Led · Seed · Jan 2022

Sahicoin operates a social crypto platform and mobile app (early access on Android and iOS) that lets users access simplified crypto knowledge, follow top-performing portfolios, test investment strategies, and earn points and rewards. The company aggregates experts and new investors to share updates, trends and intelligent signals. Sahicoin was founded by IIT Kanpur alumni Amit Nayak, Ankush Rajput and Melbin Thomas and is based in New York and Montreal. Current users and experts are from the US, Canada, India, the UK, Singapore, the UAE and five other countries. The company intends to use the new funds to expand operations and broaden its business reach. The article does not disclose revenue or specific user counts.

Participated · Series A · Jul 2021

Censia provides AI-driven talent intelligence through proprietary data models and a platform that surfaces comprehensive, trusted, and insightful talent information. Its solutions can be deployed across sourcing and recruitment through workforce planning and internal mobility. The platform integrates directly in Workday to enable smarter, faster, fairer talent decisions without leaving the Workday environment. The company is led by CEO Joanna Riley. The reported investment is intended to support product scaling, model training and fine-tuning, collaboration with joint customers, and deeper integration with Workday solutions. Financial details of the round were not disclosed in the article. Censia provides a platform that applies AI and machine learning to talent data, delivering continuous insights as a headless solution via API. Led by CEO and co-founder Joanna Riley, the company integrates with many leading HR systems, including Workday, iCIMs, SAP SuccessFactors, Recruiter.com, Jobvite, Greenhouse, Phenom, Lever and Smart Recruiter. The company intends to use the funds to expand go-to-market efforts, scale its API-first offering, and continue product innovations for talent acquisition and workforce planning. Censia recently launched a developer resources site for their API offering. Financially, the Series A brought the company’s total funding to over $30m. The company is based in San Francisco, CA.

Participated · Seed · May 2021

Breinify provides predictive personalization powered by data science, designed to be accessible to nontechnical marketing teams so they can create individualized customer experiences. The platform hides algorithmic complexity and automatically personalizes website messaging, email, SMS and other channels based on what the AI determines a customer should see at a given time. Co‑founders Diane Keng (CEO) and Philipp Meisen (CTO) started the company to help consumer brands and retailers activate machine learning at scale without requiring in‑house data scientists. Breinify launched in 2016 and tested its approach on the stage of TechCrunch Disrupt, where it also walked away with a funding deal. The startup is growing quickly and has 24 employees, up from 10 last year, and emphasizes diversity in hiring.

Participated · Series C · Aug 2019

Uniphore is a Business AI company whose core product, the Business AI Cloud, offers enterprises an end-to-end, sovereign, and composable platform for building AI agents that connect data, knowledge, and models across existing tech stacks. Trusted by more than 2,000 global businesses, the platform powers use cases such as multilingual customer service, QA automation, workflow orchestration, and personalized customer experiences for clients including Allstate, Dell, The Washington Post, Priceline, and Skechers. Recent milestones include the spring 2025 launch of the Business AI Cloud and the completed acquisitions of ActionIQ and Infoworks, along with announced acquisitions of Orby AI and Autonom8, all aimed at strengthening Uniphore’s AI talent base and product breadth. The company reports “exponential adoption” among Fortune 500 customers and partnerships with KPMG and Konecta, which are building reusable libraries of AI agents on the platform. Uniphore emphasizes enterprise-grade security, governance, and data sovereignty while retaining consumer-grade ease of use, allowing organizations to move AI projects from pilot to production in weeks. The Series F round values the company at $2.5 billion, underscoring investor confidence in its ability to drive measurable business outcomes at scale.

Participated · Equity · Oct 2018

CognitionX operates an AI Advice Platform that matches AI experts with people across industries who need guidance. The platform is free to use while the company plans to monetize via an Enterprise Edition. The Enterprise Edition is designed to allow organisations to capitalise on internal AI knowledge by accessing both internal and external expertise through a single platform. CognitionX says it is starting with a focus on AI but intends to apply the model to other topics and domains. Charlie Muirhead, CEO and Founder, frames the product as addressing knowledge gaps inside large organisations. Financially, CognitionX recently raised $1.1 million in funding, adding to a previous $3 million round earlier this year.