Co-founder & Head of Product Manoj Abraham. 1up.ai raised $2.5M in funding and intends to use the proceeds to expand operations and broaden its business reach. Investors in the round included venture firms and individual participants named in the announcement.

Participated · Seed · Jul 2021

Singuli provides planners, merchants, marketers and finance teams in modern retailers with an AI-enabled platform to optimize inventory across initial buys, reorders and markdowns. Its approach uses machine learning models tied to modern retail datasets including cohort behavior, site traffic, marketing events and detailed product attributes. The company was founded by two PhDs with a decade of retail experience and works with e-commerce and omni-channel retailers across apparel, footwear, jewelry and home accessories. Singuli's forecasting logic is designed to handle normal seasonal changes as well as flash sales and mass customer purchases driven by influencers and social media. The team plans to use the funds to grow R&D (engineering and data science) and build out go-to-market operations.

Participated · Seed · Mar 2021

TripleBlind provides a platform that encrypts data and enables computation without decrypting data or transferring it outside the owner’s firewall, preserving privacy and intellectual property. The platform launched in November 2020 and is compliant with data residency and privacy regulations across roughly 100 countries, including HIPAA, GDPR and CCPA. It supports a range of data types, including PII, PHI, genomic data, images and confidential financial records. TripleBlind says customers and strategic partners such as Mayo Clinic, Accenture and Okta are using the technology; Snowflake is listed as a customer. The company plans to continue developing its technology and to expand into a wider set of enterprise verticals, with traction in healthcare, financial services, media and utilities. Financially, TripleBlind has raised a $24M Series A and has raised more than $32M to date; the company says the Series A was oversubscribed and is not disclosing valuation. TripleBlind offers an API-driven virtual exchange that uses advanced mathematics to enable organizations to share, leverage and monetize regulated data (such as PII and PHI) and mission-critical enterprise data. Its solution is positioned to let decision-makers generate new revenue, gain insights faster, improve modeling and analysis, and collaborate with customers, partners and competitors while preserving privacy. The platform enables enterprises to enforce regulatory standards including HIPAA, GDPR and PDPA. TripleBlind is led by co-founder and CEO Riddhiman Das and is based in Kansas City, Mo. The company intends to use the newly raised funds to expand operations and broaden its business reach. TripleBlind offers a next-generation cryptographic data privacy and virtual clean-room solution that lets enterprises share and derive insights from sensitive data without decrypting it. Its platform targets regulated datasets including PII and PHI and is designed to help customers comply with GDPR, HIPAA, CCPA, data-residency rules and similar standards. The company positions its technology as an alternative to complex legal contracts, deidentification/anonymization workflows and other approaches such as homomorphic encryption. TripleBlind will co-innovate and accelerate commercialization through Accenture Ventures’ Project Spotlight program, working at Accenture’s Innovation Hubs, Labs and Liquid Studios. TripleBlind was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Kansas City. The articles do not disclose revenue, user metrics, or the financial terms of the recent investment.

Participated · Seed · Feb 2021

Expectful began as a guided-meditation and sleep app and positions itself as a go-to wellness resource for hopeful, expecting and new parents. Its core product remains a library of guided meditations and sleep content tailored to pregnancy and postpartum. The company grew to profitability and reports over 13,000 paid users with a free-to-paid conversion rate the company says is five times industry standards. Expectful’s revenue has grown 100% since March 2020. Under new CEO Nathalie Walton the company is pivoting in three phases—content, marketplace and community—to organize pregnancy information, digitize service providers (therapists, doulas, nannies) and build peer-reviewed listings with reviews. It has launched community offerings such as Mother Circles (six weekly video calls, a group chat and on-demand doula support) and is explicitly investing in Black maternal health outcomes while expanding content for non-gestational parents.

Participated · Seed · Jul 2020

Arrive operates Arrive Outdoors, a consumer-facing camping and ski gear rental business, and The Arrive Platform, a B2B service that licenses Arrive’s rental technology and operations to other ecommerce brands. The platform embeds a “rent” button on product detail pages and handles the full rental lifecycle, including shipping, customer service, and cleaning returned products. Founders Rachelle Snyder and Ross Richmond launched the company in 2017 and have pivoted from pure rental operations toward licensing the underlying software and operational processes. Arrive announced a $4 million Seed II funding round led by Amino Ventures and has raised $8.75 million in total to date. The company continues to run Arrive Outdoors and is onboarding partners including the Eddie Bauer Gear Rental Program and Public Lands (a new Dick’s Sporting Goods store). Sustainability is a core tenet of the business, and Arrive positions rentals as a convenient alternative to ownership within a large consumer-goods rental market. Arrive Outdoors was started by Rachelle Snyder and Ross Richmond after they arrived in L.A. The company operates an equipment-rental business that lets people access outdoor adventure gear without owning it. Its core offering is a rental platform and inventory of outdoor equipment aimed at increasing access to outdoor activities. CEO Rachelle Snyder discussed the company's approach on the Office Hours podcast, saying, 'If you present customers with a rental model, they're going to take that model every time.' The article reports that Arrive Outdoors has recently raised $4.75 million. The piece does not provide additional operational metrics or detailed future product plans.