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Emerge

Edspace, Block D, New City College - Hackney Falkirk Street, London, N1 6HQ, United Kingdom

Overview

Emerge is a $70m pre-seed fund backed by 100+ of the world’s best edtech and future of work founders and executives. Our vision is to democratise access to opportunity by being a catalytic partner for early-stage founders re-designing the future of learning and work.

Total investments
55
Lead investments
15
Investments · 12mo
7
Active investors
8

Sector focus

  • E-Learning
  • Education
  • Higher Education
  • Human Resources
  • Skill Assessment
  • Software
  • Training
  • Vocational Education
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Investment portfolio

  • Modern Relay

    Participated · Equity · Apr 2026

    Modern Relay provides an operational foundation that lets organisations coordinate people and AI agents from a single canonical representation of company context (people, policies, data, and decisions). It released Omnigraph, an open-source, Git-style graph database designed for agents to branch, propose parallel changes, and merge approved updates back into a canonical graph. The company stresses that its infrastructure runs on customer-owned systems to keep organisational data and governance under the customer's control. Modern Relay was founded in 2025 by Ragnor Comerford and Aaron Goh and is headquartered in San Francisco and Barcelona. The team reports internal usage with employees running multiple agents to draft research, ship code, and handle operations, indicating early product traction. The firm's stated mission is to prevent fragmentation as agents proliferate across departments by providing a shared layer for coordination and governance.

  • Carefam

    Participated · Equity · Mar 2026

    Carefam is a New York City–based company building an AI-driven operational layer for the high-turnover healthcare labor market. Its core product is an always-on conversational AI engine that deploys specialized agents to autonomously handle recruiting and onboarding tasks, escalating only complex or sensitive decisions to human HR staff. The platform is already live in hundreds of acute care, long-term care, and home care organizations and has delivered 900% growth for the company over the past year. Recent funding will allow Carefam to scale the underlying AI infrastructure, deepen its suite of healthcare-focused agents, and broaden its footprint across additional care environments. Led by CEO and co-founder Matan Hoffmann and CTO Eyal Shulman, the team is focused on reducing administrative burden and improving hiring efficiency for healthcare providers. With fresh capital in hand, Carefam aims to cement its position as the de-facto conversational layer for healthcare staffing operations.

  • ZyG

    Participated · Seed · Mar 2026

    ZyG builds ZyG OS, an end-to-end platform that leverages agentic AI infrastructure to identify products with scale potential and execute functions across brand building, store creation, creative generation, user acquisition, conversion optimization, retention and logistics. The company partners with online brands that have initial traction and that pass its Product Market Fit test and high ZyG Score to predict scale potential. ZyG says its platform removes operational and data complexity and the financial risk of scaling so founders can focus on product development. The founding team includes the creators of ironSource and three leading AI experts from an Israeli cyber unit, combining commerce and AI expertise. ZyG also offers financing capabilities as part of its platform to help brands scale. The company is headquartered in Tel Aviv and plans to use the Series A proceeds to further develop and expand its agentic operating system for eCommerce scale.

  • Kinfolk

    Participated · Seed · Feb 2026

    Kinfolk provides an AI-driven workforce operations platform that integrates autonomous agents directly into Slack and Microsoft Teams to automate HR and People Operations tasks such as drafting documents, updating HRIS records, and managing employee lifecycle changes. The system combines agentic AI with request management, lifecycle automation, and analytics, enabling HR teams to shift from manual coordination to autonomous execution. By replacing fragmented tools and legacy ticketing systems, Kinfolk aims to reduce repetitive administrative work, increase team capacity, and deliver consistent employee support without adding headcount. The company is positioning its offering as the foundation of a new “Workforce Operations” category that starts with HR but will expand to payroll and IT workflows. With fresh capital, Kinfolk plans to accelerate product development, bolster enterprise-grade capabilities, and scale its go-to-market teams. The London-based startup has raised a total of $8.5 million to date, including the latest seed round.

  • Chamelio

    Led · Seed · Jan 2026

    Chamelio offers an end-to-end legal intelligence platform that converts unstructured legal content—such as contracts, policies, and playbooks—into a structured, searchable layer that powers every step of the legal workflow. By replacing multiple point solutions with a single system of record, the software enables legal teams to standardize drafting, negotiation, and post-signature operations while maintaining governance and control. The platform is already used by about 100 customers, including Wiz, Socure, Lightricks, Global-e, Cellebrite, and Fiverr. Chamelio’s AI continuously learns from prior negotiations and policies, ensuring institutional knowledge is preserved even as personnel or document volumes change. Founded by executives with deep legal and AI backgrounds, the company positions itself as the central intelligence layer for modern legal operations. With fresh capital, management plans to accelerate product development and broaden go-to-market initiatives across the U.S. and internationally. The recent seed round provides additional resources to meet what investors describe as strong enterprise demand for the solution.

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