Led · Seed · Jul 2026

5U AI builds a digital workforce platform that automates operational freight tasks across air, sea and road by integrating with existing freight systems to handle quoting, bookings, shipment tracking, invoice reconciliation, data entry and routine administration. Its Decision Layer records the reasoning behind each operational decision and creates a knowledge base to improve future processes, and the system is trained specifically for logistics workflows and complex exceptions. The platform is already deployed with freight forwarders and carriers across Europe. Founded in 2025 by TUM graduates Yagiz Abik and Fehmi Şener and based in Munich, the company is backed by logistics industry executives. Following its $3.2 million pre-seed raise led by Emerge Capital, 5U AI plans to accelerate product development, expand its European go-to-market and grow its product, engineering, operations and commercial teams.

Participated · Equity · Nov 2025

Songscription, founded by Andrew Carlins, Alex Alvarado-Barahona, Katie Baker, and Tim Beyer, offers an online platform that applies proprietary AI models to automate music transcription and arrangement. Musicians upload audio recordings and receive sheet music, tablature, and MIDI that precisely capture the original performance. The service currently recognizes piano, violin, flute, guitar, bass guitar, and trumpet, and users can edit the notation directly or view MIDI notes in a piano-roll interface. Since launching, the platform has attracted more than 150,000 users across 150 countries, demonstrating early global traction. With new capital in hand, the team plans to expand its catalog of supported instruments and notation outputs while adding features that automatically level and arrange pieces to suit individual player needs. Financially, the company has secured $5 million to fund these product extensions and scale its user base. Songscription positions itself at the intersection of AI and music education, aiming to simplify learning and performance for musicians worldwide.

Participated · Seed · Aug 2022

Junto is a Berlin-based edtech startup that combines a scalable learning platform with interactive live trainings and a cross-company peer community for corporate learning. The company’s hybrid approach connects online content with live, cohort-based experiences and an instructor ecosystem. Junto reports a course completion rate of over 95% for its cohort-based offerings, compared with under 13% completion on platforms like Udemy, Coursera or LinkedIn Learning. The startup is targeting a €400 billion corporate training market that it says remains 90% offline. It plans to use recent funding to accelerate team growth, develop its proprietary software platform, and broaden its content and instructor ecosystem. Junto was founded by Marius Hepp, Johannes Schnell-Kretschmer and Feliks Eyser. Junto provides digital live-training programs aimed at company leaders and management teams. The platform positions itself beyond a traditional learning library by offering practical tools and training inspired by successful tech firms. Founders describe a vision of granting companies and talent access to applied skills rather than only passive course content. The company has attracted substantial angel interest and recently closed external financing to accelerate its product and go-to-market efforts. The round should help Junto scale its live-training offering and deepen relationships with enterprise clients. Named investors and backers are publicly noted as providing momentum for the business model.

