• Lucra Sports

  Participated · Series B · Apr 2026

  Lucra Sports operates a B2B platform that transforms corporate loyalty programs into interactive, eSports-style events such as tournaments where customers can play each other and potentially bet or win cash and company giveaways. The company sells this gamified loyalty product to businesses and counts customers such as Five Iron Golf, Chess Kings, and Dave & Busters. Lucra positions itself as a provider of interactive, gamified loyalty experiences rather than a consumer-facing game operator. Founder and CEO Dylan Robbins engaged directly with lead investor ARK during multiple diligence conversations ahead of the Series B. ARK described Lucra's financials as promising and highlighted the company's B2B model as a key differentiator from prior players in the space. The articles do not disclose specific revenue, user metrics, founding year, location, or detailed plans for the new capital.

• Boomerang

  Participated · Seed · Jan 2024

  Boomerang operates a lost & found platform that centralizes found inventory from businesses to reduce fragmentation and improve recovery for consumers. The company was launched in November 2021 by Skyler Logsdon, Philip Inghelbrecht, and Augustine Diep-Tran. Boomerang serves a roster of customers on the Boomerang Network including Universal Studios, Cleveland Browns Stadium, Nissan Stadium, State Farm Arena, Margaritaville Resort, Encore Resort at the Reunion, The Dalmar, Savannah / Hilton Head International Airport, and Syracuse Hancock International Airport. The article notes U.S. consumers spend $5B annually replacing lost items and that the overwhelming majority of these items are lost at businesses, indicating a large addressable market. Boomerang recently raised new funding and will use the proceeds to fuel growth and invest in its team and platform to scale to demand. Leadership and investors emphasize the company’s technology and timing to address the pervasive problem of lost items. Boomerang offers a lost-and-found technology platform that includes a self-serve lost-and-found management software for businesses and an end-to-end, fully managed service for institutions with high volumes of lost items. The company targets hotels, restaurants, bars, clubs, universities, stadiums, casinos, theatres, gyms, airports, airlines and other businesses that collect lost items. Boomerang emerged from stealth after six months of development and currently has a nine-person team, mostly engineers distributed around the U.S. The co-founders—Skyler Logsdon, Philip Inghelbrecht and Augustine Diep-tran—bring prior experience at Shazam, TrueCar, Tatari and YourMechanic. The startup has been building its product, team and first batch of partners to launch its services. Financially, Boomerang announced a $2.8M pre-seed round to support its launch and growth.

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  Participated · Series A · Dec 2021

  MARZ is a visual effects studio that provides VFX services while building proprietary AI solutions for the entertainment and gaming industries. The company is developing a suite of automated, AI-driven products integrated into both VFX and gaming technology, with two AI products currently in development. MARZ aims to address VFX capacity shortages caused by the streaming boom and to make VFX more accessible to a wider range of creators. The studio has completed 88 projects in its first three years, including work on WandaVision, Watchmen, The Umbrella Academy and Invasion. MARZ has grown from 45 employees in 2019 to 194 today, with plans to expand to 300 over the next year; more than a quarter of employees focus on machine learning and AI. Although based in Toronto, MARZ is remote-first with a distributed workforce across cities including Vancouver, Winnipeg, Montreal, Madrid, Los Angeles, Melbourne, London, Moscow, Mumbai, and Mexico City. The company plans to use recent funding to accelerate R&D, hire research/engineering/product staff, and expand hardware and infrastructure to shorten AI development times and increase capacity efficiency.

• Plantiga

  Led · Equity · Jun 2021

  Plantiga offers a movement health platform that combines sensor insoles, artificial intelligence and human coaching to measure, analyze and optimize movement. The platform serves over 60 elite organizations across North America, Europe, Asia and Oceania and a roster of individual athletes. Customers include teams in the NBA, NFL, MLB, MLS and NHL, high-end sports medicine and physiotherapy clinics, and both the US and Canadian militaries. Led by founder and CEO Quin Sandler, the company has launched a closed beta program for individuals that provides insoles, the software platform and a personal movement coach. Plantiga intends to use recent funding to accelerate marketing and sales and to support the build-out of self-monitoring capabilities. The product focus is on integrating hardware, AI and coaching to deliver movement-health insights to teams and individuals.

• Sports IQ Analytics

  Led · Seed · May 2021

  Sports IQ is a B2B technology supplier that builds automated trading solutions and live odds for digital sports betting. The company powers products for industry customers including Bet.Work, IGT, and BetClic. CEO and co-founder Omer Dor said Sports IQ continues to build cutting-edge products and is welcoming leaders from MLB, NHL, NFL and EPL to its team. The firm plans to use the new capital to advance product development and accelerate commercial momentum. Sports IQ raised $7 million in a Series Seed funding round led by Harlo Equity Partners. Participating investors include Velo Partners, The Kraft Group, Michael Gordon, Inner Circle Ventures, Theo Epstein, and Mitch Garber.

No current team members are available.