Participated · Equity · Jun 2026

Principal Mineral, based in Dallas, TX, positions itself as a leader in rebuilding the industrial 'missing midstream' for strategic materials. In June 2026 it completed the acquisition of Isola Group, a manufacturer of copper-clad laminates and dielectric prepregs used in printed circuit boards. The company has secured approximately $280 million of new funding plus a credit facility to support integration of the combined businesses. Principal Mineral plans to expand advanced manufacturing capacity and continue technology development. It intends to invest long-term in critical supply-chain capabilities across North America, Europe, and Asia. The fresh capital and debt facility underpin the company's near-term growth and integration strategy.

Participated · Series A · Jun 2026

Neion Bio’s core product is the Raptor™ platform, which leverages genetic engineering to restrict recombinant protein production to chicken eggs as a means to manufacture complex, glycosylated biologic proteins. Founded in 2024, the company is positioning the platform to address scalability, resiliency, capital efficiency, speed, and the ability to express difficult-to-manufacture molecules. Neion plans to expand its pipeline across biosimilars, innovative medicines, critical reagents, and animal health and to commercialize via partnerships, including a recently announced multi-product biosimilars co-development and supply agreement with a major pharmaceutical company. The company is advancing proprietary technologies intended to enable production at meaningful scale within days and to shorten iteration cycles for molecule screening and production. Financially, Neion completed an oversubscribed $23 million Series A to fund these platform and pipeline initiatives.

Led · Series A · Apr 2025

Founded in 2022 by Marc Frankel and Daniel Bardenstein, Manifest develops a software and AI platform that helps organizations uncover and manage software supply-chain risks. The product enables product security teams to automatically generate, aggregate, manage, and share Software Bills of Materials (SBOMs); it also assists vulnerability management and SOC teams in identifying supply-chain vulnerabilities and accelerating response times. Procurement and vendor-due-diligence teams use the platform to request SBOMs from suppliers and create intuitive, human-readable risk reports. Early adopters include the US Air Force, the Department of Homeland Security, Fortune 500 corporations, and other unnamed enterprises across several industries. Manifest plans to use newly raised capital to expand operations and broaden its market reach. To date, the company has secured $23 million in total funding, including its recent Series A round. No revenue or user metrics were disclosed in the article.

Led · Series A · Apr 2024

Clazar provides an end-to-end Cloud GTM platform that automates listing, integration, transaction orchestration, and Co-Sell across AWS, Azure, and GCP. The product offers bidirectional syncs with CRMs (Salesforce, HubSpot), private-offer management, usage tracking, and multi-marketplace analytics. In under a year the company is serving a hundred paying customers, demonstrating early commercial traction. Clazar’s pricing is based on the number of private offers generated rather than marketplace revenue. The company says it will use new funding to invest in R&D, expand product offerings, grow GTM teams, and continue customer acquisition. Founders and leadership bring marketplace and infrastructure experience from Airbnb, Facebook, Zenefits, and LinkedIn.

Led · Series A · Apr 2024

Modal is a San Mateo, CA-based skills development platform for data and analytics professionals. Founded by Darren Shimkus and Dennis Yang, the former President and CEO of Udemy respectively, the platform combines courses, projects, labs, 1-1 expert coaching, and community to teach the technical 'why' and 'how' for data teams. Modal leverages job-simulated projects and one-on-one coaching to drive education for those who work with data. The company recently launched Organizational Development Plans (ODP) to help companies connect goals to specific skills and accelerate data-driven transformation. Modal plans to use the $25M Series A to enhance its platform, expand go-to-market capabilities, and continue recruiting talent. Modal is a cohort-based learning platform founded by former Udemy executives Darren Shimkus and Dennis Yang that launches publicly to sell curated upskilling programs to enterprises. Its first product targets data literacy at startups, grouping employees into 30–40 person cohorts for eight-week experiences that combine asynchronous projects and live events. Modal develops and owns all curriculum internally rather than relying on user-generated courses. The company monetizes via a classic enterprise B2B sales model. Modal declined to share revenue targets, customer names, or customer counts. Founders position the product as an alternative to large MOOC-style offerings, with future courses planned in subjects such as natural language processing, Python, and data storytelling.