Led · Series B · Mar 2026

Cognota develops learning operations (LearnOps) software that lets corporate learning-and-development teams manage training intake, project planning, resource allocation, and ROI measurement from a single system. By centralizing these workflows, the platform helps enterprises better align learning initiatives with overall business strategy and improve operational efficiency. Customers gain visibility into demand for training, staffing needs, and the effectiveness of learning programs. Founded by Ryan Austin and headquartered in Toronto, the company positions itself as the business-side operating system for L&D departments. With the newest capital, Cognota plans to accelerate development of AI agents and an intelligence layer that will further automate and optimize learning operations. The firm has now secured a $5.75 million Series B round to fund these product enhancements and drive growth.

Led · Series A · Oct 2025

Founded in 2015 in Amsterdam, Dashmote builds AI technology that transforms vast, unstructured datasets from food delivery apps, social media, e-commerce sites, and mapping platforms into insights for sales, strategy, and marketing teams. Its flagship platform is widely used by global beverage and consumer-goods giants such as Coca-Cola, Nestlé, and AB InBev to uncover growth opportunities and optimize digital channels. The company is now advancing from analytics to automation with DashSalesAI, a generative AI agent that serves as a mobile-first virtual assistant for field sales professionals, handling lead generation, outreach, and account management through chat interfaces like WhatsApp. DashSalesAI leverages Dashmote’s proprietary database covering millions of venues across more than 50 countries, giving representatives real-time intelligence and personalized talking points while on the move. Early customer pilots have reported positive feedback, positioning the tool as a “junior sales assistant who never sleeps.” Dashmote operates from offices in Amsterdam, New York, and Shanghai and has been recognized by McKinsey and Google as the Best B2B Startup in the Digital Top 50 awards. Across all rounds, the company has raised $14 million to date, and plans to use its newest capital to expand its U.S. presence and grow headcount.

Participated · Equity · Mar 2023

SOCi is a San Diego, CA-based provider of a marketing platform for multi-location brands that helps businesses scale localized marketing across all digital channels. Led by Afif Khoury, the platform is brand-directed, locally perfected, and data-connected. It uses advanced AI and machine learning to provide actionable insights and recommendations while automating time-consuming marketing tasks for hundreds or thousands of locations. SOCi helps businesses strengthen their digital presence across local search and social pages and protect their online reputation. The platform is used by more than 700 multi-location and enterprise businesses totaling over three million locations. The company raised $120M and intends to use the funds to invest in a line of AI marketing products and to expand into new markets. Soci offers a comprehensive localized marketing platform that lets national and global companies coordinate individual stores' presence across search, social media, review platforms and ad campaigns. The platform enables national marketing teams to share content and assets so locations maintain a consistent corporate personality while expressing a local personality. Customers include Ace Hardware, Anytime Fitness, The Hertz Corporation and Nekter Juice Bar. In 2020 Soci added more than 100 new customers, representing nearly 30,000 new locations. CEO and co-founder Afif Khoury said the company consolidated local marketing workflows to avoid multiple logins and that the pandemic accelerated demand. Soci plans to expand the platform through acquisitions and integrations to connect CRM, point-of-sale and rewards data with search, social and reviews. Soci provides a centralized platform for multi-location marketers to post content, share assets, respond to reviews and comments, manage ad campaigns, and maintain brand consistency across hundreds or thousands of local pages. The product integrates with roughly 40 different APIs where businesses converse with customers, with Facebook cited as the most prominent channel. Soci has incorporated AI to power chatbots that move social engagement downstream to calls, sales, or other locally relevant outcomes. Customers include national chains such as Ace Hardware and Sport Clips. The company was founded in 2012 and has spent years building a broad platform rather than a point solution. Financially, the company has disclosed having raised around $30 million in total funding and completed a new Series C that the company said would fund further AI development and expansion of its sales and marketing teams. Soci emphasizes a consultative, locally present sales approach to serve complex enterprise customers. SOCi offers an enterprise marketing technology platform that enables multi-location companies to manage local social media and reputation at scale. Led by CEO Afif Khoury, the company’s proprietary solutions are used by more than 250 clients representing over 50,000 business locations. SOCi helps clients oversee and protect their brand at the national level while scaling presence across hundreds, sometimes thousands, of local pages on sites such as Facebook, Instagram and Google My Business. The company closed a $10.5M Series B to accelerate adoption of its platform among multi-location brands. The funds are intended to expand platform adoption across its target customer base. SOCi is headquartered in San Diego, California. SOCi provides brands and digital marketing agencies with a SaaS platform to manage hundreds or thousands of social media pages. Its platform offers content discovery, asset management, peak-time scheduling, customer care, lead-generation, reporting and analytics, reputation management and other features. SOCi is fully integrated with major social networks and reputation platforms including Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+, Instagram and Yelp. The company was founded in 2012 by Afif Khoury (CEO) and Warren Kay (CRO) and is based in San Diego, CA. SOCi closed an $8.5M Series A financing and intends to use the funds to increase sales and marketing efforts and to expand technology development.

