Participated · Series A · Jul 2026

Founded in May 2024 and led by Artem Sokolov, Humanoid develops commercially scalable, safe, and universal humanoid robots intended for use in logistics, manufacturing, and factory automation. The company has publicly announced a $150 million first tranche of a Series A at a $1.2 billion pre-money valuation. Humanoid plans to raise an additional $80–$100 million to complete the round by September. The reporting does not disclose operating metrics such as revenue or users. No prior funding rounds or detailed use-of-proceeds were disclosed in the article. The company positions itself to pursue commercial-scale deployments in industrial settings.

Participated · Series C · Jun 2026

Founded in 2019 by David Reger in Metzingen, Germany, NEURA Robotics builds ‘cognitive’ robots that can see, hear, sense their surroundings and learn from experience. The company integrates sensors, AI software and robotic hardware into single devices, likening its machines to a “smartphone with arms and legs.” In addition to hardware, it offers the Neuraverse software platform, which enables the safe deployment and interaction of intelligent robots with humans. NEURA serves both industrial and consumer markets and has disclosed nearly $1 billion worth of purchase orders from customers such as Kawasaki Heavy Industries and Omron. Management is focused on accelerating humanoid robot development and scaling production capacity. Financially, the firm previously secured €120 million in January 2025 and is now pursuing a much larger raise to fund expansion. If successful, the new round could push the company’s valuation to approximately €4 billion.

Participated · Series A · Sep 2022

Founded in 2020, New-York-based TULU installs plug-and-play, IoT-enabled cabinets in multifamily buildings that dispense items such as vacuums, VR headsets, e-scooters, projectors, and household essentials. Residents reserve and pay through the TULU app, while the company’s proprietary “TULU Brain” analyzes real-time usage data to personalize offers and supply landlords and brand partners with consumer insights. The platform is active in more than 60 cities across North America and Europe and has served over 500,000 residents to date. Major property owners including Greystar, Brookfield, and Blackstone deploy TULU to boost leasing performance and retention, while brands like Bosch and Philips use it to reach Gen Z and millennial consumers and advance circularity initiatives. Revenue details were not disclosed, but management highlights “exceptional unit economics” and “impressive revenue momentum.” The company plans to use new capital to accelerate global expansion, deploy thousands of additional in-building touchpoints, and further develop its AI capabilities. Across its Seed and Series A rounds, TULU has raised a total of $42 million.

Participated · Series C · Nov 2021

Momenta is a Suzhou-based autonomous driving company founded in 2016 that offers a single software and sensor architecture usable in both Level-2 driver-assistance and Level-4 robotaxi scenarios. Instead of retrofitting special vehicles, the firm repurposes mass-produced cars, lowering deployment costs and speeding up commercialization. Its technology is being integrated into production models from Mercedes-Benz and BMW, and the company operates across China, Germany, Japan, and the United States. Momenta is pushing toward commercial robotaxi fleet operations and recently forged ride-hailing partnerships with Uber and Grab to serve dense urban markets. Strategic investors already include SAIC Motor, General Motors, Mercedes-Benz, Toyota, Bosch, and now Grab. Although no revenue or user figures are public, the breadth of its global OEM and mobility partners points to growing commercial traction. The company aims to accelerate large-scale autonomous driving adoption in Southeast Asia and other international markets.

Participated · Series E · Nov 2021

PubNub provides APIs that power messaging, presence and continual real-time data streams for apps and connected devices, covering use cases from gaming and virtual events to telehealth and IoT. Its platform is used across roughly 600 million devices in more than 70 countries, with some 900,000 developer projects generating about 21 petabytes of data monthly. The company supports thousands of customers, including Adobe, Atlassian, DocuSign and RingCentral, and emphasizes global points of presence and compliance with rules such as HIPAA, GDPR and SOC 2 Type 2. PubNub says customer bookings grew 200% year‑over‑year in 2021. Management plans to use the new funding to expand platform functionality and for geographic expansion, starting with a new Asia Pacific office in Singapore. The company positions itself as a backbone for “virtual spaces,” moving beyond simple messaging toward broader real-time data services. PubNub operates a real-time Data Stream Network that sends and manages messaging traffic between companies, apps and IoT devices via some 70 SDKs. Its platform enables roughly 1.3 trillion messages per month for customers including Peloton, Atlassian, athenahealth, JustEat, Swiggy, Yelp, the Sacramento Kings and Gett. The company partners with public cloud providers such as Microsoft Azure, AWS and IBM Watson while running its overlay on the public cloud today. PubNub is evaluating moving into different kinds of data centers and performing cost and performance calculations, and leadership has noted potential alignment opportunities with cloud providers in the future. The company raised $23 million in a Series D to ramp up international expansion with an emphasis on emerging markets. PubNub’s CEO Todd Greene co-founded the company with Stephen Blum; the firm said the valuation for this round is a solid increase on its prior mark. PubNub runs a global data network that delivers realtime messaging for apps, IoT devices, and other low-latency services. The company says it will use new funding to sharpen its focus on Internet of Things applications and hardware, as well as clean energy and social collaboration. PubNub processes about 750 billion realtime transactions per month and reports growth in connected endpoints from 200 million to 300 million devices over a three-month period. It serves roughly 2,000 customers and partners, including Yahoo, McDonald’s and CBS, and is expanding enterprise relationships such as with Bosch. Leadership has signaled potential investment in infrastructure and private-network messaging relays, including consideration of hybrid solutions and moving beyond third-party data centers. The company is not disclosing revenues, profitability, or valuation, though the CEO described its financial picture as "rosy." PubNub provides APIs that enable publishers and developers to implement messaging and other real-time social services on apps and websites. Its services support real-time interaction for live location, multiplayer games, collaborative apps, one-to-one and one-to-many messaging, and machine-to-machine signaling, as well as live dashboards, streams, collaboration and second-screen synchronization. Clients named in the article include Rebtel, Viggle, GetTaxi, Humble Bundle, StageIT, Spreecast, Celly, Monotype and Class Dojo; its platform has powered events such as the 2012 Olympics, Eurocup 2012, the 2012 AMAs and recent Super Bowls, Grammys and Academy Awards. The company distributes traffic across 11 datacenters worldwide, powers thousands of real-time apps, streams more than 3 million messages per second to over 100 million devices each month, and says traffic has increased roughly 200-fold over the past 18 months. PubNub plans to expand its offerings in the coming weeks and positions its API approach as a cost-effective alternative to building standalone real-time services. It faces competition from services such as Firebase, Pusher, Twilio and Layer. PubNub delivers real-time messaging and notification infrastructure so developers can add robust messaging without rebuilding backend systems. Its initial product, PubNub Galaxy, is designed for one-to-many push messaging at large scale. The company recently launched PubNub Pulse to enable low-latency, persistent one-to-one connections that can deliver messages in under 50 milliseconds. Early Pulse customers include MyPCBackup.com, Dice with Buddies, CometChat, and a large VOIP company using it as a SIP replacement. PubNub has grown from about 1,000 active customers in March to more than 1,500 and scaled traffic from a peak of ~100,000 messages per second to about 1 million messages per second. The company has 14 employees and recently closed a financing round, indicating outside capital support for its expansion.