Participated · Seed · Apr 2025

Warrant builds an AI compliance agent that reviews and approves marketing materials—websites, social posts, decks, emails, video, and influencer partnerships—for financial services, real estate, and insurance teams. The system learns from a company’s previously approved content to provide suggestions aligned to brand voice and risk tolerance, and it analyzes enforcement actions, regulatory press releases, and sanctions to stay current. Warrant offers a library of thousands of federal, state, and platform-specific policies while allowing customers to create their own rules and streamline approval workflows across legal, compliance, and partner stakeholders. Early adopters (Holdings, Future Money, Relli) report cutting marketing review times from an industry average of six hours to about 15 minutes. The team plans to use the new funding to expand development of webhooks and integrations across marketing, sales, and CX tech stacks so compliance checks can be embedded directly into existing tools. The founding team includes CEO Austin Carroll (ex-Mercury, Brex, Capital One) and CTO Daniel Chopson (ex-Cove.Tool), and the company is supported by advisors from Dave, American Express, Melio, Brex, and current regulators.

Participated · Equity · Jul 2024

CrowdVolt is a bid-ask secondary ticket marketplace where buyers submit bids and sellers set asking prices, and transactions execute when bids meet asks. Its model, likened to StockX, emphasizes buyer-centric pricing, transparency, and reduced anonymity by allowing buyers and sellers to message each other. The platform targets rave and EDM fans and launched in late January; it is currently web-only and available only in New York, with most listings in Brooklyn. CrowdVolt is a Y Combinator Winter 2024 graduate and raised $1.4M earlier this year from institutional and angel investors. The company plans to use the capital for product development and to expand into additional markets starting with Miami, Chicago and various California cities, and intends to launch a mobile app in six months. Reported operating metrics include over 3,000 active users across roughly 250 listed events.

Participated · Seed · Feb 2024

Prosal provides a Request for Proposals (RFP) platform that automates and simplifies complex RFP tasks for smaller agencies. Its product combines advanced algorithms with a user-friendly interface to save time and resources while offering insights and analytics for improved proposal decision-making. The platform is designed to streamline business development processes and help smaller agencies compete with larger counterparts. Led by CEO Nicholas Lopez and CTO Nyle Malik, Prosal targets smaller agency customers. The company intends to use the new funding to further bolster its ability to deliver its solutions. Prosal is based in Miami, FL.

Participated · Seed · Jan 2024

Krepling offers a no-code e-commerce enablement platform that helps mid-market merchants gain greater control over their tech stacks and integrate multiple channels without prior coding experience. The platform aims to provide a more unified, expansive, and highly digitized e-commerce experience for merchants. Krepling serves merchants in over 80 countries and works with brands such as Hash Pies, Giorgio’s, and Forestals. The company plans to launch new features in the coming months to enhance its capabilities. Krepling intends to use its recent funding to expand its team across several departments and to further simplify e-commerce integrations for customers. Liam Gerada is the CEO and co-founder guiding product and growth efforts from Nashville, Tenn. Krepling is a San Francisco, CA–based no-code e-commerce development platform that uses a microservice-based approach to help merchants and retailers build and scale online operations. The system enables merchants to build front- and back-end e-commerce functionality, integrate with applications, create rich buying experiences, automate marketing operations, and sell products across borders. The company was founded by brothers Liam JE Gerada and Travis Gerada, who were 22 and 19 years old at the time of reporting. Krepling raised $1M in pre-seed funding to accelerate growth and expand operations. The company intends to use the funds to accelerate growth and expand operations and expand its operations. No revenue or user metrics are reported in the article.

Participated · Seed · Apr 2023

Coast builds a demo platform for API-first companies that lets sales teams execute live requests and showcase APIs through an in-browser dashboard. The product auto-generates user interfaces from lines of code using publicly accessible or sandbox APIs rather than relying on front-end mockups. Coast pre-configures visuals to the API based on technical specifications so salespeople can deliver bespoke, interactive demos for outbound outreach, live demos, follow-ups and even into implementation. Founders Spencer Levitt and Austin Pager, who met at Northwestern, pivoted to this sales-focused use after an early adopter repurposed the tool during their time in Y Combinator. Coast reports early uptake from customers including Unit, Finch, Oso, Sardine, Column Tax and Enode. The company has raised $2.1 million in seed funding from investors including Y Combinator, Liquid2 Ventures, GTMfund, Brickyard and individual backers such as Arash Ferdowsi and Calvin French-Owen. Coast positions itself against demo vendors like Demostack and Consensus by targeting API-first companies and removing the need for frontend demo engineering.