Led · Seed · May 2026

Cimento AI provides an AI-native human risk management platform that creates a continuous, living risk profile for employees by integrating with tools such as email, identity providers, cloud providers and existing security tools. The platform runs realistic social engineering simulations across email, SMS and voice, often as multi-step sequences, and automatically adapts as each interaction feeds back into the system. When it detects risk, Cimento delivers brief, contextual interventions tied to the immediate incident, typically lasting 60–90 seconds. The system operates without campaigns or manual content libraries, continuously refining assessments and simulations. The company lists customers including Gemini, DigitalOcean, Tensorwave, TogetherAI, Aryaka and Moveworks. Cimento AI is led by co-founders Zain Rizavi (CEO), Eric Liu (CPO) and Paul Kong (AI Engineer) and raised $3m in pre-seed funding to expand operations and development.

Participated · Equity · May 2026

Lumian builds an agency model centered on continuous AI agents plus human brand managers and specialist operators to manage Amazon businesses. Its platform runs agents 24/7 to monitor and act on listings, advertising, inventory, and account health while humans make judgment calls. The company was launched by Robin Lobo and Tauseef Khan and came out of stealth with the announced funding. Lumian reports it is already live across more than 10 product categories and working with brands including a specialist vanilla-extract maker, a women's-wellness intimate-wipes brand, and a footwear recovery-sandal business. The founder previously built and exited a leading eyeglasses brand on Amazon, informing the team's approach. The announcement did not disclose revenue, valuation, or other financial metrics.

Led · Seed · Sep 2025

Rulebase’s core product is an "agent coworker" that integrates with tools like Zendesk, Jira and Slack to review 100% of customer support interactions, flag regulatory risks and trigger follow-ups, all while keeping humans in the loop. The software helps banks and fintechs cut QA costs by up to 70% and has reduced escalations by 30% at customers such as U.S. business banking platform Rho and an unnamed Fortune 50 financial institution. Built by Nigerian engineers Gideon Ebose (ex-Microsoft) and Chidi Williams (ex-Goldman Sachs), the year-old startup targets business banks, neobanks and card issuers across Africa, Europe and the U.S., positioning deep domain knowledge of rules like MasterCard’s and CFPB timelines as its moat. Revenue has been growing at double-digit month-over-month rates since the company joined Y Combinator’s Fall 2024 batch, and it operates a usage-based pricing model that charges per interaction reviewed or workflow automated. With fresh capital, Rulebase plans to double its engineering headcount and expand its platform into fraud investigation, audit preparation and regulatory reporting. Long term, the founders aim to tackle a broad range of manual back-office tasks within and beyond financial services, including adjacent verticals like insurance.

Participated · Series B · Aug 2025

Pantomath provides an AI-powered automated data operations platform that unifies real-time monitoring, cross-platform lineage, and AI-driven root-cause and impact analysis into a single solution. Led by co‑founders Shashank Saxena (CEO) and Somesh Saxena (President), the company supports mission-critical analytics pipelines at leading Fortune 500 companies. Pantomath launched its initial product in 2023 and has experienced rapid growth across industries since then. The platform targets modern enterprise data-operations needs by delivering end-to-end visibility and automated diagnosis. The company plans to use the new funding to accelerate product innovation, expand go-to-market efforts, and make strategic hires. Pantomath provides a data pipeline observability and traceability platform that detects data quality issues through alerts, enables troubleshooting with logs and autonomous impact analyses, and helps identify and resolve root causes. The platform continuously monitors both jobs and datasets in real time across different data platforms, keeping the context of the data pipelines those jobs and datasets are part of. Founder and CEO Somesh Saxena, who started Pantomath in March 2022 after leading big data efforts at GE Aerospace, says the product aims to reduce manual, tribal-knowledge-driven troubleshooting. The company reports about ten customers spanning SMBs to large enterprises, including Paycor, Lendly and G&J Pepsi-Cola Bottlers, and says it has a waiting list with several Fortune 500s. Pantomath faces competition from other data observability players noted in the article, such as Observe, Metaplane, Acceldata and Manta. The company plans to use new capital to expand its platform and grow its workforce across engineering, product, customer success, marketing and sales. Financially, Pantomath has raised venture capital to date and is in early commercial traction with the customers and waiting list described above.

Led · Seed · Oct 2024

Singulate builds a generative AI marketing platform that leverages large language models to enable easier audience segmentation and deeper personalization for large-scale email campaigns. The product lets marketers create limitless audience segments and branch campaign components on the fly, and introduces new generative tools for writers to produce more relevant content at scale. The company has launched in private beta and is actively recruiting design partners among B2B marketers, agencies, and growth product managers. Singulate positions its technology as a rebuild of email marketing for B2B companies, aiming to address segmentation and personalization challenges identified by its founders. Financially, Singulate announced a $2.3 million pre-seed financing to fund early product development and go-to-market efforts. The three co-founders — Dave Schools (CEO), Nicolas Klein (COO), and John O'Gara (CTO) — previously worked together for 4.5 years as the early team at Hopin.