Participated · Series A · Oct 2025

Coco offers an AI customer service platform, branded “coco,” that consolidates LINE, SMS, email, and other channels into a single interface, allowing retailers to deliver round-the-clock, automated sales assistance. The system is positioned to help stores become “Region No. 1” by boosting customer engagement and operational efficiency. Currently headquartered in Shibuya, Tokyo, the company supports more than 3,000 client stores spanning sectors such as automotive, renovation, weddings, funerals, and healthcare. Coco’s mission is to make customer-centricity standard practice across Japanese retail. With the new financing, management plans to scale nationwide sales and customer-success teams, deepen distributor partnerships, and accelerate generative-AI integrations. The firm has now attracted over ¥600 million in total capital, demonstrating solid investor confidence in its SaaS model and growth prospects.

Led · Series B · Feb 2019

Silverpush is a Gurugram, India-based advertising technology firm that provides AI-Powered contextual solutions for brands and agencies. Led by CEO Hitesh Chawla and COO Kartik Mehta, the company focuses on targeting relevant audiences while avoiding intrusion into user privacy. Silverpush operates in 10+ countries across South East Asia, the Middle East, Africa, the USA, the UK, and India. The company has worked with clients including Ford, Nestle, Coca-Cola and Samsung. Following the fundraise, Silverpush intends to use the proceeds to triple its headcount, pursue inorganic growth, and strengthen its product roadmap. SilverPush is an artificial intelligence-based marketing technology platform headquartered in Singapore. The company announced it has raised $5 million in a Series B funding round. The round was led by Japan’s FreakOut Holdings Inc., according to a company announcement. SilverPush said it is expanding globally following the raise. The article does not disclose revenue, user metrics, or other financial details. No past rounds, valuation, or additional investors were mentioned in the coverage. SilverEdge Technologies, which operates under the brand SilverPush, offers a mobile ad retargeting platform and an integrated dashboard to retarget and analyze consumers across all screens. The startup has built its own real-time bidding (RTB) platform for mobile, bidding on millions of ad requests a month. It plans to use the new funding to launch PRISM, a product to measure TV advertising reach and impact and to analyze how TV ads are received on social media and versus competitors. PRISM is designed to give advertisers near-real-time insights (video completes, day-part effects, lifts in brand awareness) so they can optimize TV campaigns while they are in flight. Founded in October 2012 and a GSF Accelerator alumnus, the company has raised multiple earlier rounds. The recent funding round improves its runway to develop PRISM and expand its measurement and retargeting capabilities. SilverEdge Technologies, operating under the brand SilverPush, provides advertisers an integrated dashboard to retarget and analyze consumers across all screens. The company has built its own real-time bidding (RTB) platform for mobile, bidding on millions of ad requests a month. SilverPush currently offers mobile retargeting and plans to extend the service to other platforms. The startup was founded in October 2012 and is a GSF Accelerator alumnus. Founders include Hitesh Chawla (CEO), Mudit Seth (CMO) and Alex Modon. The company said it will use new capital to ramp up technology.

Participated · Series A · Sep 2017

Infostellar runs an "Airbnb"-style platform that lets satellite owners and operators book time on available ground antennas. The service monetizes idle antenna capacity and addresses the short contact windows for low-earth-orbit satellites, which have about a 40-minute daily communication window per antenna. Infostellar is currently pre-launch, with a limited beta scheduled for October and a wider launch planned for early 2018. Its business model takes a cut of rental revenue and includes a credit system that lets users exchange rental time for access to other antennas. CEO Naomi Kurahara says the company ultimately hopes to expand to interplanetary communication options, though near-term focus is on terrestrial infrastructure. Following the fundraise, the company plans to scale its Tokyo-based operations and expand its team from 10 by adding about 20 new hires.

Led · Series B · Mar 2013

Dobleas offers a true mobile demand-side platform (DSP) with real-time bidding (RTB) and an integrated mobile data management platform (DMP). Its platform leverages first- and third-party live data, machine-learning bidding and optimization algorithms, a full-access API and private-exchange solutions to enable transparent, real-time impression buying across leading mobile exchanges and supply-side platforms. Founded in April 2012 and headquartered in New York City, Dobleas was spun off from FreakOut and has partnered with eight RTB supply sources. The company plans to bolster engineering recruitment and build out its U.S. organization to support its RTB infrastructure. Leadership includes CEO Yugo Asato and a management team with extensive digital-ad experience; Phil Miano was appointed chief revenue officer to lead growth. Dobleas recently closed a $5.4M Series B to fund these efforts.