• Caban Systems

  Participated · Series B · Jan 2023

  Caban develops and deploys Energy-as-a-Service (EaaS) offerings built around lithium-ion battery packs, energy storage systems, and energy management hardware and software. Through its EaaS model the company designs, installs, and operates clean energy infrastructure while clients pay a fixed energy and O&M fee, enabling customers to reduce energy costs and carbon footprint without capital ownership. Its systems are designed to provide reliable primary and backup power, reduce fossil fuel consumption and maintenance visits, and lower overall operating costs while improving reliability. Caban designs, manufactures, and tests its energy management systems at a primary facility in Plano, Texas, and has deployed solutions across 12 countries with long-term contracts with major telecommunications companies and a recent project with Digicel. The company is actively expanding deployments across Central and South America, the Caribbean, and the United States. Financially, Caban is accelerating growth after a new capital raise and additional project finance and debt facilities to support further EaaS rollouts and product innovation. Caban Systems is a renewable energy services company that offers end-to-end solutions for critical infrastructure, leveraging proprietary lithium-ion energy storage technology, intelligent remote monitoring software, and an integrated Energy-as-a-Service offering. Its solutions are designed to reduce operational expenses and increase uptime. The company is powering over 500 customer sites across 10 countries and has more than 1,400 additional sites under contract. Caban intends to use its new funding to scale domestic battery manufacturing capacity, broaden its product and service offerings, and expand into global markets. The company was founded in 2018 by Alexandra Rasch Castillo and Brian Pevear and is based in Burlingame, California. It raised $51M in a Series B to support this growth. Caban Systems produces end-to-end, software-enabled energy storage and management solutions tailored to telecommunications sites, combining long-life lithium-ion storage hardware, energy management hardware, and cloud-based remote monitoring. The company offers a fully integrated Energy-as-a-Service (EaaS) product and a solar-plus-storage solution that replaces legacy lead-acid batteries and diesel generators to cut operating costs and carbon emissions while improving reliability. Its patent-pending multi-tenant energy management capabilities optimize energy usage, improve billing accuracy, and refine forecasting for operators. Caban plans to increase manufacturing capacity, scale its EaaS offering, and accelerate delivery of clean, distributed energy solutions to the global digital infrastructure sector. The company is based in Burlingame, California, and all hardware is designed and manufactured by Caban. Industry context in the article notes ~90% of mobile towers require back-up power and lithium-ion penetration is projected to rise from ~10% today to ~65% by 2030, underpinning demand for Caban’s products.

• Polymer

  Participated · Seed · Dec 2021

  Polymer builds a cloud-native, no-code DLP solution that protects sensitive customer data across third-party SaaS platforms. The product emphasizes automated remediation technology (multiple patents pending) to reduce human intervention and lower total cost of ownership for data governance. Polymer is capitalizing on demand from large enterprises replacing on-premise legacy DLP and from SMEs buying their first DLP solutions. The company cites customers including Edward Jones, Signify Health, and Medly Pharmacy, and addresses use cases such as insider threats and compliance with HIPAA, PCI, and ISO 27001/27701. Management says the new funding will be used to execute its vision of autonomous DLP and further develop automation and remediation capabilities. A customer quote in the article reported over 90% accuracy in days and meaningful security-team time savings following deployment. Polymer Solutions provides a next-generation data loss prevention and data governance platform for third-party SaaS applications such as Slack, Dropbox, GDrive, Zendesk and Zapier. The product offers a single dashboard to configure permissions, track usage of sensitive data, and automate remediation to help organizations meet PII, PHI, HIPAA, GDPR and CCPA requirements. The company positions itself as a 'virtual compliance officer' for SaaS and has multiple patents pending for its automated remediation technology. Polymer is led by Founder & CEO Yasir Ali. The business intends to use the seed proceeds to expand operations and broaden its market reach. No operating metrics were disclosed in the article.

• Preciate

  Led · Seed · Jan 2021

  Preciate is a Dallas, TX-based platform that helps businesses and teams grow authentic relationships through virtual business socials and peer-recognition technology. Its flagship product, Preciate Social, is a fully immersive virtual socializing platform that replicates real-life business socials and mixers. The company’s patent-pending Social PresenceTM technology enables users to move toward or away from people to start conversations, hear background noise, and give toasts. Preciate Social supports customizable event backgrounds and music, the ability to hire live performers, and a Convos feature that provides built-in ice breakers. Preciate closed a $4.6M seed round and intends to use the funds to scale product development, expand marketing, and hire across multiple roles. Ed Stevens is CEO and co-founder.

• EyeLevel.ai

  Participated · Seed · Feb 2019

  Eyelevel.ai is a San Francisco–based provider of a native conversational marketing platform and global publishing network comprising digital assistants and chatbots. The platform combines advanced natural language processing with proprietary data‑modeling machine learning and scoring to deliver marketing messages and promotions in conversational contexts. Eyelevel.ai operates a publisher network of more than 1,700 chat applications and serves more than 45 customers. The company emerged from the Berkeley SkyDeck accelerator winter cohort in 2018. The startup positions its technology to help brands find and interact with new customers through conversational experiences. Eyelevel.ai secured $2M in seed funding.

• DailyPay

  Participated · Series B · Feb 2018

  DailyPay offers an On-Demand Pay platform designed to give employees more flexibility and control over when they access their earnings, positioning itself as a modern financial-wellness solution. The company emphasizes its role in “modernizing the employee pay experience,” aiming to improve workers’ financial stability while supporting employer payroll operations. On December 30, 2025, DailyPay secured a new $195 million senior secured revolving credit facility, which the firm says will fortify its balance sheet and fund targeted growth investments. Chief Financial Officer Deepa Subramanian stated that the financing underscores the scalability of DailyPay’s business model and its critical role in the evolving payroll ecosystem. The fresh capital enhances the company’s financial flexibility at a time when it is pursuing long-term expansion initiatives. Although specific operating metrics such as revenue or user numbers were not disclosed, the size and structure of the new facility suggest lender confidence in DailyPay’s growth trajectory.

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