• Voxel51

  Participated · Series B · May 2024

  Voxel51 provides open-source and commercial software that enables teams to build datasets and computer vision models for machine learning and AI applications. Its open-source FiftyOne tool has been integrated into engineers' and scientists' workflows, while enterprise customers use FiftyOne Teams to securely collaborate on datasets and models. Customers span industries including automotive, robotics, security, retail and healthcare, and include LG Electronics, Berkshire Grey, Precision Planting, RIOS Intelligent Machines and Forsight. Led by CEO Brian Moore, the company sells both community and enterprise offerings to support development and deployment of computer vision systems. Voxel51 intends to use new funding to expand go-to-market operations and accelerate its product roadmap. Voxel51 develops FiftyOne, a platform and open-source tool for visualizing, analyzing and managing unstructured datasets used in computer vision and machine learning. FiftyOne launched open source in August 2020; this week Voxel51 introduced FiftyOneTeams, a fully managed edition with enterprise features like searching cloud-stored image and video datasets, dataset sharing, and version management. The company positions itself as a full‑stack data-infrastructure solution that avoids copying media or metadata onto its systems and aims to be a single source of truth for organizations’ visual data. Founders Jason Corso and machine learning PhD Brian Moore built the product to help ML engineers and data scientists verify and select data that will train models to perform desired tasks. Voxel51 says it will use new capital to further develop the platform and to double headcount from 13 to 26 employees by year-end. The company faces competitors such as Aquarium Learning and Lightly.AI but reports growth alongside rising demand for unstructured vision data. Corso declined to disclose revenue when asked. Voxel51 provides a video understanding platform for automotive, smart city and security applications. Its computer vision and deep learning models automatically identify and classify actions in video scenes and can comprehend activities and patterns. The scalable platform enables customers with large video datasets to search for specific objects, actions and behaviors and to automatically tag and integrate detected content into workflows and human decision-making processes. Founded in 2016 by University of Michigan professor Dr. Jason Corso and Dr. Brian Moore, the company is based in Ann Arbor, Mich. Voxel51 has completed a number of successful pilots in the automotive, smart city and security spaces. It closed a $2M seed round and recently concluded a $1.25M NIST grant to support development and will use the seed funds to launch its solution; total investment to date is $3.25M.

• Hush

  Participated · Seed · Oct 2022

  Hush offers a comprehensive digital privacy service that leverages proprietary AI to protect members' full digital footprints and highlight vulnerabilities. The platform monitors and provides protection against 1,200 data brokers and social media platforms in the United States. Hush's AI identifies issues and helps members implement solutions proactively, aiming to prevent theft, fraud, and hacking before problems arise. The company plans to use new funding to further develop its proprietary AI technology and expand commercial activities. Leadership positions Hush as a benefit employers can offer to safeguard employees and their families, and as a scaled privacy solution for both individuals and organizations.

• ID Ventures

  Led · Series A · Jan 2022

  LionRocket builds an AI digital human video platform that synthesizes voice and video to produce realistic virtual humans for content creators. The company operates a B2C service called OnAir Studio that lets creators generate videos by typing text, eliminating the need for cameras and microphones. Its platform includes a large selection of synthetic voices and aims to automate time-consuming manual parts of video production. LionRocket plans to expand its virtual avatar selections and add multilingual support for global users. The company says digital humans can provide varied tones and emotions, broadening creator options. In December 2021 LionRocket completed a $5.5M Series A financing.

• InvestNext

  Participated · Seed · Oct 2021

  InvestNext provides a digital platform for real estate investment professionals to expedite capital raising and manage complex workflows, including investor subscription documentation and accreditation, secure payments, waterfall distributions, automated cap table management, and K-1 disseminations. The product targets general partners, finance leaders, compliance officers, and investor relations teams to increase efficiency and transparency in private real estate markets. The company serves over 1,600 GP clients and helps manage more than 70,000 global investors across 105,000 active investments, and reports a 96% customer retention rate. InvestNext has personnel across the U.S. and Canada and emphasizes a product-centric approach to build secure, compliant systems. With the new funding the company plans to expand platform capabilities and introduce tools to help GPs navigate regulatory compliance, capital raising, and investor engagement. InvestNext positions itself to deliver institutional-level transparency and scalability for private real estate investment management. InvestNext offers an end-to-end platform that helps real estate investment firms engage investors, raise capital, report and distribute returns. The platform supports more than 18,000 active investors and hosts over 1,200 funds and syndications. To date the company has facilitated over $4.4 billion in transactions. Led by co-founder Kevin Heras, InvestNext plans to use new funding to expand operations and grow headcount, particularly in design and engineering. The company also intends to broaden its business reach using the proceeds. The product and metrics indicate a focus on scaling both team and platform usage within the real-estate capital market. InvestNext offers a purpose-built platform for private real estate sponsors and syndicators to manage investments, raise capital, centralize documentation and communication, and automate investor distributions. The product includes a sophisticated CRM, secure personalized portals and a white-labeled interface to engage and inform investors. The company says it grew from a handful of pilot customers to more than 70 in just 15 months. InvestNext is positioning itself as the go-to management software for private real estate investors. The seed funding will be used to significantly scale the engineering team and add growth-focused roles. The startup is Detroit-based and plans to expand its online platform and team with the new capital.

• Asalyxa Bio

  Led · Seed · Feb 2021

  Asalyxa Bio develops nano-engineered, immune cell-targeted therapeutics built on its proprietary PANTHER technology platform. The PANTHER platform enables targeted delivery of therapeutic compounds directly to neutrophils and other key immune cells, and can deliver existing and novel drugs. Its lead program, ASX-100, is a neutrophil-targeted formulation being developed for the resolution of Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS). Proceeds from the recent seed financing will be used to advance ASX-100 into first-in-human clinical trials. The company is led by president and CEO Marc Appel and is advancing drug-development programs across multiple disease areas driven by dysregulated immune signaling.

No current team members are available.