Led · Series B · Mar 2026

Pronto is an India-based instant house-help platform founded in 2025 that connects households with on-demand domestic workers for cleaning and household chores through a managed network. The startup has expanded from one city to about 10 cities, including Delhi NCR, Bengaluru and Mumbai, and from five to more than 150 micromarkets. Operational metrics reported include about 500,000 orders completed in the most recent month and current daily order volume of roughly 24,000–25,000, up from about 18,000 in March and roughly 1,000 last year. Pronto has over 4,500 active professionals on its platform, around 99% of whom are women, and bookings grew about 20% week over week, with the National Capital Region accounting for about half of total bookings. On the funding front, the company had raised about $40 million before this latest roughly $20 million round, which would bring its post-money valuation to about $200 million.

Participated · Seed · Jan 2026

Founded in 2024 and based in Portland, OR, AheadComputing is developing a breakthrough CPU microarchitecture that marries RISC-V extensibility with proprietary design to maximize per-core performance for AI inference, agentic AI, and other data-center tasks. The 120-person team, which collectively holds hundreds of compute patents and has shipped more than 70 products in prior roles, is currently building its first high-performance general-purpose CPU. The company positions its architecture as a critical complement to GPUs, arguing that CPU performance is still essential as 70% of data-center workloads are expected to be AI-related by 2030. Proceeds from recent funding are earmarked for R&D, software innovation, and test-chip development, as well as continued team expansion. Key technical collaborations include Alchip, Cadence, Skyechip, and Tenstorrent. To date, the company has raised $53 million, giving it runway to bring its initial product to market and further integrate RISC-V into mainstream AI infrastructure.

Participated · Series B · Oct 2024

Founded in 2019, GIVA began as an affordable jewelry brand and has expanded its portfolio to include gold jewelry and lab-grown diamonds. It operates around 210 physical stores across 25 cities in India alongside its website and app, growing through a franchise-led model and targeting more than 300 outlets by FY26. The company has raised over $158 million to date, including a recent Series C extension led by HPV CC1 Ltd. For the fiscal year ending March 2025, GIVA reported operating revenue of Rs 518 crore, an 89% year-on-year increase, while its losses rose 22% to Rs 72 crore. GIVA competes with both large organized jewellery players and newer lab-grown and direct-to-consumer brands in India. The firm is using external capital (equity and debt historically, and this new debt round) to fund store expansion and working capital needs.

Participated · Equity · Aug 2023

Tenstorrent is a Toronto-based AI hardware startup that develops AI processors and training servers. The company plans to use its new funding to build out its engineering team and to build artificial-intelligence training servers to demonstrate its technology. CEO Jim Keller, a famed microprocessor engineer, said Tenstorrent plans to release a new AI processor every two years. The company has signed customer contracts totaling nearly $150 million. Tenstorrent was founded in 2016 and is one of several startups aiming to chip away at Nvidia’s dominant AI chip market share. Other startups mentioned alongside Tenstorrent include Axelera, Etched and Groq. The company recently closed a large financing that values it at more than $2.6 billion. Tenstorrent is a Toronto, Canada–based computing company that designs and sells AI processors and licenses AI and RISC‑V IP to customers who want to own and customize their silicon. Led by CEO Jim Keller, the company brings together experts in computer architecture, ASIC design, advanced systems, and neural network compilers. It operates U.S. offices in Austin and Silicon Valley and has global offices in Belgrade, Tokyo, and Bangalore. Tenstorrent closed a $100M strategic financing up‑round. The company intends to use the funds to accelerate product development, design and development of AI chiplets, and advance its ML software roadmap. Tenstorrent is a hardware startup developing next-generation computers and AI-focused processors. Its flagship Grayskull processor was slated to go to market in the second half of 2021. The company is also launching DevCloud to let developers run models without purchasing hardware. Larger systems using Tenstorrent’s technology will be available through partners. The company said it will use the new funding to continue creating AI-focused hardware for developers. Tenstorrent is headquartered in Toronto and maintains U.S. offices in Austin and Silicon Valley. Leadership includes CEO Ljubisa Bajic and CTO Jim Keller. Tenstorrent develops Grayskull, an all-in-one AI compute system designed to accelerate model training and inference using a novel architecture that eliminates unnecessary computation. Grayskull implements conditional execution and packs 120 proprietary Tensix cores stitched with a custom torus interconnect, 120MB of local SRAM and up to 16GB external LPDDR4 across PCIe Gen4. The Tensix core combines a packet processor, a programmable SIMD processor, a dense math block, and five RISC cores to drive high utilization. In preliminary tests the system reportedly hit 368 TOPs at a 75W PCIe-card TDP and processed 23,345 sentences/sec on BERT-Base (SQuAD 1.1), a claimed 26x advantage versus competing solutions. Tenstorrent is sampling Grayskull with partners and expected the system to be production-ready in fall 2020, and plans to target datacenters, public and private cloud servers, on-premises and edge servers, and automotive markets. The company is headquartered in Toronto with offices in Austin and Silicon Valley and has raised over $34 million to date.

Led · Series C · Jan 2023

Park+ is a car-owners-focused app that aggregates services across the car ownership lifecycle, including parking, challan tracking, FASTag recharges, insurance renewal, car cleaning and maintenance. Launched by Amit Lakhotia in 2019, the app went live in 2020 and currently hosts roughly 60 lakh car owners on its platform. The company positions itself as a superapp for car owners and has expanded service verticals to address daily ownership problems. Park+ plans to use new capital to expand its presence to over 100 cities, hire about 200 employees, and broaden its services offerings. Financially, the company has raised about $55 million to date and completed a new funding round in which its valuation doubled. The Gurugram-based startup is leveraging its large user community and investor backing to scale operations and service coverage across India. Park+ is an app that serves car users with services including parking, FASTag management, car insurance and vehicle-access control systems. The company helps car owners manage multiple vehicle-related needs through its platform. It said it will use the funds raised to strengthen its technology and build out solutions for cars and car owners. About 6 per cent of all cars in India are on Park+. The funding round reported in the article is a Series B of about $25 million led by Sequoia Capital India, Matrix Partners India and Epiq Capital. Existing and new investors, including AdvantEdge, Fund II-A Series of Somani Investments LP and Motherson Lease Solution Limited, participated in the round. Park+ offers a mobile app–based smart parking automated system and a cloud-based security solution that enables parking discovery, booking, payment and tracking for daily commuters, corporates and commercial establishments. The company positions itself as a tech-enabled platform providing seamless, real-time parking experiences. Park+ was founded in July 2019 by Amit Lakhotia, a founder and operator who previously helped build and scale MakeMyTrip, Paytm and Tokopedia. At the time of the article the company was in a development phase and planned to launch its app shortly. The startup targets dense Indian cities where parking infrastructure is inadequate relative to vehicle density; the article notes India has close to 50 million registered cars with about 70% concentrated in the top 15 cities. No revenue or user metrics were disclosed in the article.