• Hammer Missions

  Participated · Equity · Apr 2025

  Hammer Missions provides an AI-driven software platform that maps and inspects buildings and structural assets using automated drone flights and generates 3D inspection reports. The product captures comprehensive data for roof and façade investigations, defect detection, and thermal forensics. Its integrated AI streamlines data analysis and reporting so industry professionals can focus on actionable decisions rather than manual data processing. The company says its technology has been deployed in more than 20,000 drone flights across over 5,000 projects. Hammer Missions was founded in 2019 and is led by CEO Varun Sarwal. The company plans to use new funding to accelerate AI technology development and pursue strategic expansion into North America.

• Vertice

  Participated · Series C · Jan 2025

  London-based Vertice offers an AI-powered SaaS spend and procurement platform that analyzes software and cloud usage to optimize purchasing. The company has built a "large software procurement model" that ingests contracts and usage data (it says it has ingested about $3.4 billion of SaaS and cloud spend and benchmarks over 16,000 vendors) to provide pricing insights, recommendations and purchase co-pilots. Customers number in the hundreds across Europe, the U.S. and Asia Pacific and include ASML, Euronext, Grant Thornton and Santander. Vertice says its product typically halves purchasing cycle times and delivers savings of 20–30%. Founded less than three years ago, the business has grown 13x since inception and has now raised around $100 million, including a new $50 million round. CEO Roy Tuvey says the company plans to expand its vision to standardize how companies buy anything, not just software and cloud. Founders Roy and Eldar Tuvey previously founded ScanSafe (sold to Cisco in 2009 for $200 million) and Wandera (acquired by Jamf in 2021 for $400 million). Vertice offers a platform combining automation, human evaluation and AI to give finance teams visibility into SaaS and cloud spend, centralized approvals, usage trends and security/compliance alignment. It currently tracks AWS cloud usage and alerts customers to inefficient or overlapping purchases, with plans to add Azure and GCP in the near future. The product is used by hundreds of customers and tracks more than $1 billion of customer spend through the platform. Vertice emphasizes both cost optimization and security posture, reflecting the founders’ background in IT security. Financially, the company reports annual recurring revenues in the double-digit millions and ARR grew seven-fold in 2023; the startup now has a valuation in the “hundreds of millions of dollars.” Vertice provides a platform designed to help businesses intelligently reduce annual SaaS spend by 20–30% and streamline the purchasing and renewal process. The company emerged from stealth to address rising SaaS costs and complex renewal schedules. Founded in 2021 by brothers Roy and Eldar Tuvey, Vertice targets enterprise pain points around managing and optimising SaaS portfolios. The platform is positioned against a market where global annual SaaS spend was projected to surpass $145 billion in 2022 (Gartner). Vertice plans to use its new funding to accelerate expansion of its engineering and commercial teams and drive revenue growth. Co-CEO Eldar Tuvey highlights the company’s focus on reducing friction and costs associated with managing SaaS renewals.

• Helaina

  Participated · Series B · Sep 2024

  Helaina develops human-equivalent bioactive proteins via a precision fermentation platform, commercializing effera™ Human Lactoferrin as its first ingredient. Effera™ is sold to consumer brands and through strategic distribution partners and will appear in products from Kroma Wellness, The Feed, Levelle Nutrition, Healthgevity and via Mitsubishi International Food Ingredients, Inc. The company positions effera™ to support iron homeostasis, metabolism, a balanced immune response and a beneficial microbiome, and clinical and pre-clinical research reportedly shows it is more effective than bovine lactoferrin; a study will soon be published in a peer-reviewed journal. Helaina plans to scale availability of effera™ for women’s health, active nutrition and healthy aging, and is working toward a future launch of infant formula in partnership with formula manufacturers. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in New York City. Helaina develops a human milk‑equivalent infant milk using precision fermentation that programs yeast to produce proteins nearly identical to those in human breast milk. Founded in 2019 by food scientist Laura Katz, the company has produced its first protein and plans to recreate breast milk’s components one at a time. Its product is designed to provide calories and to help build immunity against fungal, bacterial and viral diseases. Helaina plans to scale manufacturing with partners and pursue U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval as it prepares for commercialization. The company intends to use its proteins across clinically proven consumer products to create a new “consumer immunology” category and aims to price products to be accessible. Its latest financing supports capability growth, executive hires and finalizing go‑to‑market plans.

