• Cashmere

  Participated · Seed · Jan 2026

  Cashmere operates a proprietary OmniPub infrastructure that converts premium content into structured, rights-cleared datasets usable by AI systems. Its platform offers token-level access control, automated rights management, granular usage tracking, and revenue settlement, enabling publishers to monetize their intellectual property while maintaining protection. For AI companies, Cashmere supplies scarce, authoritative material that boosts model quality and differentiation beyond ordinary web-crawled data. The company has inked content partnerships with John Wiley & Sons and Harvard Business Publishing and already serves AI clients such as Perplexity. NAVER’s venture arm plans to collaborate with Cashmere, potentially integrating the platform into NAVER’s search and content products. Strengthened by a newly announced $5 million seed round, Cashmere aims to establish itself as the industry standard for licensing premium data to the AI ecosystem.

• Vid Grid

  Participated · Seed · Aug 2017

  ilos Videos builds a simple-to-use video platform to help organizations communicate and be more productive. Founded in 2015 and based in St. Paul, Minn., the company has over 200 customers across North America and a 15-person team. ilos reports $100K in monthly recurring revenue, is scaling 300% year-over-year, and maintains retention rates consistently above 97%. Its customer roster includes UC Berkeley, UnitedHealth Group, General Electric, 3M, Informatica, Lessonly, and Workfront. The company plans to use new capital to grow revenue, lay technology and business-process foundations, drive deeper vertical penetration, and expand the market for video communications. Pat Matthews of Active Capital has joined ilos' board as part of the raise.

• Ilos

  Participated · Seed · Aug 2017

  ilos is a software company that provides a ridiculously simple-to-use video platform for the workplace, aimed at improving productivity and clarity of communication. The product is used by over 200 customers across North America, including UC Berkeley, UnitedHealth Group, GE, and 3M. The company reports 300% year-over-year scaling, retention rates consistently above 97%, and $100K in monthly recurring revenue. Founded in 2015 and based in St. Paul, MN, ilos has a team of about 15 people. The company intends to use funding to grow revenue, lay tech and business process foundations, drive deeper vertical penetration, and expand the market for video communications. Strong customer success and case studies (e.g., Informatica) underscore its focus on retention and practical business use cases.

• Querium

  Participated · Series B · Jan 2017

  Querium develops the StepWise Virtual Tutor, an AI-powered, mobile learning platform that delivers personalized, bite-sized STEM lessons with expert-system, step-by-step tutoring assistance available 24/7. The platform targets digital-native students preparing for college and beyond. Led by founder & CEO Kent Fuka and co-founder & CMO Patti Smith, the company emphasizes personalized mastery of STEM skills. Querium raised $3.2M in a Series B and has $4M in total financing to date. The company says it will use the new funds to expand operations. Education-industry veteran Jamie Caras joined Querium’s board in conjunction with the round. Querium builds cloud-hosted, mobile learning software centered on its StepWise Virtual Tutor, which provides personalized, adaptive tutoring and grading-assistant capabilities for math and science. The StepWise engine lets students show work, intervenes on mistakes, generates hints, and can provide partial credit plus fine-grained analysis of problem-solving. Querium licenses its AI products to online learning solution providers and has a distribution partnership with Sapling Learning (a division of Macmillan Publishers). Beginning fall 2015, thousands of Texas high school students will use Querium’s MathBooster for STAAR Algebra 1 EOC featuring StepWise. The company was founded in January 2013 and aims to help 60 million students master critical math and science skills. Querium says it will use newly secured funds to significantly expand its A.I. capabilities and bolster business development activities. Querium develops an artificial intelligence-based StepWise Virtual Tutor that operates in tutoring mode and grading-assistant mode to help students solve STEM problems and provide partial-credit grading and analytics. The StepWise engine features handwriting recognition to give students a natural experience similar to writing on paper, and it generates hints and intervenes when students make mistakes. Querium’s product line includes Querium MathBooster and TSI Math Prep, and the company has pursued partnerships to expand distribution. In October (year in article), Querium announced a strategic partnership with Sapling Learning to bring StepWise and MathBooster to 1,200 Texas school districts beginning fall 2015. Querium says it designs its cloud-hosted, mobile learning software for digital natives and targets U.S. middle school, high school and college students. The company was founded in January 2013 and is based in Austin, Texas.

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