• Blackbird.AI

  Participated · Equity · Jan 2026

  Blackbird.AI builds an AI-powered Narrative Intelligence Platform that identifies harmful narratives, the influencers pushing them, the networks they spread through, and the anomalous behaviors that amplify them. By mapping this information in real time, the tool enables Global 2000 companies and national security organizations to take proactive steps against financial, operational, reputational, and even physical threats. The company reports rapid commercial traction, citing 118 % year-over-year growth in annual recurring revenue. Led by CEO and co-founder Wasim Khaled, Blackbird.AI has raised $58 million in total capital since inception. The latest investment will be used to accelerate go-to-market activities and further enhance the platform’s capabilities. With growing demand for disinformation defense solutions, the firm is positioning itself as a key partner for large enterprises and government agencies.

• Oriole Networks

  Participated · Equity · Oct 2024

  Oriole Networks builds advanced photonics technology to create networks of AI chips that combine processing power using light, enabling LLM training up to 100x faster while consuming a fraction of the power. The company positions its solution to reduce the energy consumption and latency of AI data centres, addressing growing grid strain in the US and Europe. Founded in 2023 out of University College London, Oriole commercialises two decades of UCL research from founding scientists Professor George Zervas, Alessandro Ottino, and Joshua Benjamin. CEO James Regan, who previously built EFFECT Photonics, has assembled a seasoned commercial and photonics team including hires from Lumentum and backing from specialists in high-performance clusters. Oriole is backed by investors such as XTX Ventures and others that operate large GPU clusters, giving it potential customer and infrastructure insight. The company plans to have early-stage products in customers' hands by 2025 and is expanding its team and supplier engagement to accelerate deployment. Oriole Networks is a London-based spinout from University College London, founded in 2023 by UCL scientists Professor George Zervas, Alessandro Ottino and Joshua Benjamin with CEO James Regan. The company has developed a novel photonic approach that uses light to connect thousands of AI chips so individual GPUs combine into a single “super-brain” for training advanced large language models. Oriole says this architecture enables training with a thousandth of the latency while consuming a tiny fraction of the energy. Its IP is licensed through UCL’s technology transfer company, UCLB. The company raised £10M in Seed funding and intends to use the proceeds to enhance AI performance and drive adoption of its technology. No operating metrics (revenue/users) were disclosed in the article.

• NobleAI

  Participated · Series A · Apr 2024

  NobleAI is a San Francisco-based company specializing in science-based AI solutions for chemical and material informatics. It develops commercially-proven Science-Based AI (SBAI) models delivered via its cloud-based Reactor Platform. Its SBAI models are developed rapidly, securely and specifically for each customer and deliver actionable insights to accelerate product development, reduce costs and improve product performance, sustainability, and reliability. The company is led by CEO Sunil Sanghavi. On March 4, 2024, NobleAI raised over $10M in a Series A extension. The company said it will use the funds to expand operations and development efforts. NobleAI offers a user-friendly, cloud-based platform that combines data-centric approaches (including AI and machine learning) with scientific principles to generate predictions and actionable insights for chemistry and materials research. The platform is used to accelerate product pipelines, optimize formulations, and speed discovery for chemicals, materials and energy companies. The company said its technology incorporates scientific laws and constraints into adapted neural networks to deliver data- and compute-efficient solutions. With the new funding, NobleAI plans to expand its team of AI experts, data scientists, and industry specialists and invest in R&D to build new solutions for chemical formulations, materials science, and environmental sustainability applications. NobleAI emphasizes helping scientists and product developers rapidly improve understanding, selection, development and discovery of chemicals and materials. The company is positioning its tools to deliver sustainable product outcomes and broader industry use cases. Noble.AI builds AI tools aimed at accelerating decision making in R&D by converting large, heterogeneous research datasets into actionable recommendations. The company offers a “Universal Ingestion Engine” to create high-quality data assets and an “Intelligent Recommendation Engine” to turn those assets into recommendations for decision making. Noble.AI has worked with corporate R&D customers, including Solvay, which used the platform prior to investing. Leadership describes the partnership with Solvay as a way to tackle high-value problems in chemistry and to leverage long historical data sets. The company has raised a total of $8.6 million to date and continues to pursue strategic collaborations with industry R&D teams.

