Participated · Seed · Feb 2026

Climatic is building a new consumer category around proactive, everyday lung care. Grounded in more than three years of research led by Chief Science Officer Dr. Dale Christensen of Duke University Medical Center, the company’s first product is L Max, a daily lung health system slated to launch in late spring 2026. In pre-clinical studies, a single dose of L Max improved mucus clearance by over 50% within minutes, with effects lasting eight hours, and the result has been replicated in more than ten independent tests. A five-week user study with endurance athletes showed 98% reporting easier breathing and an average 6% improvement in time trials, while 80% saw better heart-rate variability; a larger randomized, placebo-controlled clinical trial is underway. Co-founded by CEO Eric Kau (former Seed Health COO) and CCO Allie Melnick (former Harry’s executive), Climatic has assembled advisors from Mayo Clinic, elite athletics, and leading consumer brands. The company plans to expand its portfolio into additional products addressing environmental health stressors. Climatic’s $10 million seed financing provides the capital to accelerate research, grow the team, and prepare for product launch.

Participated · Series A · Dec 2025

SuperCircle operates a digital operating system that ingests more than 50 garment-level data points to create a ‘digital twin’ for each item, allowing its proprietary AI sort engine to route apparel, footwear, home and health textiles to the most profitable and sustainable next-life option across 50+ reuse and recycling channels. The platform supports post-consumer trade-ins as well as post-industrial disposition, serving over 75 retail partners including J.Crew, GUESS, Reformation, FIGS and Parachute Home. To date, the company has diverted more than 6 million textiles from landfill and pledges to surpass 1 billion items by 2030. Retailers use SuperCircle to comply with emerging Extended Producer Responsibility regulations while reducing write-downs on excess, damaged or returned inventory. The system converts what was once a cost center into a revenue generator by unlocking incremental value from unsold or returned goods. Series A funding is earmarked for expanding reverse-logistics infrastructure, deepening supply-chain integrations and advancing the data architecture that underpins compliance reporting. Headquartered in New York, SuperCircle positions itself as the critical operating layer powering circular supply chains across North America.

Led · Seed · Nov 2025

Founded in February 2024 by former Meta and Microsoft AR/VR executive Nancy Li Smith, Boop positions itself as “the first AI travel companion built on social trust.” The mobile, invite-only app passively captures a user’s location data, photos and reservations (with permission) and automatically assembles them into polished itineraries that friends and followers can replicate with one tap. Boop integrates affiliate inventory from partners such as Expedia, Booking.com, Marriott and Viator, generating 10–25% booking commissions and splitting half of that payout with the original trip creator, potentially turning popular itineraries into meaningful income streams. The company is courting travel influencers through “Boop with me” links and maintains a public waitlist for broader consumer rollout. Future product plans include calendar integration to ingest existing reservations and real-time, taste-based recommendations while on the road. Backers and advisors include travel industry veterans like Tripadvisor co-founder Stephen Kaufer and former Marriott president Stephanie Linnartz. Boop has secured $3.2 million in pre-seed capital to fund product development and growth.

Participated · Seed · Sep 2025

MaxHome.AI develops an intelligent, AI-first platform tailor-made for residential real-estate brokerages. Its operating system streamlines document management, compliance checks and transaction coordination, eliminating many of the manual, time-consuming tasks that typically burden agents. By reducing operational overhead, the software gives real-estate professionals more time to focus on client relationships and deal execution. The product targets brokerage back offices, promising lower costs and faster closings through workflow automation. Founded by Divya Aathresh and headquartered in San Francisco, the startup positions itself as the digital infrastructure layer for modern brokerages. Although the company has not disclosed revenue or user metrics, it has attracted multiple venture investors and has now raised a cumulative $7 million to accelerate product development and market expansion.

Participated · Series B · Aug 2025

Topline Pro provides an AI-native platform of autonomous agents that handle marketing, sales, and operations for home service professionals, including websites, SEO, social media, paid ads, CRM, messaging, and payments. Its core product includes an AI Marketing Agent, AI Sales Agent, and AI Operations Agent designed to run businesses without requiring pros to learn software. The company emphasizes internal AI tooling and an R&D focus to lower acquisition and servicing costs for the long tail of solo and very small field-service firms. Topline Pro says it serves thousands of businesses across all 50 states and has helped customers generate over $655 million in booked business to date. The product roadmap includes agents that proactively anticipate demand, manage invoicing and payments, and continuously optimize personalized growth strategies. With plans to invest in onboarding, education, customer success, and to grow engineering, product, and go-to-market teams, the company is positioning to scale nationally from its New York base. Topline Pro is a platform that uses generative AI to help home service businesses build online presence, manage inbound requests, schedule and accept payments, and showcase reviews and photos. Co‑founded by Nick Ornitz (CEO) and Shannon Kay, the company offers tools for websites, social media, advertisements, online scheduling and payments, plus a social media hub with autopilot content. The product lineup expanded to include AI‑generated Google Ads that can be launched in under 60 seconds and an AI‑enabled “Super Assistant” to help navigate the app and digitize customer interactions. Topline reported generating over $25M in job requests across more than 1,000 monthly subscriber businesses in 2022 and, a year later, over $180M in business across thousands of businesses in nearly all 50 states, alongside double‑digit monthly revenue growth and nearly doubling its employee base. The company plans to double headcount again by the end of 2023, expand its generative AI capabilities, continue product development and pursue its goal of reaching $1 billion in job value generated for home service businesses. Topline positions itself in a crowded home‑services startup field and aims to operationalize back‑end overhead so professionals can focus on their trade. Topline Pro (formerly ProPhone) provides a generative-AI driven platform that creates custom, SEO-optimized websites, collects reviews, schedules bookings and accepts payments for home service professionals. The product can spin up a multipage website the same day and automates local listings, social content and other administrative tasks using GPT-3. The company pivoted from a video-chat plumbing service concept after feedback from customers and went through Y Combinator’s Winter 2021 batch. Topline Pro launched its subscription product in January 2022 at a starting price of $75 per month and now serves more than 1,000 monthly subscriber businesses across nearly all 50 states. In 10 months the platform generated over $25 million in job requests. The team plans to build additional generative-AI applications for SEO, content and marketing and to expand engineering, product and customer-success hires beyond its current 12 employees.