Participated · Seed · Sep 2024

AICrete Corp. builds an AI-driven operating system, AICreteOS, and complementary hardware to improve production quality, consistency, and sustainability in the concrete and aggregates industry. AICreteOS is a stand-alone AI-powered quality control operating system that follows concrete throughout its early lifecycle and integrates with batch, dispatch, and truck systems to provide full traceability. The platform closes the feedback loop for quality control managers, creating a flywheel that helps producers deliver more consistent, cost-effective, and sustainable products. AICrete’s AI reduces concrete costs by over $3 per cubic yard and cuts CO2 footprint by 20–85 lbs per cubic yard, with a weighted average reduction of 42 lbs. Founded in 2020 and based in Richmond, CA, the company is developing an AI-powered hardware sensor and plans to expand AICreteOS deployment and customer support across US concrete and aggregate manufacturers. The company has raised Series Seed funding to date, including a recent $5M tranche, to scale product development, deployment, and support. AICrete provides a platform for concrete producers that optimizes and validates local material mixtures in days to lower material costs and reduce CO2 emissions. The solution augments producers’ technical teams to discover more advanced, durable, cost-effective, and sustainable concrete mixtures. AICrete combines data and AI with automation and robotics and aims to deliver real-time optimizations in the coming years. The platform also helps address supply‑chain issues in the concrete industry. Led by founder and CEO Parham Aghdasi, the company is expanding its database and improving predictive machine‑learning models to enhance its capabilities. AICrete will further automate data collection through software and robotic systems as part of its product roadmap.

Led · Seed · May 2024

Angel Kids AI is an AI-powered browser based in Nashville, TN that provides age-customized content and a safe, personalized internet experience for children aged 5–12+. Led by CEO and founder Tim Estes, the platform tailors online resources to children's ages and parents' values while giving parents insights to understand and develop their child's interests. The company raised $1.1M in a seed extension, with backers including Magnify Ventures, CityLight, and Atland Ventures. Angel Kids AI says it will use the funds to accelerate hiring, product development, and marketing initiatives. It has also added an advisory board of experts in digital wellness, child development, and online safety—Dr. Alok Kanojia, Stephen Youngwood, Dr. Elizabeth Milovidov, and Chris McKenna—to guide further platform iterations. Angel AI provides a parent-designed AI platform that delivers age-appropriate answers and multi-modal content for children aged 5–12. The platform employs large language models, natural language processing, speech recognition and synthesis, and agent-based systems with memory to generate personalized, comprehension-level responses. It personalizes and learns about each child over time to support curiosity and encourage learning, and delivers content including video and audio. Angel AI’s service is free from advertisements and does not collect data for reselling, and it includes a parent insight portal offering visibility into children’s interests. The company plans to roll out new capabilities in the coming months to build a multi-faceted ecosystem redefining how children experience the internet. Angel AI raised $4.75M in Seed funding and intends to use the proceeds to accelerate hiring, product development, and marketing initiatives.

Led · Seed · May 2024

Angel AI is a parent-designed platform that uses large language models, NLP, speech recognition and synthesis, and agent-based systems with memory to answer kids’ questions and deliver safe, engaging multi-modal content. Tailored for children aged 5 to 12, the service personalizes responses over time, supports curiosity, and offers video and audio explanations at a child’s comprehension level. The product is deliberately free of advertisements, predatory monetization tactics, and data-resale practices. A companion parent insight portal provides visibility into a child’s evolving interests and online behavior, helping families cultivate healthy digital habits. More than 100 parents are already testing the product, and broader invitations will be released in phases over the summer. Future plans include rolling out additional capabilities to build a multi-faceted ecosystem that redefines how children experience the internet. Seed funding will accelerate hiring, product development, and marketing efforts as the company prepares for larger-scale launch.

Participated · Equity · Feb 2024

dataroomHQ offers an AI-powered platform that increases insight into operational and financial metrics for SaaS companies, enabling CEOs, CFOs, and GTM analytics teams to automate reporting and align stakeholders. The product automates metrics reporting, builds predictive models, supports cohort analysis and experimentation across sales, marketing, and product, and generates forecasts and headcount planning. The company positions its platform as a blueprint for efficient growth, helping customers identify best customers and optimize retention. dataroomHQ was built with early capital from Cortical Ventures and its platform is available now. The company says the latest capital will be used to continue product development and bring the platform to market. Jeff Schwartz is CEO and Founder and the company markets itself from New York.

Participated · Seed · Jan 2024

Neurelo provides an abstraction layer that automatically generates purpose-built APIs tailored to a developer’s data model, simplifying read and write interactions between databases and applications. The company gives visibility into each generated API rather than presenting it as a black box. It leverages a custom large language model to generate database queries that understand different databases and query languages. Neurelo launched in August 2022; co-founders are CEO Chirag Shah (formerly at MongoDB) and CTO Guru Kamat (formerly at Stripe). The product moved through a beta and is generally available today. The team has grown to 12 people from an initial seven-person engineering team and plans to hire a few more in the coming months. The company raised $5 million in seed funding to build on this vision.