• Reddy

  Led · Equity · Feb 2025

  Reddy provides an AI-powered platform that gives enterprise customer experience (CX) teams a single interface to train, deploy and manage both human and AI agents. Key features highlighted include hyper-realistic simulations, live assistance at scale, AI-driven QA innovation, and tools aimed at enterprise adoption. The company is led by CEO and co-founder Adam Levin and is based in San Francisco, CA. Reddy raised $2M in a funding round led by DA Ventures. The company intends to use the funds to expand operations and broaden its business reach. The article does not disclose revenue, user counts, or prior funding-round details.

• Urban Sky

  Participated · Series B · Feb 2025

  Urban Sky develops high-altitude balloons (Microballoon™/mHAB), custom stratospheric payloads, control software, and AI-derived forecasting and autonomous flight control systems. Its flagship mHAB product is a rapidly deployable, navigable stratospheric balloon that can operate above 60,000 feet for multiple days. The company serves commercial, civil government, and U.S. defense customers, including NASA, the oil & gas sector, wildfire monitoring organizations, the U.S. Army, and the U.S. Air Force. Urban Sky demonstrated its Hot Spot LWIR imaging system with NASA and the Air Force, producing wildfire heat maps the company says are 100x finer than publicly available MODIS and VIIRS data. The firm plans to develop and commercialize a connected suite of products and to pioneer technologies to deploy a global constellation of long-duration, persistent stratospheric balloons for search & rescue, environmental monitoring, disaster response, communications, and intelligence support. Financially, Urban Sky closed a $30M Series B to accelerate development and commercialization of its technology and product portfolio. Urban Sky builds small, reusable stratospheric balloons—branded Microballoons—that are deployed from a pickup truck to collect high-resolution Earth imagery and data products. The company offers natural color optical images today and is developing near-infrared and long-wave infrared sensors (the latter, HotSpot, has been demonstrated to monitor wildfires in real time under a NASA grant with Air Force support). Urban Sky uses a patented termination and descent mechanism to recover balloons and a stratospheric flight simulator to back-predict launch sites, lowering operational costs. The 14-person startup has been running tasking missions in the Rocky Mountain region and has brought in millions in revenue. It plans to scale operations by building a routine catalogue of refreshed data over highly populated areas and other customer areas of interest. Urban Sky aims to drive down imagery costs—reporting roughly $5–$10 per square kilometer at 10 cm resolution—and compete on cost and revisit cadence with traditional satellite providers. Urban Sky is a Denver, CO startup focused on stratospheric technology and remote sensing. The company develops the Microballoon, leveraging component miniaturization and first-of-its-kind balloon reusability to operate in the stratosphere. Its approach uses the high vantage point of the stratosphere to reduce the cost of high-resolution remote sensing and weather-related data capture over broad areas. Urban Sky says this enables more impactful data collection across larger regions than traditional platforms. The company announced an over-subscribed $4.1 million Seed financing round. Investors in the round include Catapult Ventures, Union Labs, TenOneTen Ventures, New Stack Ventures, and Techstars.

• Safety Radar

  Participated · Seed · Mar 2024

  Safety Radar is a Tulsa-based startup with offices in Oklahoma and Colorado that has built an AI platform to help prevent job site accidents through behavioral risk tracking and training. Its platform uses AI to identify and address potential risks so organizations can protect employees, assets, and reputation. The company plans to grow and deploy the technology into corporate partners' operations across several industries and scale up quickly. Financially, Safety Radar completed a $1.5M Series Seed round led by EIC Rose Rock and including Helmerich & Payne, DA Ventures Seed Fund and other investors. Prior to this equity financing, Safety Radar received a $100,000 non-dilutive grant and incubator support from the Rose Rock Bridge program. The additional capital and Rose Rock support are intended to help the startup expand deployments and create local impact in the Tulsa community. Safety Radar developed a digital program that relies on digital data collection and algorithms to help companies measure and manage safety risks on energy worksites. The platform eliminates paper tracking and provides safety personnel with immediate, actionable information to take preventative measures rather than relying on lagging indicators. Founders Garrison Haning and Matt Weis created the product based on careers in hazardous industries and an understanding of on-site hazards. The company established its headquarters in Tulsa, supporting Rose Rock Bridge’s regional economic development efforts. Safety Radar says its tool is designed to reduce costly worksite accidents, a problem the article notes costs companies $164 billion annually per the National Safety Council. Financially, Safety Radar received a $100,000 award of non-dilutive capital from Rose Rock Bridge as its first member company.

• RADICL Defense

  Participated · Equity · Nov 2023

  Founded in 2021 and based in Boulder, Colorado, RADICL Defense has built an autonomous virtual security operations center (vSOC) tailored for small and mid-sized businesses operating in regulated or high-risk environments such as the defense industrial base and critical infrastructure. The company’s cybersecurity-as-a-service platform blends AI-driven “agentic operators” with human expertise to identify, assess, and respond to cyberattacks at machine speed, providing nation-state-level defense-in-depth and managed compliance. RADICL’s modular offerings unify workflows for agentic and human operators, the customer, and managed service providers, aiming to make SOC operations increasingly autonomous and software-led. Its vSOC helps SMBs improve both compliance and security posture in the face of emerging automated, AI-powered threats. The firm positions itself as a proactive answer to the growing “AI-enabled threat tsunami” that disproportionately affects resource-constrained organizations. With total funding now at $42 million, RADICL plans to accelerate AI-native vSOC development, launch new products, and drive broader market adoption.

• GoodBuy Gear

  Participated · Equity · Jun 2023

  GoodBuy Gear operates an online resale marketplace for baby and kid gear that enables parents, brands and retailers to safely and sustainably recirculate quality-used products. It offers white-glove selling services in Denver, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., and New York City (and surrounding metro areas), and provides nationwide shopping and shipping. Led by CEO and co-founder Kristin Langenfeld and founded in 2016, the company has sold over 270,000 secondhand items and helped more than 12,000 families resell their items to date. In the first months of 2023 GoodBuy Gear expanded to sell pre-owned, quality-inspected car seats and doubled its base of brand and retail partners. The company raised $14M in funding to further scale its online marketplace and solidify its market position. Carl Sparks of Interlock Partners joined the company's board in conjunction with the financing. Good Buy Gear operates a recommerce marketplace for second‑hand and open‑box baby and children’s items, picking up sellers’ goods, performing quality checks, cleaning and listing them for resale. The company ships nationwide and offers local delivery in Denver and Dallas. Founded in 2016, it has grown rapidly (about four times since March) and has an 11-person workforce with plans to add five hires. Good Buy Gear has raised $8 million to date, including a $6 million Series A and prior $2.8 million in seed funding. The new capital will fund product evolution, strategic partnerships, and market expansion to provide pickup and delivery beyond Denver and Dallas. The company is pursuing partnerships with large retailers to access returns and open‑box inventory and is working with partners to improve sustainability and reduce waste. Good Buy Gear operates an online marketplace and consignment service for previously owned baby and kids’ products, including strollers, furniture and toys. The company manages the full transaction from pickup to payout, allowing parents to avoid consignment stores or meet-ups with strangers. It currently serves the Boulder and Denver metro areas and offers nationwide shipping on many items. Led by CEO Kristin Langenfeld and COO Jessica Crothers, Good Buy Gear secured seed financing to support growth. The company plans to use the funds to expand to more cities throughout the U.S. The financing reflects early-stage capital to accelerate its geographic expansion.

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