• Moment

  Participated · Series A · Aug 2026

  Moment builds payments infrastructure and solutions aimed at serving markets across Africa. The company framed the $22 million Series A close as a major milestone in its growth journey. Moment has attracted investors including AlphaCode Venture Partners, General Catalyst, MultiChoice Group and CANAL+ Group. Public communications from the team emphasize continued focus on expansion after the financing. The articles do not provide revenue, user metrics, founding year, or location details.

• Citelighter

  Participated · Seed · Feb 2014

  Citelighter offers student writing tools and a premium teacher/administrator service that enables assignment, monitoring and improvement of student work. The platform is available as free student tools or a paid premium service for teachers and administrators. Students in nearly 3,800 schools across more than 50 countries use Citelighter. Led by CEO Saad Alam, the company plans to use new funding to enhance the product, expand into additional schools, and grow headcount from 40 to 60 employees. The company is Baltimore, MD–based and targets K-12 education customers. The article reports a $2M Series Seed-2 raise to support these initiatives. Citelighter launched in fall 2011 as a platform and browser extension to help students manage online research, bibliographical data and citations. It built a learning database and tools that let students find relevant materials, automatically cite sources and collaborate via integrations with Google Docs and Microsoft Word. Observing classroom use, the company broadened its focus from a highlighting tool to an "all-purpose writing platform" that captures students' workflows. Citelighter is developing "Cognitive Prints," visualization tools that map each student's step-by-step writing process and produce color-coded, sequential logs teachers can use to analyze work habits. The founders intend the platform to help teachers improve writing proficiency by giving them detailed visibility into students' research and organization. Financially, the company has raised $1.5M from a mix of venture firms and angel investors to fund this product pivot. Citelighter, founded in fall 2011 and led by CEO Saad Alam, offers a browser-based research tool and extensions that let students capture facts, organize projects, export in-text citations, and generate bibliographies. The company launched a paid “Pro” tier that provides access to millions of credible academic articles from over 6,500 sources for $10 per month via a partnership with Cengage (starting with Questia). Pro surfaces premium content in curated "Knowledge Cards" assembled by a vetted team of 125 student "Knowledge Experts" and recommends material based on users’ research patterns. Citelighter has added Chrome and Safari plug-ins on top of an existing Firefox extension and plans to add PDF capture (to pull from Ebsco, JSTOR, and other databases) and social features around Knowledge Cards. The company is positioning itself as an Evernote-like capture tool tailored for students, differentiating from Zotero and Mendeley by focusing on quick, low-friction citation workflows. To support product expansion and Pro, Citelighter is raising a $750K seed round, with participation from media executives and entrepreneurs.

No current team members are available.