Led · Seed · Jul 2026

BrandRank.AI provides an Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) SaaS platform focused on measuring brand visibility, vulnerability, and content readiness in AI-generated answers. The company combines automated recommendations across content, search, reputation, product claims, and advertising strategy with hands-on client support and has expanded into AI-assisted content creation through its acquisition of Averi. Its roadmap includes capabilities for accuracy verification, anti-hallucination monitoring, brand risk alerts, a Brand Health Index, and enterprise trust analytics geared toward agentic AI systems. In just over two years the company has worked with nearly 100 brands and organizations, joined the NVIDIA Inception Program, and was named Nestlé Canada's 2026 Startup of the Year; it was also named a Representative Vendor in Gartner's 2026 Market Guide for Answer Engine Visibility Tools. Key customers cited include Nestlé, Procter & Gamble, Goodwill International, National Public Media, Kroger, Mars, the American Medical Association, and Better Business Bureau chapters. The company intends to use the new seed proceeds to accelerate enterprise growth, expand delivery and vertical solutions, and integrate Averi to move customers from insight to execution across AI answer engines.

Participated · Equity · Feb 2026

Monark Markets builds “Alts-as-a-Service” rails that connect brokerage firms and wealth managers to private-market products such as pre-IPO shares and 40' Act registered evergreen funds. Its API-first platform powers partners including Apex Fintech Solutions, Altruist Financial, and BBAE, giving more than 30 million retail investors exposure to roughly $450 billion in captive assets. Beyond technology, Monark curates a marketplace by sourcing issuers, performing due diligence, and negotiating distribution economics, while also handling subscription processing, custody, reporting, and secondary liquidity. The company argues retail allocations to alternatives could grow to 15-20 % over the next decade and aims to be the core infrastructure enabling that shift. Compliance and marketing support are embedded so partners can offer alternatives natively with minimal friction. With fresh capital, Monark plans to deepen its distribution network through additional platform integrations and widen its product set to include evergreen funds, fractional real estate, and secondary trading of private securities.

Participated · Seed · Oct 2024

Monark offers a B2B platform that integrates private market investments and trading solutions directly into brokerage and wealth-management platforms, targeting mass-affluent investors. The company connects demand from retail and mass-affluent investors with issuers and alternative asset managers, and structures products suited to that segment. Monark operates a fully owned subsidiary, MMM Securities, a FINRA-member broker-dealer approved to offer private placements, retail mutual funds, and to operate an alternative trading system. In May 2023 Monark acquired the technology assets and IP of LEX Markets through an insolvency process. Financially, Monark announced a $2.2 million Seed raise that brings total funding to $3.6 million. The company plans to launch with beta partners in Q4 2024.

Led · Seed · Nov 2023

Founded in 2020 and headquartered in New York, Chptr builds a distribution layer for time-sensitive, hyperlocal community stories, beginning with end-of-life memorial announcements. Its Broadcast, Social, and Video offerings convert family-provided photos and stories into professional-grade memorial videos that are reviewed by humans before broadcast. Chptr partners directly with funeral homes and media companies, including an integration with Tribute Technology (which serves more than 9,000 funeral homes), to plug into existing local workflows. The platform is live in 132 U.S. television markets and has delivered thousands of localized broadcasts, reaching a majority of American households. Chptr emphasizes a constrained, human-centered use of AI for formatting, production, and distribution and states family data is never sold or repurposed. The company recently raised $5.5 million in a Series A to fund geographic expansion, deeper broadcast and audio integrations, and additional local content categories.

Participated · Seed · Apr 2023

lockr is a consumer-focused platform for digital identity, consent, and data that offers products including Identity lockr and lockrMail. It was launched in 2021 by Keith Petri, an experienced data management executive who has two prior eight-figure exits. lockrMail is a persistent email address service that forwards messages to a user's real email with allow/block controls, patent-pending automated filters, and custom digests, while Identity lockr provides consumer-consented identity solutions and free email verification for publishers and brands. The company also offers a single-sign-on service and is building a Publisher Network to enable authenticated first-party data collection with transparent consumer consent. lockr announced a $2.5 million pre-seed funding round featuring Mozilla Ventures, Junction Venture Partners, Grit Capital Partners, and individual investors from the digital publishing and data industries. The company plans to use the funds to scale its team, expand the Identity lockr Publisher Network, and develop new consumer tools to help users manage their digital footprint.