• Whizz

  Participated · Seed · Apr 2023

  Whizz operates a subscription model providing compliant, safety-focused e-bikes to last-mile delivery drivers, removing upfront purchase barriers for drivers with limited credit history. The company reports 3.5x year-over-year growth and annual recurring revenue exceeding $8 million. Whizz currently operates a fleet of 2,500 e-bikes with features such as long battery life, GPS tracking, and anti-theft systems. It has strategic partnerships with DoorDash and Grubhub, which together represent a large share of the US food delivery market. Whizz plans to expand geographically beyond New York and New Jersey, scale its fleet toward a 200,000-vehicle target by 2030, and introduce electric mopeds to its offering. The founding team emphasizes a mission to empower immigrant delivery workers by improving safety, earnings potential, and access to electric transportation. Whizz operates an e-bike subscription platform that provides long-range e-bikes, on-demand maintenance and same-day replacements for delivery drivers, powered by its Whizz Automation Platform. Founded in 2021 and led by CEO Mike Peregudov, the company is based in New York. Its rental service has been used by more than 2,000 delivery workers, including drivers from Uber Eats, DoorDash and Grubhub. The platform combines hardware, maintenance logistics and automation to serve delivery drivers’ needs. Whizz intends to use new funding to accelerate growth, upgrade the platform and open additional locations in New York. The company’s recent financing activity has bolstered its capital base to support those operational expansions.

• Altris.AI

  Participated · Equity · Dec 2022

  Altris AI develops an AI platform that assists eye care professionals in detecting more than 100 pathologies, including age-related macular degeneration, glaucoma, and choroidal nevus. The company offers a medical image management platform and a free educational mobile app for clinicians. Its platform is already installed in more than 30 clinics, and its mobile app is used by over 11,000 ophthalmologists and optometrists. Altris AI partners with global OCT distributors and equipment manufacturers such as Topcon Healthcare, Optopol, and Huvitz. The company plans to use newly raised funds to scale its AI-enabled eye care diagnostics solution. Altris AI is headquartered in the USA with R&D centers in Kyiv, Ukraine and Malaga, Spain, and is led by founder and CEO Andrey Kuropyatnyk.

• Immigram

  Participated · Equity · Apr 2022

  Immigram is a London-based immigration platform that helps tech professionals and entrepreneurs through the full relocation journey, from visa applications to finding housing and opening bank accounts. It provides a B2B SaaS product for employers to attract and retain international talent and a B2C service with fixed pricing that the company says costs 50% less than traditional law firms and issues refunds for unsuccessful applications. Core features include a scoring system geared to the U.K. Global Talent Visa and a combination of legal advice with tech-enabled processes aimed at automating immigration. Since launching earlier this year, Immigram says it has helped 150 clients relocate. The founders, Anastasia Mirolyubova and Mikhail Sharonov, both relocated to the U.K. from Russia and designed the product around immigrants rather than specific countries. The company has raised $500,000 in a funding round and plans to build an end-to-end global mobility platform, including special services for Ukrainian IT specialists to move to the U.K.; it is backed by Hatchery (UCL's incubator).

• Wizart

  Participated · Seed · Jan 2022

  Wizart provides a computer-vision and augmented-reality B2B2C solution for online DIY retailers and their end customers, aimed at increasing sales of finishing materials and shortening transaction cycles. The product uses multi-level self-learning neural networks to continually improve renders and connect suppliers with retailers. The company reports generating over 1 million renders for about 100,000 unique users every month and says it is operational across every continent except Antarctica. Revenue is geographically distributed: about 55% from the U.S. and Western Europe, 20% from Eastern Europe, and the remainder from South America, the Middle and Far East, and Australia. Wizart has partnerships with wallpaper and finishing-material makers including AS Creation, Marburg Tapeten, Brewster, and York Wallcoverings. Following the recent seed raise, the company intends to significantly increase its presence in Europe and use the funding as a basis for further scaling.

• Narrative BI

  Participated · Seed · Nov 2021

  Narrative BI offers a no-code, user-oriented business intelligence platform that combines visual interfaces, natural language narratives, and advanced anomaly detection to make analytics accessible to non-technical growth teams. The platform consolidates product and marketing data from sources such as Mixpanel, Google Analytics, and HubSpot and transforms raw signals into shareable insights. It integrates collaborative features like Slack delivery to help teams spot issues early and distribute narratives quickly. Narrative BI emphasizes self-service reporting with no IT involvement, aiming to reduce reliance on engineering and legacy analytics stacks. The company soft-launched a public beta in August 2021 and reports it has already extracted insights from customer data derived from millions of unique users. Narrative BI plans to use its new capital to continue product development and expand its augmented-analytics capabilities for product-led companies.

No current team members are available.