Participated · Series C · Jun 2026

Founded in 2023 and based in Huntington Beach, California, Mach Industries develops autonomous aerial vehicles and related weapons and propulsion systems. In roughly three years the company has grown from about a dozen employees to roughly 350 and operates a 115,000-square-foot manufacturing facility with additional design and production sites. Mach has five vehicles in development and expects production to begin next year on at least three systems, and it recently won a Department of Defense contract to develop a runway-independent strike aircraft. The company acquired solid rocket motor startup Exquadrum in a $50 million cash-and-equity deal and launched Mach Energetics to commercialize engines. Thornton declined to disclose revenue, but said current sales are split roughly 50/50 between government customers and other companies, and the firm is rapidly scaling manufacturing and production capacity.

Participated · Seed · Aug 2025

TensorZero builds an open-source stack that unifies an LLM gateway, observability, optimization, evaluation, and experimentation for industrial-grade LLM applications. The project has attracted strong open-source adoption, reaching the '#1 trending repository of the week' spot globally on GitHub and receiving contributions from dozens of developers. TensorZero says its stack is already powering LLM products at frontier AI startups and a large European bank. The company's long-term vision is to create a data and learning flywheel that turns production metrics and human feedback into continually improving models and agents. The founding team includes technical founders with PhDs and experience at top institutions, former maintainers of major open-source projects, and product leadership experience (CEO previously served as chief product officer at Ondo). The company intends to use the new capital to accelerate development of its open-source infrastructure for LLM engineers.

Participated · Seed · Aug 2025

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Participated · Seed · Apr 2025

Durin is developing drilling rigs outfitted with sensors and automation to reduce the labor and cost of minerals exploration. The company started designing its first rig earlier this year; the prototype can bore about 300 meters deep and 2.5 inches wide. That rig is currently manually operated but instrumented to gather data for future automation models. Durin is also building an automatic pipe-loading contraption to remove manual tasks on site. The startup has embarked on its first drilling program and expects to have enough data by the end of the year to begin building its automation model. Founder and CEO Ted Feldmann, who grew up in a mining family, aims to cut the labor-intensive portion of exploration — drilling consumes roughly 70% of exploration capital and labor represents about 60% of drillers' costs — and anticipates rigs could run unattended in two to three years.

Participated · Equity · Mar 2025

Flock Safety builds computer vision-enabled video surveillance technology, best known for its automatic license plate recognition and also offering gunshot detection. Its products are sold to law enforcement as well as businesses and property-management companies. The company recently acquired public safety drone company Aerodome, expanding its product set. Flock was founded in 2017 and went through Y Combinator that same year; it is based in Atlanta. Financially, Flock crossed over $300 million in annual recurring revenue last year, growing 70% year-over-year, and has now raised over $950 million in total funding. The company has attracted major VC backers but has also faced controversies and legal challenges from privacy advocates and the ACLU over mass-surveillance concerns. Flock Safety builds a public safety operating system that combines proprietary devices and cloud-based software to help cities, private communities, and law enforcement reduce crime while protecting privacy and mitigating bias. Its technology is used in more than 1,200 cities across the U.S. and has been shown to reduce crime by over 70%. The system helps police solve more than 185 crimes every day, approaching 1% of all reported U.S. crime, and has contributed to recovering hundreds of illegal weapons, stopping armed robberies, solving homicides, and rescuing kidnapping victims. Led by founder and CEO Garrett Langley and based in Atlanta, GA, the company plans to use new funding to accelerate product development and expand its team. The recent capital raise reflects its current financial momentum and supports broader deployment to serve every city across the country. Flock Safety is a public safety-as-a-service company led by founder and CEO Garrett Langley. Its first product was a license‑plate‑reading camera built specifically for neighborhoods; the company has since expanded its suite to collect objective evidence, gain insights from that evidence, and send that evidence to the right detective. The Wing integration, launched in early October, transforms hours of IP camera video into searchable evidence, letting a detective find a suspect vehicle by make, model, color, or unique features like roof rack or tinted windows. Flock's technology is already used by police, neighborhoods, and businesses in more than 1,000 U.S. cities to drop crime rates and recover stolen property. The company raised $47M in a Series C funding round. Flock Safety is based in Atlanta, GA. Flock Safety deploys networked security cameras and a software platform that together provide neighborhood surveillance, primarily selling to gated communities and homeowners associations. Its cameras can read license plates to identify residents versus outsiders and are positioned as both crime deterrent and investigative tools for customers and local law enforcement. The company says customers own their data; CEO Garrett Langley stated Flock has no right to view, sell, or repurpose footage. Headquartered in Atlanta, the company recently filed an SEC disclosure showing a new raise. The filing lists cofounders Garrett Langley and Matt Feury and Matrix Partners partner Ilya Sukhar as directors, with no board changes. The company has attracted public criticism over privacy risks and potential bias, including commentary labeling it a “Snitching-ass startup.” Financially, Crunchbase reports this latest $10M increases Flock’s total known capital raised to $19.7M following a $9.6M round led by Matrix Partners less than three months earlier.