Participated · Seed · Jun 2025

Founded in 2023 by sisters Misbah and Farah Uraizee, Nectar Social provides an agentic social operating system and today launched Nectar Agent, an autonomous AI agent that operates in a brand’s voice across conversations. Nectar unifies social intelligence, community management, creator workflows, and conversational commerce with official data partnerships across Meta, TikTok, LinkedIn, Reddit, and X. The company says it powers more than 10 million conversations a week, grew 5x in the prior three months, has engaged over 50 million consumers, and has attributed $100 million in revenue back to social for its customers. Nectar reports its agents perform the equivalent of roughly 20 hours of manual effort per task per week and that it powers more than 80% of brand social interactions for the customers it serves. Its customer roster includes e.l.f. Beauty, Babylist, Figma, Graza, Liquid Death, Kosas, Caraway, and many Fortune 500 brands. The company plans to deepen platform partnerships and expand Nectar Agent into new categories of brand work as it scales engineering and applied-AI teams.

Participated · Series A · Apr 2023

Kintra Fibers develops a proprietary bio-based and biodegradable polyester designed to reduce the environmental impact of traditional polyester across its lifecycle. The company has produced 250 kg of resin to date on a pilot line and aims to produce its first ton of resin this year. Kintra is expanding from pilot production to a commercial manufacturing facility and plans to scale by integrating with partner facilities. The Series A funding will expand the company’s resin and yarn production capacities and support its brand partners. Kintra counts frontier brand partners including Reformation, Inditex, H&M, and BESTSELLER. The company is led by CEO Billy McCall and COO Alissa Baier-Lentz.

Participated · Seed · May 2022

Buywith is a livestream shopping platform that lets retailers and brands host on-site livestream events featuring influencers, experts and brand representatives; it offers a “Shop With Me” screen-sharing component and initially required no app download or code integration. Founded in Israel in 2018 by Adi Ronen Almagor and Eyal Sinai, the company launched in the U.S. in 2021 and helped Walmart get up and running on its platform. Buywith works with brands such as MAC Cosmetics and is launching partnerships with Steve Madden and Charlotte Tilbury while opening offices in the U.K. to expand in Europe. The company reports an eight‑time increase in e‑commerce conversions, around a 40% session engagement rate and an average 10× return on investment, and says it generated "a few millions of dollars in ARR" after major growth last year. Buywith has grown from four employees during pilots to about 20 employees today. Future plans include building a self‑serve marketplace for brands to select vetted hosts and adding product features (including coin-based purchases and chances to go live with hosts) as it expands sales, marketing and R&D globally.

Participated · Seed · Jan 2013

Cleverman offers customizable beard and hair dye kits sold direct to consumers. Customers complete a three-minute personalized quiz that generates more than 10,000 formula combinations; kits start at $18.95. The brand launched in March 2021 and was founded by Carlos Barreto, a former P&G and Revlon industry veteran. Product offerings include tailored colors, tools, and techniques aimed at personal care goals. The company will use the new funding to support research and product innovation, expand on e-tailers, and increase brand awareness. The founder says the company sold its first product two years ago.