Participated · Seed · Jan 2026

Whale modernizes the traditional rental security-deposit system by allowing renters to keep their deposits in individually owned, high-yield, FDIC-insured savings accounts that landlords can access if needed. Operated as a Registered Investment Advisor regulated by the SEC, the platform offers yields up to seven times the national average and full transparency for residents. For property owners and managers, Whale eliminates the compliance, accounting, and administrative load associated with collecting, holding, and returning deposits, integrating seamlessly into existing leasing workflows. The company already supports more than 500,000 multifamily units across institutional operators such as Mill Creek, Berkshire Residential, Cardinal Group, Rudin, and Urby. Whale targets the estimated $60 billion pool of largely idle U.S. security-deposit capital, positioning these funds as a pathway to financial wellness for America’s 44 million renter households. Led by founder and CEO Jamie Petraglia, a 25-year finance and real-estate veteran, Whale aims to scale nationally by partnering with additional operators and expanding its renter-focused financial tools. The firm promotes a “win-win” model in which landlords remain fully protected while renters build savings and credit. No revenue figures were disclosed, but the rapid adoption across half a million units underscores early traction and market demand.

Participated · Series A · Jan 2023

Splitero helps homeowners unlock trapped home equity by offering Home Equity Investments (HEIs) that provide upfront cash with no income verification and no monthly payments, instead taking a share of future home appreciation. The company’s proprietary Maturity Match™ structure aligns each HEI’s term with the remaining life of the homeowner’s primary mortgage, positioning the product as a flexible substitute for HELOCs or cash-out refinancing. Splitero currently serves homeowners across 14 U.S. states, including Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Nevada, New Jersey, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Utah, Virginia, and Washington. Industry data cited in the article notes that U.S. homeowners collectively hold trillions of dollars in accessible but under-utilized equity, creating a large addressable market for Splitero’s offering. The company emphasizes ease of qualification by eliminating traditional income documentation requirements. Partnerships with institutional capital providers such as Blue Owl Capital and Antarctica Capital bolster its ability to scale HEI originations. Headquartered in San Diego and founded by real-estate veterans, Splitero is positioning its platform and securitization capabilities to expand both homeowner reach and investor participation.

Participated · Series D · Nov 2022

Weka is a Campbell, CA-based AI-native data platform offering a cloud- and AI-native architecture deployable on-premises, in the cloud, and at the edge. Its platform transforms legacy data silos into dynamic data pipelines to accelerate GPU workloads, AI model training and inference, and other performance-intensive workloads. Weka's technology is designed to improve efficiency, reduce energy consumption, and lower associated carbon emissions. Over 300 of the world’s largest AI and GPU deployments run on the WEKA Data Platform. The company intends to use the new funding to increase cash reserves, scale rapidly to meet global demand for AI-native data infrastructure, and expand investments in developing its data platform software. The financing will also provide liquidity to Weka employees. Weka is a software-based data management provider whose WEKA Data Platform is purpose-built for the cloud and AI era. The platform is cloud-native and optimized to handle complex data challenges, delivering performance improvements on-premises, in the cloud, at the edge, and in hybrid and multicloud environments. Weka emphasizes sustainability and seamless data portability as part of its offering. The company operates in over 20 countries and is led by CEO Liran Zvibel. Weka plans to expand platform features and cloud integrations and to support new use cases while accelerating delivery of solutions to customers. The company intends to use recent funding to drive product development, global expansion, and to scale cloud, customer success, sales, marketing, operations, and human resources teams, and to reach profitability. WEKA (WekaIO) offers a unified, software-defined distributed file/object data platform optimized for NVMe-flash and the hybrid cloud to support AI/ML, life sciences research and high-performance computing. Its solutions target GPU-accelerated, data-intensive workloads and are deployed by eight of the Fortune 50. The company reported strong FY21 traction with greater than 2x ARR growth, over 125% growth in new customers, and deployments in 18 new countries, and was recognized by Gartner as a Magic Quadrant Visionary. Momentum continued into 1QFY22, when WEKA said it achieved its 1QFY22 revenue target in the first 14 days of the quarter. WEKA said it will use the new proceeds to accelerate go-to-market activities, operations, and engineering and to improve integration with its ecosystem. WekaIO’s flagship product, WekaIO Matrix, is an NVMe-optimized, POSIX-compliant parallel file system that targets AI, machine learning, high-velocity analytics and HPC workloads. Matrix supports multiprotocol access (NFS, SMB), integrates object storage for economics at scale, and offers features such as snapshots, cloud backup and disaster recovery. The software can be delivered on pre-engineered solutions with HPE, Supermicro and Western Digital, installed on industry-standard Intel x86 servers, or used on the AWS Cloud; the company sells via a capacity-based pricing model. WekaIO highlights industry benchmark performance (SPEC SFS 2014 and VI4IO rankings) and says Matrix delivers very low latency and high throughput for GPU- and I/O‑heavy workloads. The company cites awards and industry recognition and says customers have validated the product in production environments. WekaIO plans to use new capital to accelerate its market trajectory, expand internationally, and increase investments in engineering, sales and marketing. Weka.IO develops software-defined storage (SDS) technology that simplifies deployment of enterprise and cloud storage. Its patent-pending technology is designed to scale storage to hundreds of petabytes, deliver tens of millions of IOPs and achieve sub-millisecond latency at cloud economics. The company positions its product to replace legacy storage systems and address a large addressable market. Weka.IO plans to use new funding to accelerate its go-to-market strategy and expand sales and marketing in the U.S. It also intends to continue building engineering teams in Tel Aviv and San Jose and to grow customer support and business teams across multiple geographies. The company was founded in 2013.

