The Venture Codex

Participated · Equity · May 2026

P2 Science develops proprietary, nature-inspired chemical processes to produce renewable specialty ingredients with a focus on performance and sustainability at scale. The company has launched beauty ingredients including Citrolatum® P, a 1:1 plant-based petrolatum replacement, and CitroComplex® Nourish, a natural oil blend for skin and hair, and entered a strategic partnership with Algenesis to develop 100% biobased, biodegradable polyurethanes. P2 has been recognized by Fast Company in 2025 and 2026 and was selected for L'Oréal's L'AcceleratOR sustainable innovation accelerator. It recently received $2.8 million in non-dilutive ARPA-E funding to accelerate catalyst innovation via AI-enhanced autonomous labs. The company plans to use its new equity financing to scale commercial production in beauty and expand its platform into adjacent markets such as aroma technologies, performance polymers, home care, coatings, and crop care. P2 was co-founded by Professor Paul Anastas and Dr. Patrick Foley at Yale's Center for Green Chemistry and Green Engineering and is based in Woodbridge, Connecticut.

Participated · Series B · May 2026

Founded in 2017 and based in Hong Kong, August Robotics develops a modular robotics platform that ingests project plans, localizes robots on site, plans and executes tasks autonomously, coordinates fleets and detects and rectifies errors in real time. Its current product offerings include autonomous fleets of downward-drilling robots aimed at large prefabricated construction sites and an initial use case in AI data center construction. The company also launched Lionel, an autonomous floor-marking robot fleet for exhibitions and large indoor spaces. August Robotics has commercial deployments across hyperscale construction environments in the US and Europe and launched its drilling fleets in strategic partnership with Stanley Black & Decker’s DEWALT brand. The company’s autonomy stack is applied across its drilling and other workflows. Following the $30M Series B, August Robotics intends to expand operations and accelerate development efforts.

Participated · Seed · May 2026

Graphon AI builds a pre-model intelligence software layer that uses mathematical graphon functions to map hidden structural connections across video, audio, documents, and structured databases. Its continuous multimodal graph technology is designed to bypass token limits of legacy context windows and enable third-party foundation models and autonomous agents to reason over large, interconnected multimodal data arrays. The company has launched production deployments with GS Group to automate customer movement mapping in retail environments and provide real-time safety analytics across industrial construction sites. Management and advisors include former AI and robotics researchers from Meta, Amazon, Google, and NASA, and technical guidance from UC Berkeley professors Dr. Christian Borgs and Dr. Jennifer Chayes. Graphon plans to use its seed funding to further develop its relational representation platform, advance its core technology, and scale infrastructure to support enterprise-wide AI agent frameworks.

Participated · Seed · May 2026

Config records humans performing physical tasks in controlled studio environments and in the field, then converts that data to better suit robotic motion and interaction. The company operates data production out of Seoul and Hanoi with a workforce of nearly 300 and has accumulated over 100,000 hours of human motion data. Config’s approach emphasizes transforming data before training so models work more effectively for robots rather than retraining models on mismatched data. The startup counts large manufacturers, system integrators, and customers in agriculture and defense as current customers and is already generating revenue. Founded in January 2025 by CEO Minjoon Seo and three co-founders with backgrounds at Meta, Waymo, Google and Naver, Config plans to scale to one million hours of data, grow enterprise ARR to $10 million by end of 2027, and launch a cloud-based Robot-as-a-Service offering.

Participated · Seed · Apr 2026

Primepoint offers a construction intelligence platform built to read, connect, and act on construction drawings, automating workflows such as constructability review, RFI drafting, submittal analysis, and drawing navigation. The platform is powered by proprietary AI with deep construction expertise and is built to meet the security requirements of enterprise construction organizations. Co-founded in 2024 by Lubomir Bourdev, PhD, and Hamid Palo, the company has deployed its solution on projects including an Aeronautical University Campus in Arizona with early partner Sundt Construction. Primepoint is expanding those deployments this year to additional projects including a data center, higher education, and residential construction. Financially, the company completed a $10M seed raise to fund platform expansion and customer growth among large commercial general contractors in the U.S.