Participated · Equity · Mar 2025

Chord builds an AI platform designed to power modern commerce operations by unifying data, operational context, and execution into what it calls a "context graph," a living operational memory of metrics, rules, decisions, constraints, and trade-offs. The company says its platform enables brands to generate insights and immediately take action, compressing workflows that previously required multiple teams into minutes, and that teams are increasingly using Chord in place of traditional BI tools. Chord was built by the team behind Glossier and says customers using the platform collectively represent over $1 billion in annual revenue; named customers include Mr. Beast, Ritual, Ruggable, Rodan + Fields, and Blue Bottle Coffee. The company reports organic expansion within customers and that Copilot usage has tripled as adoption shifts from legacy analytics. With the new funding, Chord plans to accelerate its agent infrastructure development and scale across mid-market and enterprise commerce and retail brands generating $20M–$1B in revenue.

Led · Equity · Apr 2023

Paligo is a cloud-native Component Content Management System (CCMS) that enables customers to author, manage, translate and publish technical documentation and knowledge assets. The product targets software, manufacturing, finance and insurance, and healthcare verticals and emphasizes reuse of structured content from a single source of truth. Paligo highlights architectural and deployment advantages that drive fast time-to-value, scalability, omni-channel publishing, collaboration and workflow features, and strong UI/UX. The company was founded in 2015 and serves enterprise and mid-market customers from offices in Sweden, Ireland and the United States. Paligo has grown quickly since inception and now has over 100 employees and serves 450+ customers globally. It plans to accelerate its product vision, expand its organization, and pursue international growth while embarking on an operational excellence path. Paligo provides an all-in-one, cloud-based content management and authoring platform for technical documentation. Its solution enables technical writers to collaborate globally and reuse content to ensure consistent, accurate documentation and reduce time to market. The company was founded in 2015 by Anders Svensson and Frank Arensmeier and also maintains an office in Ireland. Paligo received a growth investment from Alfvén & Didrikson; the amount was not disclosed. The funding is intended to ramp up sales, marketing, and customer success and to accelerate development of more innovative features. Tiyam Afshari and Ken Liebkind of Alfvén & Didrikson led the investment and will join the company’s board of directors.

Participated · Equity · Nov 2017

Tacton provides Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ) SaaS and advanced product configuration technology for manufacturers, leveraging dynamic constraint‑based solving and CAD design automation. Its platform includes subscription-based services, visualization, and sustainability capabilities to support end-to-end operations and digital customer experiences for complex equipment and services. The company reports 75,000 active users; customers on average see a 34% increase in efficiency in quote creation time, a 30% increase in sales volume, and a 20% boost in profit margins from fewer order errors and reduced discounts. Tacton plans to accelerate global growth—particularly in North America—through product innovation and go-to-market expansion. The company was founded in 1998 and is co‑headquartered in Chicago and Stockholm, with regional offices in Karlsruhe, Warsaw, and Tokyo. Tacton is a Stockholm, Sweden–based provider of sales and product configuration solutions for the manufacturing industry. Its core product is an intelligent sales and product configurator (CPQ) with built-in design automation and 3D visualization that connects to CRM, ERP and PLM systems. The company is led by CEO Frederic Laziou. Tacton will receive an up to $12m majority investment from backers including GRO Capital and Kirk Kapital. The company intends to use the funds to accelerate global market expansion and recruit new staff. Proceeds will also be used to continue development of its CPQ solution, specifically Design Automation and 3D visualization.