• Tidelift

  Led · Series C · May 2022

  Tidelift delivers the Tidelift Subscription, a set of tools, data, and strategies to help organizations manage the health and security of the open source components in their applications. A central element of its model is paying independent open source maintainers behind thousands of components to ensure projects meet enterprise standards, with maintainer earnings tied to subscriber usage and no cap on potential earnings. The company positions itself as a bridge between enterprise application teams and open source maintainers to reduce risk and maximize value from open source. Tidelift cites increasing demand driven by supply-chain threats like Log4Shell and new U.S. government software security standards, including SBOM requirements. Customers and adopters named in the announcement include Fannie Mae, Bloomberg, Hughes, Adobe, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, IEEE, the United States Geological Survey, and the United States Air Force. Tidelift was named a 2022 Gartner Cool Vendor and is hosting a free virtual event, Upstream, on June 7, 2022 to engage developers and maintainers. Tidelift is a startup founded by long-time open source engineers and executives that sells subscriptions providing assurances around security, licensing, and maintenance for open-source software. Its platform handles licensing and offers guarantees for critical vulnerabilities and long-term support, drawing on a model similar to Red Hat's commercialization of Linux. Since launch the company has expanded beyond JavaScript to cover Java, Python, PHP, .NET, and Ruby ecosystems and now covers hundreds of open-source packages including Apache Struts, Vue.js, Gulp, Carbon, Jekyll, Beautiful Soup, and Mongoose. Tidelift reported $1 million in open source maintainer commitments as of last September and counts Discourse among its customers. The company intends to use new funding to further expand package coverage and partner with more open source creators. CEO Donald Fischer leads the company. Tidelift professionalizes open source software by offering the Tidelift Subscription, a single source for purchasing and maintaining open source software with professional support and maintenance from experts. The Tidelift Subscription already supports an array of popular open source technologies and coverage is being added continuously. Tidelift leverages data from the open source project Libraries.io, which tracks more than 2.6 million open source packages and powers the subscription. The company is led by Donald Fischer, Havoc Pennington, Jeremy Katz and Luis Villa. Tidelift said it will use new funding to continue to expand operations. The company is based in Boston, MA.

• Ursa Space Systems

  Led · Series C · Mar 2022

  Ursa Space Systems provides access to multi-modal satellite data and on-demand analytic solutions via an extensive virtual network of over 200 satellites. Its proprietary technology combines Synthetic Aperture Radar, Electro-Optical and Radio Frequency data with AI-enabled processing to deliver real-time automated change detection. The company offers actionable intelligence through both custom solutions and subscription services and reports access to over 55 million satellite images. Ursa serves government and commercial clients worldwide and is led by CEO Adam Maher. The firm is backed by investors including Dorilton Capital, RRE Ventures and Paladin Capital Group. Recently it secured external financing to support growth and working capital. Ursa Space is an Ithaca, NY–based global satellite intelligence infrastructure company that aggregates SAR, optical, and RF data from a virtual constellation. It manages a large catalog of over 16 million images, enabling its expert solutions team to perform data fusion and analytics. The company offers subscription and custom services that deliver automated, analysis-ready satellite imagery and analytic results with no geographic, political, or weather-related limitations. Led by co-founder and CEO Adam Maher, Ursa leverages radar satellite networks and data-fusion expertise to help customers identify real-time changes in the physical world. Ursa plans to use new capital to increase customer demand for scalable, analysis-ready satellite data and to expand its field sales organization. It intends to target emerging earth-observation markets such as supply chain optimization, logistics, and insurance. The company recently held the first close of a Series C round, raising $16M. Ursa aggregates data from a large network of radar satellites and combines it with other data sources to deliver proprietary analytic products. The company provides commercial access to synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) data and analytic-based information to help customers make informed decisions. Its core product is delivered as a geospatial analytics service, accessible to customers needing satellite-derived market and business intelligence. Ursa aims to serve industries that require alternative sources of intelligence, including high-demand satellite data users. The company plans to expand into new verticals such as supply chain, logistics, and insurance. It intends to use new funding to further support its customer base and to accelerate that vertical expansion. Ursa Space Systems aggregates and analyzes data from a large network of radar satellites to deliver geospatial intelligence products for energy and finance customers. Its flagship commercial product, Global Oil Storage Monitoring, is a weekly service that measures crude oil storage across more than 340 oil terminals with roughly 3.6 billion barrels of capacity. Leading global operators in the energy and finance sectors use Ursa’s analytics for decision advantage. The company plans to develop new products and expand current offerings to serve new customers and markets, including extensions across the oil supply chain and broader custom monitoring services. Ursa recently expanded the global coverage of its oil storage product and launched a commercial partnership with S&P Global Platts to incorporate its monitoring into Platts Analytics and co-develop new commodity and energy market offerings. Adam Maher is co-founder and CEO. Ursa Space Systems is a Space 3.0 analytics-as-a-service company that uses Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellite imagery and external data layers to generate timely economic and market insights. Its core products include weekly oil inventory reports and analytics for finance, energy, industrial, and government customers. Ursa released the world’s first comprehensive weekly China oil inventory report, expanded coverage to the Caribbean and MENA, and planned global coverage in early 2018. The company leverages proprietary machine vision and machine learning algorithms to derive economic indicators from radar imagery. With a rapidly growing customer base, Ursa focuses on expanding product offerings for existing clients and engaging new organizations that need timely insights into external assets and events. Ursa was founded by leaders in the satellite and software security fields to unlock value from radar satellite data.

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