Participated · Seed · Apr 2026

Cloneable builds agentic AI and field-to-office automation that captures expert institutional knowledge and deploys it as specialized agents. Its Cloneable Agent product creates back-office agents by shadowing experts in their existing desktop or web software, and the company also offers a field platform launched in 2025 for in-field data capture and inspections. At launch the company provided purpose-built templates for energy workflows and reports time-to-value in as little as 24 hours. Cloneable says dozens of customers use its platform, including utilities, ISPs, engineering firms, and agribusinesses. The company was founded in 2023 and is based in Raleigh, N.C., and has raised $4.6 million in a seed round—bringing total venture funding to $5.35 million. Cloneable plans to use its recent financing to expand across infrastructure-intensive markets that it describes as chronically underserved by point solutions.

Participated · Equity · Mar 2026

Levitate, founded in 2017, offers an AI-driven "Happiness Platform" that lets relationship-oriented businesses send personalized emails at scale, post to social media, text clients, manage reviews, schedule meetings, send handwritten cards, and more. Serving more than 8,000 businesses, the software combines intelligent automation with hands-on coaching to keep firms top-of-mind with clients, donors, and prospects. The company positions its model as "Service-as-Software," pairing technology with strategic guidance to drive measurable marketing outcomes. With a total of $71 million raised to date, Levitate has steadily invested in making AI practical and accessible for small enterprises. The latest funds will accelerate the internal AI roadmap and roll out new customer-facing tools. Levitate also plans to scale its customer success and sales teams across the U.S. and Canada and widen its reach to additional relationship-focused verticals. Overall, the business is leveraging fresh capital to deepen product capabilities while expanding market presence.

Led · Equity · Mar 2025

Tiga.ai builds an AI agent that autonomously discovers custom buying signals and activates personalized, personalized outreach for buyers. Its technology uses fine-tuned models optimized to detect buying signals and enable personalized outreach at scale via email and LinkedIn. The company serves a rapidly expanding customer base that includes large global enterprises and venture-backed startups. Tiga.ai raised $2M in funding and plans to use the proceeds to build out sales and marketing teams and continue product innovation. The firm emphasizes product innovation to support personalized outreach workflows across channels. The company is based in Reston, Virginia.

Participated · Series A · Jun 2023

GreenPlaces is an all-in-one sustainability platform that marries customers' operational data with sustainability benchmarks to create visibility into carbon footprints and deliver actionable insights to reduce emissions and save costs. The platform integrates with thousands of existing business tools (utilities, HR, accounting) and provides templates and tools such as an ESG policy library and a branded sustainability website. It offers customized reporting and tailored carbon-reduction playbooks designed to make sustainability practical for resource-constrained teams. GreenPlaces targets the mass market—from restaurants and hotels to tech companies, law firms and service providers—translating sustainability into ROI rather than a cost center. The company counts customers including bartaco, Graduate Hotels, Zuora, Salesloft and Network Wireless Solutions. Founded in Raleigh, North Carolina in 2021, GreenPlaces positions itself to democratize sustainability for businesses of all sizes and hosts the Open Source Sustainability podcast. GreenPlaces offers a corporate sustainability platform that connects to nearly all U.S. energy, water, and natural gas utilities to give businesses full visibility into their emissions with half the effort. The platform ingests utility and payroll/finance data by integrating with tools such as Rippling, Workday, ADP, NetSuite, and QuickBooks, eliminating manual data entry. It analyzes collected data and combines that with industry expertise to generate personalized recommendations for emissions reductions and improved metrics. The company serves a range of industries including software, professional services, restaurants, retail, and hospitality, with customers such as Flatiron Health, JustWorks, SalesLoft, bartaco, Thuma, and Yext. Led by CEO Alex Lassiter and based in Raleigh, NC, GreenPlaces plans to use the new funding to double the size of its team over the next year. The article does not disclose revenue or other operating metrics beyond customer names and integrations.

Led · Seed · Jun 2023

Ferretly is an AI-driven screening platform that scans social media, web pages, and news articles to flag risky or problematic behavior that traditional background checks may miss. The company has enhanced image-classification capabilities to detect offensive gestures, extremist symbols, weapons, and other concerning content. It offers summarized reports with risk indicators, flagged content, and behavioral insights for hiring managers and organizations. Ferretly’s tools are used for influencer vetting, by some NFL teams during the draft, and across nonprofits, public-sector organizations and political parties. The startup reports customers in 32 countries and more than 1,000 clients, including Deloitte, Blizzard Entertainment and Paramount Global. Ferretly says it follows federal and state/provincial laws for pre-employment social media screening and data protection. Ferretly provides a cloud-based SaaS platform that leverages artificial intelligence to assess candidate risk by analyzing publicly available sources such as social media. The platform surfaces online conduct and a broad range of risk factors to help talent teams align candidate character with corporate values and culture. Led by Founder and CEO Darrin Lipscomb, Ferretly aims to eliminate digital blind spots in hiring by surfacing candidates’ online personas. The company intends to use the funds from this raise to expand operations and broaden its business reach. The article identifies the company as based in Easton, MD and does not disclose operating metrics or revenue.