Participated · Series A · Nov 2025

Cerrion provides manufacturers with AI-powered video agents that continuously analyze standard factory camera feeds to detect process deviations, quality issues, and safety risks in real time. When anomalies are spotted, the system can trigger automated interventions—such as slowing or stopping machines—and immediately notify relevant personnel, enabling problems to be resolved up to 50 percent faster while halving downtime and scrap losses. The platform is already deployed in live production at global manufacturers including Unilever, Riedel, Schott Zwiesel, Stölzle Lausitz, Sisecam, and Verallia, which serve major brands like Pepsi, Coca-Cola, Pfizer, and Novartis. Customers typically scale from single-site pilots to company-wide rollouts within months, highlighting rapid adoption. The company’s team draws talent from ETH Zurich, Google, and EPFL. Following its $18 million Series A raise, Cerrion plans to double headcount in Europe and the U.S. and broaden its platform beyond vision analytics to support additional manufacturing processes. No specific revenue or user figures were disclosed in the article.

Participated · Series A · Apr 2025

Exowatt’s core product is the P3 unit, a shipping-container-sized metal box topped with lenses that concentrate sunlight onto heat-retaining bricks. A fan carries the heat to a Stirling engine and generator, enabling each thermal battery to store energy for up to five days and deliver round-the-clock electricity. The system’s efficiency rivals photovoltaic solar plus lithium-ion storage, while its compact, modular design is intended to unlock mass manufacturing learning curves. Exowatt is targeting production of one million units per year, a scale that management says will let it hit its one-cent-per-kilowatt-hour cost goal. Demand appears strong: the company reports a backlog of roughly 10 million P3 units, equivalent to 90 GWh of capacity. Longer term, Exowatt intends to deploy millions—and eventually billions—of units to power the rapidly expanding fleet of AI data centers in sun-rich regions. The approach repurposes decades-old concentrated solar technology but packages it for low-cost, large-scale manufacturing.

Participated · Equity · Nov 2023

Sweep builds an AI "junior dev" that lets engineers describe requests in natural language (e.g., add debug logs) and then generates, tests, and pushes Python code via pull requests while addressing reviewer comments. The product combines OpenAI's GPT-4 with a custom Python code search engine using lexical and vector search and runs tests in real time, with a focus on unit-test generation, refactoring, and other tech-debt work. Sweep emphasizes repository-wide changes, error logging improvements, and automating leftover TODOs; it asks users to review generated code before merging to mitigate reliability and copyright risks. The company currently charges $480 per seat per month and says customer revenue, along with a war chest totaling $2.8 million, gives it runway "for years." Sweep plans to expand its team from two employees to five and to augment its models with StarCoder and models from Hugging Face and ServiceNow. TechCrunch previously covered Sweep during Y Combinator's Summer 2023 Demo Day; founders William Zeng and Kevin Lu are both veterans of Roblox.

Participated · Series B · Sep 2023

Certa provides an orchestration engine and platform that centralizes third‑party data, risk scoring, validations, templates, questionnaires and integrations to help enterprises manage vendor, partner and client risk. The company recently launched an ESG suite for supply‑chain requirements and a no‑code studio that lets users personalize risk‑exposed business processes via drag‑and‑drop. Certa emphasizes automation to reduce manual tasks, improve speed‑to‑market and standardize data that often lives in silos. Founder and CEO Jag Lamba frames the product around third‑party onboarding and continuous monitoring across privacy, finance, climate and regulatory risk types. The company employs around 200 people and claims roughly 170,000 users. Management declined to disclose burn rate but said the new funding will provide several years to accelerate the business. Certa provides a low-code/no-code platform that automates the entire third-party lifecycle, reducing onboarding time and increasing transparency across procurement, compliance, information security, privacy, and finance workflows. Its software orchestrates end-to-end workflows and enables procurement teams to build automations without IT support. The company reports more than 100 integrations and says it has helped clients onboard over one million companies across 120 countries in 17 languages, enabling roughly 3x quicker third-party vendor onboarding. Certa’s customers include large retailers, aerospace firms, credit card companies, and major tech organizations. The company positions itself to eliminate enterprise onboarding bottlenecks so customers can focus on core business and scale integrations more efficiently. Certa is based in the San Francisco Bay Area and was founded in 2015.

Led · Seed · Sep 2023

Anchor is a Nigerian banking-as-a-service (BaaS) platform that provides APIs, dashboards and developer tools to help businesses embed bank accounts, payments, cards and other financial services. The product now supports business accounts, card issuance, bill payments, bulk disbursements, cross-border payments and developer features such as audit logs and webhooks. Anchor partners with regulated banks and says it shortens the time to build banking products from years to days. The startup went live in August last year after emerging from stealth and has grown to roughly 270 clients, with about 63 firms actively transacting. Anchor reports more than $550 million in annualized total transaction volume and revenue growing about 30% month-on-month; revenue comes from processing fees, issuance fees and interest on float. Customers include fintechs, SaaS firms, e-commerce marketplaces and tech-enabled businesses such as Bujeti, Pennee, SeamlessHR, Lifebank, Waza and Zit.ng. Following the new funding, the company plans to improve end-to-end compliance, invest in a ledger system, expand product offerings and onboard more customers, and is in early talks about Pan-African expansion. Anchor offers APIs, dashboards and developer tools to help startups embed and build banking products such as bank accounts, funds transfers, savings, card issuance and loans. The seven-month-old, YC-backed fintech ran a private beta in May that was accessed by more than 30 startups including Pivo, Outpost Health, Dillali and Pennee. Anchor says it is transacting several millions of dollars and growing 200% month-on-month. The company generates revenue by charging fees and taking cuts across billable services (account issuing, money movement, savings and deposits). After coming out of stealth, Anchor plans to use its new capital to hire talent, improve tech infrastructure, invest in compliance and regulatory systems, and acquire customers. The founding team brings prior payments and fintech experience from Amplify, JUMO, AppZone, TeamApt, Kuda, Carbon and Booking.com, which the company cites as a competitive advantage.