Participated · Series A · Jan 2026

Checkbox offers an AI Legal Front Door that captures legal requests directly from tools such as email, Slack, Teams, Salesforce, and company intranets, then routes or automates those matters through intelligent, no-code workflows. The platform’s AI agents let business users self-serve common tasks—from drafting contracts to approving conflicts—while escalating complex, high-risk issues to legal staff. By centralizing intake and providing real-time visibility into demand, workload, and cycle times, Checkbox helps corporate legal teams improve resource planning and showcase their value to the business. More than 100 enterprise organizations, including SAP, PepsiCo, and multiple Fortune 500 firms, already use the product. Hitachi reports that 83 % of routine legal and compliance requests are now partially or fully automated with Checkbox, freeing attorneys for higher-value work. With fresh capital, the company plans to deepen AI capabilities, expand integrations across the tech stack, and drive wider adoption of its platform as the industry standard entry point for legal services.

Led · Series A · Oct 2025

UMe Tea is a beverage brand founded in California in 2019 that sells milk-cap teas, fruit teas, baked desserts and snacks across roughly 30 SKUs. The chain has expanded from nine outlets in 2023 to 27 company-operated locations today, with only three pilot franchises. About 60% of its customers are non-Asian and average per-store sales have climbed roughly 30% year-over-year. Flagship items such as classic bubble tea, mango and matcha drinks, and a salted crispy chicken side dish (which accounts for 30% of sales) drive traffic, while new products are introduced twice monthly. A partnership with a large U.S. food-service supply-chain provider handles raw-material sourcing, warehousing and transport, allowing the brand to centralize operations. Management plans to deepen its Bay Area presence to 33 stores by the end of 2025 and ultimately sees potential for several hundred California locations, supported by investments in team building, digital tools and supply-chain upgrades.

Participated · Series A · Jun 2025

Qualytics provides an AI-driven, enterprise platform for augmented data quality that automates anomaly detection, intelligent rule generation, and remediation via no-code workflows. The platform integrates with cloud-native and legacy systems and tools including Databricks, Snowflake, SQL Server, Oracle, Atlan, and Alation. Qualytics surfaces more than 30,000 real-world anomalies per month and recently signed a top‑3 U.S. financial institution, demonstrating traction with large data-driven enterprises. The company reported 5x revenue growth over the past year, driven by demand for proactive data quality in AI and analytics initiatives. To support accelerating demand the company is scaling its team across engineering, product management, customer success, and sales. Planned product and go-to-market expansion aims to deepen platform capabilities, speed customer onboarding, and increase support for existing users. Qualytics provides an active, scalable data quality platform for enterprises. Led by CEO Gorkem Sevinc and based in Orlando, FL, it offers a scalable solution across the entire data quality lifecycle. The platform enables subject matter experts and data engineers to collaborate on data quality at scale through advanced automation and intelligent workflows. Qualytics raised $2.5M in funding in a round led by Tech Square Ventures. The company intends to use the funds to scale demand from Fortune 500 enterprises. The funding involved a mix of venture firms, funds and individual backers. Qualytics offers the Qualytics Data Firewall, a platform that monitors data with real-time surveillance. The platform uses advanced data operations and machine learning to enable governance, auditing, and data security by detecting data quality anomalies in real time and preventing bad data from entering downstream systems. The company is focused on a critical gap—data integrity. Qualytics was founded in April 2020 by Gorkem Sevinc and Dan Roche and is based in Baltimore, Md. The company operates as a tenant at the bwtech@UMBC Research & Technology Park. Its current financing activity includes an ongoing seed round with participation from institutional and angel investors.

Led · Seed · Jul 2024

HopSkip is a B2B SaaS-enabled marketplace that streamlines how companies source and book hotel meetings, events, and conferences. It targets meeting and hospitality professionals, enabling them to book event spaces and room blocks at hotels. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Philadelphia, PA. Its platform lists about 150,000 hotels — including Marriott, Hyatt, and Hilton — and serves more than 1,000 event planners. HopSkip plans to use new funding to hire staff, expand marketing to grow its customer base, enhance the platform with AI features, and increase its global venue database to include convention centers. The company operates in the hotel event sourcing software category and offers a marketplace connecting planners with hotel inventory.

Participated · Series A · Mar 2024

Cloverleaf builds an automated coaching platform focused on individual employee development and behavioral transparency within teams. The product aggregates common behavioral assessments (DISC, Enneagram, CliftonStrengths) into a Netflix‑style platform and integrates with everyday tools like email, calendar, Slack and Microsoft Teams. The company emphasizes user experience and positions itself as the world’s first automated coaching platform that scales to the entire enterprise. Cloverleaf serves over 1.3 million employees across more than 30,000 teams and over 1,000 companies and has been named to the Inc. 5000. Leadership plans include adding go‑to‑market executives and continued investment in AI to further contextualize coaching. The company recently raised new funding to pursue cash‑flow positivity and accelerate growth. Cloverleaf is an automated coaching platform that sends personalized coaching tips based on assessments like DISC, Enneagram, and Strengthscope to help employees and teams communicate and collaborate more effectively. The platform integrates with Google Workplace, Microsoft 365, Slack, and Microsoft Teams and is used by organizations including Monster Energy, HP Enterprise, and Kroger. Cloverleaf reports sending millions of tips monthly to more than one million users, 20,000 teams, and hundreds of coaches, and says revenue has increased 400 percent since its 2021 funding round. The company plans to use new capital to invest in product and technology to improve contextualization and integration points and to expand coaching content. Management aims to grow its user base to thousands of coaches and over 100,000 teams. The team is led by co-founders CEO Darrin Murriner and COO Kirsten Moorefield; the company debuted in 2018. Cloverleaf offers a SaaS team-building platform that applies data analytics to common personality and strengths assessments to identify career development and promotion opportunities and create teams that work well together. The software includes integration capabilities to extend value into tools companies use daily, such as email, HRIS, and task/performance management systems. Led by Kirsten Moorefield and Darrin Murriner, the company emerged from Ocean Accelerator’s 2017 class. Cloverleaf plans to use new funding to add staff, expand its geographic reach and enhance customer usability of its software. The product focus is on improving talent management and team effectiveness through assessment-driven insights. No revenue or user metrics were disclosed in the article.