Led · Seed · Aug 2026

NexusAdvisors operates AVACAREER, a recruitment platform that automates hiring workflows using AI agents, avatars and interviewers to assess candidates and generate compatibility scores for skills and cultural fit. The platform is designed to streamline the hiring process by handling initial interviews and generating matches before human involvement. Following the ¥50 million seed raise announced in August 2026, the company intends to accelerate product development, expand hiring, and increase brand awareness. The seed round was led by ANOBAKA and East Ventures, with participation from existing investor Skyland Ventures. No revenue, user metrics, or valuation details were disclosed in the article.

Led · Seed · Aug 2026

AVACAREER operates an AI-driven recruitment platform where an AI interviewer from the company side and an AI avatar from the job seeker side conduct preliminary AI-to-AI interviews to assess compatibility. The platform generates multifaceted scores for skill matching, cultural fit, and work-style compatibility, and advances only highly compatible candidates to human interviews. It automates creation of job postings, scheduling, and text interviews from applications to streamline recruitment operations. NexusAdvisors is the operator of the service. The company has announced plans to release the official version of the platform by the end of August. AVACAREER intends to use newly raised seed funds to accelerate product development, hire talent, and raise brand awareness.

Participated · Series A · Jul 2026

LinqAlpha builds a platform that lets institutional investors deploy specialized AI agents that synthesize thousands of signals and learn each user's unique investment framework to surface differentiated insights. The company was founded by Jacob Choi, Subeen Pang, Jin Kim, and Hojun Choi and brings together former Goldman Sachs analysts and MIT computer science PhDs. Since launch, LinqAlpha has been adopted by over 70 financial institutions across the U.S., Europe, and Asia, including sell-side teams at investment banks and buy-side clients such as Causeway Capital Management and Schonfeld Strategic Advisors. Collectively, its buy-side clients manage more than $5 trillion in assets. LinqAlpha is headquartered in New York and plans to use its Series A proceeds to expand its global team, deepen dataset integrations, and accelerate deployment across equities, macro, credit, and multi-asset strategies. The company frames its product as an "Alpha Intelligence Layer" designed to help institutional teams synthesize fast, interconnected public-market signals into actionable judgment.

Led · Seed · Jul 2026

Amity Robotics builds and deploys ARC Base interactive AI kiosks that assist visitors with navigation, hotel information, local dining suggestions, and promotions via a multilingual interface. Its ARC Base terminals are active in over thirty commercial properties across Asia and the Middle East, including JEN Singapore Orchardgateway and Siam Piwat in Bangkok. The company is developing ARC Move, a fully autonomous mobile guide robot designed to escort visitors through large retail and commercial spaces. Recent plans include a first European deployment in July to test hardware and adapt software to regional interactions and regulations. The $7 million seed financing will be used to scale its international terminal network and complete engineering on the autonomous device. Amity Robotics was founded in 2024 and operates as a sister company to Amity under the broader Amity Corporation.

Participated · Seed · May 2026

AVIATE builds TASKBASE, a back-office workflow automation platform that generates executable workflows from natural-language descriptions and handles approval, notifications, and record updates end-to-end. The platform targets back-office BPO providers and corporate accounting, HR, and labor departments, with workspace-level separation of permissions and credentials. TASKBASE integrates with major SaaS including Slack, Gmail, Google Drive, Google Sheets, Notion, マネーフォワード, and freee, and uses prebuilt handlers that AI can call to ensure reproducible execution. AVIATE is conducting paid proofs of concept with back-office BPOs and is offering invite-only early access and demos. The company intends to use the new seed funding to accelerate product development and business development.