Participated · Series B · Oct 2018

Tomorrow.io positions itself as the world's leading Resilience Platform, combining a proprietary satellite constellation with a generative AI–integrated forecasting engine to deliver weather intelligence. The company says it operates a fully operational proprietary satellite constellation and leverages next-generation space technology, advanced AI, and proprietary weather modeling. Tomorrow.io is deploying DeepSky, described as the world's first AI-native weather satellite constellation, and aims to expand its space-based observation network. Its platform is used to provide real-time, actionable resilience intelligence and is trusted by six of the top ten Fortune 500 companies. The company has been recognized as a TIME 100 Most Influential Company and a Fast Company Most Innovative Company. The recent expansion of its Series F to $210 million is intended to accelerate its AI capabilities and further develop its agentic platform.

Led · Series D · Sep 2018

AutoGrid Systems offers an AI-driven Virtual Power Plant software platform, AutoGrid Flex, that predicts, optimizes and provides real-time control of millions of distributed energy assets including EVs, batteries, rooftop solar and utility-scale wind. The Flex platform leverages spare capacity from batteries, electric vehicles and flexible loads to smooth short-term imbalances while providing economic incentives to asset owners. Led by founder and CEO Dr. Amit Narayan, the company combines software and services to enable optimization and monetization for independent power producers, energy-as-a-service firms, retailers and project developers. AutoGrid plans to expand Flex’s capabilities and accelerate global deployment, while building a services organization as a “one-stop-shop” for customers. The company has established a 24×7 Network Operations Center and intends to offer full market participation services across major U.S. ISOs in preparation for changes tied to FERC Order 2222. Financially, AutoGrid completed a new equity financing to support corporate growth and share repurchases. AutoGrid builds AI-powered software, primarily its AutoGrid Flex Virtual Power Plant (VPP) platform, to manage distributed energy resources (DERs) in real time at scale. The company is expanding Flex to scale real-time co-optimization up to 100,000 assets and to add enhanced electric vehicle (EV) fleet management capabilities. AutoGrid supports the buildout of what it says is the world’s largest VPP by asset volume in Japan with local partner ENERES. The company reports over 5,000 MW of assets under contract and experience managing DERs in 12 countries. AutoGrid was awarded a $2.25 million ARPA-E grant to fund these expansions and previously received $3.5 million from ARPA-E’s GENI program in 2012. AutoGrid Flex was ranked the #1 Virtual Power Plant Platform globally in the 2020 Guidehouse Insights ranking. AutoGrid provides a suite of flexibility management applications, including its Energy Internet Platform and AutoGrid Flex, that enable utilities, retailers, developers and service providers to manage distributed energy resources (DERs) in real time and at scale. Led by CEO Dr. Amit Narayan, the company employs AI-driven predictive controls to orchestrate connected, distributed and flexible energy assets. AutoGrid reports more than 5,000 megawatts of DERs under contract with customers such as Xcel Energy, National Grid, E.ON, CPS Energy, Total, NextEra Energy and over 35 other energy companies worldwide. The company intends to use the new funding to accelerate global deployment of its Energy Internet Platform and AutoGrid Flex. The recent investment was an equity extension to its Series D. AutoGrid is headquartered in Redwood City, California. Led by Dr. Amit Narayan, AutoGrid builds software applications that use artificial intelligence, machine learning, big data and IoT to optimize and control energy systems. Its core product, the AutoGrid Flex™ platform, manages networked distributed energy resources (DERs) in real time and at scale. The company reports more than 3,500 megawatts of flexible capacity from DERs under contract and serves customers including National Grid, NextEra Energy, E.ON, Total, Xcel Energy, China Light and Power and over 30 other global energy companies. AutoGrid plans to use new capital to hire in energy, AI, big data and IoT to develop capacity for large-scale grid modernization and digital transformation projects worldwide. It also intends to accelerate commercial deployment of AutoGrid Flex across North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific. Financially, the company has raised $75M to date, including the recent Series D. AutoGrid offers a suite of Energy Internet software applications built on the AutoGrid Energy Data Platform (EDP) with patented Predictive Controls technology. Its platform leverages petabytes of smart meter, sensor and third-party data plus data science and high-performance computing to monitor, predict, optimize and control millions of assets. AutoGrid’s applications enable utilities, retailers, renewable developers and energy service providers to manage DERs in real time, improve reliability, engage customers and reduce operating expenses. The company reported 100% year‑over‑year growth in annual recurring revenue and a 350% increase in distributed energy resources under contract in 2015. Customers include leading energy companies such as E.ON, Bonneville Power Administration, Florida Power & Light, Southern California Edison and NextEra Energy. AutoGrid has received industry recognition including Bloomberg New Energy Pioneer 2016 and World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer 2015.

Participated · Series B · Jun 2018

Claroty develops an industry-centric cyber-physical systems (CPS) protection platform that delivers asset visibility, exposure management, network protection, secure access, and threat detection across cloud (xDome) and on-premise (Continuous Threat Detection) deployments. In 2025 the company introduced the AI-powered CPS Library, created with Schneider Electric and Rockwell Automation, to improve asset cataloging accuracy, and it has forged strategic alliances with AWS, Google Security Operations, and Parsons' SealingTech. Claroty now serves hundreds of organizations at thousands of sites, including 24 of the Fortune 100, and was named a Leader in Gartner’s 2025 CPS Protection Platforms Magic Quadrant and Forrester’s Q3 2025 IoT Security Wave. The firm reported an 80% valuation jump since its prior financing in March 2024. Recent executive hires include former Ford AI chief Gil Gur Arie as CPO and retired U.S. Air Force Colonel Jen Sovada to head public-sector efforts. Proceeds from the latest round will fund global expansion—both organic growth and acquisitions—as Claroty pursues its goal of building the market’s most comprehensive CPS protection suite.

