Participated · Seed · Jan 2024

TextQL builds agentic analytics software that lets enterprises query messy, fragmented data environments without requiring large-scale migrations, operating across on-prem systems and cloud data warehouses while respecting existing permissions. The company has focused engineering efforts on reinventing role-based access control across heterogeneous systems and creating runtime concepts to scale to complex Fortune 50 data ecosystems. Since its most recent financing, TextQL reports 9x year-over-year revenue growth and has booked consecutive six-figure contracts for six weeks running. Deployments include Blackstone, Scale, Dropbox, and a growing list of G2000 enterprises. The company positions itself as the interface between executives and enterprise data and plans to use the funding to further develop its agentic analytics capabilities and scale deployments.

Participated · Equity · Oct 2022

Limit is a digital wholesale broker and brokerage platform that streamlines commercial insurance transactions for retail brokers, eliminating paper forms and lengthy email exchanges. Since launching in early 2021, the platform has delivered tens of thousands of quotes to retail brokers and works with 45+ carrier partners. The product offers quote comparisons, price benchmarking, surplus lines filing, and integrates cybersecurity partners; Limit has also developed Limit AI to summarize and compare quotes, run surplus-lines tax and fee calculations, identify coverage deficiencies, and draft communications. The company operates across Cyber and Tech E&O today and is actively expanding into professional and management liability while planning more instantly-quoted products and new broker-facing features. Limit is 40 people strong and reports being capitalized with many years of runway and independent of carrier capital. The team emphasizes faster, cheaper, and more efficient insurance distribution for brokers and growing agencies nationwide.

Participated · Series C · Apr 2021

Astranis designs, manufactures, and operates satellites for geostationary and other high orbits to deliver dedicated, secure communications networks to large enterprises, sovereign governments, and the U.S. military. The company reports five satellites on orbit and a commercial backlog in excess of $1 billion. Astranis has been selected as a prime contractor for initial phases of multiple U.S. Department of Defense Programs of Record, including PTS-G, Resilient GPS, and Andromeda. It employs roughly 500 engineers and operates out of a 153,000 sq. ft. headquarters in Northern California. The company is scaling manufacturing capacity to accelerate satellite production and meet rising demand from commercial and government customers.

Participated · Seed · Mar 2015

Kitchenbowl offers an iPhone app that publishes recipes broken down into discrete steps, using photos for simple actions and GIFs for techniques that benefit from motion. The product emphasizes easy recipe creation—about half of its roughly 1,000 published recipes were posted in 30 minutes or fewer. The app surfaces recipes and cooks to follow, and its recommendation signals include whether users have posted photos of completed dishes. Founders Ryan Waliany (CEO) and Serena Wu (chief creative officer) built the app to address vague or SEO-driven recipe content online. The team says its longer-term vision includes covering the broader recipe ecosystem, potentially enabling ingredient purchasing or serving as a marketplace for small food brands. The company is headquartered in Seattle, and the founders are spending time in New York City as part of the Food-X accelerator.