Participated · Seed · Aug 2026

Shelfmark builds a fully managed Physical AI platform that combines in-line industrial cameras, spatial sensing and proprietary deep-learning vision models to inspect high-speed continuous materials in real time. The platform fuses sensor data and embeds causal AI to link defect events with dynamic environmental and process inputs, enabling root-cause identification, prediction and guided corrective actions. Shelfmark reports 99.5% defect-detection accuracy in customer deployments, has halved inspection labor costs, generated returns up to 7x versus manual inspection, and achieved a 90% pilot conversion rate. Developed alongside operators in roughly 40 manufacturing facilities and built in Pittsburgh, the company serves initial markets including industrial films, decorated apparel, webbing and structured building components. With this funding Shelfmark plans to expand deployments, grow its sales and marketing team, and advance its roadmap from detection toward more autonomous production.

Participated · Seed · Feb 2026

Bluprynt has built a compliance OS that unifies traditional financial-services regulations with blockchain-native transparency, enabling issuers, banks, stablecoin operators, and other institutions to meet supervisory standards without slowing transaction speed. The platform supplies core primitives for document and disclosure creation, verifiable issuer and asset identity, and policy infrastructure that governs token transactions at scale. Since launch, Bluprynt completed the EU’s first MiCA pilot in 2024 and debuted its Know Your Issuer (KYI) solution in 2025 through pilots with Paxos and Circle covering USDC and PYUSD. The company is now developing a multi-participant compliance stack with Chainlink, Apex, and Hacken under the Bermuda Monetary Authority and expects to be integrated into or piloting with additional regulators worldwide by year-end. Bluprynt counts major traditional-finance and crypto players among its design partners, reflecting growing institutional demand for on-chain compliance tools. Proceeds from its latest financing will accelerate product and engineering hiring, expand integrations across off-chain and on-chain ecosystems, and support global regulatory deployments. Financial metrics such as revenue or user counts were not disclosed, but the oversubscription of the recent seed round signals strong market interest in its solution.

Led · Seed · Feb 2026

Force Equals has built a multi-agent, AI-driven platform that automates the creation of execution-ready plans for complex software, AI, and broader business transformation initiatives. The system automatically maps and coordinates stakeholders, gathers contextual inputs, generates functional, technical and operational requirements, identifies risks and dependencies, and manages approvals and sign-offs. It then produces delivery-ready artifacts for hand-off to downstream development, project-management, and procurement workflows, compressing months of manual planning into minutes. Target users include enterprise PMOs, IT leaders, and transformation teams that struggle with fragmented, manual planning processes as development velocity accelerates. The product activates across an organization’s entire initiative portfolio, helping teams evaluate, prioritize, and align investments at scale. With its recent seed financing, the company intends to accelerate product development, expand go-to-market operations, and scale adoption of its AI Planning OS. Based in Tampa, Florida, Force Equals positions itself as foundational infrastructure for enterprise planning in the AI era.

Led · Seed · Feb 2026

FinOpsly is a Cincinnati-based startup building an artificial-intelligence automation platform focused on ‘value-control,’ a framework that lets customers visualize, understand and reduce their cloud, data and AI expenditures. The software ingests usage data and applies AI to identify inefficiencies, automate policy enforcement and streamline financial operations. Founded by two former FIS executives and led by CEO Kiran Jain, the company has positioned itself as a 2024 Cincy Inno ‘Startup to Watch.’ Management has set 2026 goals that include tripling revenue, indicating a growth-oriented roadmap supported by the recent capital infusion. Although specific current revenue or user figures were not disclosed, the team is doubling down on brand messaging to accelerate customer acquisition. FinOpsly targets enterprises wrestling with escalating cloud and AI infrastructure costs, offering them tangible savings and improved governance. The firm’s Midwest roots and focus on operational efficiency resonate with a growing market for cost-control solutions in cloud computing.

Participated · Series B · Jan 2026

Hydrosat operates a thermal-infrared satellite constellation combined with AI and machine-learning analytics to provide daily, field-scale “thermal intelligence.” With two satellites already in orbit, the company collects more than 10 million km² of imagery per day—an order-of-magnitude increase over existing commercial alternatives. Its data are used to monitor water consumption, optimize irrigation, detect vegetation stress, and generate temperature-based signals for defense and intelligence customers, even at night. Hydrosat’s platform currently oversees millions of hectares for clients such as NOAA, the National Reconnaissance Office, Bayer, SupPlant and Nutradrip. The firm plans to expand its presence in Central Asia, the Middle East and North Africa, India and Latin America while building a larger next-generation satellite fleet and broadening its crop and water-management solutions. The newly raised capital strengthens its balance sheet and supports this global expansion strategy.