• ZML

  Participated · Equity · Jul 2026

  ZML develops inference-performance software, notably its newly launched LLM inference server ZML/LLMD, which enables a range of open-source large language models to run across Nvidia, AMD, Google TPU, Apple Metal, Intel Arc and other chips. The company’s earlier public project was an open-source inference-focused ML framework released in 2024 and updated in March; ZML/LLMD itself is not open source but launched as a free product to gather usage data. Founder Steeve Morin, formerly VP of engineering at Zenly, leads a tight team of about 20 people based in Paris. ZML positions itself to reduce vendor lock-in and allow enterprises and cloud providers to use mixed chip fleets for cost and energy efficiency. Its cap table includes prominent founders and researchers such as Solomon Hykes, Hugging Face’s Clément Delangue and Julien Chaumond, and Yann LeCun, signaling strong industry support. The company has raised $20 million from a syndicate of VCs to accelerate product development and future releases, while competing with inference-focused startups like Baseten, Inferact, and RadixArk.

• Macrodata Labs

  Participated · Seed · Jun 2026

  Macrodata Labs offers a platform to process robotics demonstrations, iterate on datasets, and scale data workflows so teams don’t have to rebuild their data stack as setups change. The company was founded by Guilherme Penedo and Hynek Kydlíček, who previously worked at Hugging Face on widely used open LLM pre-training datasets including FineWeb and FinePDFs. Macrodata Labs positions itself to address the complexities of physical-world data—large video files, multi-rate sensors, and diverse formats—by providing infrastructure for the robotics data loop. The team announced a $4 million pre-seed round led by Air Street Capital with participation from several VCs and angel investors to pursue this work. The company stated the funds will support development of its platform and scaling of data workflows; no revenue, user, or other operating metrics were disclosed in the announcement.

No current team members are available.