Participated · Equity · Sep 2025

Buscaro partners with corporations, schools, and institutions to provide reliable daily transportation for their students and employees. Its four-part technology stack offers real-time passenger tracking, financial transparency, operational dashboards, and safety systems, giving stakeholders full visibility and control over each route. The service already supports more than 80 corporate partners across Karachi, Lahore, Islamabad, and Rawalpindi and facilitates over 900,000 bookings every month. Management projects the business will exit 2025 with $8.6 million in annualized revenue, underscoring rapid growth. With fresh capital in hand, Buscaro intends to extend its footprint into tier-2 Pakistani cities and work with government bodies to digitize public transit networks. Longer term, the company plans to leverage its scalable platform for international expansion.

Participated · Series A · May 2025

Persist AI offers an AI-driven robotics platform and Cloud Lab that lets pharmaceutical scientists remotely predict, build, and test formulations using miniaturized, automated laboratory facilities. Its AI models generate formulation recipes and the robotic systems execute high-throughput experiments, dramatically reducing material use and timelines. In a recent engagement, Persist identified an optimal long-acting injectable in two months by building and testing 700 formulations, versus an industry standard of roughly 10–15 formulations per month. The Cloud Lab supports modalities including peptides, small molecules, antibodies, and antisense oligonucleotides, and serves multiple top-10 pharmaceutical clients as well as smaller biotechs. Persist plans to expand its robotic lab, broaden the range of formulations its models can predict and test, and build comprehensive datasets to improve its AI. The company is Y Combinator–backed (graduated 2023) and recently closed a $12 million Series A to fund these efforts. Persist AI is an AI-driven drug formulation company based in Woodland, CA. The company has developed robotics that enable automated development of long-acting injectable formulations. Coupled with AI models, their technology rapidly predicts which formulations will release drugs in the body for an extended period and reduce the number of injections patients need. Led by CEO Karthik Raman, Persist AI completed YCombinator and subsequently raised $4M in seed financing. The round was led by 2048 Ventures with participation from Innospark Ventures, Fellows Fund, YCombinator, Pioneer Fund and others. Persist AI intends to use the funds to expand operations and further its development efforts.

Participated · Seed · Oct 2024

Flora offers individually-owned fertility insurance policies that cover diagnostics, medications, intrauterine insemination (IUI) and in vitro fertilization (IVF). Policies are available in the U.S. starting at about $20 per month and the platform already reaches over 10 million prospective policyholders across North America. Flora combines proprietary underwriting, individualized risk modeling, AI and omnichannel distribution, and is backed by A-rated insurance partners and a global reinsurance panel. The company plans to expand distribution and underwriting capabilities to grow access to proactive family-planning coverage in the U.S. and then Canada. Financially, Flora has just completed a $5M seed round to fund that expansion and category creation efforts.

Led · Equity · Jan 2024

Zbyte is a decentralized blockchain platform that aims to enable the Web3.0 ecosystem by removing complexity for developers and enterprises building dApps. The company operates a store that allows developers and users to upload dApps that support dPlat and leverage public blockchains. Zbyte announced it received a $5 million strategic investment. Cartography Capital participated in the investment. The funding announcement was reported on DoNews and cites IT桔子. The article does not provide operating metrics, a valuation, or detailed use-of-proceeds information.

Participated · Seed · May 2023

DigiBuild offers a suite of digital project management and supply chain tools, including a large supplier database and blockchain-backed single source of truth for construction workflows. Its supplier database (free for suppliers) emphasizes minority- and women-owned firms and environmentally friendly products. The platform integrates ChatGPT to surface contextual information across suppliers, materials, specification books, schedules, and budgets. Leadership says the product has produced measurable savings—one customer saved $600,000 and 600 hours on an 80,000-square-foot project—and has attracted clients such as Brasfield & Gorrie, JR Hospitality, and Baywood Hotels. DigiBuild has 15 employees and participated in Y Combinator. The company plans to scale across the U.S. and internationally, build out its supplier database, onboard more customers, and announce additional investments and larger project participation. DigiBuild builds a blockchain-based platform to digitize construction processes, with a primary product called DigiProcure for material management and procurement. DigiProcure automates administrative processes, lets contractors search, filter, and compare project timeline data, and aims to reduce waste and fraud through advanced data insights. The blockchain layer creates a single source of truth to improve collaboration across parties that otherwise maintain multiple versions of paperwork. The company plans to use new funding to expand product and technical capabilities, improve sales and marketing, and grow its contractor customer base. DigiBuild is remote-first with headquarters in Miami and currently has nine full-time employees; it intends to hire a business development manager, preferably Miami-based.