Led · Seed · Nov 2025

Founded in May 2024 by two Carnegie Mellon University alumni, Looki positions itself as an AI-native hardware brand. Its first product, the Looki L1, is marketed as the world’s first wearable multimodal AI device and debuted internationally in August 2025, with the initial few-thousand-unit inventory selling out quickly. A China-specific version launched on JD.com that December, bringing cumulative global sales to nearly 10,000 units. The founding team includes veterans from Google, Amazon, Qualcomm, ByteDance and leading autonomous-driving companies, giving the company deep expertise in AI algorithms, product design and hardware engineering. Over roughly one year the company has completed four funding rounds, the most recent being an over $20 million Series A. Capital from these rounds is expected to fund further product development and expanded manufacturing capacity. No revenue figures were disclosed in the article.

Participated · Series A · Aug 2025

QuamCore has developed a fully designed and simulated superconducting architecture that it says can scale to 1 million qubits in a single cryostat by embedding ultra‑low‑power superconducting digital control logic directly inside the cryostat. The design reduces cabling by orders of magnitude, removes the primary thermal bottleneck that limits current superconducting systems, and includes built‑in error correction to support fault‑tolerant operation. The company positions its approach as a way to eliminate multi‑cryostat infrastructure and fundamentally change the economics of quantum computing. QuamCore aims to make quantum computing viable for real‑world applications such as drug discovery, advanced materials, AI, and energy by unlocking much higher qubit density. Financially, QuamCore announced a $26M Series A that brings total funding to $35M and received a $4M non‑dilutive grant from the Israel Innovation Authority. The company is based in Tel Aviv, Israel. QuamCore emerged from stealth after two years of development with a patented superconducting quantum processor architecture that it says enables integration of 1 million qubits into a single cryostat. The design aims to dramatically reduce cabling by a factor of more than 1,000, cutting size, energy consumption, and cost compared with current multi‑cryostat approaches. The company highlights built‑in error correction and an architecture‑first approach intended to enable fault‑tolerant, large‑scale quantum systems for applications in pharmaceuticals, AI, materials science, and energy. QuamCore was founded in 2022 and is based in Herzliya, Israel. Its leadership includes CEO Alon Cohen and senior scientific and academic founders and advisors from the Technion, the Weizmann Institute, and the University of Rochester. The company announced $9 million in seed funding as it transitions out of stealth to advance its processor architecture toward practical large‑scale quantum computing.

Led · Seed · Mar 2024

Atiko Labs builds a portable contamination-detection system that combines a disposable one-time-use sensor with a RAMAN spectrometer to deliver high-specificity molecular analysis on-site within seconds from a single drop of liquid. The product uses intensity-enhanced nanostructures for high resolution, quantitative detection and is designed for inline, real-time testing in manufacturing environments. The company is moving from validated lab and POC technology toward industry POCs next year and expects to begin full commercial sales to the food and beverage sector by the end of 2025. Atiko positions its solution to reduce recalls, waste, and quarantine times while improving operational efficiency and regulatory compliance. The startup was founded in 2023, has five employees, and highlights a large addressable market in food-safety testing (roughly a $25 billion opportunity).