Participated · Series B · Jul 2026

Kraken Technology develops and manufactures autonomous maritime platforms such as uncrewed subsurface vessels for military and security use. Its technology is already used by NATO, the UK Ministry of Defence and the US Navy, and it counts US defence firm Anduril as a partner. Founded in 2020, the British-founded startup has expanded into manufacturing and operational deployment for defence customers. The company said it will use the new funding to develop an uncrewed surface vessel and to expand manufacturing facilities. Financially, Kraken achieved unicorn status with a $175 million Series B at a $1 billion valuation.

Participated · Series A · Feb 2025

Eudia offers an Augmented Intelligence platform tailored to the unique needs of in-house legal departments, blending agentic AI capabilities with humans‑in‑the‑loop to augment legal professionals. The platform helps legal teams own institutional knowledge, automate routine work, and surface previously inaccessible insights to drive measurable business value. Eudia says its solution can materially reduce external legal spend and deliver efficiency gains—for example, claims of up to 98% savings in compliance reviews are cited. The company emerged from 18 months in stealth as it unveiled its name, mission, and product to the public. Eudia is already being used by CLOs at several Fortune 500 companies, including Cargill, DHL, Duracell, and Coherent. Headquartered in Palo Alto, the company plans to expand its customer base and enhance product offerings through its new investor partnership.

Participated · Series B · Apr 2024

Alethea builds Artemis, a multi-channel machine-learning platform that detects disinformation narratives across niche social media, alternative forums, extremist communities and other disparate data sources. The platform analyzes billions of data points in multiple languages to alert communications, risk, intelligence and security teams to malicious actors, vulnerable assets and threats of physical violence. Customers include Fortune 500 firms, private companies and nonprofits who use Artemis for early detection, prebunking and active risk management to protect reputations, assets and market value. The company plans to scale sales and marketing, expand and add functions to the team, and enhance Artemis features to deliver tailored solutions addressing evolving customer challenges. Led by founder and CEO Lisa Kaplan, Alethea emphasizes proactive defense against increasingly sophisticated disinformation adversaries. Financially, the company has raised a total of $34M to date following its most recent round. Alethea develops Artemis, a machine-learning SaaS platform that detects disinformation narratives across the internet. Artemis is in closed beta and the company leverages multi-channel machine learning to help Fortune 500s, private companies, and nonprofits proactively defend reputations, key assets, physical safety, and market value. The company intends to use the Series A proceeds to invest in Artemis by growing its engineering and data-science and engineering teams. Alethea focuses on detecting and mitigating disinformation, misinformation, and social media manipulation. The company was founded in 2019 and is woman-owned. It is based in Washington, D.C.

Participated · Series A · Jun 2023

CalypsoAI provides a platform deployed as a container inside an organization’s infrastructure to test, validate and monitor generative AI models prior to deployment. Its dashboards surface metrics such as toxicity and user engagement, and the tools aim to prevent sensitive company data from being shared with public models while identifying attacks originating from generative AI. The company says it does not hold customer data and instead facilitates the flow of information into a customer’s chosen models. CalypsoAI will use its latest funding to drive product development, hiring and go-to-market initiatives. The startup currently has 35 employees, recently opened an office in Dublin, and plans to double its workforce over the next two years. To date the company has raised $38.2 million. CalypsoAI builds software that validates, secures, and monitors artificial intelligence and machine learning systems, providing a ground-truth view of model performance, reliability, and security. Its platform enables human-in-the-loop development with stress tests and ongoing performance monitoring while advancing Trusted AI techniques from accreditation to defenses against adversarial ML attacks. The company serves customers in national security, finance, and other highly regulated industries and has created CalypsoAI Labs to work with government agencies, universities, and private firms. Headquartered in the Washington, DC area and founded in 2018, CalypsoAI focuses on accelerating and securing enterprise adoption of AI and ML. The company says it will use the new funding to expand globally, increase enterprise adoption, and continue product innovation.