• Silfab Solar

  Participated · Equity · Mar 2023

  Silfab Solar is North America’s leading designer, developer and manufacturer of high-efficiency, premium photovoltaic (PV) modules. The company operates state-of-the-art facilities in Washington and Toronto and will soon add cell and PV module production in Fort Mill, South Carolina, scheduled to be operational by the end of the year. Silfab leverages more than 40 years of solar experience, multiple automated production lines, ISO 9001:2015 certification and just-in-time manufacturing to deliver Buy American–approved modules for the North American market. To scale its new cell manufacturing plant and expand PV module production capacity, Silfab closed $100 million of new financing. The financing consists of a $50 million equity investment led by funds advised by ARC Financial and a $50 million senior secured “Green Loan” led by Breakwall Capital with participation from SR Alternative Credit LLC. Sustainable Fitch provided a second-party opinion and judged the Green Loan’s alignment with Green Loan Principles to be “Excellent.” Management says the proceeds will advance domestic cell production, support reshoring of US-made PV products, meet customer demand, increase domestic content and reduce carbon footprint. Silfab Solar designs, develops and manufactures ultra-high-efficiency, premium PV modules for the North American residential and commercial markets. The company operates automated, ISO 9001-2015 certified production lines and produces Buy American–approved modules from facilities in Washington state and Toronto, Canada. Silfab leverages roughly 40 years of solar industry experience and offers industry-leading warranties on its products. The company is expanding U.S. production to include domestic PV cell and additional module assembly at a third facility slated to be fully operational in 2024. That new facility is planned to have an initial annual capability of 1 GW of cell production and 1.2 GW of module assembly and is expected to create more than 800 U.S. jobs. Silfab says it has grown more than 40% since ARC Financial’s initial investment in 2021. Silfab Solar Inc. manufactures ultra-high-efficiency, premium photovoltaic (PV) modules for the North American residential and commercial markets. It operates automated, ISO 9001-2015 quality–certified production lines in facilities in Washington state and Toronto, Canada, delivering Buy American–approved modules. The company leverages roughly 40 years of solar experience, offers industry-leading warranties, and recently earned “Top Performer” ratings from PV Evolution Labs. Silfab has recorded multiple capacity expansions and partners on next-generation technology applications. The company plans to significantly expand U.S. production and its supply-chain footprint to meet growing domestic demand and support more American solar jobs.

• Via

  Participated · Equity · Feb 2023

  Via builds transit technology and on-demand shuttle services, offering software that helps public transportation agencies, municipalities and school districts optimize fixed routes, paratransit, school buses, bike lanes and integrate private ridesharing. The company has scaled to 600 communities across more than 35 countries. Via ended 2022 with an annualized revenue run-rate surpassing $200 million, more than double since its prior financing in November 2021. With the new capital the company plans to expand its product suite — either via in-house development or M&A — including street-mapping for traffic controls, parking and curb management, EV fleet and charger management, micromobility planning and autonomous vehicle integration. Via is already working with AV companies Motional and May Mobility to deploy autonomous ridesharing shuttles in Las Vegas and Grand Rapids. The company says the funds also provide optionality to pursue an IPO when market conditions make sense. Via operates consumer-facing shuttles while its core business is a TransitTech SaaS platform sold to cities, transportation authorities, school districts and universities. The software side has eclipsed its consumer operations and is the primary driver of growth. TransitTech revenue more than doubled year-over-year to exceed an annual run rate of $100 million, and the platform is used by more than 500 partners. The company employs about 950 people. Via has expanded via acquisitions, buying Fleetonomy in 2020 and acquiring Remix earlier this year, which now operates as a subsidiary with its own brand. It recently launched a combined product that integrates Remix’s mapping and transit-planning tools with Via’s on-demand transit data. Via builds technology-enabled public mobility solutions that power public transportation by replacing rigid routes and schedules with dynamic, algorithm-driven networks. Its platform uses a real-time matching algorithm to combine multiple passengers or packages headed in the same direction, reducing urban congestion and emissions. Via works closely with more than 100 partners across municipalities, public transit agencies, operators, corporations, schools and universities to optimize transport systems. The company is deployed in more than 70 cities across 20 countries and operates in Europe as ViaVan. Co-founded by Oren Shoval and Daniel Ramot and launched in 2013, Via intends to use new funding to expand its business reach and advance its vision of efficient, accessible and equitable public mobility. Financially, Via completed a $200M Series E at a $2.25 billion valuation. Via is a New York-based shared taxi mobile company that operates an algorithm-driven on-demand shared ride platform. Led by CEO Daniel Ramot and CTO Oren Shoval, Via provides shared ride services in New York, Chicago and Washington D.C., and its technology is licensed by partners around the world. The company’s platform supports smart public transport and a dynamic mass transit system intended to reduce urban traffic volume. Via’s shared ride service in its U.S. markets provides over 1 million rides per month. Following investments from Mercedes‑Benz Vans and Daimler Mobility Services, Via is expanding into Europe through a joint venture with Mercedes‑Benz Vans, with London slated as the first launch this year. The joint venture will also partner with public transit operators across Europe and license Via’s On‑Demand Shuttle Operating System to enable cities to improve mobility without additional infrastructure costs. Via operates an on-demand city carpooling service that dynamically matches passengers to available seats rather than whole vehicles, using algorithms and data to enable smart routing. The service typically runs in New York City and Chicago and usually carries between five and eight passengers per vehicle. Via positions itself between a traditional bus and ride-hailing services, aiming for bus-like price points with greater flexibility. The company describes its product as a “dynamic bus system” designed to reduce single-occupancy vehicle trips and congestion. Its stated future plan is to scale this model as a mass-transit alternative powered by advanced algorithms and data. Financially, Via has been raising institutional capital and announced a Series C that will increase its total invested capital to $137 million when fully closed.

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