Participated · Equity · Oct 2022

Polco provides standardized, statistically driven constituent surveys, community engagement tools, and performance comparisons for local governments. The company recently raised $14 million and is releasing a next-generation platform with enhanced community performance analytics and insights capabilities. Polco helped found the Government Partnership for Action and Learning (GPAL) and will be the exclusive platform for communities to access GPAL’s uniform performance measurement system. The company says its platform combines validated feedback, local performance data, and nationally representative benchmark comparisons to improve decision-making and community livability. Polco serves a growing base of more than 1,400 local governments and municipalities, including Fort Collins, San Jose, Sacramento, Honolulu, Jupiter Beach, and Oshkosh. The firm highlights rising grant funding tied to performance data and recent declines in local government trust and satisfaction as drivers of demand for its analytics.

Participated · Seed · Jan 2022

Uptiq develops Qore, an AI orchestration platform that bundles document intelligence, financial reasoning skills, multi-agent workflows, and secure integrations into a single, compliance-ready system for regulated financial institutions. Its pre-packaged applications power commercial lending, covenant monitoring, advisor onboarding, compliance documentation, underwriting, and other banking and wealth-management workflows. More than 140 financial institutions—including Focus Financial Partners, Alpha Modus, Orion, Broadridge, Nano Banc, and TransPecos Banks—use Uptiq, and the platform has processed over $1 billion in transactions. Reported customer outcomes include underwriting decisions up to 41 % faster, 29 % lower operational costs, and double the volume of loan applications processed without adding staff. With its new capital, the company will expand Qore into a self-serve platform so internal bank teams and external developers can prototype and deploy financial AI solutions in days. Longer-term, Uptiq intends to foster an ecosystem of SMB and consumer-facing applications built on Qore that come with built-in compliance and risk controls. The company is headquartered in Dallas and led by founder and CEO Snehal Fulzele.