• Gozem

  Participated · Series A · Dec 2021

  Gozem operates a SuperApp that combines ride-hailing, delivery, digital payments (Gozem Money) and a vehicle-financing arm known as Gozem Financing, which uses a "Drive-to-Buy" instalment model across smartphones, motorbikes, three-wheelers and cars. As of late 2025 the company reported facilitating around one million trips per month, surpassing one million registered users, and counting nearly 10,000 registered drivers; it has financed over 7,000 vehicles and reported generating more than $90 million in cumulative earnings for 40,000 driver-partners. Public estimates of 2025 revenue vary (Latka reports $112.9 million while other estimates place it near $72 million), and the company had about 590 employees per Latka. Gozem has expanded its footprint to Togo, Benin, Gabon, Cameroon and, since November 2025, the Republic of Congo, and plans entry into Côte d'Ivoire by the end of 2026. The company has pursued strategic partnerships—such as with MTN Congo for Wi‑Fi–equipped financed vehicles—and used Series B capital to strengthen vehicle financing and accelerate rollout of its digital-money services. Its integrated ecosystem and vehicle-financing model are central to its growth strategy, though management faces operational and currency risks as it scales into larger, more competitive markets.

• Activeloop

  Led · Seed · Nov 2021

  Activeloop offers Deep Lake, an AI-native database that connects unstructured data—audio, video, images, text, and embeddings—to machine learning models and large language models. The product is designed for enterprise use and supports on-premise deployment with an embedded architecture that can be set up in a few lines of code. Deep Lake is used by Fortune 500 companies in regulated sectors such as biopharma, MedTech, legal, and automotive to manage private data for GenAI without exposing it to external parties. The company is led by CEO Davit Buniatyan and intends to use the new funding to onboard additional enterprise customers and expand product adoption. Financially, Activeloop raised $11M in a Series A, bringing its total funding to about $20M. The round signals continued enterprise-focused growth rather than consumer expansion. Activeloop is building a database and open-source API designed to efficiently store and stream unstructured media data (video, audio, images) to AI models for computer vision, audio processing and NLP. The product converts media into mathematical representations, supports versioning, and can store repositories in systems like Amazon S3. The company is releasing an alpha of a commercial product that will add features such as SQL queries over streaming data on top of the open-source API. Activeloop grew out of founder Davit Buniatyan's research at Princeton and was part of Y Combinator's summer 2018 cohort. The company is pre-revenue but reports product traction in its community: 55 contributors, about 700 community members, and roughly 300,000 downloads of the program. The team has 15 employees and is hiring roughly half a dozen engineers as it builds the commercial offering.

• Teachmint

  Participated · Series B · Oct 2021

  Teachmint builds an "ed-infra" platform that lets teachers and institutes create virtual classrooms via smartphones, engage students, assign tasks, conduct attendance, and collect fees. The 16-month-old Indian startup says it has amassed over 10 million users and that more than 4,000 institutes in India and overseas use its service. Teachmint's model emphasizes direct relationships between teachers and students, positioning it differently from larger marketplaces such as Byju's, Unacademy and Vedantu. The company plans to deploy the new capital to hire across product, technology and design, and said it will soon offer employees its biggest stock buyback option. Earlier this year Teachmint was approached with a reported $400 million acquisition offer from one of two Indian edtech giants and declined. To date the company has raised over $115 million in capital. Teachmint provides a mobile-first, video-first infrastructure that lets teachers create virtual classrooms, engage students, assign tasks, take attendance and collect fees from a smartphone. The app is lightweight (14MB), supports 10 Indian languages in addition to English, and more than 75% of teachers use their smartphones to conduct classes. Teachmint has amassed over 1 million teachers across more than 5,000 Indian cities; usage is growing over 100% month-over-month and students consumed over 25 million live classes in the last month. The company builds much of its streaming and classroom technology in-house rather than relying on third-party vendors, which it says reduces per-class cost and improves interactivity. It recently launched Teachmint for Institute to serve schools and colleges and plans to expand product offerings, hire talent, and make the platform available internationally. Investors and partners have taken notice, and the company has raised multiple rounds to fuel growth and product expansion. Teachmint offers a mobile-first, video-first platform that lets teachers start live classes and handle associated tasks from Android, iPhone or the web. The all-in-one product supports live teaching, doubt-clearing sessions, attendance, webinars, fee collection, student discovery, phone support and tests. The app is available in 10 local languages and is highly localized for India-specific needs. In under 10 months since launching its product, more than 700,000 teachers from over 1,500 cities and towns have signed up. Teachmint is currently not monetizing and is prioritizing reaching more teachers and expanding its offerings rather than immediate revenue. The company is open to strategic acquisitions of smaller startups as part of its growth strategy. Teachmint is a six-month-old Bengaluru-based online teaching startup that helps offline tutors digitize their classrooms, engage online with students, and reach a wider base. The company provides tools and services to enable tutors to run classes digitally and expand student reach. Teachmint raised $3.5 million in a seed funding round led by Lightspeed India, with existing investors Better Capital and Titan Capital participating. The fresh capital will be used to build Teachmint’s product suite, introduce additional offerings, and increase geographic reach to more tutors. In August the startup raised an undisclosed round of funding.

• Productfy

  Led · Series A · Oct 2021

  Productfy is a banking-as-a-service platform built to operate with multiple banking partners and to create a decentralized-style infrastructure for traditional finance. Its product lets developers configure in hours, integrate in days, and go from idea to full-stack deployment in as little as three weeks, while also offering white-label user interfaces for non-technical brands. The company partners with providers including Equifax, Marqeta, Arroweye, Envestnet | Yodlee and Stearns Bank to enable money movement, digital banking and card issuance via embeddable APIs, widgets and pre-approved customer interfaces. Since July the startup has seen 119% month-over-month revenue growth and currently serves eight clients, including HatchCard. Productfy plans to further scale its offerings, expand compliance-as-a-service capabilities, improve its core data and card issuance products, build new integrations and partnerships, and launch its first cohort of customers. In the fourth quarter it plans to launch a Card-Issuance-as-a-Service solution called “Latinum” and a white-label “fintech in a box” that will let brands go live with banking products in days without engineering or compliance teams.

• Buyk

  Participated · Equity · Sep 2021

  Buyk operates a real-time retail service promising delivery of groceries and essential items to customers' doors in 15 minutes or faster, with no minimum spend and no delivery fee. The company uses hyperlocal dark stores stocked with roughly 2,000–3,000 SKUs and proprietary technology to optimize assortment, picking strategies, and delivery routes. Buyk is led by founders Rodion Shishkov and Slava Bocharov, who previously co-founded and ran Samokat, a large European ultrafast delivery operator. The service launched in Manhattan on September 14 and Buyk plans to expand across all New York City boroughs by the end of 2021 and to the largest U.S. metro areas in 2022. The company emphasizes tailoring assortments to hyperlocal demand, featuring local partners, and intends to develop a private-label offering. Buyk raised $46 million in a recent funding round from CM Ventures, Fort Ross, Citius and other investors ahead of its New York launch.

No current team members are available.