• Sola

  Led · Series A · Aug 2025

  Sola is an insurtech building a vertically integrated property insurance business by owning policy forms, modeling, claims, and internal tools. The company launched a flagship wind and hail program and became a Lloyd's of London coverholder. Since its seed round last year, Sola has grown revenue 7x. Sola uses objective data to trigger payouts rather than relying on traditional subjective claim adjustments. The company says it aims to own every step of the recovery process to deliver a seamless experience for customers and agents. It plans to use new funding to scale to eight figures in revenue, expand sales and product teams, and bring coverage to more homeowners. Sola is bringing unprecedented reliability to a historically chaotic home insurance market by offering data-driven policies that aim to keep premiums affordable and consistent. The company guarantees consistent and affordable premiums every year and is focused on reducing high premiums and deductibles for homeowners. Sola recently launched a wind and hail product to address high deductibles and out-of-pocket costs for wind, hail, and tornado damage. The firm is enhancing its agent platform so agents can quote and bind policies in seconds and plans to expand its state footprint to serve more high-risk states. Sola aims to extend its approach to cover all types of natural disasters in the future. Its platform uses advanced weather data and automated claims processing to deliver fast payouts within days and it has partnerships with mortgage companies and hundreds of independent agencies.

• Parlay

  Led · Seed · Jun 2025

  Parlay’s core product is a SaaS Loan Intelligence System (LIS) that complements existing Loan Origination Systems to streamline digital customer onboarding, information verification, and AI-powered decision management for SBA and small business loans. The LIS expedites eligibility verification and identifies best-fit loan products for applicants, aiming to unlock legacy bottlenecks that have limited community lenders. The company says its platform enables lenders to increase loan volume, improve operational efficiency, and maximize profitability without increasing risk. Parlay positions its technology as a way for community banks and credit unions to better compete and serve local businesses in the $1.4 trillion small business lending market. The company plans to expand product development, deepen integrations with existing systems of record, and grow its network of community lenders and mission-driven financial institutions. Stephen Schroder will join Parlay’s board as the company continues to scale and deepen partnerships with JAM FINTOP network banks. Parlay is an Alexandria, VA-based embedded fintech software company that provides a small-business loan readiness platform for community banks and credit unions. Its platform helps small businesses maximize their eligibility for loan products while increasing loan quality, throughput, and efficiency for lenders. The company partners with community banks and credit unions to extend more loans to small businesses. Parlay raised $1.3M in a Pre-Seed round. CEO Alex Mcleod said the pre-seed funding enables the company to continue fulfilling its mission of partnering with community banks and credit unions to extend more loans to small businesses.

• DiligentIQ

  Led · Series A · Feb 2025

  DiligentIQ offers a generative AI platform tailored to private markets that securely ingests virtual data room (VDR) documents, rapidly analyzes and categorizes them, and extracts critical insights to accelerate deal evaluation. The technology is positioned as a co-pilot for investment teams, reducing manual workflows and improving speed and accuracy in identifying opportunities and risks. The company is already deployed at leading private equity firms, family offices and diligence advisors, and is used by over 65 GPs, LPs and family offices, including HarbourVest Partners, Fortress Investment Group, Investcorp, and PPC Enterprises. Founder and CEO Ed Brandman previously served as Partner, CIO and Head of Credit Operations at KKR and built the product from his private-markets experience. DiligentIQ plans to scale its team and operations, accelerate product innovation, expand integrations, and broaden its presence in private markets. The company operates from New York and is positioning its platform as an indispensable part of private equity due diligence workflows.

• SRA Watchtower

  Led · Equity · Feb 2025

  SRA Watchtower offers Watchtower, The Holistic Risk and Business Intelligence Platform™, a SaaS product that aggregates core system, general ledger, BSA, fraud, ALCO, economic, and other risk-related data into a single warehouse and delivers configurable dashboards and reporting. The company positions its technology as built "by risk pros for risk pros" to give practitioners, executives, and boards timely, panoramic views of risk enhanced by AI-powered analytics. SRA recently acquired the Lumio Insight application suite to add advanced data management and analytics capabilities. Management plans to integrate Lumio to create AI-powered 'Risk Insights' that streamline and automate data ingestion into Watchtower’s risk engine. The integration aims to enable transformative reporting and actionable insights to help financial institutions optimize risk and accelerate growth. The company announced new capital to support this expansion and product evolution.

• Cardo AI

  Led · Series A · Nov 2024

  Cardo AI provides a technology platform that integrates software, data, and predictive AI to support portfolio modeling, collateral data management, and workflow automation for asset-based finance and private credit. The platform is used by investors, banks, servicers, trustees and fund administrators to inform investment decisions, monitor multi-strategy credit portfolios, and streamline operations. Cardo AI leverages a data engine, advanced software workflows and predictive algorithms to reduce manual processes and costs. The company reports that more than $40 billion are managed through its technology platforms and it employs a team of more than 120 people. Cardo AI expanded rapidly across Europe after founding and entered the U.S. market earlier in 2024; the new funding is intended to support further U.S. expansion and scaling of its product.

No current team members are available.