Participated · Seed · Jun 2026

Fearn offers an AI-native patent drafting platform that composes dozens of small, purpose-built models to generate patent drafts and automated labeled figures with formal guardrails against key prosecution failure modes. The company says its tools cut patent drafting from 50+ hours to about 20 minutes and reduce costs by up to 96%, and it offers a flat $2,000 per patent pricing option. Fearn self-hosts all models and provides enterprise deployment choices (customer-hosted VPC, single-tenant VPC, or multi-tenant VPC) and compliance with SOC 2, ISO 27001, ISO 27701, and GDPR. The founders bring patent-law and technical research experience, including prior roles at Morrison Foerster, Google Research, and Caltech research backgrounds. Fearn lists customers including Unity, Dandelion Energy, Serova Bio, Capsule, Syncere, Sans Strings, Taya, and Cainex. The company was founded in 2025 and is headquartered in San Francisco.

Participated · Seed · Apr 2026

Unkey builds Unkey Deploy, a platform designed to ship production APIs on real servers with features the company highlights as no serverless tradeoffs, no cold starts, and instant rollbacks. Unkey Deploy bundles deployment with auth, rate limits, and usage tracking in a single platform. The company has made Unkey Deploy available as part of this product launch. Proceeds from the recent $4.6M financing are being put toward Unkey Deploy. The article did not provide operating metrics, revenue figures, founding year, or location.

Participated · Seed · Mar 2026

Standard Kernel builds an AI-driven platform that automatically produces instruction-level, hardware-specialized GPU kernels, replacing static libraries with code precisely tuned to each workload and accelerator. In partner tests on NVIDIA H100 GPUs, the software has delivered 80 % to 4× end-to-end performance gains, occasionally surpassing NVIDIA’s own cuDNN. By operating deep in the systems stack, the company aims to provide day-one peak efficiency for every new chip without months of manual tuning. The Palo Alto–based team includes alumni from MIT, Stanford, UIUC, and SJTU, and has created open-source projects such as KernelBench and Kernel Tree Search. Newly raised capital will fund continued R&D, expansion of deployments with AI-native and enterprise customers, and progress toward adaptive systems software that evolves alongside emerging models and hardware. The company is actively hiring engineers and researchers to advance its kernel generation technology.

Participated · Series A · Nov 2025

Founded in 2023, Magic Patterns provides an AI design tool used by more than 1,500 product teams, including customers such as Origami Risk, Lendi Group, and Ovative Group. The platform allows teams to import components from Figma, Storybook, or any website and reference them in natural-language prompts, enabling the AI to produce designs in the company’s real brand styles. Magic Patterns 2.0 adds presets for colors, typography, and layout rules, an AI-first editor with element-level editing, built-in version control, and a real-time collaborative canvas. The company reached $1 million in annual recurring revenue while operating profitably with no full-time employees prior to this funding. Future plans include accelerating product development, enhancing enterprise support, and hiring product engineers, enterprise account executives, and growth marketers. CEO and co-founder Alex Danilowicz aims to position Magic Patterns as the leading AI design tool for PMs, designers, and developers.

Participated · Equity · Oct 2025

Founded as an open-source project in 2023, ComfyUI developed a modular, node-based interface that lets creators control each step of generation from diffusion models for image, video, and audio. The tool has been adopted by creative professionals and technical artists, with the company reporting over 4 million users and usage across visual effects, animation, advertising, and industrial design. ComfyUI evolved from a community project into a formal startup and has raised multiple rounds, including $19 million in a late‑2024 Series A and the recent $30 million round at a $500 million valuation. Yoland Yan is the company’s co-founder and CEO and has emphasized the platform’s role in enabling precise, human-in-the-loop adjustments that prompting alone often cannot deliver. The company faces competitors in adjacent tooling, including Weavy, which was acquired by Figma.