Participated · Series B · Dec 2022

Chattermill unifies customer feedback from social networks, support tools, review sites and other digital channels to create a single source of customer truth. The platform applies its own deep learning models to extract meaningful concepts and insights from typically unstructured feedback, aiming to surface priorities and detect issues early. Customers mentioned in the article include Uber and Amazon. The company positions its machine-learning approach as delivering higher-quality insights than keyword-based methods used by some competitors. Chattermill was founded out of London in 2015 and last raised an $8 million Series A almost three years ago. With a new $26 million Series B, the company plans to double down on expansion across Europe and the U.S. Chattermill offers a machine-learning-powered "customer understanding" platform that aggregates feedback from surveys, reviews, support tickets and social media to deliver real-time analytics and insights. The platform includes a large library of pre-built connections to systems such as SurveyMonkey, Trustpilot, Zendesk and Salesforce and is channel-agnostic. Chattermill was co-founded by Mikhail Dubov and Dmitry Isupov in 2015 while participating in Entrepreneur First and has been used by companies including HelloFresh, Uber, Deliveroo, Zappos and Transferwise. The team emphasizes depth of insights and ease of use over over-investing in specific ML architectures, allowing them to swap model components as NLP (e.g., GPT and BERT) improves. Management says the product can deliver high-accuracy insights in real time to help businesses make faster, better-informed decisions. The company also notes growing market attention following major sector deals and IPOs, and increasing interest in extracting insight from chat and voice. Chattermill builds a platform that collates customer feedback from multiple channels and applies customized deep-learning models to extract actionable insight for companies. The product aggregates data from sources such as SurveyMonkey, Zendesk, TypeForm, Salesforce, Net Promoter Score surveys, reviews, support tickets and social media. It provides an analytics dashboard and automated alerts that make it easier for product, customer service and customer experience teams to act on sentiment and issue-level signals. The company’s models measure sentiment across parts of the experience, from app design to delivery speed and agent attitude. Chattermill was founded in 2015 and its ten-person team works with customers across fintech, e-commerce, travel and gaming, including Transferwise, HelloFresh and Just Eat. Financially, Chattermill has raised £600,000 in seed funding.

Participated · Series C · May 2021

Founded in 2011, Apptopia offers a machine-learning powered platform that collects and analyzes billions of complex data points to surface competitive signals from mobile apps and connected devices. The platform is used by brands and financial firms to generate insights on consumer behavior and intent. Customers named in the article include Google, Visa, Coca-Cola, Target, Zoom, NBC, Unity Technologies, Microsoft, Adobe, Glu, Andreessen Horowitz and Facebook. The company recently launched a mobile intelligence app in the Bloomberg App Portal on the Bloomberg Terminal to enable traders and portfolio managers to access app data within Bloomberg. Leadership is shifting: founder Eliran Sapir is transitioning to chairman and former COO Jonathan Kay will become CEO. Apptopia says it will use new funding to continue to expand operations and its business reach. Apptopia evolved from an app-resale marketplace into an app intelligence platform that provides app-store stats, detailed usage metrics (daily/monthly active users, sessions, session time, retention), SDK visibility, and in-app advertising insights. Its customers include Google, Facebook, Pinterest, NBC Universal, Philips, Deloitte, Telerik, Fyber, Airpush, Chartboost, Startapp, SendGrid and over two dozen VC firms. Pricing starts at $79 per month for smaller developers and scales to over $5,000 per month for advertising and API access. After pivoting to app intelligence in June 2015, the company reported rapid MRR growth—$30K MRR within 60 days, $70K MRR within 120 days, and said it has since quadrupled that level. Boston-headquartered Apptopia has a 43-person team and plans to double headcount over the next year with a focus on sales and marketing. In January it plans to roll out version two of its platform, adding optimization tools to make its data actionable and speed decision-making. Apptopia operates a marketplace that lets developers sell mobile apps and other bits of source code and manages the entire transfer process with the appropriate app stores. The company takes a 10% transaction fee and keeps about 8% after roughly 2% in credit-card fees. Sale prices reported range from $500 to $150,000, with the highest completed sale to date at $13,000 and an average sale of $4,500 that the company expects to climb to around $6,000–$7,000 within a few months. Sales have doubled month-over-month for the past three months, moving from $25,000 to $50,000 and now on track to break $100,000 in the current month. Apptopia is preparing R&D-backed monetization initiatives, including a second monetization strategy focused on driving user activity that is in testing and slated to launch in a couple of months. To support those efforts it is hiring for UI/UX, a Director of Product, and two developer sales/evangelist roles, and plans integration with analytics provider Flurry within a week or two. Apptopia is building a marketplace to broker the sale of mobile apps, including source code and the app-store transfer process. The site connects buyers and sellers, handles the transfer with the app store, and charges a transaction fee plus a listing fee. The company has already brokered a sale valued at over $15,000 and had about 30 more deals lined up for its February launch. Apptopia expects most app sale prices to be in the $6,000–$15,000 range (with typical ranges of $5,000–$50,000). Its fee model takes 10% of the transaction price and is expected to retain roughly 8% after credit-card fees; the first 200 developers to sign up will have their listing fee waived. The founders are Jonathan Kay and Eli Sapir, who brought prior startup and product experience to the effort.