Led · Seed · Mar 2026

Dark Watch provides an enterprise safety intelligence platform that leverages AI and proprietary deep web intelligence to analyze over 450 million profiles in real time and detect emerging threats such as organized crime, trafficking networks, and terrorist activities. The platform is used to help sectors including hospitality, finance, and law enforcement proactively screen for high-risk individuals. The company plans to use its newly raised $3.5M Seed round to accelerate product development, enhance its safety intelligence capabilities, integrate more deeply with hospitality enterprise systems, and expand commercial deployments with hospitality clients. Dark Watch is led by CEO Noel Thomas and is headquartered in Stuart, FL. The article does not disclose revenue, user counts, or prior funding rounds.

Led · Seed · Oct 2025

MythWorx has developed Echo Ego v2, a next-generation AI/AGI architecture that achieved a perfect 100 % score on the ARC-AGI-1 benchmark without any pre-training and while drawing only 208 watts of power. The model answers questions up to eight times faster than traditional large language models and operates on one-tenth of their power budget, demonstrating dramatic efficiency gains. Echo Ego v2 excels across other benchmarks such as MMLU-Pro, outperforming far larger models without retries, fine-tuning, or chain-of-thought prompting. The company plans to license its technology to big-tech, government, and Department of War customers and is entering joint ventures and master licensing agreements to accelerate adoption. Proceeds from its recent seed financing will fund hiring for key roles, product expansion, and an accelerated go-to-market strategy. MythWorx positions its brain-modeled approach as a “black swan” advancement that could redefine artificial intelligence performance standards. The company’s $100 million seed valuation underscores investor confidence in its ability to commercialize true reasoning AI while keeping compute costs low.

Led · Series B · Mar 2022

Immerse provides instructor-led, multiplayer VR language learning experiences in the metaverse, developed in partnership with top language schools. Led by CEO Quinn Taber, the platform offers immersive scenarios—collaborative problem solving on a deserted island, cooking in a chef kitchen, painting in an art studio, storytelling around a campfire, and trying on outfits at a shopping center—to build speaking and listening skills. It serves students across the Asian, European and Latin American markets. The company plans to launch a consumer-facing VR world languages app on the Meta Quest store starting with Spanish this summer, followed by French in the fall and then German, Japanese and Italian. Financially, Immerse raised $9M in a Series B that brings total capital raised to $11.5M. The company intends to use the funds to grow its global team from 12 to 35 over the next four months, invest in product innovation, and expand onto other major VR platforms.

Participated · Series A · Oct 2012

Prism Skylabs extracts insights from existing security-camera footage to deliver "web-style analytics" for retailers and other businesses. Its product generates visuals such as footpath maps, heat maps of customer interest, and customer counts and conversion metrics. The company says it works with more than 80 customers. Prism launched at TechCrunch Disrupt in 2011. It raised a $15 million Series B led by Intel Capital to use surveillance-camera footage for in-store analytics. Other participants in the round include Presidio Ventures, Triangle Peak, Data Collective and Expa. The company previously raised a $7.5 million Series A and counts CrunchFund among past investors. Prism Skylabs offers a cloud-based service that detects and ingests feeds from existing video surveillance cameras, extracts relevant images and builds visualizations such as customer paths, heatmaps and empty-store photos while protecting customer privacy. The product analyzes video data to provide summaries of customer activity, behavior and movement and lets businesses syndicate images to Facebook, Twitter, Yelp, Google+, YouTube and Picasa. The company launched at TechCrunch Disrupt in 2011 and was founded by video surveillance expert Steve Russell and Ron Palmeri; Russell previously founded 3VR and holds multiple video-related patents. The offering is available by invitation only, with wider availability expected to launch in November. Financially, Prism Skylabs has completed angel financing previously (~$1.5M) and is now further capitalized by a new institutional round to scale product availability and retail deployments. Prism Skylabs provides a cloud service and downloadable software that brings business video feeds online, extracts images, and builds visualizations such as customer paths, heatmaps, and empty-store photos while protecting privacy. The product can syndicate images and realtime photos to social channels (Facebook, Twitter), websites and Yelp, and can integrate with point-of-sale systems. Prism also enables mashups of video-derived traffic with web analytics and social metrics to measure campaign effects and daily-deal impact. The company uses proprietary compression technology to reduce bandwidth for surveillance video and has applied for patents on its approach. Prism operates on a freemium model with additional paid features planned. The startup was in closed beta at the time of reporting and had drawn early buzz from angel investors prior to launch.