Participated · Seed · Jul 2026

a1mobile is launching as a business telecommunications company headquartered in San Francisco and founded by Darryl Foong. It plans to unify mobile, landline, and AI-powered phone systems into a single carrier designed for the AI era. The company says it will enable phone numbers to do more than connect calls by helping businesses better serve customers. a1mobile is initiating its commercial rollout with business landline customers. Financially, the company has raised an $11.5 million Seed round led by General Catalyst with broad investor participation to support its launch and growth efforts.

Participated · Series A · Jun 2026

HUD provides a platform for building high-quality post-training datasets and reinforcement-learning environments. More than 50 businesses use HUD to create RL environments, sell those environments to AI labs, or train their own models from them. The company positions itself as infrastructure for data — both digital and physical — to help align AIs to specific goals and enable a generation of applications built on prior-generation models. HUD announced it has raised $16M in total funding, backed by institutional investors and angels. The company’s announcement did not disclose revenue, user growth metrics beyond the 50+ business customers, founding year, or location.

Participated · Series A · Jun 2026

Gradient Labs develops a suite of AI agents that automate customer operations and repetitive processes for financial firms, including lending, disputes, and KYC checks. The company says its agents learn company-specific products and processes to handle complex customer inquiries reliably and safely, and it runs voice AI in production at scale. Gradient works with US and European fintechs and reports handling hundreds of thousands of customer calls monthly across its lending deployments. Founded by former Monzo executives and headquartered in London, Gradient Labs is focused on expanding into the US market. Financially, the company has raised around $30M to date, including a $13M Series A last year and a $13M Series A extension announced most recently.

Participated · Seed · Oct 2025

AccessGrid, founded by Auston Bunsen and officially launched in April, builds developer-focused APIs that allow enterprises to manage digital credentials directly through Apple Wallet and Google Wallet. The system works even when an iPhone is locked—or in some cases dead—automatically syncing to Apple Watch and other devices. By replacing legacy on-premises badge systems, AccessGrid issues uncloneable credentials with encrypted payloads that can be instantly revoked from the cloud, employing dual, “military-grade” encryption and multi-factor authentication for server access. Unlike competitors that sell service contracts or middleware, AccessGrid positions itself as a pure-play developer platform. Near-term product priorities include hardening security and rolling out additional features, while longer-term plans call for expanding the technology to automobiles and eventually upgrading every access-control reader in the U.S. The company faces rivals such as SwiftConnect and Sharry but believes its API-only approach offers a distinct advantage. AccessGrid has secured $4.4 million in seed funding to finance these initiatives.

Participated · Seed · Aug 2025

Zipline AI builds a next-generation data platform that accelerates enterprise AI/ML development by unifying data pipelines, serving infrastructure, and observability into a single platform powered by a highly efficient compute engine. The company extends Chronon, an open-source data engine developed by co-founders Varant Zanoyan and Nikhil Simha Raprolu during their time leading the AI data platform at Airbnb; Chronon is jointly owned by Airbnb and Stripe. Chronon has seen adoption from organizations including OpenAI, Netflix, Uber, and Roku, and Zipline is packaging those capabilities into a developer-friendly platform for enterprises. The product is designed to reduce complexity, speed time-to-production, lower infrastructure costs, and improve observability and governance for AI systems. Zipline plans to grow its team, bring the platform to market, and announce key partnerships in the coming months. The company is backed by institutional investors and positions its platform for large-scale enterprise deployment.