Participated · Series A · May 2026

Status AI builds a social platform where users create personas and step into user-generated worlds, playing characters in multiplayer or single-player modes. The app uses AI to enable immersive, dynamic interactions and role-play at scale. Founders Fai Nur, Amit Bhatnagar, and Pritesh Kadiwala launched the product out of stealth last year. Status reports more than 13 million worlds created and over 5 million character profiles, with early users skewing toward young women. The company is fielding interest from studios and streamers as it positions the product as a new form of interactive entertainment. The new funding is intended to help scale the platform.

Participated · Equity · Dec 2025

Founded in 2020 by Daniel Taylor, William Hayden, and Ignacio Semerene, New-York-based Bags turns QuickBooks data into actionable financial guidance by combining responsible AI with human expertise and CFO-quality reporting. Its platform pinpoints bookkeeping errors, explains their root causes, and recommends fixes, while also surfacing access to more than $10 billion in potential credit. Companies using Bags report an average 250 % year-over-year growth, are 4.5× more likely to receive funding, and secure financing five times faster than the national average. The service is positioned as an affordable alternative to traditional fractional CFOs, which can cost $10k–$20k per month. With total funding now at $7 million, Bags plans to deepen its product capabilities and broaden partnerships with mission-driven lenders and CDFIs. Upcoming pilots with TruFund Financial Services and additional CDFIs and MDIs in 2026 aim to streamline borrower preparation, packaging, and post-loan support. Ultimately, Bags envisions a future where small businesses are well-capitalized, financially literate, and poised for sustainable growth.

Participated · Seed · Nov 2025

Greenshoe delivers the first AI-native platform designed specifically to automate the preparation of U.S. SEC disclosures. Its architecture blends agentic retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), domain-specific benchmarking, and structured reasoning to handle complex document processing and drafting tasks. The system researches each filing, compares language to peer disclosures, and aligns content with evolving SEC expectations before generating suggested text. The product is already commercially available and in use by legal departments and capital-markets professionals. Backed by a $3 million seed round, the company plans to channel new capital into engineering improvements and accelerated go-to-market efforts. No revenue or user figures were disclosed in the article.

Participated · Seed · Aug 2024

Vybe is a mobile app that lets users upload a selfie and put their face into any picture or existing template, swap faces in group photos, and automatically adjust skin tone to match the template. The product emphasizes user-generated templates and a social feed where people can view friends' creations and upload templates; the company says it has more than 100,000 user-generated templates. Vybe was founded by Mandela Patrick and Arnab Ghosh, both Oxford PhDs who previously worked on AI and generative features at Instagram/Meta and Snap. The startup has built a social network around photo remixing and plans to add more photo- and video-related tools that combine social, AR and generative AI, including upcoming video and animation support. Vybe is exploring brand partnerships, advertising and subscription revenue streams as potential monetization paths. The app is available for download on iOS and Android.