Led · Series A · Jan 2018

Baffle provides a "security mesh" that keeps data encrypted while it is processed by databases and applications, de‑identifying sensitive data with no claimed performance impact. The company supports AWS, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure and is used across financial services, healthcare, retail, industrial IoT and government. Baffle says it protects more than 100 billion records and stores records for the top five global financial services companies and five of the top 25 global companies. Founded in 2015, the startup aims to make data breaches irrelevant by ensuring data remains unavailable and unusable to attackers even if systems are compromised. It reports threefold revenue growth over the past year and plans to use new funding to meet market demand, invest in product development, and double headcount from 25 to 50 within 12 months. Baffle provides the BaffleManager™ Application Data Protection Service, which integrates at the SQL layer to constrain application access to sensitive data and employs AES 256-bit encryption. The service unifies enhanced data access monitoring and access control to enable secure computing for cloud applications. BaffleManager is available for deployment on the Amazon Web Services Marketplace and Microsoft Azure Marketplace and offers a free 90-day trial. The company intends to use the funds to accelerate product development across additional databases and to expand sales and marketing efforts. Led by co-founder and CEO Ameesh Divatia, Baffle emphasizes preventing the types of attacks that have caused recent high-profile data breaches. The article does not disclose operating metrics or revenue figures. Baffle provides an end-to-end data encryption platform that protects data at all times — from production through processing — including while data is in use. Its platform keeps data encrypted when stored on-premise or in the cloud and even when processed by databases and applications. The solution is intended to allow organizations in media, financial services, healthcare and other sectors to migrate data stores to the cloud without exposing plaintext. The company had just released the platform for early access at the time of the announcement. Baffle closed a $3M funding round and said it will use the proceeds to continue developing the platform. The company is based in Santa Clara, California.

Participated · Series C · May 2017

Orbital Insight offers TerraScope, a self-serve multi-sensor geospatial analytics platform that blends computer vision and geolocation sensor data to detect changes, monitor activity, and discover patterns of life globally. TerraScope, released in Q4 2022, evolved from the company’s GO Platform and adds easier multi-sensor data fusion, a library of pre-defined analyses for single-click insights, and massive scalability for millions of areas of interest. Since the TerraScope launch, the company has secured clients across Energy, Industrial Materials, and Information Services in North America, and Semiconductors, Telecommunications, and Financial Services across Asia. Orbital Insight is targeting enterprise-class commercial and federal markets and is using the new financing to support TerraScope marketing to additional customers. The company highlights strong customer demand for TerraScope and continued investor interest tied to recent contract wins. Orbital Insight builds geospatial analytics software that uses AI and computer vision to analyze petabytes of multi-source data, including satellite and synthetic aperture radar imagery, location intelligence, and AIS vessel-traffic data. Its core product, Orbital Insight GO, is a software solution the company plans to expand and further develop with the new funding. The platform supports use cases such as supply chain monitoring, real estate analysis, infrastructure mapping, and defense and intelligence. Customers include financial services firms, Global 2000 companies, several U.S. government agencies, and global non-profit organizations. Led by CEO and founder Dr. James Crawford and based in Palo Alto, the company has positioned its product for both commercial and government applications. Financially, the company has now secured over $125 million in total funding. Orbital Insight builds analytics products that analyze satellite imagery and other data using deep learning to deliver business insights. Its offerings have been used to infer revenue signals—for example, counting cars in retailer parking lots as a proxy ahead of earnings. The company reports strong commercial uptake as well as government interest, and investors cited hiring for engineering and sales. As satellite imagery and enabling technology commoditize, Orbital Insight and peers are racing to serve new markets and simplify offerings. The firm has become one of the most capitalized startups in the geospatial analytics space. Total fundraising now stands at $78.7 million following the latest round. Orbital Insight builds self-teaching algorithms to analyze satellite and UAV imagery, counting and measuring roads, airplanes, clouds, lakes, buildings, oil tanks and more. Its platform produces analytics such as parking‑lot vehicle counts (it says it has counted more than a billion cars across one million lots for 50 US retailers). The 30-person company works with more than 60 asset management firms, several U.S. government agencies, and two global non-profits, ingesting imagery from providers including DigitalGlobe, Airbus, NASA Landsat and Planet Labs. Orbital has partnered with the World Bank to improve poverty estimates using building height and rooftop materials as wealth proxies. The company plans to expand sales and engineering headcount and establish or grow presences in Washington, New York, and later London and Hong Kong, and expects to enter verticals such as financial services, insurance, energy, NGOs and real estate while adding drone and IoT geospatial data sources. Orbital Insight builds data products that extract insights from satellite images for decision makers across industries. The company uses image processing, neural networks, machine learning and statistical analysis to forecast outcomes and detect trends. Its customers include hedge funds, real estate developers, insurance companies, government agencies, and international development and environmental non-profits. Developed products include end-of-season crop harvest forecasts from mid-season spectral analysis, quarterly retail performance estimates from parking‑lot counts, measures of construction activity in China, and early estimates of global crude oil inventory fluctuations. The company raised an $8.7M Series A and plans to use the funds to hire engineers and build out new data product lines. Orbital Insight is led by founder Dr. James Crawford and is hiring.