Participated · Seed · Jul 2025

Callidus Legal AI offers an end-to-end AI platform that automates core litigation workflows, including exhaustive precedent research, element-by-element legal outlines, and citation‑rich litigation documents. The company has ingested over 10 million U.S. legal cases and uses proprietary agentic AI and metadata enrichment for high‑precision retrieval and drafting. Callidus serves 1,000+ customers and reported that it tripled recurring revenue in the first half of 2025. With the new funding, the company plans to double the speed of product development and roll out transformative platform features through the second half of 2025. Callidus expects to triple its team size with hires across product, engineering, customer success, and legal AI research in Texas and California. The product is positioned to support litigators across the entire litigation lifecycle by year‑end while keeping attorneys “in the loop” for strategic decisions. CallidusAI is a generative artificial intelligence legal startup. The company announced it closed a funding round led by AI Fund. AI Fund is the AI venture studio founded by Andrew Ng, a Stanford professor and founder of Google Brain, Landing AI and DeepLearning.AI. A LinkedIn post congratulated Anoop Singh and the CallidusAI team on the raise. The announcement appeared amid broader coverage noting growing investor interest in AI-driven legal solutions. The post did not disclose financial terms or operating metrics.

Participated · Seed · Jul 2017

Esquify offers a legal-technology platform for human document review, employing proprietary machine learning in eDiscovery to deliver productivity benchmarking tools and analytics. Its tools are designed to improve quality and increase accountability in legal document review. The company is led by founders and co-CEOs Drew Stern and Scott Stuart. Esquify secured $710K in seed funding and said it will use the proceeds to accelerate growth. The round brings total funding since launching to $1.25M. The company is based in Chicago.

Participated · Seed · Oct 2016

Amulet builds portable sensors that provide rapid, on-site molecular detection for food allergens, toxins, and other environmental contaminants through a consumer wearable (Allergy Amulet) and a commercial detection platform (Amulet Scientific). The company plans to scale its team, expand its detection portfolio, and execute a full product launch to serve a growing waitlist. Since its 2020 seed round, Amulet has secured grant funding from the National Institutes of Health and the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Recent strategic hires include Michelle Wu (Head of Product) and Barkley Jenny (VP of Product) to support commercialization and product development. Amulet also recently became a benefit corporation, reflecting its mission-driven approach to improving food safety for individuals and businesses. The technology targets both consumer needs (people managing food allergies and intolerances) and commercial customers (restaurants, suppliers, and manufacturers) to reduce allergen exposure, contamination-related recalls, and associated health impacts. Allergy Amulet builds a consumer food-allergen detection platform centered on a thumb-sized reader (the "Amulet") paired with a disposable sampler. The device pairs molecularly imprinted polymer (MIP) technology with an electrochemical system to detect common allergenic ingredients in seconds. Its sleek, portable design supports everyday carry (keychain, necklace, wristband) and an optional mobile app to store and share results. Allergy Amulet closed additional Seed funding that brought the round to $4.1 million and previously raised an initial Seed led by a joint venture between Microsoft and the Green Bay Packers. The new capital will be used to accelerate manufacturing, expand product offerings to cover more allergens, grow the team, and educate consumers. The company positions the Amulet as an additional tool for individuals, parents, and businesses to better manage food allergies and reduce reliance on strict avoidance and emergency treatment. Allergy Amulet has developed a small, fast consumer food allergen sensor consisting of a USB-sized reader and disposable test strips housing proprietary sensor chips. The patented, portable technology is designed to fit on a keychain, necklace, wristband, or in a pocket and the company’s case also accommodates epinephrine and antihistamines. The company holds one issued U.S. patent with multiple applications and reports a waitlist with thousands of individuals signed up for an early beta release. Allergy Amulet plans to use new funding to manufacture beta units, launch pre-orders, expand product offerings to cover more allergens, grow its team, add additional restaurant and company partners, and educate consumers about food allergen management tools. The company is led by Co-founder and CEO Abigail Barnes and Co-founder and Scientific Advisor Dr. Joseph BelBruno. Pre-sales were slated for Fall 2020 with a broader launch planned for Fall 2021. Allergy Amulet develops a rapid, portable, point-of-consumption food allergen detection device that connects to a patent-pending disposable test strip. The device enables mobile measurements to help individuals avoid ingesting target allergens. It can be configured as a wearable (for example, a necklace) or integrated into everyday products (for example, an EpiPen). Led by CEO Abigail Barnes and based in Madison, WI, the company plans to begin beta testing of its prototype. Allergy Amulet raised $1.1M in seed funding to grow the team and accelerate product development. Investors in the round include Colle Capital, Bulldog Innovation Group, Foley Ventures, Gopher Angels, Mendota Venture Capital and the Wisconsin Medical Society Foundation.

Participated · Seed · Jul 2015

Rithmio develops a gesture-recognition software platform aimed at enabling product teams to build personalized gesture-based products for smartphones, wearables and sports equipment. The company was spun out of the University of Illinois by CEO and co-founder Adam Tilton. Rithmio raised an additional $3M in seed funding to support product and engineering work. It intends to use the funds to hire additional engineers. The company previously raised $650K in September 2014. The platform is positioned for integration into a range of consumer devices and sports equipment. Rithmio is developing a gesture-recognition platform that can learn new user-defined gestures in six to ten seconds and then detect, classify and analyze movements in real time. The company demonstrated a wrist-based device navigating a map but intends to enable other brands to embed its software rather than build another wearable. Potential applications mentioned include wearables that track and critique athletic movement and smartphone apps that function like a Wiimote. Co-founded by Adam Tilton and Prashant Mehta, Rithmio focuses on real-time motion analysis through proprietary software. The startup will use recently raised capital to accelerate operational and technical development. It plans to expand its product team and ramp up business and marketing programs.

Participated · Equity · Feb 2015

Page Vault builds software that lets lawyers capture web content and save authenticated screengrabs that comply with court protocols. Users can visit any web page, capture the screen view with one click, and store the image in a Page Vault account. The captures are designed to be tamper-evident and can be supported by affidavits to enhance admissibility, creating a secure chain of custody and reducing reliance on third-party capture services. The company positions the product to modernize how attorneys submit online information in court. Page Vault recently raised $1.325 million (per an SEC filing) and earlier received $26,000 from the Northwestern University Venture Challenge plus an investment from the Pritzker Group Venture Fellows program. The startup is led by founder Jeffrey Eschbach, a former Motorola engineer and Kellogg School of Management graduate, and operates out of Catapult after previously working in 1871.