Led · Equity · Mar 2024

Swift Medical builds AI-driven digital wound care tools and an imaging app used to standardize assessment, documentation, and remote care across the continuum of care. Core product offerings highlighted in the announcement include SmartTissue™, AutoDepth™ and HealingIndex™, which aim to improve wound evaluations, reduce treatment variability and identify risk more accurately. The company reports being the trusted wound care technology partner of more than 4,000 healthcare facilities in North America with over 20,000 clinical users. Its platform has captured more than 20 million wound images and 40 million assessments, which underpin its clinical analytics and remote-care capabilities. Swift says its technology is associated with 37% faster wound healing and a 39% increase in measurement accuracy on darker skin tones in cited studies. Headquartered in Toronto, Swift operates across the U.S. and Canada and is pursuing broader commercialization and deployment of its AI tools. Swift Medical provides an AI-driven digital wound care platform that offers high-precision imaging, compliant documentation, clinical analytics, and remote care. The company serves more than 4,000 healthcare facilities across North America and has over 20,000 clinical users. Its platform has captured more than 20 million wound images and 40 million assessments, supporting standardized and equitable wound care. Headquartered in Toronto, Swift is expanding operations across the U.S. and Canada. The company plans significant platform enhancements in 2024, including enhanced data security, improved interoperability, and enhanced device capabilities. The recent financing is intended to accelerate those technology improvements and expand the company’s reach. Swift Medical offers an AI-powered digital wound care platform that lets patients and clinicians capture high-precision wound images with a mobile phone, autonomously determine wound dimensions and clinical characteristics, enable virtual wound consultations, and provide real-time predictive insights. The technology is used by over 4,000 healthcare organizations across all 50 states and spans the full continuum of care. The company says it has grown 300% year-over-year in every new market it has entered over the past three years. Swift Medical positions itself as the dominant market player in digital wound management and emphasizes improving prevention, treatment, and management of wounds. With the new funding, the company plans to expand its market position and scale its platform across the care continuum in North America and continue growing its team. The stated mission is to prevent wounds before they occur and improve quality of care for every patient with a wound. Swift Medical offers an enterprise-grade, smartphone-ready Swift Skin and Wound software that delivers advanced wound visualization and touchless 3D measurement without touching the wound or requiring extra equipment. The platform captures images and measurements including wound depth, provides automatic risk scoring, schedules assessments, and supports claims submission to streamline clinical and administrative wound care workflows. Swift has been adopted by over 1,000 healthcare facilities managing more than 100,000 beds and reports helping heal over 10,000 patients a month. The company has partnerships with PointClickCare and Healogics and positions itself as a global market leader and enterprise solutions partner in digital wound care management. Management says the Series A funding will be used to expand reach and bring Swift’s solution to every bedside in hospitals and care facilities. Swift frames its mission around digitizing wound care management to augment clinician capabilities and address the global burden of chronic wounds.

Led · Seed · Apr 2023

Hug is a New York-based social marketplace connecting digital art and NFT creators with current and prospective collectors. The platform enables artists to sell digital and physical goods and uses a community-driven, decentralized curation process to spotlight diverse and underrepresented creators. Hug combines social curation and discovery tools with Hug Studios, which offers educational and advisory programs for Web3 startup founders and creative entrepreneurs. The company raised $5M in Seed funding to accelerate product growth and integrate creator-first commerce features with its existing tools. The team is led by founder and CEO Randi Zuckerberg and was later joined by co-founder and Chief Growth Officer Debbie Soon. In November 2022 Hug consolidated the Meta Angels NFT community under its parent company Assemble.

Participated · Equity · May 2022

MARA is a pan‑African crypto exchange building a suite of products including a custodial retail wallet, a pro exchange for professional traders, and its own layer‑one blockchain (the MARA chain). The company plans to launch its retail app in July, followed by the exchange, with the MARA chain scheduled to go live in the fourth quarter. MARA will initially launch in Kenya and Nigeria before expanding to other African countries. The startup announced a $23 million raise composed of equity and a token sale. The firm says it intends to work closely with regulators across African nations, running hackathons and advising governments (including the Central African Republic) on crypto adoption and KYC/AML measures. CEO Chi Nnadi previously built a blockchain‑linked nonprofit; other executive team members named in the article include Lucas Llinás Múnera, Dearg OBartuin, and Kate Kallot.

Led · Seed · Nov 2021

Blockade Games is a blockchain video game development studio and the parent company of Neon District, Plasma Bears, and Pineapple Arcade. Founded in 2018 by Marguerite deCourcelle, Diego Rodriguez, and Ben Heidorn, the studio builds blockchain layer-two infrastructure and gaming applications, with Neon District as its flagship free-to-play, play-to-earn cyberpunk RPG featuring collectible NFTs on Polygon and Ethereum. The company says it will use new financing to expand through hiring, game development, partnerships, and marketing focused on community engagement and user growth. Reported operating metrics include a user base of 100,000, 11K+ new users in the past month, 177K+ unique asset owners, and over 2.1M Season 1 NFTs minted. Leadership emphasizes exploring tokenomics and NFT-driven player experiences to increase immersion and expression. Blockade positions itself among early metaverse entrants and aims to scale its platform and audience. Blockade Games Inc. is developing Neon District, a cypherpunk roleplaying game that integrates blockchain-based assets and NFTs. The team is led by Marguerite deCourcelle, a bitcoin artist known for puzzles revealing keys to bitcoin stashes worth over $1 million, and includes artists and designers who worked on Spider-Man (PS4) and the World of Warcraft trading card game. The game’s blockchain assets can accrue scars, skills, weaponry and other unique distinctions, and the design may include puzzles that reveal NFT rewards or bitcoin rewards donated by the Pineapple Fund. Neon District is planned to launch publicly in May 2019, and the company is testing player key-management and smart-contract interactions via a holiday-themed mobile game called Buidl Bear this winter. Ethereum-based asset use will be optional so players unfamiliar with cryptocurrency can still play and optionally claim ownership of items outside the game. Blockade Games has about 8,000 people signed up to its mailing list.

Led · Series A · Sep 2021

Recur designs and develops on-chain branded experiences allowing fans to buy, collect and re-sell digital products and collectibles (NFTs). The platform will be chain agnostic. The company plans to scale its go-to-market team with 150+ open roles across recruiting, marketing, customer success, design and engineering. Recur raised a $50M Series A at a $333M valuation. Founded by Zach Bruch and Trevor George and based in Miami, the company is using the funding to bring brand experiences to market over the next year. Recur has partnered with Veritone and CLC to license Pac-12 moments and collegiate marks for NFTU.com, a dedicated marketplace for college sports highlights starting with the Pac-12. RECUR builds on-chain branded experiences that let fans buy, collect, and re-sell NFTs for global brands. The company is positioning NFTs as a gateway for everyday consumers to enter the crypto ecosystem and expects exponential growth for partnered brands. RECUR has implemented a decentralized recurring royalty standard in its assets and defaults minted assets to Ethereum while planning to become chain-agnostic for wider distribution. Its first branded NFT Fan Experience was set to launch in Summer 2021. Financially, RECUR announced a $5 million seed raise—the article describes this as the largest seed raise to date in NFT history. The founding team includes Co-CEOs Zach Bruch and Trevor George and senior hires from crypto and licensing, such as President Stephen Teglas, Head of Engagement Chris Heatherly, and CTO James Seibel.