Participated · Equity · Jul 2021

NFT Oasis, formed in March 2021 and wholly owned by Provenonce, Inc., operates a virtual environment that brings the NFT movement to life in fully immersive VR. The platform uses AltspaceVR (owned by Microsoft) and is accessible on Oculus headsets and PC/Mac, with live and recorded streams available on social media. Since April the company has welcomed more than 200 artists and musicians and runs weekly events and performances by artists including Imogen Heap, Greg Spero, AWEEK, Lee Eun Bi, and Hayeon. NFT Oasis provides tools for creators to host gallery exhibitions, concerts for thousands of attendees, curate custom virtual galleries, and hire designers and programmers within a decentralized gig economy. The company is building smart contract–based systems to enable creators and communities to establish economics and permissions for metaverse experiences. NFT Oasis positions itself to expand the decentralized creator economy by combining NFTs, DeFi, and VR to give artists greater creative freedom and financial control.

Participated · Series D · Nov 2019

Orbital Insight offers TerraScope, a self-serve multi-sensor geospatial analytics platform that blends computer vision and geolocation sensor data to detect changes, monitor activity, and discover patterns of life globally. TerraScope, released in Q4 2022, evolved from the company’s GO Platform and adds easier multi-sensor data fusion, a library of pre-defined analyses for single-click insights, and massive scalability for millions of areas of interest. Since the TerraScope launch, the company has secured clients across Energy, Industrial Materials, and Information Services in North America, and Semiconductors, Telecommunications, and Financial Services across Asia. Orbital Insight is targeting enterprise-class commercial and federal markets and is using the new financing to support TerraScope marketing to additional customers. The company highlights strong customer demand for TerraScope and continued investor interest tied to recent contract wins. Orbital Insight builds geospatial analytics software that uses AI and computer vision to analyze petabytes of multi-source data, including satellite and synthetic aperture radar imagery, location intelligence, and AIS vessel-traffic data. Its core product, Orbital Insight GO, is a software solution the company plans to expand and further develop with the new funding. The platform supports use cases such as supply chain monitoring, real estate analysis, infrastructure mapping, and defense and intelligence. Customers include financial services firms, Global 2000 companies, several U.S. government agencies, and global non-profit organizations. Led by CEO and founder Dr. James Crawford and based in Palo Alto, the company has positioned its product for both commercial and government applications. Financially, the company has now secured over $125 million in total funding. Orbital Insight builds analytics products that analyze satellite imagery and other data using deep learning to deliver business insights. Its offerings have been used to infer revenue signals—for example, counting cars in retailer parking lots as a proxy ahead of earnings. The company reports strong commercial uptake as well as government interest, and investors cited hiring for engineering and sales. As satellite imagery and enabling technology commoditize, Orbital Insight and peers are racing to serve new markets and simplify offerings. The firm has become one of the most capitalized startups in the geospatial analytics space. Total fundraising now stands at $78.7 million following the latest round. Orbital Insight builds self-teaching algorithms to analyze satellite and UAV imagery, counting and measuring roads, airplanes, clouds, lakes, buildings, oil tanks and more. Its platform produces analytics such as parking‑lot vehicle counts (it says it has counted more than a billion cars across one million lots for 50 US retailers). The 30-person company works with more than 60 asset management firms, several U.S. government agencies, and two global non-profits, ingesting imagery from providers including DigitalGlobe, Airbus, NASA Landsat and Planet Labs. Orbital has partnered with the World Bank to improve poverty estimates using building height and rooftop materials as wealth proxies. The company plans to expand sales and engineering headcount and establish or grow presences in Washington, New York, and later London and Hong Kong, and expects to enter verticals such as financial services, insurance, energy, NGOs and real estate while adding drone and IoT geospatial data sources. Orbital Insight builds data products that extract insights from satellite images for decision makers across industries. The company uses image processing, neural networks, machine learning and statistical analysis to forecast outcomes and detect trends. Its customers include hedge funds, real estate developers, insurance companies, government agencies, and international development and environmental non-profits. Developed products include end-of-season crop harvest forecasts from mid-season spectral analysis, quarterly retail performance estimates from parking‑lot counts, measures of construction activity in China, and early estimates of global crude oil inventory fluctuations. The company raised an $8.7M Series A and plans to use the funds to hire engineers and build out new data product lines. Orbital Insight is led by founder Dr. James Crawford and is hiring.

Participated · Equity · Oct 2019

Aurora Insight offers a cloud-based, data-as-a-service platform that provides a dynamic, near-real-time global map of wireless connectivity and signal quality across multiple spectrum bands. The product combines AI with sensor data gathered from satellites, vehicles, buildings, aircraft and other objects to monitor spectrum performance. The company built an initial testing “bunker” before rolling the system out at scale and says its objective is to map the entire planet’s radio waves. Aurora aims to measure multiple kinds of spectrum simultaneously to serve telecom operators as well as a broader set of application and service developers building on 5G and other wireless technologies. The startup highlights specific utility for challenging 5G phenomena such as massive MIMO, beamforming and high-frequency operation. While in stealth it worked with at least one drone operator and says some telcos have been testing the system. Financially, Aurora has raised $18 million in aggregate since its 2016 founding, covering both seed and Series A funding.