• Vend Park

  Participated · Series A · Nov 2025

  Vend Park offers a single platform that combines agentic AI with an in-house operations team to replace the traditional two-vendor parking model for commercial real estate owners. Its software automates daily parking management, unifies access, billing, and reporting, and delivers a seamless driver experience while boosting property net operating income by about 30 % and trimming operating costs by 30–50 %. Over the last 24 months, the company says it has achieved 35× growth, scaling from 3 to 15 U.S. cities and winning customers such as Nuveen, Jamestown, Federal Realty, and Harwood International. The system is deployed across office towers, mixed-use sites, healthcare facilities, hotels, campuses, event venues, and airports. Vend positions parking as “digital infrastructure” that can unlock trapped revenue and real-time data for owners. The new capital will fuel national market expansion, accelerate its AI product roadmap, and support hiring across sales, engineering, and customer success teams. Headquartered in Boston, the firm markets itself as turning parking into a strategic lever for property value creation.

• Guidesly

  Participated · Series A · Jan 2025

  Guidesly is a NYC-based provider of a software platform for outdoor recreation guides. Led by CEO David Lord, the company offers a workflow optimization platform and marketplace that connects outdoor enthusiasts with guides across fishing, hunting, snow sports and water sports. Its tools aim to improve guides' business operations and the customer experience. The firm raised $9.5M in Series A funding led by Aspen Capital Group, with participation from YETI Capital, HalfCourt Ventures and Derive Ventures, plus existing backers Elysian Park Ventures and Marquee Ventures. The article states the company intends to sue the funds to accelerate the expansion of its Vertical AI solutions. Guidesly is a technology company building a marketplace for the outdoor recreational industry, starting with fishing. Led by CEO David Lord, the platform connects fishing guides and charter captains with anglers through consumer experiences and guide tools on web and mobile applications. The company focuses on vertical SaaS products for guides and reported a 300% increase in SaaS guides using the platform in the second half of 2021. Guidesly plans to continue investing in vertical SaaS and roll out new offerings in early 2022. The company intends to use new funding to further scale its vertical SaaS capabilities and expand its reach in the outdoor recreation community. Guidesly is based in Boston, MA. Guidesly builds a purpose-built marketplace, mobile applications and SaaS tools that connect anglers with trusted fishing guides and charter captains. Its platform and apps aim to simplify bookings and improve the guest and guide experience across website and mobile. The company plans to use its recent pre-seed funding to further develop and market its mobile applications and marketplace platform. Guidesly says it will launch in its first market of Florida to tap into a large base of anglers and outdoor recreation users. The company cites a U.S. address in Boston and a team that includes veterans of consumer tech, designers, and experts in cloud-based software platforms. Guidesly positions itself against inefficiencies in the guides market and targets the roughly 51 million Americans who fish for fun.

• Cents

  Participated · Series B · Aug 2024

  Cents offers an all-in-one platform for laundry businesses combining AI-native business management software, proprietary hardware, and integrated payments. The company provides tools including point-of-sale systems, on-machine payments, marketing automation, AI customer service, and pickup & delivery services. Cents is trusted by over 4,500 laundromat locations and processes $1 billion in payments annually. The firm positions itself as the leading operating system for laundromats, dry cleaners, and multi-family laundry operations. With the Series C, Cents plans to accelerate its AI-powered product suite, expand its product line, invest in payment hardware infrastructure, and enhance support and customer experience. The company emphasizes partnerships with route operators and equipment distributors as part of its go-to-market strategy.

• Directo Tech, Inc - Travel Browser Extension

  Participated · Seed · Jun 2024

  Directo is a browser extension that automates a TikTok travel hack by identifying when a property can be booked directly on its own website and linking users to that booking page. The extension flags eligible listings with a yellow-and-black “D” icon and highlights user-reported good deals with a cheers emoji. It currently works on Airbnb, Booking.com, VRBO, Expedia and Abritel, with additional sites planned. Directo vets properties that use modern booking tech to reduce checkout and payment security concerns and relies on community submissions and reporting to surface deals and flag problematic sites. The product is free for consumers; Directo’s revenue model is a subscription sold to hotels that improves connectivity and lets properties push special deals to users, and those subscription funds are being reinvested into marketing. In testing the extension reached 115,000 users and the company’s database includes nearly 200,000 hospitality brands representing millions of properties; the startup is Madrid-based and led by co-CEOs Pierre Becerril and Marina Guastavino, CTO Julian Toledo and Sofia Canepa.

• Operto Guest Technologies

  Participated · Series B · Mar 2023

  Operto Guest Technologies builds a smart property automation platform that enables hotels, property managers and vacation-rental owners to remotely monitor and control properties, including smartphone-enabled guest verification, security-deposit/payment handling, and electronic elevator and room access. The company says its automated solutions serve more than 50 million rooms globally and have been adopted in over 100 countries. Operto works exclusively with Accor to power its global digital key program and supports luxury brands such as Fairmont and Raffles. Proceeds from the US$25 million Series B will fund aggressive expansion in the global short-term rental and hotel markets. The platform integrates with existing property-management software and aims to lower operating costs while driving new in-stay revenue for property owners and hosts. Operto is headquartered in Vancouver and recently added Sam Shank, former HotelTonight CEO and ex‑Airbnb commercial head, to its board. Operto Guest Technologies Inc. is a Vancouver, British Columbia-based provider of smart device automation and SaaS technologies for hotels, multifamily, vacation and short-term rental industries. Its core product is the Connect operating system, a SaaS-based property automation and IoT platform that gives property managers real-time visibility and control across portfolios. Operto's platform digitizes the post-booking guest experience and automates property operations to improve short-term rental and hospitality management. The company plans to use new funding to accelerate development of the Connect operating system and to expand across accommodation verticals and into new geographies. Operto completed a $12.0M Series A financing in February 2022 led by FUSE with follow-on investments from Watchfire Venturers, BlackPines Capital Partners and other investors. No revenue or user metrics were disclosed in the article.

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