Participated · Equity · Mar 2026

GridBeyond develops hardware and software to coordinate distributed energy resources—solar, wind, batteries, hydropower—and flexible industrial and commercial loads to operate as virtual power plants. The company manages approximately 1 gigawatt of generation and storage and several gigawatts of demand-side flexibility, including a 200-megawatt battery installation in California. GridBeyond’s controllers and software are deployed across sites in Australia, Ireland, Japan, the UK, and the United States. Its platform enables rapid response and market participation, allowing batteries and flexible loads to perform grid balancing and power arbitrage. The company is using the newly raised €12 million equity to expand its portfolio of managed assets and deployments.

Participated · Series A · Nov 2019

Sepio Systems offers a Rogue Device Mitigation (RDM) platform that gives security teams visibility into hardware assets such as keyboards, USBs and desktop boxes and their behavior in real time. The solution combines physical fingerprinting technology with device behavior analytics to enable instant detection and response to manipulated or infected elements. A comprehensive policy enforcement module allows administrators to define granular device-usage rules and continuously monitor and protect infrastructure. Led by co-founder and CEO Yossi Appleboum, the company is based in Rockville, MD and maintains an R&D center in Lisbon. Sepio says it will use the new funding to expand into new regions of the globe. The articles report total investment in the company now stands at $15M. Sepio Systems is an Israeli cybersecurity firm led by co-founder and CEO Yossi Appelboum that gives security teams full visibility into hardware assets and their behavior in real time. Its Sepio Prime software-only solution combines physical fingerprinting technology with device behavior analytics to detect and respond to manipulated or infected elements. Sepio Prime has been deployed in over 25 banks, insurance, and telecom companies across the U.S., Singapore, Brazil, South Africa and Israel. The company intends to use the new funding to expand operations and is opening a new office in McLean, Virginia to support U.S. federal customers. Sepio has also added two executives: Gili Sahar as CFO and Chen Ben Eliyahu as Vice President of Business Development. The company has raised $11M in total funding to date. Sepio Systems develops Sepio Prime, an end-to-end solution that mitigates hardware-based attacks including rogue peripherals, invisible network devices, and manipulated firmware. Led by CEO Iftah Bratspiess, the company has deployed its solution in over 20 mid-sized to large banks, insurance, and telecom companies across the U.S., Singapore, Brazil, and Israel. Its current install base secures over 600,000 workstations and network ports. Sepio intends to use new funding to accelerate development and expand deployment of its Rogue Device Mitigation solution among utilities, financial institutes, and large enterprises in Europe. The company is based in Tel Aviv, Israel and has U.S. presence in Mt. Pleasant, SC and Gaithersburg, MD.

Participated · Equity · Dec 2018

Sterblue develops software that helps unmanned drones inspect power lines, wind turbines and other large-scale infrastructure. The company plans to use its recent funding to expand into the U.S., including opening an office in San Francisco. Sterblue was founded in 2016 by Jeffrey Vancassel, Nicolas Draber and Vincent Lecrubier, three aerospace engineers from Airbus. It currently operates in eight countries, including France, Germany, Portugal and Hong Kong. The startup attracted a $2M investment round from a group of strategic and venture investors. Deal details and terms were not disclosed in the reporting.

Participated · Series A · Oct 2018

ME SOLshare Ltd. is a climate-tech startup focused on managing and monetizing distributed energy assets in Bangladesh. The company is building technology to remotely control smart batteries installed in the country’s 5 million-plus electric three-wheeler taxis. By 2029, SOLshare aims to network 1 million of these batteries, boosting driver earnings while allowing the aggregated capacity to buffer roughly 10 % of Bangladesh’s peak electricity demand. The vision relies on scaling solar PV adoption alongside its battery platform to accelerate the nation’s energy transition. The firm positions itself at the frontlines of climate change, addressing real-world power-access challenges in emerging markets. Financially, SOLshare has just secured new capital to advance this expansion, closing US$2.2 million of a larger US$4 million Series A+ financing.

Participated · Series A · Jul 2018

DefinedCrowd operates a smart data curation platform and a contributor community (Neevo) that supplies labeled data for NLP, voice recognition, and computer vision via APIs and a web interface. The company leverages more than 290,000 contributors in 195 countries who supply over 500,000 samples per day, and supports more than 50 languages and 79 dialects with claimed labeling accuracy up to 98%. Its tools allow customers to filter contributors by demographics and language proficiency and offer specialized workflows, templates, and off-the-shelf solutions as well as the ability to upload proprietary data. DefinedCrowd serves enterprise customers across customer service, automotive, retail, and healthcare, counting clients such as BMW, Mastercard, Nuance, and Yahoo Japan. The company reported 656% year-over-year revenue growth last year and has a staff of over 100 across offices in Portugal, Seattle, and Japan. DefinedCrowd plans to double headcount to 500 and open additional R&D labs by 2021. DefinedCrowd offers a SaaS platform (Web API and Web UI) that combines human intelligence, automated tools, and machine learning to collect, enrich and structure data for AI and ML models. Its capabilities focus on speech and NLP and support use cases including virtual assistants, customer review analysis, autonomous vehicles, content categorization, pattern recognition, and surveillance systems. The company supports 46 languages via its Neevo community of 45,000+ skilled members and serves customers such as BMW, Mastercard, Nuance, and Yahoo Japan. Founded in 2015 by CEO Dr. Daniela Braga and headquartered in Seattle, the company plans to use new funding to develop product offerings, expand the team, and increase global market share. Financially, DefinedCrowd completed an $11.8M Series A, strengthening its balance sheet for growth. DefinedCrowd provides a SaaS platform that combines machine learning and data science with crowdsourcing to help enterprises improve quality, scalability, and time-to-market for AI and natural language processing applications. The company operates a global crowdsourcing audience across more than 36 countries covering over 30 languages and 100+ dialects. Led by CEO Dr. Daniela Braga and CTO Dr. João Freitas, DefinedCrowd also maintains a research and development center in Lisbon, Portugal. The company is based in Kirkland, Washington. DefinedCrowd raised $1.1M in seed funding from Sony Innovation Fund, Amazon Alexa Fund and Portugal Ventures. It intends to use the proceeds to accelerate development of its SaaS platform.