Participated · Equity · Jun 2026

Noa has launched its first mobile application focused on fitness and Pilates, designed as a digital studio emphasizing structured progression, audio coaching, visual design and high-quality content. The experience is conceived primarily for women while remaining open to all users, and the app uses artificial intelligence to personalize programs to users’ goals and levels. Programs are developed with international coaches specializing in Pilates, cardio and strength training. The founders—Guillaume Sztejnberg, Shreyas Rajagopalan and Jason Akakpo—have prior successes: AppTurbo reached €15 million in annual revenue and Green Panda Games amassed over 800 million downloads before being acquired by Ubisoft in 2019. Noa intends to expand beyond fitness into a broader wellness portfolio including nutrition, meditation, sleep and cycle tracking to build a larger premium brand.

Participated · Seed · Dec 2025

Enough is a London-based safety technology startup building the eNO badge, a visible, AI-enabled wearable designed to assess surroundings, recognise potential danger, and trigger live audio-video recording while notifying emergency operators and designated contacts. The device combines multimodal AI models with custom hardware to provide proactive, real-time protection for users who feel vulnerable in urban environments. Co-founders Ina Jovicic (CEO), Gaelic Jara (CTO) and Alex Chalakov (CSO) were motivated by Jovicic’s own assault in London, which highlighted the shortcomings of existing personal-safety solutions. With fresh capital now secured, the company plans to finalise product development and launch commercially in the UK in 2026. While consumer hardware is notoriously difficult to scale—only 46 % of such startups secure a second round—the team intends to leverage its early momentum to attract follow-on investment. The recent €2.32 M ($2.7 M) pre-seed raise is the company’s first institutional funding and will finance manufacturing, AI model refinement and go-to-market preparation.

Participated · Seed · Nov 2025

Deduction has emerged from stealth with the mission of resolving the certified public accountant shortage by automating tax preparation through artificial intelligence. Its software promises to replace the traditional, weeks-long and expensive CPA workflow, offering rapid, automated filing and real-time responses. Marketing lines such as “paying thousands for tax prep and waiting weeks for responses? That ends now” emphasize the product’s focus on affordability and speed. The platform positions itself as a full-service alternative to human tax professionals, leveraging AI to handle complex filings at scale. To fund this vision, Deduction secured $2.8 million in its first outside financing. The company has not yet disclosed user numbers, revenue traction, or detailed financial metrics.

Participated · Seed · Nov 2025

Orion offers a smart mattress cover that continuously tracks a sleeper’s biometrics and automatically heats or cools specific zones to maintain an optimal temperature cycle throughout the night, aiming to improve both deep sleep and REM quality. The product combines embedded sensors with an AI engine that personalizes temperature adjustments for each individual. Seed funding proceeds will be directed toward expanding operations and widening the company’s market reach. Orion was founded by Harry Gestetner and Daniel Gestetner—entrepreneurs behind Fanfix and Byte—and joined by Blake Johnson and Scott Cohen, also from Byte. While the company has not yet disclosed revenue or user metrics, its founding team’s prior ventures recorded sizeable exits, indicating seasoned execution capability. Los Angeles, CA serves as Orion’s headquarters, giving the company access to both the region’s hardware talent and consumer-tech ecosystem.

Participated · Seed · Mar 2025

ai|coustics develops voice AI solutions that bring studio-quality sound to voice applications via an API and SDK. Its product optimizes workflows and reduces post-production by repairing home recordings, poor-quality microphones and environmental noise. The company targets the communication and content industries. Led by co-founder and CEO Fabian Seipel, ai|coustics already serves 500,000 users and lists clients including Elgato, DHD.audio, Deutsche Welle and Radio France. The company intends to use the funds to bring its AI-powered studio-quality sound to every platform and device. The team positions its technology to cut post-production workflows across platforms and devices. AI-coustics builds generative-AI models to improve speech intelligibility and reduce ambient noise across devices and recorded media. The company offers a web app, an API for post-processing, and an SDK for integration into apps, workflows and hardware. Its models are trained on speech samples recorded in the startup’s Berlin studio, where contributors are paid and the team simulates artifacts like reverberation, compression and clipping during training. AI-coustics currently monetizes via subscriptions, on-demand pricing and licensing, and reports about 20,000 users (not all paying) and five enterprise customers. Near-term plans include expanding the four-person team and improving the underlying speech-enhancing model, plus potential real-time use cases and embedding the technology in consumer devices. The founders emphasize recruiting diverse contributors to reduce bias in speech processing models.