• Peek

  Led · Seed · May 2022

  Peek transforms the apartment-rental process by giving prospective renters the ability to tour and lease units online with e-commerce-level ease. Its platform includes unit-level 3D tours, self-guided touring, leasing automation, and robust data analytics that help owners reduce vacancy loss and speed decision-making. Properties using Peek report up to 30 % fewer vacant days, three times more prospect tours than legacy 3D tools, and deeper visibility into leasing performance. The software already supports hundreds of thousands of multifamily units across national portfolios and high-growth regional operators in the United States. Investors cite the company’s rapid revenue growth and capital efficiency to date. With fresh capital, Peek plans to expand go-to-market initiatives, hire additional engineering and customer-success talent, and build deeper integrations with leading property-management and marketing systems. The company has also added Moneta Ventures partner Jeff Olyniec and CREXI co-founder Luke Morris to its board, bringing further proptech and operational expertise.

• Diamond Age

  Participated · Seed · Aug 2021

  Diamond Age develops a robotics and 3D-printing platform to reduce manual labor and cost in home construction. The company has built a suite of tools intended to replace more than half of the manual labor involved in building a new home and has developed 26 end-of-arm robotic tools plus a 3D printing system that prints concrete for exterior, interior and roof structures. Since its prior fundraise it has advanced its tech to print and build a 2,000-square-foot single-story home and delivered a full-scale 3-bed, 2-bath house in 11 months—four months ahead of schedule—leading to its first contract with a national homebuilder. Diamond Age says its approach can shorten builds that used to take nine months to roughly a month and aims to address labor shortages and U.S. housing supply gaps. The company has doubled in size and plans to add engineering and fabrication talent while partnering with home builders and developers to make production homebuilding more on-demand. Diamond Age develops robotic and 3D-printing systems aimed at automating single-family home construction. Its technology stack includes 26 robotic arm attachments coupled with a gantry-based 3D printing system for interior and exterior walls. The company claims its approach can reduce manual human labor by 55% and cut construction time from nine months to 30 days. Part of the recent funding will be used to build a 1,100-square-foot demonstration house as proof of concept. Diamond Age plans to offer its systems to construction companies through a RaaS (robotics as a service) rental model; pricing specifics have not been disclosed. Co-founder and CEO Jack Oslan said automation is necessary to build high-quality affordable single-family homes for the next generation.

• Loft Orbital

  Participated · Series A · Nov 2019

  Loft Orbital provides mission-as-a-service, buying standard satellites from vendors like Airbus and LeoStella and configuring them with customer payloads rather than designing bespoke spacecraft. The company offers “virtual missions” that let customers deploy software apps onto Loft satellites to leverage on-board sensors and compute, and it has launched YAM-6 dedicated to running AI in space. Loft says it has sold over 30 satellites and deployed over 25 customer missions across five satellites launched to date; customers include NASA, Microsoft, Anduril and BAE Systems. The company declined to disclose hard revenue figures but reported 100% revenue growth for two consecutive years and has logged over $500 million of bookings on only $160 million of capital raised prior to this Series C. Loft has raised a total of $330 million in its lifetime after the new round. It plans to use the new capital to scale from a handful of launches per year to 10+ annually, expand its virtual missions and AI business, and grow an ecosystem of AI application partners. Loft Orbital provides space‑infrastructure‑as‑a‑service, building and operating spacecraft that host customer payloads so customers do not need to design or operate their own satellites. The company has launched two spacecraft (YAMs) that currently carry multiple customer payloads and has more than 20 customers including NASA, DARPA, the U.S. Space Force and Honeywell. Loft says it speeds customers’ time to orbit by keeping satellites in inventory and integrating payloads rapidly, shortening deployment from years to months. The company currently has about 70 employees and plans to grow to roughly 160 by the end of 2022 as it scales operations. Loft operates from San Francisco and also has manufacturing and facilities in Denver, Colorado and Toulouse, France. As part of its scaling plans it intends to use the new capital to expand the team and business operations. Loft Orbital develops a constellation of small satellites purpose-built to carry a mix of customer payloads on shared satellite buses. Its model is to buy satellite buses from vendors, integrate customer payloads in-house, and sell space on Loft-owned-and-operated satellites for a fee. The company is integrating YAM-2 on a Blue Canyon Technologies bus and expects YAM-2 to launch mid-2020, with YAM-3 and YAM-4 slated for 2020 and 2021. YAM-2 will carry five payloads, including an IoT telecom for Eutelsat, a methane sensor for Orbital Sidekick, a positioning payload for Fugro, an imager for the UAE government, and a blockchain payload for SpaceChain. Loft Orbital plans to place a batch order of 10–20 satellite platforms by April and has an established partner network that includes LeoStella, Maxar, OHB/LuxSpace, Satrec Initiative and Blue Canyon. The 30-person San Francisco startup raised $13M in this Series A, bringing total funding to $20M in equity and non-dilutive capital. YAM-3 is reported as 85% booked, and YAM-4 is reserved by a Fortune 100 company on behalf of a national space agency. Loft Orbital leases space on satellites and provides access for commercial, academic, and government organizations to collect Earth data. Its services support applications including environmental monitoring, water resources management, disaster assessment, and global security. The company is co-founded by Antoine de Chassy (CEO), Pierre-Damien Vaujour and Alex Greenberg. Loft Orbital is based in San Francisco, CA. The firm intends to use new funding to expand its global presence and to further build out its software products. The company secured $3.2M in seed funding to support these plans.

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