Participated · Seed · Jul 2024

Suits Inc. builds and operates Suit UP, a project and task-management cloud designed for teams at small and mid-size companies (primarily 10–99 employees). The product uses an Excel-like interface and includes task templates, deadline notifications, recurring tasks, team communication and basic analytics to make daily task management simple. Suit UP launched an α version in September 2023 and a β version in April 2024; pricing includes a standard plan at ¥1,080 per user/month and a starter plan at ¥500 per user/month for companies with 10 users or fewer. The company positions the product to improve labor productivity across Japan’s SMEs and emphasizes ease of adoption for users with low IT literacy. Suits plans to use the newly raised funds mainly for system development and to build out its sales organization. The company is headquartered in Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo and was established on December 1, 2022.

Led · Series B · Jun 2022

CreativeX provides an automated creative data platform that analyzes in‑flight and pre‑flight image and video content to benchmark work against industry best practices and a brand’s own creative criteria. Its core measurement framework centers on four indicators of long‑term brand growth: creative quality, brand consistency, compliance, and representation. The product is used by 30+ of the world’s largest advertisers and powers creative decision‑making across 5,000+ brands, 1,000+ agencies, and 130+ markets. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in New York, the company aims to expand content coverage beyond social to display, ecommerce, and TV, plus launch capabilities to rate sustainability and accessibility. It also plans to expand APIs for data portability and invest in a data and research arm to accelerate research on creative effectiveness. The business says the technology can reduce wasted creative spend and help marketers scale creative excellence globally. CreativeX (formerly Picasso Labs) builds an AI-driven analytics platform that measures the performance of image and video content within marketing and advertising campaigns. The platform uses computer vision to analyse visual creative for compliance with brand guidelines, media best practices and regulatory requirements, reducing the need for manual checking. Its product is used by global brands including Unilever, L'Oréal, Heineken and Pepsi. Founded in 2015 by Anastasia Leng, the company has offices in London, New York and Portland, Oregon. CreativeX raised a £2.5 million Series A to further develop its AI-driven analytics and to expand its sales and marketing teams. The funding is intended to accelerate product development and go-to-market growth.

Participated · Series B · May 2022

Headquartered in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Acrisure has evolved from an insurance brokerage into a tech-enabled global fintech provider that bundles insurance, reinsurance, payroll, benefits, cybersecurity, real-estate services and retirement/wealth products. The company leverages AI and data to match small- and medium-sized businesses with customized financial solutions and has executed roughly 900 acquisitions to build out its platform. Over the past eleven years, revenue has grown from $38 million to nearly $5 billion, and the firm now employs more than 19,000 people across 23 countries. Recent executive hires, including a former Intercontinental Exchange COO as CTO and Palantir’s former Global Head of Corporate Development as CAO, underscore its commitment to scaling technology and M&A integration. Going forward, Acrisure plans to deepen product breadth, fully integrate prior acquisitions and pursue additional accretive M&A. Its strategy is to become the pre-eminent fintech partner for millions of SMBs worldwide, leveraging data science for efficient cross-selling and organic growth.

