Participated · Seed · Apr 2026

Alien develops a decentralized identity L1 network intended to verify humans and link AI agents to their human owners, creating trust and accountability in the agentic economy. The company is releasing and open-sourcing Alien Agent IDs to give agents verifiable credentials tied to real human Alien IDs. Its first demonstrated use case is an Agent ID for Claude Code that attaches a verified badge to every commit to prove human authorization. Alien is led by CEO Kirill Avery and is headquartered in San Francisco. Financially, the company recently closed a $7.1M pre-seed round to fund operations expansion and further product development.

Participated · Series B · Feb 2026

Goodfire develops tools and methods that let researchers peer inside neural networks, identify the mechanisms driving behavior, and precisely retrain or intervene on those components. The company’s upcoming "model design environment" aims to let users debug and intentionally design AI systems at scale, reducing issues such as hallucinations and enabling targeted behavior changes. Beyond model steering, Goodfire applies its interpretability pipeline to scientific foundation models; in partnership with groups like Mayo Clinic and Prima Mente it recently uncovered a novel class of Alzheimer's biomarkers. The team is composed of former DeepMind and OpenAI researchers and leading academics from Stanford, Harvard, and UC San Diego. Goodfire positions itself as a research-first “neolab,” arguing that deep understanding—not just scale—is required for safe, powerful AI. The latest financing values the company at $1.25 billion and brings its total backing to more than $200 million, providing capital to accelerate core product development, expand life-science collaborations, and pursue fundamental interpretability research.

Participated · Series B · Sep 2018

ioTium is a Santa Clara, Calif.-based provider of cloud-enabled Software-Defined Converged Infrastructure for industrial IoT (IIoT) deployments. Led by founder and CEO Ron Victor, the company offers OT-Net, OT-Access and the OT-Edge converged infrastructure solution to enable secure, scalable connections between machines and applications. Its platform ensures any machine using any protocol can be connected to any application in any cloud or data center through any network while reducing deployment complexity and minimizing network security risks. ioTium's products are deployed in building automation, energy, oil and gas, and manufacturing organizations, including Fortune 500 customers. The company raised a $13.6M Series B, bringing total funding to $22M, and plans to use the proceeds to accelerate technology development at its Chicago and Houston locations. ioTium is expanding its market presence in the U.S. and internationally, planning offices on the U.S. East Coast as well as in Canada, Europe and Australia. IoTium provides secure network infrastructure for the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) through a patented Network as a Service (NaaS) solution. Its technology securely connects legacy onsite systems to cloud-based applications for building and industrial automation, manufacturing, oil & gas, transportation and smart city industries. Led by founder and CEO Ron Victor, the company targets building and industrial automation verticals while serving multiple industrial markets. IoTium plans to use new capital to accelerate its building and industrial automation efforts and to expand its presence in oil & gas, transportation and smart city markets. The company closed an $8.39M Series A round to fund these initiatives. Its NaaS offering is central to its product strategy for connecting legacy systems to cloud applications.

Participated · Equity · Jul 2017

Lightbend provides a cloud-native application platform and frameworks that help developers build scalable, high-performance microservices and streaming data systems optimized for cloud-native infrastructure. Its core product Akka is a Reactive Architecture platform used by more than one million developers and customers including Capital One, Fortnite, LinkedIn, PayPal and Verizon. The company also maintains and contributes to open-source frameworks and projects such as Play, Lagom, Cloudflow, Cloudstate and the Scala programming language. Lightbend’s platform is designed to help applications optimize resource consumption and scale dynamically using Kubernetes, microservices and containers, and it targets deployments on platforms like Red Hat OpenShift. Led by Jonas Bonér and CEO Mark Brewer, Lightbend operates offices in San Francisco, New York, Atlanta, Quebec, Switzerland and Sweden. The company said it will use the new funds to continue expanding operations and its business reach. Lightbend provides a reactive application development platform for building distributed applications using microservices and fast data on a message-driven runtime. The platform is powered by an open source core and delivers capabilities across reactive programming, data streaming and microservices. IBM will integrate these capabilities across its cloud platform and portfolio of cloud services, including data analytics, cognitive and machine learning, and collaborative data science tools. That integration is intended to extend new capabilities to Java and Scala communities. Enterprises including Credit Karma, Hootsuite, iHeartRadio, LinkedIn, Norwegian Cruise Lines, UniCredit Group, Verizon, Walmart, Weight Watchers and William Hill have adopted the Lightbend Reactive platform to build low-latency, fast-data applications based on modern microservice architectures. The company is led by Mark Brewer, President and CEO. Lightbend offers a platform based on the Java Virtual Machine and JVM languages such as Java and Scala to build message-driven, low-latency applications for multicore and cloud architectures. Its toolset and technologies include Lagom, Play Framework, Akka, Apache Spark, Scala, and Java. The company sells the Lightbend Reactive Platform and partners with Databricks, IBM, and Mesosphere. Customers cited in the article include Walmart, Verizon, iHeartRadio, William Hill, and Samsung. Lightbend is led by CEO Mark Brewer and founder/CTO Jonas Bonér. Following the announced funding, the company plans to use the proceeds to continue to expand operations. Typesafe packages the Scala language with the Akka middleware framework and the Play web framework into the Typesafe Stack, which is compatible with Java. The stack is aimed at building large-scale, data-rich applications and scaling to cloud computing and virtualized enterprise datacenter environments. Typesafe offers a Typesafe Subscription that provides commercial support, maintenance, and operations tools alongside training and consulting services to help organizations adopt Akka, Play, and Scala. The company was founded by the creators of the Scala language and the Akka framework. Leadership emphasizes Scala’s expressiveness and suitability for distributed cloud applications and massively multicore hardware while integrating with existing Java infrastructure. Typesafe, based in Cambridge, Mass., offers a modern architecture for building scalable multicore and cloud applications centered on the Scala programming language. The company introduced the open-source Typesafe Stack, which integrates the most recent releases of Scala, Akka middleware and developer tools to simplify and accelerate Scala development. Typesafe also offers commercial support and maintenance for the stack. Scala was created by Typesafe co-founder and CEO Martin Odersky, and the company was co-founded by Jonas Bonér, creator of Akka. Java creator James Gosling and concurrency expert Doug Lea have joined Typesafe's board of advisors. As part of its launch, Typesafe raised $3M in Series A funding.