Participated · Series B · Aug 2026

Wispr AI is building voice-first foundation models to power Flow, a voice-to-text operating system layer that cleans filler words, structures thoughts and produces ready-to-use text in more than 25,000 apps and websites. The product’s accuracy is such that 90 % of spoken words require no edits, and after six months the average user writes 72 % of their characters with Flow, nearly halving daily typing time. The company reports 40 % month-over-month growth in both users and annual recurring revenue, and serves hundreds of thousands of users. Wispr envisions voice becoming the dominant interface and plans to expand Flow’s capabilities while hiring aggressively across engineering and product. A global partnership with “The Diary of a CEO” podcast will showcase the technology to an audience of over 35 million subscribers. Headquartered in San Francisco, the company has raised a total of $81 million from investors such as Notable Capital, Flight Fund, AIX Ventures, Menlo Ventures, NEA and 8VC. These funds will be used to scale its voice-native computing system worldwide.

Led · Series A · Jul 2026

Natural builds payment infrastructure that lets autonomous AI agents execute financial actions such as paying vendors, collecting payments, and transacting with other agents or humans. The startup redesigns financial rails to support agent-initiated transactions that traditional systems (credit cards, ACH) were not built for. Founded in 2025 by Kahlil Lalji with co-founders including Eric Wang and Walt Leung, Natural has operated in beta while making core architectural decisions. The company plans to support both traditional bank payments and USD-backed stablecoins as part of its architecture. Natural has attracted senior talent from fintech firms like Stripe, Ramp, and Square to accelerate product development. With $40 million in total funding after the Series A, the company is positioning itself to compete with incumbents such as Stripe and emerging rivals in the agentic payments space.

Led · Series D · Jul 2026

Fora operates a two-part platform that lets individuals become travel agents by providing infrastructure for client communication and trip planning, and allows travelers to find and communicate with advisors for occasions like honeymoons and family trips. Since launching, agents on Fora’s platform have booked more than $3 billion in travel, and the majority of its agent users are new to travel advising. The company offers an AI assistant called Via to handle administrative tasks such as research and itinerary building, aiming to increase agent productivity. Fora raised a $60 million Series D at a $1 billion valuation and has raised $138.5 million in total funding. It plans to use the new capital to expand Via, hire more staff, and grow into additional travel categories including cruises and flights. Founded in 2021, Fora continues to develop its marketplace and agent support tools.

Participated · Series A · Jun 2026

Town builds personalized AI assistants—branded as Townies—that users must connect to their email and calendar so the assistant can build a picture of the user and surface proactive suggestions and automations. In the first minutes of use Town generates a user biography and offers three to five immediate actions, and over time Townies learn preferences, notice patterns, and can be set to handle tasks automatically. The company targets "prosumers" whose personal and professional lives are intertwined and reports about 70–80% of usage is work-related. Town is approaching 10,000 users and reports 99% retention over two months among users who have created at least one custom automation. It runs on Google and Microsoft infrastructure and was founded in late 2024 by Jean-Denis Gréze and Tony Vincent. The team cites examples of use cases such as generating research briefs on unknown email senders and automatically translating documents into a preferred language.

Participated · Series D · Jun 2026

Suno builds AI models that generate music and has grown to rank near the top of the App Store music charts. At the time of its Series C, company materials indicated users were generating over 7 million songs per day. Financially, Suno raised a $400 million Series D at a $5.4 billion valuation, up from a roughly $2.45 billion valuation about seven months earlier. The company has attracted participation from both traditional venture firms and music-industry participants, though it did not name specific artists. Suno faces significant legal challenges: it has acknowledged training its models on copyrighted songs and argues that its use falls under fair use, while major labels including Sony and Universal have sued and expanded their allegations; Warner reached a licensing settlement. The company has not publicly detailed specific future product plans or precise use of the new funds in the announcement.