Participated · Series G · Dec 2021

Sysdig offers a SaaS security platform built on an open-source stack (including Falco and Sysdig open source) that delivers real-time runtime threat detection, guided remediation, and continuous configuration, permission, vulnerability and compliance management across containers, Kubernetes, and cloud services. The platform integrates with major cloud providers and supports detection and response, infrastructure-as-code feedback, cloud configuration risk management, and entitlements management. Sysdig reports strong operating momentum: annualized security revenue run rate more than tripled in the last 12 months, net revenue retention of 149% in the most recent quarter, a nearly 700-customer base, and an average ARR above $875,000 across its top 50 customers. The company has expanded SaaS hosting locations from nine to 16 and recently acquired Apolicy to add IaC security and guided remediation for IaC manifests. Future plans funded by the new round include accelerating global expansion in Europe, the Middle East, Asia-Pacific and South America, doubling headcount in 2022, expanding the partner program, and investing in a unified multi-cloud security experience. Sysdig emphasizes its open-source foundation and community (Falco has been downloaded over 37 million times), positioning open source as a driver of transparency and faster security innovation. Sysdig is a San Francisco–based secure DevOps platform provider focused on securing containers, Kubernetes, and public cloud infrastructure. The company offers a SaaS platform built on an open source stack that includes Falco and sysdig OSS and is used by hundreds of enterprises, including Worldpay by FIS, Yahoo Japan, IBM, and JW Player. Its platform secures the software build pipeline, detects and responds to runtime threats, monitors service health, and continuously validates cloud security posture and compliance. Led by CEO Suresh Vasudevan, Sysdig plans to invest in its open source foundation and further develop its secure DevOps platform. The company intends to grow R&D teams in Raleigh, Spain, Italy, Belgrade, and San Francisco and expand sales and marketing across the United States, Europe, Japan, and Australia while entering newer Asia‑Pacific markets. Sysdig has raised a total of $394M since inception and recently completed a $188M Series F at a $1.19B valuation. Sysdig builds the Sysdig Secure DevOps Platform, which integrates monitoring and security into a single solution for container and Kubernetes workloads. The platform offers runtime threat prevention, incident response, audit, anomaly detection, and application‑context visibility for cloud‑native environments. Sysdig is open by design and maintains the Falco open‑source runtime security project within the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. Customers named in the article include Goldman Sachs, Steelcase, and Worldpay, and the company reported business milestones such as more than doubling revenue from Fortune 500 banks and 96% of new enterprise accounts in 2019 purchasing the complete platform. Sysdig is pursuing international expansion (it launched a Japanese subsidiary and added offices in Spain and Italy) and has made strategic hires to support growth. Financially, Sysdig has raised $206 million to date and says it will use new funds to extend market presence and leadership in securing cloud‑native workloads in production. Sysdig offers a unified Cloud‑Native Intelligence Platform that integrates container security, monitoring, and forensics across Kubernetes, Docker, and both private and public clouds. The company’s commercial product set is built on open source technologies, including its forensics tooling and the Sysdig Falco security project, which together have a community of millions of users. Sysdig Secure and the recently announced Sysdig Secure 2.0 add vulnerability management, 200+ compliance checks, and security analytics for cloud‑native environments and microservices. The company reports Falco downloads have roughly tripled over the last 12 months and active users of its SaaS offerings have grown nearly six times year‑over‑year. Sysdig says it monitors and secures millions of containers across hundreds of enterprises, including Global 2000 customers. To support growth it has expanded operations with a second headquarters in Raleigh while continuing to scale offices in San Francisco, Belgrade, and London, and has added Suresh Vasudevan as CEO and Larry Castro as VP of finance and corporate operations. Sysdig provides an intelligence platform that delivers monitoring, security, and troubleshooting in microservices-friendly architectures. Led by founder and CEO Loris Degioanni, the platform is used by a community of over a million developers, administrators, and other IT professionals. The service monitors and secures millions of containers across hundreds of enterprises, including Fortune 500 companies and web-scale properties. Its product portfolio includes Sysdig Monitor for monitoring and alerting, Sysdig Secure for runtime protection and forensics, and Sysdig Inspect for deep troubleshooting. Sysdig recently launched Sysdig Secure to offer enterprises runtime security and forensics for Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, Amazon ECS, and similar environments. The company completed a $25m Series C and intends to use the funds to expand its product portfolio and scale customer support capabilities.

Led · Series C · Nov 2021

Kitman Labs builds an artificial intelligence platform that analyzes data teams collect on players across practices, training, games, sleep, and other situations. The platform is used to predict injury risk, inform practice and game plans, and evaluate talent and performance drivers. Founded in 2012, the company works with more than 700 college and professional teams worldwide. Kitman is based in Menlo Park and currently has 125 employees. The company plans to use most of its recent funding to invest in its technology and to hire an additional 100 employees within the next 10 months. Since founding, Kitman has raised $82 million in outside funding to date. Kitman Labs builds performance intelligence solutions that use data, medical and sports-science expertise to increase athlete availability and on-field success. The platform leverages over 200 years of performance, medical and data-science expertise and currently powers more than 150 elite teams across the NFL, NHL, MLB, UFC, NCAA, English Premier League, Bundesliga, Pro14, Premiership Rugby, NRL, Chinese Super League and others. The company launched an analytics-powered performance solution in 2019 and recently announced global expansion plans. Kitman Labs acquired The Sports Office, a Wigan, UK-based data and analytics company, to bolster its capabilities for governing bodies, leagues, teams and development organizations. Founded in 2012, the company is based in Dublin and Menlo Park and also has offices in Sydney. Recent strategic investments and the new Sony Innovation Fund backing are intended to accelerate Kitman Labs’ growth and product roadmap. The amount of the Sony investment was not disclosed. Kitman Labs builds a modern Performance Intelligence Platform combining statistical and machine‑learning analytics, real‑time athlete management, API integrations, and dynamic visualizations to turn data into actionable decisions for teams. The company emphasizes outcome‑driven analytics and has positioned its platform as more than a data centralization tool, including a consumer‑grade UI focused on speed and simplicity. In 2019 Kitman reported it had more than doubled new sales and Annual Recurring Revenue and closed an additional $5.1M in funding. Kitman serves over 150 elite teams across leagues including the NFL, NHL, MLB, English Premier League, Bundesliga, and more, and recently expanded into youth sports, supporting thousands of youth athletes. The company opened new markets in Italy’s Serie A, Japan’s Nippon Professional Baseball, and China’s CSL and added new professional teams across multiple leagues. Kitman also earned ISO/IEC 27001:2013 certification for its information security management system, underscoring its focus on protecting athlete data.