Participated · Series A · Jul 2024

Ema builds an agentic AI system—branded as a "universal employee"—that uses collections of AI agents called Ema’s Personas to perform complex, multi-step tasks autonomously. Its platform adapts to enterprise-specific data and workflows and can leverage multiple LLMs based on accuracy, cost, and performance needs. Ema emphasizes operating within company infrastructure to maintain data privacy and security while providing explainable and verifiable outputs. The product is designed to address common LLM shortcomings such as inaccurate outputs, data security risks, and a lack of domain-specific insight. Customers and partners include Moneyview, TrueLayer, and Envoy Global, and Ema was selected for Microsoft’s invite-only Pegasus Program. The company has raised $61M to date and says it will use the new funds to continue iterating its technology and expand investments in R&D and go-to-market. Ema offers an enterprise AI assistant sold as a platform with two products — Generative Workflow Engine (GWE) and EmaFusion — designed to emulate human responses and improve with usage and feedback. The company aggregates more than 30 large language models alongside its own smaller, domain-specific models in a patent-pending architecture to address accuracy, hallucination, and data protection concerns. Ema targets use cases across customer service (including technical support and tracking) and internal employee productivity, positioning itself as a cross‑use‑case solution rather than a single vertical tool. The startup emerged from stealth with paying customers it signed while private, including Envoy Global, TrueLayer and Moneyview. Leadership includes CEO and co-founder Surojit Chatterjee and co-founder/head of engineering Souvik Sen, both with extensive product and ML experience and numerous patents. The company says its goal is to free employees from routine work so they can focus on higher-value strategic tasks as it expands product applicability.

Participated · Equity · Jun 2022

Overalls is a tech-enabled benefits company founded in 2021 by Jon Cooper and Emily Johnson at Redesign Health that combines concierge-like services with personalized financial protection. Its platform integrates with existing employer benefits and centers on three core product areas: Hassle Helper (digitally enabled human support), Pocketbook Protector (personalized insurance and financial products), and Mighty Moments (rewards and planning for life events). The company has partnered with AllState Identity Protection, Matic, Boost, and Ladder, and has signed over twenty-five employers to pilot its offering. Overalls aims to improve financial resilience and increase adoption of voluntary benefits by making insurance more relatable and accessible. The company plans to use new capital to accelerate market expansion and broaden its insurance and product offerings. Cumulative funding for Overalls now stands at $8.6M.

Participated · Series A · Feb 2022

Flow offers an open-platform software solution that links fund managers, limited partners, law firms, fund administrators, auditors and banks to simplify the creation, raising and management of private market funds. The system replaces antiquated, fragmented workflows with a unified interface that delivers greater transparency and faster decision-making across the private-capital ecosystem. More than 200 customers manage over $5 billion in assets on Flow, and the platform already supports 10,000+ investors. Annual recurring revenue has increased more than 250% year-over-year, driven largely by referrals from existing investors using the product. Founded by Brendan Marshall and Adrian Ortiz and headquartered in San Francisco, the company was incubated with Quiet Capital and Endurance Companies. With new capital in hand, Flow plans to accelerate product development and integrated services while deepening relationships with law firms, fund administrators, auditors and banks. The team believes its technology will lower barriers to entry and foster more inclusive participation in the multi-trillion-dollar private markets.

Participated · Series D · Dec 2021

Turing operates an AI-powered Talent Cloud that sources, evaluates, hires, onboards and manages remote engineers across hiring, HR and compliance. The platform covers roughly 100 technologies and 15 job titles and serves customers from tech and non-tech sectors, including Johnson & Johnson, Coinbase, Rivian, Dell, Disney, Plume and VillageMD. In the past year its candidate pool grew ninefold to about 1 million engineers and developers from 140 countries (up from 180,000 reported the prior year). Turing focuses on full-stack, front-end, back-end and site reliability engineers and plans to expand into adjacent areas like project management and an offering to engage entire teams. The company emphasizes long-term career planning and end-to-end management of distributed engineering talent. Turing operates a talent marketplace and “talent cloud” that sources, rigorously vets (including practical coding assessments) and matches remote software developers with employer projects. The platform emphasizes data‑driven vetting and matching, including machine learning models that predict collaboration success and support team-level placements. It provides a secure sandboxed VM environment for contractors to protect client IP and to manage work during engagements. The company reports rapid commercial traction: since general availability a year ago it has grown from $17,000 to $10 million in annualized revenue. Turing has built a large supply pool of roughly 150,000 developers across 140 countries and places engineers into roles at startups and other vendors. The founders say they plan to continue scaling matching accuracy and expanding the talent pool as distributed work accelerates demand for remote engineering talent.

Participated · Seed · Oct 2021

Bild provides a web-based collaboration platform that lets teams interact with 3D CAD, board files, bills-of-materials, schematics, drawings and simulation data through cloud viewers. The company was founded in 2020 by Pradyut Paul, Avinash Kunaparaju and Derrick Choi to move hardware engagements out of email and spreadsheets and speed product development. Bild graduated from private beta with 25 companies and has converted some early users to paying customers; the software is now publicly available. The $3 million seed raise will be used to hire for customer acquisition, sales and marketing and to continue product development, including building a self-service experience for new users. Roadmap items called out include visual diffs and improved ways to show CAD model visibility to close gaps between in-person and on-screen review. The company is still determining pricing strategies.