Participated · Seed · Oct 2025

COI Energy has developed a patented energy gateway and software platform that taps into a building’s existing control and SCADA systems to capture usage data and predict true electricity needs up to 90 days in advance. When surplus capacity is identified, the firm’s marketplace enables one business to sell that unused allotment to another, with COI paying the seller and billing the buyer. The company currently serves five pilot customers—each managing at least 50 buildings—and is active in California, Florida, Massachusetts, and New York, while maintaining a growing waitlist. Early revenues are already flowing from these pilots, validating demand for its capacity-sharing model. Future plans include becoming a designated solution provider for Switzerland’s forthcoming nationwide energy-sharing policy in 2026. COI also earmarks 1% of client savings for “Kilowatt for Good,” which funds nonprofits that assist low-income households with energy bills and efficiency upgrades. The business is led by founder and CEO SaLisa Berrien, whose 25-year utility career informs the company’s regulatory and technical strategy.

Participated · Series A · Dec 2023

Dimensional Energy manufactures sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) by converting carbon dioxide and water into hydrocarbons. The company sells to airlines, freight companies and specialty chemical firms and generates revenue via contracted offtake agreements. It has signed offtake deals including up to 5 million gallons per year with Boom Supersonic and a 300 million-gallon agreement with United Airlines. Dimensional plans to use the new capital to build an advanced power-to-liquid fuels plant using emissions from Lafarge’s Richmond Cement Plant in British Columbia in partnership with Svante, and to develop a 200-barrel-per-day commercial power-to-liquid facility in New York. The company also intends to introduce consumer and B2B products, including a fossil-free surf wax and a cruelty-free fat alternative for vegan food companies. Dimensional filed as a Delaware Public Benefit Corporation and works with third parties to verify performance and carbon intensity; it has 41 employees.

Participated · Series B · Oct 2022

Resilia provides a SaaS platform that delivers on-demand technical assistance, coaching, and capacity-building resources to nonprofits and funders. The product is designed to help organizations increase day-to-day capacity and allow funders to extend impact beyond monetary grants. The company reports over 300% annual revenue growth and net revenue retention greater than 150%. Resilia serves more than 15,000 nonprofit users and counts enterprise customers including Oxfam America, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Goldman Sachs’s One Million Black Women Initiative, Silicon Valley Community Foundation, the United States Tennis Association Foundation, and The Boston Foundation. The company plans to scale its technology platform and expand access across North America to bring more organizations into its ecosystem. Resilia positions its platform as a pathway for funders seeking to support equity and justice efforts through capacity-building assistance beyond grants. Resilia provides a two-sided SaaS platform enabling grantors (cities, private foundations, corporations) to deploy capital quickly and helping nonprofits with compliance, management, training, and funding. Its product suite includes Nonprofit Formation (available in all 50 U.S. states), Nonprofit Pro and Plus for compliance and capacity-building, and an Enterprise solution for grantors to streamline data collection, budgeting, grantee management, reporting, and evaluation. The company emphasizes online training, webinars, and productized consultancy services to reduce costs and increase nonprofit capacity. Resilia reports more than 2,800 customers, including Oxfam America, Kellogg, The United Way, and Stem Library Lab. Founded in 2016 by Sevetri Wilson, the company is headquartered in New Orleans with a second office in New York City. Its stated mission is to democratize innovation across the nonprofit industry by pairing technology with human connection to bridge gaps between capital deployers and recipients.

Participated · Seed · Apr 2022

ShearShare is a B2B mobile marketplace that lets licensed beauty and barbering professionals rent flexible, affordable workspace with no-term leases or commission fees. The platform supports 900 cities and has grown into a nationwide marketplace serving tens of thousands of industry professionals, owners, and operators. ShearShare recently completed a rebrand, launched an improved mobile UX, and expanded educational and business resources for its user community. It offers daily liability insurance through an exclusive partnership with Lloyd’s of London. The company plans to hire a CTO and a Head of Revenue Operations, amplify self-service features, expand its on-demand rental database, and introduce proprietary analytics for small business owners. ShearShare has established headquarters at 43North in Buffalo, NY. ShearShare operates an online marketplace that lets stylists book open chairs or stations at salons and barbershops, matching supply and demand across locations. The founders launched the Dallas-based company in 2017 and have expanded listings to more than 600 cities, with chair prices ranging from about $15 to $569 depending on market. The platform processes payments for stylists via a partnership with First American Payments. ShearShare serves both stylists and salon owners rather than focusing solely on consumer booking or salon management. The company plans to roll out ancillary services for stylists, including pioneering an insurance policy to cover on-the-job lawsuits. With new funding and a Google for Startups grant, the team says it is ready to accelerate expansion and add more services for independent beauty professionals.

Participated · Equity · Nov 2021

Green Canopy NODE combines NODE’s prefabricated structural panels and Green Canopy’s eco-focused real estate development to produce energy-saving homes built from environmentally friendly materials. The company uses modular components to reduce labor needs and carbon footprint and aims to help address the housing shortage. Its long-term product roadmap calls for engineering a system of modular panels that can assemble into an entire home within two years and ultimately producing a modular kit consumers could order and have assembled by independent contractors. The business maintains offices in Seattle and Portland and is led by co-CEOs Bec Chapin and Aaron Fairchild; Don Bunnell has moved to the board. The company currently has 31 employees and expects to double headcount over the next year. Green Canopy NODE also faces sector challenges such as slow permitting timelines that can materially slow project timelines.