• FinOpsly

  Participated · Seed · Feb 2026

  FinOpsly is a Cincinnati-based startup building an artificial-intelligence automation platform focused on ‘value-control,’ a framework that lets customers visualize, understand and reduce their cloud, data and AI expenditures. The software ingests usage data and applies AI to identify inefficiencies, automate policy enforcement and streamline financial operations. Founded by two former FIS executives and led by CEO Kiran Jain, the company has positioned itself as a 2024 Cincy Inno ‘Startup to Watch.’ Management has set 2026 goals that include tripling revenue, indicating a growth-oriented roadmap supported by the recent capital infusion. Although specific current revenue or user figures were not disclosed, the team is doubling down on brand messaging to accelerate customer acquisition. FinOpsly targets enterprises wrestling with escalating cloud and AI infrastructure costs, offering them tangible savings and improved governance. The firm’s Midwest roots and focus on operational efficiency resonate with a growing market for cost-control solutions in cloud computing.

• Pantomath

  Participated · Series B · Aug 2025

  Pantomath provides an AI-powered automated data operations platform that unifies real-time monitoring, cross-platform lineage, and AI-driven root-cause and impact analysis into a single solution. Led by co‑founders Shashank Saxena (CEO) and Somesh Saxena (President), the company supports mission-critical analytics pipelines at leading Fortune 500 companies. Pantomath launched its initial product in 2023 and has experienced rapid growth across industries since then. The platform targets modern enterprise data-operations needs by delivering end-to-end visibility and automated diagnosis. The company plans to use the new funding to accelerate product innovation, expand go-to-market efforts, and make strategic hires. Pantomath provides a data pipeline observability and traceability platform that detects data quality issues through alerts, enables troubleshooting with logs and autonomous impact analyses, and helps identify and resolve root causes. The platform continuously monitors both jobs and datasets in real time across different data platforms, keeping the context of the data pipelines those jobs and datasets are part of. Founder and CEO Somesh Saxena, who started Pantomath in March 2022 after leading big data efforts at GE Aerospace, says the product aims to reduce manual, tribal-knowledge-driven troubleshooting. The company reports about ten customers spanning SMBs to large enterprises, including Paycor, Lendly and G&J Pepsi-Cola Bottlers, and says it has a waiting list with several Fortune 500s. Pantomath faces competition from other data observability players noted in the article, such as Observe, Metaplane, Acceldata and Manta. The company plans to use new capital to expand its platform and grow its workforce across engineering, product, customer success, marketing and sales. Financially, Pantomath has raised venture capital to date and is in early commercial traction with the customers and waiting list described above.

• LunchTable

  Participated · Seed · Jul 2024

  LunchTable (formerly Inphlu) operates a brand amplification platform focused on deepening connections between fans and sports teams through gamification, exclusive content, and two-way interaction. The platform aims to convert passive spectators into passionate social media advocates while delivering targeted exposure for sponsors and actionable data insights. LunchTable has completed pilot partnerships with the Cincinnati Reds, FC Cincinnati, the University of Toledo, and the University of Cincinnati. The company announced a strategic rebrand to LunchTable to emphasize community and fan engagement. With the new funding, LunchTable plans to expand its sales and marketing team, refine the platform, and build a robust customer support infrastructure ahead of a planned commercial launch within the next six months.

• Tembo

  Participated · Series A · Jul 2024

  Tembo offers a managed Postgres platform designed to let organizations use Postgres for transactional, analytical, and AI workloads with enhanced observability, compliance, and developer experience. The company positions Postgres as a single foundation to reduce modern data-stack sprawl and support rising AI data demands. In the past six months Tembo has added senior hires, including CTO Samay Sharma and engineers Jason Peterson and Shaun Thomas, and brought on David Wheeler to lead efforts to merge Trunk and pgxn and support Tembo’s involvement in the new pgEF foundation. Tembo emphasizes enabling enterprises to go “all in” on Postgres with enterprise-grade support and extensibility. Financially, the company reported a sharp rise in ARR in the first half of the year that is still steadily climbing. Tembo plans to use new resources to grow ARR through strategic hires, advertising, product development, and building its developer community.

• Pieces

  Participated · Series A · Jul 2024

  Founded in 2021 by Tsavo Knott and Mack Myers, Pieces offers a platform that allows software engineers to capture and store code, links, text, images, and other assets directly from copy-paste workflows. The company is expanding its offering with Live Context in Pieces Copilot+, an on-device feature that delivers real-time, context-aware guidance while developers work. Pieces currently records about 18,000 daily active users and boasts a 90-day retention rate above 65%. Management aims to grow daily active users to 100,000–150,000 by the end of 2024. The startup employs roughly 20 full-time staff and collaborates with additional remote contributors. Fresh funding will support continued product development and user-growth initiatives.

No current team members are available.