Participated · Seed · Aug 2025

Space Kinetic is a space and missile defense company developing a propellant-free electromechanical payload-deployment system. Its core innovation is a patented mechanism that ejects a diverse range of smaller payloads at high velocities from a host satellite without firing a thruster. The company was founded in 2022 by Scott Ziegler and Ryan Sullivan from a garage-built prototype and a springboard from the New Mexico Lab-Embedded Entrepreneur Program at Los Alamos National Laboratory. It is a cleared U.S. national security innovator headquartered in Albuquerque. Space Kinetic raised $12 million in seed funding, which establishes its current financing position. The company targets multi-billion-dollar space superiority and missile defense mission markets amid rising geopolitical tensions.

Participated · Series B · Jul 2025

GigaIO is a Carlsbad, Calif.–based provider of scalable infrastructure designed for AI inferencing, with flagship products SuperNODE and Gryf. Its platform is built on the company's patented FabreX AI memory fabric, which enables scale-up and dynamic composition of compute, GPU, storage, and networking resources for ultra-low latency, memory-to-memory communication between GPUs. SuperNODE is positioned as a cost-effective, energy-efficient scale-up AI computing platform, while Gryf is described as a suitcase-sized AI inferencing supercomputer for edge deployment. GigaIO plans to ramp production of SuperNODE, accelerate deployment of Gryf, invest in new product development, and expand sales and marketing to meet surging demand. The company emphasizes a vendor-agnostic architecture that supports GPUs from NVIDIA and AMD as well as emerging AI chips, aiming to free customers from single-source vendor lock-in. Management says these capabilities unlock performance and cost efficiencies as AI models grow larger and more complex and enable scaling at the rack level and beyond. GigaIO develops an enterprise-class universal composable fabric, FabreX, that configures and orchestrates networking, storage, memory, and specialized accelerators into a single-system cluster fabric for AI and HPC workloads. Its rack-scale architecture lets workloads run as if using components inside one server while harnessing many nodes, improving utilization and reducing server, cooling, power, and footprint costs. The company positions FabreX as an open-standards PCIe-based solution and plans to extend to PCIe Gen5 and CXL to enable pooled memory and shared accelerators. GigaIO intends to use the new funding to aggressively expand market and channel development, recruit more partners, and devote resources to customer and partner development programs to accelerate sales and marketing. Financially, GigaIO completed an oversubscribed Series B raising $14.7 million led by Impact Venture Capital, with participation from Mark IV Capital, Lagomaj Capital, SK Hynix, and Four Palms Ventures. Founded in 2012, the company launched its first product line in 2019 and has been commercializing its fabric under CEO Alan Benjamin, who joined in 2017. GigaIO offers the GigaIO Fabrex™ platform, a patented interconnect network that delivers low latency and high bandwidth for data center connectivity. Its technology enables bare-metal disaggregation of hardware into dynamically reconfigurable resource pools, improving flexibility, utilization and cost reduction. That architecture allows data centers to scale up or out performance while preserving existing investments and adding new capabilities. The company is led by CEO and president Alan Benjamin and is based in Carlsbad, CA. GigaIO closed a $4.5M Series A to accelerate product development and expand sales and marketing. Management planned availability of the platform in Q4 2018.

Led · Seed · Oct 2024

Zive AI offers an AI-powered, end-to-end suite of VC fund management and administration products. Its solution includes AI-powered fund administration, automated verification of fund accounting accuracy, instant generation of capital statements, tax and K-1 filings reports, fund performance reports, and Limited Partner (LP) management. The company positions its technology to automate and streamline back-office operations for venture capital funds. Zive AI plans to use recently raised capital to accelerate development of automated solutions that reduce costs and enhance operational efficiency for VC funds. The company completed a seed funding round in October 2024. The raise signals early-stage financing to expand product development and go-to-market efforts.

Participated · Series A · Nov 2023

Entropica Labs develops software development tools that help users design fault-tolerant versions of quantum circuits and algorithms. The company is built on the thesis that commercial quantum computing requires fault-tolerant quantum error correction and focuses on enabling active error removal from quantum computations. It partners with quantum hardware providers to enable testing of its products on real quantum hardware. Entropica plans to use its recent financing to expand the team and continue leveraging strategic partnerships. The company raised US$4.7M in a Series A round to support those plans. Entropica Labs is a Singapore-based quantum computing software solutions startup. The company develops software solutions for quantum computing. It raised $1.8 million (S$2.6 million) in seed funding led by Elev8. The round included participation from SGInnovate, Wavemaker Partners, Lim Teck Lee Group, Japanese software firm TIS Inc, V1 Capital, and Entrepreneur First. The article does not disclose valuation or other financial terms beyond the round size. No operating metrics or future plans were reported in the article.

Led · Seed · Feb 2023

Wink provides a device-agnostic multifactor biometric identity and payments platform that combines face and voice recognition, AI, advanced ML and ChatGPT technology to enable passwordless login and payment experiences. Its payments platform supports credit and debit cards, major wallets and can send biometric payments to more than 200 major gateways, offering advanced network tokenization and PCI-compliant data protection. The technology is designed to authenticate and accept payments across computers, smartphones, connected cars, SmartTVs, POS terminals and any IoT device with a camera and internet connection. Led by founder and CEO Deepak Jain, Wink intends to use the new funds to continue to strengthen and commercially roll out its platform offering. Financially, the company extended its seed equity round with an additional $3M following a $2.85M pre-seed in 2021–22, bringing known external financings to roughly $5.85M. The company is based in Plano, Texas and California. Wink offers a video-based biometric payments and identity platform that combines face, voice and device recognition with AI/ML to enable passwordless e-commerce authentication and checkout. Its patented one-way anonymous encryption and biometric tokenization securely tokenizes users' face, voice, device and payment methods into verifiable biometric identities for login and payments while preserving privacy. The company says the technology eliminates passwords and card numbers from e-commerce and aims to reduce identity theft and payments fraud. Wink closed an oversubscribed $2.85 million pre-seed round and plans to debut its authentication and checkout technology this fall. It is showcasing the platform to payment processors, networks, identity verification companies, e-commerce platforms and merchants and will present at the Retail Innovation Conference & Expo. Wink is positioning use cases across e-commerce, Web3 payments and connected car payments, and is led by serial entrepreneur Deepak Jain and a team of industry experts and advisors.