Participated · Seed · Mar 2026

BrainGrid provides a structured planning platform that converts ideas into detailed product designs and execution-ready plans for AI-enabled software development. Co-founded by Nico Acosta and Tyler Wells—early ex-Twilio product and engineering leaders—the company applies a four-stage framework (Capture, Structure, Build, Verify) to make plans that AI coding agents can execute. BrainGrid integrates with coding tools like Claude Code and Cursor and is used by a range of builders from first-time non-technical founders to senior engineers. The company reports it has helped over 500 builders ship live, revenue-generating SaaS products across industries including fitness, healthcare, and productivity. BrainGrid is headquartered in San Francisco and recently raised a $1M pre-seed round to accelerate its mission and product development.

Participated · Seed · Dec 2025

Wavedash has built a web-based gaming platform that eliminates lengthy downloads and updates by running games locally in the browser through WebAssembly and WebGPU. The service supports Chrome, Edge, Safari, and Firefox and emphasizes social play with link-based multiplayer invites that let friends join a session via a simple URL. Its storefront currently features Parking Garage Rally Circuit DX, a retro arcade-style racer playable in both real-time multiplayer and split-screen modes. Co-founders Kyler Blue (CEO), Raymond (George) Kennedy, and Matt Portner created the company after years of frustration with traditional PC game distribution. By leaning on the widespread availability of powerful chips and modern browsers, Wavedash aims to redefine how players access and share games. The company has raised a $4.3 million seed round to accelerate development and public rollout of the platform. No user or revenue figures have been disclosed.

Participated · Seed · Apr 2024

Glaut offers a conversational survey platform that engages respondents in long-form, open-ended conversations and synthesises responses into actionable business insights. Founded in late 2023 by Matteo Cera and Giovanni del Gallo, the software uses personalised follow-up questions to surface reasons behind quantitative data. The product is designed to be as easy to use as a Google Form while delivering deeper qualitative feedback than multiple-choice surveys. Since launch the company has worked with research agencies such as Altum Insights, Marketagent and Eumetra and international brands including Condé Nast, AutoScout24 and Mondadori Media; agencies have collectively conducted thousands of Glaut interviews. One Mondadori Media project ran more than 2,500 interviews and reportedly saved over 100 hours in analysis. With a $1.4M pre-seed raise, Glaut plans to strengthen its product and tech team and build vertical solutions for different market research use cases before scaling commercial efforts globally.

Participated · Seed · Aug 2022

Tangibly is a SaaS trade secret discovery and management platform whose flagship X-Ray suite uses AI to facilitate identification and management of trade secrets. The company completed a seed round final close that brought total funds raised to $7 million. The round included an investment from Wipro Ventures and the company is backed by Madrona and other investors. Tangibly plans to use the new capital to further develop its X-Ray suite of AI-powered tools. To support growth, Tangibly hired Michiel de Bruijn as VP of Sales and Raul Sheen as Director of Operations to build out sales and customer success infrastructure. The article highlights rising attention to trade secrets following the 2016 Defend Trade Secrets Act and increased litigation across sectors, underscoring demand for Tangibly’s product. Tangibly is a Seattle-based trade secret management platform whose flagship product, Tangibly Manage, supports identification and labeling of trade secrets, access limitation, and communication to employees and third parties. The company also offers Tangibly Share, a free NDA solution for creation, execution, tracking, and auditing. Tangibly targets general counsels, heads of IP, and outside counsel across industries including technology, life sciences, manufacturing, food & beverage, and beauty. The company says it will use new capital for product development — including AI/ML initiatives — and to build sales and marketing teams. Tangibly positions its workflow features (cataloging, acknowledgment, access management, agreement tracking, and training) to help companies take the reasonable measures required to defend trade secrets.

Participated · Series D · Dec 2021

Turing operates an AI-powered Talent Cloud that sources, evaluates, hires, onboards and manages remote engineers across hiring, HR and compliance. The platform covers roughly 100 technologies and 15 job titles and serves customers from tech and non-tech sectors, including Johnson & Johnson, Coinbase, Rivian, Dell, Disney, Plume and VillageMD. In the past year its candidate pool grew ninefold to about 1 million engineers and developers from 140 countries (up from 180,000 reported the prior year). Turing focuses on full-stack, front-end, back-end and site reliability engineers and plans to expand into adjacent areas like project management and an offering to engage entire teams. The company emphasizes long-term career planning and end-to-end management of distributed engineering talent. Turing operates a talent marketplace and “talent cloud” that sources, rigorously vets (including practical coding assessments) and matches remote software developers with employer projects. The platform emphasizes data‑driven vetting and matching, including machine learning models that predict collaboration success and support team-level placements. It provides a secure sandboxed VM environment for contractors to protect client IP and to manage work during engagements. The company reports rapid commercial traction: since general availability a year ago it has grown from $17,000 to $10 million in annualized revenue. Turing has built a large supply pool of roughly 150,000 developers across 140 countries and places engineers into roles at startups and other vendors. The founders say they plan to continue scaling matching accuracy and expanding the talent pool as distributed work accelerates demand for remote engineering talent.