Participated · Seed · Sep 2017

Axonius builds a platform that provides near-real-time snapshots of an organization’s digital assets and infrastructure, covering on-premises and cloud resources. It detects changes in the attack surface and surfaces suggested actions to improve cybersecurity posture. The company has evolved from a single-product asset management offering into a broader management platform that covers assets, software, SaaS and more, and has reached 1,000 platform integrations. Axonius counts about 500 large enterprises as customers, including Schneider Electric, News Corp, and Anheuser-Busch InBev. Nearly five years after launching, the company is on track for more than $100 million in ARR. The stated plan is to use new funding to continue enhancing the platform and expand into new markets. Axonius provides cybersecurity asset management (CAASM) and SaaS management solutions that integrate with hundreds of data sources to deliver a comprehensive asset inventory, uncover gaps, and automatically validate and enforce policies. The platform is deployable in minutes and covers millions of assets, including devices, cloud assets, user accounts, and SaaS applications. Axonius established an innovation unit, AxoniusX, and recently launched SaaS Management that combines SaaS Security Posture Management with SaaS management capabilities. The company reports strong operating momentum, including a 132% year-over-year increase in annual recurring revenue and a third consecutive year of triple-digit revenue growth. In 2021 it nearly doubled its customer base and expanded its team by 174%, and it now counts Fortune 500, Global 500, large federal agencies, and other global leaders among its customers. The new funding is intended to support continued scaling to meet global customer demand. Axonius provides a platform to identify and manage computing-based assets connecting to an organization’s networks and to correlate that data across other security products. Its deterministic algorithms build unique identifiers from data such as timestamps and cloud information to de-duplicate and map devices. The platform integrates with roughly 300 cybersecurity tools (up from about 100 previously) to enable deeper analysis and detection across a fragmented security market. Co-founders Dean Sysman, Ofri Shur, and Avidor Bartov built the product to address the widespread inability of CIOs to know what devices are on their networks, including remote and non-office devices. The company has seen rapid commercial traction, with annual recurring revenue growing ten-fold over 15 months to about $10 million last year. Axonius says it will use the new funding to continue scaling amid surging demand. Axonius builds a platform that discovers, tracks, and manages computing-based assets connecting to corporate networks and plugs that asset data into roughly 100 cybersecurity tools. Its technology uses deterministic algorithms to correlate identifiers (including timestamps and cloud information) to create unique asset records rather than relying on behavioral data. The company positions itself as an agnostic asset-management and enforcement platform rather than building or acquiring the security tools it integrates with, though acquisitions remain a possible future path. Customers include Schneider Electric, the New York Times, and Landmark Medical, and Axonius reported customer growth of 910% year‑over‑year. The firm is New York–based with R&D offices in Tel Aviv and plans to use the new funding to continue investing in its technology and expand the business. To date the company has raised $95 million and did not disclose a valuation for this round. Axonius builds a cybersecurity asset management platform that inventories enterprise assets — clouds, computers and devices — by integrating with more than a hundred existing security and management solutions. The product gives organizations a foundation for enforcing security policies, such as installing endpoint security or blocking unknown devices, by revealing what assets exist on a network. The company says its approach helps enterprises discover gaps and improve overall security posture. Axonius counts customers including The New York Times, Schneider Electric and several Fortune 500 companies. Founded in 2017, Axonius plans to use the new funding to expand sales and marketing teams and continue product development. Leadership emphasizes scaling go-to-market efforts to bring the solution to more organizations.

Participated · Series C · Apr 2016

Insightly is a cloud-based customer relationship management application that serves small and mid-sized businesses, offering web and mobile tools to manage customer interactions, leads, opportunities, proposals and projects. The product is available in seven languages and more than 200 countries and is used by over one million customers. Over the past year the company says it has doubled both team size and revenue, with notable growth in the advertising, marketing, and consulting verticals. Insightly plans to use the new funding to accelerate expansion into larger businesses, build out a direct sales team, and add integrations and capabilities to increase customer sales efficiency and organization. The company emphasizes ease of use and aims to deliver enterprise-class CRM functionality without the complexity of legacy platforms. Insightly is based in San Francisco. Insightly provides a CRM wrapped into an email app, integrating with Gmail, Outlook, Office 365 and other services to surface calendars, address book entries, tags and custom filtering. The company emphasizes mobile apps as a critical part of its offering and operates a freemium model to attract small businesses. Insightly serves more than 184,000 customers in 100 countries. The product focuses on helping small businesses engage customers through an email-centered workflow and connected services. The company faces competition from High Rise, Capsule CRM and Streak. It plans to use recent funding to localize the service, hire new employees and expand marketing into international markets. Insightly offers an intuitive, cloud-based CRM that helps small businesses track customer interactions, manage leads, proposals, opportunities, projects and files from any device. The product is accessible via web browser on PCs, laptops, smartphones and tablets and emphasizes a simple user interface and monthly feature releases. Insightly operates a freemium pricing model and says more than 100,000 businesses in over 100 countries use its application. The company announced it is expanding its service outside of the Google Apps platform to make the CRM available to all small businesses. Insightly completed a $3 million financing round to accelerate growth and further enhance the user experience. The company is based in San Francisco.