Led · Seed · Feb 2026

Founded in 2021 out of Princeton University, PolyGone Systems develops patented filtration systems that remove 98% of toxic microplastics from water at 90% lower cost than existing alternatives. Its flagship PolyPod™ units are engineered to treat up to 10 million gallons of water per day, targeting municipal wastewater facilities. Complementing the hardware, the company has launched a microplastics analysis service that provides affordable testing for public agencies, private companies, and utilities to assess contamination and regulatory compliance. PolyGone is currently running a wastewater pilot with the Atlantic County Utilities Authority and has signed three additional commercial deployments slated for 2026 across municipal, industrial, and food-and-beverage customers. Near-term plans include mass production of the PolyPod™ systems and the release of an inline PolyCartridge™ filter for industrial water streams. Management positions the company as a future proprietary data and intelligence provider on microplastic pollution, aiming to become indispensable to water authorities and industrial operators. No revenue figures were disclosed in the articles.

Led · Seed · Jan 2026

Founded in June 2025 by former Google DeepMind researchers Shumeet Baluja and Ian Fischer, Poetiq builds a meta-system that pairs with any frontier LLM—such as GPT-5.2, Gemini, Claude, or Llama—to make the underlying model learn faster, reason more deeply, and operate at lower cost. Instead of requiring thousands of fine-tuning examples, customers supply only a few hundred samples, after which Poetiq’s system spins up an agent that recursively refines itself for the target problem. The technology recently set a new state-of-the-art on the ARC-AGI-2 benchmark, achieving 75% accuracy on the public evaluation set using GPT-5.2 and eclipsing prior leaders at roughly half the cost per task. An August 2025 MIT study highlighting that 95% of enterprises see no ROI on GenAI underscores the commercial need Poetiq addresses. The company positions itself as model-agnostic, augmenting rather than competing with frontier providers, which broadens its potential customer base across diverse AI platforms and use cases. Poetiq currently employs six people and is headquartered in Mountain View, California. To date, it has secured $45.8 million in seed financing to fuel product development and commercialization.

Led · Series A · Nov 2023

rready offers an AI-powered, API-first innovation management platform designed to support use cases such as open innovation, hackathons, accelerators, and continuous improvement initiatives. Its flagship offering implements the KICKBOX innovation program, a methodology initially developed at Adobe, to help organizations validate ideas and drive projects. The company positions its SaaS as innovation management-as-a-service to create lasting cultural change and make employee-driven innovation scalable and results-oriented. rready cites enterprise clients including Tetra Pak, ZF Group, Compeer, and Swisscom. The company has offices in Switzerland, the US, the Netherlands, and Brazil. Proceeds from the Series A will be used to commercialize and scale the AI-powered platform.

Participated · Equity · May 2023

Nova builds a suite of generative AI tools designed to ensure AI-generated creative stays on brand. Its BrandGuard product ingests a company’s brand and style guidelines and runs five models to check brand safety, quality, on-brand adherence, style and campaign alignment, assigning each piece a content score. Customers can set score thresholds to flag content for human review before publishing. BrandGPT provides a ChatGPT-style interface for employees, agencies or contractors to query a company’s brand rules. The two products launched in public beta starting today. The company launched last year and has raised $2.4 million from Bee Partners, Fyrfly Ventures and Argon Ventures. Nova is led by founder and CEO Rob May, who previously founded Backupify, which was acquired by Datto in 2014.

Participated · Seed · Jul 2022

DSCVR is a blockchain-based social network built on Dfinity’s Internet Computer protocol that hosts token-gated communities called "portals." These portals require users to own specific NFTs to participate and serve as a distribution channel for NFT projects via airdropped digital assets. The platform offers a native wallet intended to simplify onboarding by avoiding the need for users to hand over control of their keys. DSCVR says it has onboarded over 100,000 users and has generated "millions of dollars" in NFT rewards for those users through its airdrop mechanism. Co-founder and CEO Rick Porter frames the product as a bridge between Web2 and Web3, aiming to give typical Web2 users a native web3 experience with "little to no sacrifice." Porter’s decision to build on the Internet Computer followed his prior work with Dfinity and conversations with Dfinity leadership, which shaped the technical and product approach. The Internet Computer ecosystem has also faced legal controversy, which is part of the broader context for DSCVR’s choice of protocol.