Participated · Seed · Mar 2024

Ensis develops an AI-powered proposal platform that leverages generative models to streamline creation of responses to government RFPs, RFIs and similar opportunities. The product trains a reference library for each client that is securely stored and siloed per company to capture unique capabilities and writing style. Clients can import new RFPs into the system, which parses, organizes, and drafts responses for each section within a single workflow. Ensis is currently running a private beta and plans a wide release in 2H 2024. The company intends to use the seed funding to expand operations and accelerate development efforts. Founders Ben Lewis and Jon Sockell are leading the product and go-to-market work from San Francisco.

Led · Seed · Jan 2022

Syntegra generates synthetic healthcare data and statistical patterns of structured healthcare records. Its core product includes the Syntegra Medical Mind, a pre-trained model that has been trained on over 10 million records. The company creates built-for-purpose synthetic datasets to serve health systems, payers, life science and digital health companies, and clinical research organizations. Management says the technology is intended to advance data-driven innovation across customers. Syntegra is led by founder and CEO Michael D. Lesh. The company plans to commercialize new and ongoing work with health systems, payers, life science and digital health companies.

Participated · Seed · Aug 2021

Terzo offers a suite of contract processing tools that use AI to extract financial and operational data from business contracts, supervised by a quality assurance team to ensure baseline accuracy. The platform integrates with enterprise resource systems such as SAP and Oracle to track contractual obligations, expirations and ESG-related metrics. Terzo’s AI was trained on real-world business contracts to surface insights like inventory and costs for finance and IT teams. The company has "over a dozen" customers, including a Fortune 50 retailer and the largest financial transaction processor in the world. Management plans to drive revenue to cover over 50% of overall expenses in the next year and aims to break even in 2024 and be profitable by 2025. New funding will be used for sales and marketing and to enhance the platform’s AI capabilities. Terzo provides a SaaS-based Vendor Relationship Management (VRM) platform for enterprises to gain insights to drive innovation, improve governance, increase collaboration and optimize performance. Led by CEO Brandon Card, the platform helps enterprises manage contracts, track goals and evaluate opportunities, increasing collaboration among the right stakeholders within and across organizations. The company is gaining traction with Fortune 500 enterprises. Terzo is based in Los Angeles, CA. The company raised $3.2M in seed funding and intends to use the funds to continue to expand operations and its business reach.

Participated · Convertible Note · Mar 2020

On, formerly known as GameOn Technology, is a San Francisco, CA–based provider of an AI chat platform designed for enterprise use. Its platform empowers generative AI experiences that enable brands to create new and sustainable revenue streams and connect with customers and fans. The company lists partners including Valentino, Armani, the New York Yankees, the Las Vegas Raiders, and the Philadelphia 76ers. On is led by Alex Beckman, Kalin Stanojev, and Nate Simmons and serves luxury lifestyle brands and sports teams worldwide. It raised $25M in the reported round, bringing total capital raised to $80M. The company intends to use the funds to expand operations and broaden its business reach. GameOn Technology operates an omnichannel conversational chat platform that powers personalized, real-time experiences for brands and sports teams, delivering live scores, highlights, videos, commerce and customer service. The platform is used by major teams and properties across the NBA, NFL, NHL, PGA Tour, FIFA and ATP, and by clients such as Arsenal F.C., the Milwaukee Bucks and the Las Vegas Raiders. GameOn reports conversational click-through rates over 50% (up to 65% on commerce-related content) and claims 10x the user engagement compared with traditional paid search. The company leverages intelligent chat to deepen fan profiles across channels and to create sustainable revenue channels for brands. GameOn plans to deepen its footprint in sports and expand into diversified verticals like retail while scaling technical, business development and marketing efforts. GameOn Technology is a San Francisco–based conversational application platform that provides a proprietary end-to-end development and integration platform called ChatOS™ for messaging and voice services. The platform connects directly to brands’ CMS, data sources and API feeds to deploy rich content—scores, live updates, highlights, gifs and videos—across popular chat and voice applications. GameOn’s solution enables brands to engage fans in natural conversation and deliver dynamic content where fans are. The company counts partners such as the NBA, NHL, PGA, Arsenal F.C., Sky Sports and TIME Inc. as customers. Led by founder and CEO Alex Beckman, GameOn plans to use new capital to accelerate ChatOS development, expand into new content verticals, and increase sales efforts. The company has raised $18.5M in total capital to date, including the most recent financing. GameOn is a free iOS and Android social sports app that lets fans join team-specific “huddles” which automatically surface real-time news, scores, and highlights and allow friends to interact during games. The app supports in-stadium video sharing, in-house high-quality sticker packs tied to athletes, and plans to let athletes host public huddles for live interaction and anecdotes. Prominent athletes — including Lawyer Milloy, Sydney Leroux, Joel Embiid, Cobi Jones, T.J. Ward and Dwayne Bravo — have signed on to contribute exclusive content. The San Francisco company was founded last year and has eight employees. GameOn has recorded more than 50,000 downloads during a year of public beta testing. The startup raised seed funding to further develop the platform and expand the team.

Participated · Seed · May 2018

Choosy is an on-demand social shopping platform that identifies the top trending fashions on social media via social tagging (#GetChoosy) and a team of Style Scouts. The company designs and produces all looks in-house and leverages deep relationships with manufacturers in China to offer accessible price points. Choosy’s agile supply chain can produce garments within 48 hours of a trend and deliver to shoppers in as little as two weeks, enabling a zero-balance inventory model that minimizes overproduction. During an early test the team identified street looks inspired by the Hadids and sold out an entire collection within hours. The founders—Jessie Zeng (CEO), Sharon Qian (CTO) and Mo Zhou (Chief Strategy Officer)—are former Citi colleagues and plan to use funding to perfect the customer experience and build out teams. The company targets inclusive sizing (women sizes 0–20) and intends to launch publicly in July 2018.