Participated · Equity · Dec 2024

Headquartered in Sacramento, California with an additional engineering base in Hyderabad, India, Azimuth AI designs highly integrated, energy-efficient SoCs that push AI processing to the edge. Its flagship product, the ARKA-GKT1 chip, is built on a Software-Defined Silicon architecture that delivers up to 10× performance improvement over general-purpose integrated chips while enhancing security and reliability. The chip was publicly launched in November 2025 by India’s Minister of Electronics & IT, marking the nation’s first smart-utility-focused silicon and reinforcing Azimuth AI’s role in bolstering semiconductor self-reliance. ARKA-GKT1 is currently undergoing full qualification and customer testing and is slated to reach production volumes later in 2026. With customer pilots already underway, the company plans to scale into large-scale deployments across smart utilities and industrial IoT during 2026. Although no revenue figures were disclosed, the firm highlights more than 30 successful SoC tape-outs by its leadership team and is positioning itself for global market expansion following its latest capital infusion.

Led · Seed · Jun 2024

TrackLight builds an AI-assisted platform designed to identify and prevent fraud before payments are issued for government and corporate programs. The TrackLight Suite includes Due Diligence, Social Network Analysis, Fraud Analytics, Case Management, and an AI co-pilot called Ray the Parrot. The company leverages specialized machine-learning models, a library of over 3,000 fraud schemes, and the ability to scan over 1 billion open-source intelligence records. TrackLight ran $1.1 billion of government awards through its system and initially flagged high-probability fraud in 10.4% of payments. After operating in stealth for a year and onboarding a cohort of beta customers, TrackLight was accepted into NVIDIA’s Inception Program and received a $100,000 grant to test its models. The company has made several senior hires and plans to use new funding to accelerate platform development, sales, and marketing.

Participated · Seed · Feb 2024

HuLoop delivers AI-powered intelligent automation solutions via its Unified Automation Platform, which integrates robotic process automation (RPA), workflow orchestration, intelligent document processing (IDP), and intelligent test automation into a single, no-code system. The platform is organized into three core modules—Intelligent Productivity Discovery, Intelligent Process Automation, and Intelligent Test Automation—to help organizations discover, automate, and test processes. HuLoop emphasizes human-in-the-loop features to balance automation with human judgment and uses applied and generative AI alongside process and task mining. The company serves more than 60 customers, primarily in financial services and commerce, and highlights traction in community banking. The new capital will be used to expand the team, accelerate product innovation, enhance the unified platform, and drive customer growth and expansion. HuLoop Automation offers an AI-powered, no-code intelligent automation platform that provides a digital workforce to automate repetitive tasks across financial services and consumer commerce. The platform combines AI-based intelligent agents, robotic process automation (RPA), intelligent document processing (IDP), generative AI, and human-in-the-loop experiences. Its no-code approach is designed to let companies of all sizes deploy automation so employees can focus on higher-value work. The company plans to use the new funding to expand its team, accelerate product development, and scale operations. HuLoop is led by CEO Todd P. Michaud and is based in Auburn, CA.

Participated · Seed · Oct 2023

MDisrupt is an Austin, TX–based marketplace serving the health tech and life sciences industries. Its AI-powered Health Expert Marketplace connects companies with over 2,500 professionals, including clinicians, health system executives, and payor leaders. The platform streamlines access to essential expertise to enable rapid product development and validation. The company raised $1M in funding led by American Heart Association Ventures, and Lisa Suennen joined the MDisrupt board. MDisrupt says it will use the funds to support expanded adoption of its AI-powered marketplace and to add new features through a strategic collaboration with the Association to meet members' needs. The company is led by CEO and founder Ruby Gadelrab. MDisrupt is a marketplace that connects healthtech and life science companies with health experts to help build, commercialize and scale health products. Led by founder and CEO Ruby Gadelrab and based in Austin, TX, the company reports a network of over 1,500 experts from organizations including Blue Cross Blue Shield, CVS, Willis Towers Watson, the U.S. FDA, Optum, and Cleveland Clinic. MDisrupt serves both startups and enterprise customers across healthtech and life science sectors. The company raised $3M in Seed funding and intends to use the capital to launch its platform and expand its client roster. In conjunction with the round, Cat Middleton of The Venture Collective is joining the MDisrupt board of directors. MDisrupt is transforming into a digital health intelligence company that organizes the world's digital health products by performance through clinically crowdsourced data generation. Founded in 2019 and based in Austin, Texas, it connects digital health companies with health industry experts and has helped more than 55 companies build and scale products. The company's platform combines three elements—people, platform, and data—to digitize solutions for access to experts on demand, clinical early adopters, and real-world performance data. MDisrupt plans to expand the platform to enable innovators to rapidly generate the real-world performance data needed to commercialize and scale their products and to serve as a marketplace and benchmark for the industry. The platform's objective dataset, built on real-world clinical performance from every digital health product on the platform, will feed its digital health intelligence engine. The company says the output will influence key decision-makers and provide standards and benchmarks for the growing digital health sector.