Participated · Seed · Feb 2026

Arbor is an AI research platform built to help enterprises capture and analyze frontline employee and customer conversations at scale. By automating thousands of AI-powered interviews simultaneously, the software converts qualitative feedback into executive-grade insights within minutes, replacing slow, consultant-driven research processes. Early enterprise customers—including transportation giant First Student and food manufacturer Lyons Magnus—report 85-90 percent participation rates and have identified operational bottlenecks that translate into seven-figure cost savings. The full-stack system serves manufacturing, logistics, retail, and other operationally complex sectors, delivering real-time pattern detection that informs executive decision making. Founded by Veronica Ma, Kelly Zhou, and Ashish Dsa, Arbor is headquartered in New York and is expanding its engineering, product, and go-to-market teams. The company plans to accelerate product development to address additional industries and use cases. Financially, Arbor has secured $6.3 million in seed and pre-seed funding to support these growth initiatives.

Participated · Equity · Dec 2025

Haven Energy is a Los Angeles-based energy technology company that aggregates battery-based distributed energy resources (DERs) across residential and small commercial & industrial sites to build large-scale virtual power plants (VPPs). Its platform installs and manages behind-the-meter storage that can be dispatched to support grid stability and utility-run demand response programs. To date, Haven has installed more than 10 MW of distributed capacity and has over 50 MW slated for development in 2026, underpinning a project pipeline valued at more than $75 million. Existing utility and community choice aggregator partners include EPRI, Clean Power Alliance, San Jose Clean Energy, Clean Energy Alliance, and Peninsula Clean Energy. The company plans to deepen these partnerships while expanding a leasing model and Channel Partner Program targeting local installers. Proceeds from the latest financing will help accelerate these initiatives and scale its VPP footprint nationwide.

Participated · Seed · Jun 2025

Meridian is a New York–based startup building an integrated development environment–style workspace that applies agentic AI to traditional spreadsheet workflows, aiming to modernize and automate financial modeling. The platform connects to external data sources and emphasizes auditability and predictability in AI-generated spreadsheets, reducing uncertainty while retaining the flexibility finance teams need. Founded by CEO John Ling and staffed by alumni from Scale AI, Anthropic, and Goldman Sachs, Meridian seeks to streamline complex financial analyses for large enterprises. Early users include teams at Decagon and OffDeal, and the company reported signing $5 million in contracts in December. Meridian emerged from stealth with a $100 million post-money valuation, positioning itself as a next-generation solution for finance professionals seeking more reliable AI tools. Its long-term vision centers on bringing agentic AI and robust software engineering principles to the historically spreadsheet-driven world of financial planning and analysis.

Participated · Seed · Dec 2024

BlueQubit, founded in spring 2022, builds a Quantum Software-as-a-Service (QSaaS) platform that gives end users access to QPUs and quantum computing emulators. The company leverages large-scale classical compute—a fleet of GPUs—to develop and test quantum algorithms before deploying them on real quantum processors. Its software stack runs emulators up to 100 times faster than commonly available alternatives and includes algorithms for quantum machine learning and quantum optimization. BlueQubit targets use cases in financial modeling, pharmaceutical development, and materials‑science visualization, aiming to marry enterprise applications with advanced quantum hardware. Founders Hrant Gharibyan and Hayk Tepanyan met at Stanford; Gharibyan co-authored a wormhole teleportation algorithm later implemented by Google Quantum AI, and Tepanyan previously worked on Google’s infrastructure team. The company recently raised a $10 million Seed round to advance product development and commercialization.

Participated · Seed · Apr 2024

Auxa Health is an NYC-based care management co-pilot and payer-agnostic platform that uses AI to support benefit navigation. It demystifies benefit and drug coverage details, surfaces eligibility and prior authorization requirements, and enrolls patients into high-value health benefits across health plans, state and federal programs, and community organizations. Led by Monica Chopra, Samantha Adelberg, and Dr. Jeffrey De Flavio, the company provides a benefit navigation technology solution for payers and providers. Auxa plans to use new funding to further develop its technology, expand benefit coverage, and grow the team. Financially, the company announced a $5.2M Seed raise on April 22, 2024.