Led · Seed · Jul 2026

Vaca Chips launched last April selling tortilla chips fried in beef tallow. The brand grew via a creator-driven DTC approach and is scaling toward retail, with an upcoming launch in Whole Foods Market. Vaca is on track to generate its first $1M month in August, indicating early revenue traction. The company has attracted seed capital and strategic angel investors, and recently closed a $1.5M seed round led by BAM Ventures. Public reporting highlights the brand's consumer-focused growth and transition from DTC into retail distribution.

Participated · Equity · Jan 2026

The Realest develops technology that authenticates sports and entertainment merchandise, aiming to curb memorabilia fraud by having an independent third-party auditor onsite to collect evidence and verify items. The platform has garnered early traction with professional leagues, player associations, and teams, including projects with the MLBPA in Japan and a partnership with the Philadelphia Eagles. Beyond high-end collectibles, the company intends to build an e-commerce arm that offers a wider range of authenticated products for everyday fans. With fresh capital, management plans to deepen technology integrations and launch new partnerships across the broader sports and entertainment ecosystem. Founder & CEO Scott Keeney says the focus will be on scaling authentication capabilities and strengthening security features. Financially, the Realest has now raised a total of $16.6 million, comprising a $4.6 million seed round in 2024 and the latest $12 million growth round. No revenue or user figures were disclosed in the article.

Participated · Series A · Nov 2025

Exowatt’s core product is the P3 unit, a shipping-container-sized metal box topped with lenses that concentrate sunlight onto heat-retaining bricks. A fan carries the heat to a Stirling engine and generator, enabling each thermal battery to store energy for up to five days and deliver round-the-clock electricity. The system’s efficiency rivals photovoltaic solar plus lithium-ion storage, while its compact, modular design is intended to unlock mass manufacturing learning curves. Exowatt is targeting production of one million units per year, a scale that management says will let it hit its one-cent-per-kilowatt-hour cost goal. Demand appears strong: the company reports a backlog of roughly 10 million P3 units, equivalent to 90 GWh of capacity. Longer term, Exowatt intends to deploy millions—and eventually billions—of units to power the rapidly expanding fleet of AI data centers in sun-rich regions. The approach repurposes decades-old concentrated solar technology but packages it for low-cost, large-scale manufacturing.

Participated · Seed · Jun 2025

CRED’s cloud platform connects a company’s internal systems—such as CRM and marketing automation—with real-time external signals on over 200 million companies and 900 million contacts. Using customizable AI models, it enriches data, scores prospects and customers, and triggers automated actions directly inside existing workflows. While in stealth, the company signed 25 large enterprise customers, including the Golden State Warriors, UTA, and the PGA, and claims to have driven more than $100 million in incremental revenue and $20 million in cost savings for its users. The system also eliminates over 10,000 hours of manual data entry each month and has enabled customers to achieve double-digit revenue growth on a monthly basis. Fresh capital will fund product development, new data models, and an expanded go-to-market team, and the company has opened a San Francisco office to support hiring across data, engineering, product, sales, and customer success. Looking ahead, CRED plans to move beyond its initial Sports & Entertainment focus and enter additional enterprise sectors. Founder and CEO Jon Carr-Harris, a serial entrepreneur with multiple exits, leads a team aiming to bring hedge-fund-grade predictive capabilities to mainstream businesses.

Participated · Seed · Jun 2025

Founded in 2023 by sisters Misbah and Farah Uraizee, Nectar Social provides an agentic social operating system and today launched Nectar Agent, an autonomous AI agent that operates in a brand’s voice across conversations. Nectar unifies social intelligence, community management, creator workflows, and conversational commerce with official data partnerships across Meta, TikTok, LinkedIn, Reddit, and X. The company says it powers more than 10 million conversations a week, grew 5x in the prior three months, has engaged over 50 million consumers, and has attributed $100 million in revenue back to social for its customers. Nectar reports its agents perform the equivalent of roughly 20 hours of manual effort per task per week and that it powers more than 80% of brand social interactions for the customers it serves. Its customer roster includes e.l.f. Beauty, Babylist, Figma, Graza, Liquid Death, Kosas, Caraway, and many Fortune 500 brands. The company plans to deepen platform partnerships and expand Nectar Agent into new categories of brand work as it scales engineering and applied-AI teams.