Blackhorn Ventures
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Early-stage venture firm investing in resource productivity engineering.
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2016
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- Buzz Solutions
Participated · Series A · Aug 2026
Buzz Solutions offers PowerAI, a platform that transforms inspection imagery into actionable asset intelligence across transmission, distribution, substations and utility-scale solar. The company helps utilities modernize the electric grid by enabling improved reliability, reduced infrastructure risk and optimized maintenance at scale. Leadership includes co-founders and executives Kaitlyn Albertoli (CEO) and Vikhyat Chaudhry (CTO). Buzz Solutions works with utilities across North America, including Dominion Energy, American Electric Power and the New York Power Authority. The company is based in Palo Alto, CA. It plans to use the newly raised Series A funds to accelerate product innovation, expand go-to-market capabilities and deepen customer deployments.
- Canyon Code
Participated · Seed · May 2026
Canyon Code provides an enterprise-grade orchestration layer that sits above the model serving layer to monitor and manage multi-agent AI applications. Its core technology includes a dependence graph that tracks interactions and dependencies among agents, enabling real-time visibility into agent progress and behavior. The platform also manages contextual memory to ensure agents have needed information without bloating prompts and driving up costs. Using these insights, customers can orchestrate and schedule model calls for lower latency and greater efficiency, and set per-app or per-persona policies for trade-offs like latency, accuracy, and cost. Co-founder and CEO Ravikiran Gopalan is a three-time founder and the other co-founder, Aditya Akella, is a researcher with publications in machine learning and operating systems. Financially, the company has just completed a $5M pre-seed round led by Cota Capital with participation from Newbuild Ventures and Blackhorn Ventures.
- LightTable
Participated · Series A · May 2026
LightTable develops an AI-powered platform that performs peer review of real estate development documents. Its system processes PDFs including architectural plans and engineering specifications and delivers coordinated reviews covering constructability, mechanical, electrical, plumbing (MEP), accessibility, and fire and life safety. The platform generates a list of potential issues that could lead to change orders or construction delays. LightTable serves developers, architects, engineers, and general contractors. The company raised $6M in seed funding and intends to use the proceeds to expand operations and broaden its business reach. LightTable was founded in October 2024.
- ThinkLabs
Participated · Series A · Mar 2026
ThinkLabs AI builds a high-performance, physics-informed AI platform that simulates, plans and optimizes electric grid operations far faster than traditional tools. Its technology can run up to 10 million scenarios in 10 minutes while maintaining more than 99.7% accuracy on grid power flow, enabling utilities to identify constraints and solutions rapidly. The company emphasizes transparency, explainability and auditability in its models to meet regulated-utility requirements. ThinkLabs targets use cases including interconnection, system planning and operational studies as electricity demand grows from data centers, AI workloads and electrification. The recent $28 million Series A will fund expanded customer delivery, enhancements to AI-powered digital twins and agents, and scaled deployments with ecosystem partners. The company is based in New York.
- Coral
Participated · Seed · Mar 2026
Coral provides a platform to make energy-efficiency upgrades for homes more accessible and affordable by simplifying financing for homeowners. The company focuses on bridging the cost gap to enable climate-conscious home improvements. Following its 2026 $7.5M seed raise, Coral plans to expand its platform to reach more households and accelerate adoption of energy-efficient systems. The articles do not report revenue, user counts, founding year, location, or prior funding details. Coral positions itself at the intersection of green financing and home-improvement, responding to rising demand for sustainable, cost-effective upgrades.