Participated · Equity · Feb 2020

Minute Media operates a user-generated, syndication-based publishing platform that powers multiple mostly-sports media properties. It runs a centralized open CMS that has hosted as many as 20,000 contributors and publishes under 1,000 curated pieces per day across its sites. Its holdings include 90min.com, FanSided, The Players’ Tribune, Mental Floss, 12up, DBLTAP and The Big Lead. Revenue is roughly split between advertising and licensing/syndication (around 50/50), and the company grew about 100% last year and is on track for $200 million in revenue this year. Minute Media plans to use new capital to invest in its publishing platform, invest in properties it already owns and make further acquisitions. The company describes itself as based in New York; its founding team are from Israel and it grew initially in London, where its CEO currently lives. Minute Media operates a user-generated sports content platform that aggregates articles and videos from roughly 5,000 contributors and distributes them via its own sites and partner brands. Its network of sites draws about 80–90 million monthly users, with flagship 90min alone attracting roughly 60 million monthly visitors. Video is a growing area with approximately 200 million video views per month, while licensing content to partners (Sports Illustrated, MSN, ProSieben, Yahoo Sports) accounts for about one-third of revenue. The company ingests 4,000–5,000 pieces of content daily and publishes roughly 1,000 items after curation; all contributors are paid. Minute Media is headquartered in London, traces its engineering roots to Israel, and employs about 180 people, roughly 80 of whom are engineers. The startup plans to use new capital to expand into markets such as China and to begin exploring content beyond sports; it has raised $77 million to date and completed a $17 million Series F in the current round. Minute Media is a fan-driven sports media and technology company that enables fans to create, publish, share and distribute sports content across a family of destinations including 90min and 12up. Its platform delivers over 20,000 pieces of original, socially-driven and curated editorial in 11 languages to users in more than 200 countries. The company grew monthly users from 30 million to 70 million over the last 12 months, earning prominent comScore positions in the US, UK and other top global media markets. Minute Media plans to expand into key global markets ahead of the 2018 World Cup, introduce several new sports brands and launch an esports brand, while enlarging editorial and commercial teams. The new $15 million growth round, bringing total funding to $60 million, will support development in existing and new offices including London, New York, Tel Aviv, Manila, São Paulo, Singapore and Tokyo. Founded in late 2011, the company is backed by venture firms and strategic investors such as Battery Ventures, Dawn Capital, Gemini Ventures, North Base Media, ProSieben and Qumra Capital. 90min is a contributor-driven football media platform that relies largely on unpaid, volunteer writers to produce large volumes of fan-created content. The site publishes what it says are 4-500 pieces of original content daily and attracts about 30 million unique users per month across Europe, Latin America and Southeast Asia. The company emphasizes a technology-first approach to enable large-scale content creation in 10 languages and across rich formats and devices. 90min competes with mainstream sports publishers as well as digital-first brands like Bleacher Report and SB Nation, but differentiates itself by remaining an open platform for fan contributors and allowing publishers to auto-embed its content. The recent funding will support growth and a strategic push into new markets via a partnership with a European media owner.

Participated · Series B · Jul 2014

JFrog offers a suite of products centered on JFrog Artifactory, a binary repository that enables continuous delivery and background software updates without user interruption. The platform also handles DevOps needs including security, access control and distribution. JFrog has expanded its product set and claims rapid commercial traction, serving about 4,500 customers including roughly 70% of the Fortune 100. The company says it has seen 500% revenue growth since its $50M round in 2016, has tripled headcount to about 400 employees, and doubled its number of products. CEO Shlomi Ben Haim says JFrog is targeting $1 billion in revenue by 2025 and aims to enable over‑the‑air background updates for systems like operating systems and connected vehicles. The company reports a valuation north of $1 billion following the latest financing. JFrog develops platform-agnostic software distribution and package-management tools, notably JFrog Bintray for automated binary distribution and JFrog Artifactory for managing software packages prior to distribution. Its products integrate with a wide range of developer tools and focus on automating binary-level distribution across environments. Customers cited include Google, LinkedIn, Twitter, Cisco, VMware, Netflix and MasterCard, with Google using Bintray to distribute Android. Founded in 2008, JFrog had about 110 employees at the time of reporting and expects headcount to reach around 200 by year-end. Financially, the company had previously raised $10.5 million across two rounds and announced a $50 million investment to scale resources. Management plans to use the funds to meet growing integration demand, accelerate hiring, and pursue strategic acquisitions to add missing functionality and engineering talent. JFrog provides infrastructure for software management and distribution across open-source, on-premises and SaaS cloud solutions. Its flagship products, Artifactory and Bintray, are used by developers and DevOps at companies and institutions such as Twitter, Netflix, CA, Apple, LinkedIn, Oracle, EMC, Amazon and the US Navy. Led by CEO Shlomi Ben Haim, the company operates from Santa Clara, California and Netanya, Israel. The company raised $7M in a Series B round to expand its R&D staff, boost sales and marketing worldwide, and accelerate its open-source activities. JFrog serves enterprise and institutional customers with both open-source and commercial deployment options.