Participated · Seed · Jul 2024

Look North World develops and publishes games with a focus on user-generated content. The studio currently has 15 original titles in development and has already developed and published five games on Unreal Engine for Fortnite. It launched a creator label to give creators artistic and technical support, a marketing budget, and long-term ownership of intellectual property, and has signed creators including Austin 'TomJank' Rodriguez and Jon 'SightedSloth' Jungemann. Financially, the company raised an additional $2.25 million in seed funding, bringing total capital raised to $4.5 million. The new funding will support development of original titles and research into how games are built using user-generated content. Look North World was established last year by veterans from EA, Bungie, and Kongreate including Alex Seropian, Jay Pecho, Patrick Moran, Kyle Marks, Aaron Marroquin, and Prashant Patil.

Participated · Seed · Jan 2024

ViralMoment provides an AI platform that analyzes short-form social videos end-to-end to deliver insights, strategy, and analytics for brands and agencies. The platform goes beyond captions, transcripts, and thumbnails to offer a complete view of a brand’s reputation and viral trends in real time. Customers include WPP, Omnicom, and Warner Brothers. The company has tracked over 1 billion social videos to date. Led by CEO Chelsie Hall and based in Menlo Park, CA, ViralMoment plans to use new funding to widen the scope of its video-reading AI. The company recently raised $2.5M in Seed funding.

Participated · Seed · Nov 2023

CreateSafe builds Triniti, a generative AI "artistic intelligence" platform that enables artists to create AI voice clones, generate text-to-audio samples, consult a music-industry chatbot, monetize creations, and manage music IP. Triniti leverages a customized RVC voice-cloning model, OpenAI’s ChatGPT for its virtual companion, Stable Diffusion for album art, and a MusicGen-based music model focused on audio/DSP techniques. Elf.Tech is the prototype of Triniti and has produced more than 1,000 songs replicating Grimes’ voice; Grimes has joined CreateSafe’s advisory board. The platform issues a voice‑likeness certificate so artists can set licensing terms and includes distribution, takedown and monetization workflows. CreateSafe launched Triniti as a free open web beta, with voice cloning, licensing, distribution and management apps available upon request/approval. The company plans a subscription tier ($99–$150/year), forthcoming editing tools, MIDI processing features, and iOS and Android apps. CreateSafe raised $4.6M in a seed round to further develop the Triniti platform.

Participated · Series A · Jul 2023

Sound is a San Francisco–based Web3 music platform that lets artists upload songs onchain and mint them as NFTs, using Ethereum and the Optimism layer-2 scaling solution. Artists maintain creative control, set valuations for their catalogs, retain 100% of master and publishing rights, and receive instant, transparent payments whenever a fan collects a song. The platform emphasizes direct artist–fan relationships without intermediaries and rewards listeners for discovering and curating music. Fans can collect music, leave permanent comments, access group chats with artists and other collectors, and earn money by making playlists and sharing links. Sound launched to the public and plans to use new funding to expand operations and broaden its business reach. Sound.xyz builds web3 tools to help recording artists monetize their communities via NFTs. Its first product, Listening Parties, lets artists sell limited-edition NFTs tied to song releases. Early drops have been limited to a couple dozen NFTs that sold out and have generated roughly $10,000 in proceeds for artists. The company does not take a commission on those NFT sales. Sound.xyz is experimenting with features like enabling NFT holders to leave comments on streams and plans broader tools for fan crowdfunding and new incentive models for curators. CEO David Greenstein says the goal is to get music heard and get artists paid through new NFT-driven economics.

Participated · Seed · May 2023

AudioShake develops AI-driven audio separation software that can split any recording—including decades-old or live-captured material—into distinct tracks for voices, music, and sound effects with broadcast quality. The platform is delivered through simple APIs and real-time SDKs, enabling film studios, music labels, sports leagues, newsrooms, and Big Tech firms to edit, search, and repurpose audio content. The company has secured more than 40 enterprise contracts and processed over 100 million minutes of audio, fueling nearly 400 percent year-over-year revenue growth. Clients such as Universal Music, Disney Music Group, Warner Bros Discovery, BET, and several “Mag 7” tech companies use the service for immersive music releases, foreign-language dubbing, noise removal, copyright compliance, and training multimodal AI models. AudioShake’s business model combines annual access fees with usage-based pricing, creating recurring enterprise revenue. Founded in 2021 by former Google VP Jessica Powell and former Plaid data-science lead Luke Miner, the 18-person team—half of whom hold PhDs—plans to expand hiring, product development, and go-to-market reach. The newly raised capital will also broaden developer access to the company’s APIs and real-time SDKs, positioning AudioShake as the foundational layer that makes sound as flexible as text or images.