• OpenLight

  Participated · Series A · Aug 2025

  OpenLight develops a heterogeneous III-V silicon photonics process and a foundry-validated process design kit (PDK) that integrates active and passive components—such as integrated lasers, modulators, amplifiers, and detectors—into custom PASICs. Its PDK is validated at Tower Semiconductor and is used by more than 25 companies to design and fabricate production-grade PASICs across datacom, telecom, AI data centers, sensing, and quantum computing. The company holds over 410 patents related to its PDK and manufacturing of heterogeneously integrated III-V photonics. OpenLight is advancing leading-edge components including 400G modulators and indium phosphide on-chip lasers and amplifiers, and plans to develop standards-based reference PICs at 1.6T and 3.2T. The firm aims to expand its PDK library, worldwide sales, and technical support as it scales; it is headquartered in Santa Barbara, California, with offices in Silicon Valley and has raised $84 million in total funding.

• AuthMind

  Participated · Seed · Apr 2025

  AuthMind builds an observability-driven identity protection platform that monitors human, non-human, and agentic AI identities across multi-cloud, hybrid, SaaS, and on-premises environments. The platform delivers continuous identity observability, posture management, and threat detection to identify risks and attacks in real time. AuthMind emphasizes high-fidelity detection of "low-and-slow" and living-off-the-land attacks and aims to give security teams the context, clarity, and control to accelerate safe cloud and AI adoption. The product is described as award-winning, deploys throughout the enterprise in minutes, and the company was named a Gartner Cool Vendor in Identity-First Security. AuthMind is based in Bethesda, Maryland, with R&D operations in Pune, India. Following a $19.3M seed round, the company will accelerate go-to-market operations and product innovations for its Identity Protection Platform. AuthMind offers an identity SecOps platform that correlates network flow activity with identity context and event logs to identify attacks and vulnerabilities in real time. The service can quickly build a holistic view of a customer’s cloud, on-prem, SaaS apps, password managers and more without prior knowledge of that company’s identities, assets or directories. AuthMind leverages AI-driven correlation to enable post-breach detection and to support post-incident investigations. The company was founded in 2020, is based in Maryland, and was co-founded by CEO Shlomi Yanai and CTO Ankur Panchbudhe. Early design partners became paying customers, and today AuthMind serves customers that manage tens—and in some cases more than 100,000—identities across their networks in industries including insurance, manufacturing and retail. The team plans to use the seed funding to expand go-to-market capabilities, improve core technologies, and eventually explore additional security areas such as helping customers with security audit certifications.

• Corvic AI

  Participated · Seed · Apr 2025

  Corvic AI provides a Data-Centric AI Cognitive Infrastructure that converts proprietary enterprise data (tabular, relational, text, image, time series) into AI-ready intelligence using its Mixture of Spaces (MoS) and Adaptive Chain of Actions (ACoA) technologies. Its Agentic Function Calling architecture orchestrates multi-step analytics and tool use to deliver explainable, auditable answers across complex, siloed data. The platform is designed for plug-and-play integration with existing enterprise ecosystems to accelerate adoption without disrupting workflows. Corvic AI targets mission-critical use cases in advanced manufacturing, industrial, financial services, and life sciences where accuracy and reliability are essential. The company says its infrastructure helps enterprises move generative AI projects from prototyping into production. Financially, Corvic AI announced a $12 million seed funding round to support product development and go-to-market efforts.

• GetReal

  Participated · Series A · Mar 2025

  GetReal provides a forensics platform-as-a-service that analyzes audio, video and still images via a web interface, API and integrations to detect deepfakes and impersonations. The platform includes a threat-exposure dashboard and tools named Inspect (for protecting high-profile executives), Protect (media screening) and Respond (deeper human-led analysis). The company is co-founded by deepfake-detection pioneer Dr. Hany Farid, with Ted Schlein as a co-founder/chairman and Matt Moynahan serving as CEO. GetReal says it addresses a talent shortage in cyber-forensics by packaging expert techniques into scalable cloud services. Customers named in the article include John Deere and Visa. The company plans to widen its scope over time to cover more kinds of impersonation threats, with text-based impersonations flagged as a future expansion area. Financially, GetReal raised $17.5 million in equity and will use the funding for R&D, hiring and business development.

• Toposware

  Participated · Seed · Nov 2023

  Toposware is a Boston, MA-based research and engineering company focused on zero-knowledge technology. Its team builds infrastructure, protocol standards, and products addressing cryptography and distributed systems to advance open internet standards. Led by CEO Theo Gauthier, the company takes a collaborative, academic approach to innovation and engineering. Toposware closed a $5M strategic Seed extension to support its growth. The firm intends to use the funds to expand operations, broaden its business reach, and engage enterprise clients via an Enterprise Early Access Program. Investors named include Evolution Equity Partners, Triatomic Capital, K2 Access Fund, and Polygon founder Sandeep Nailwal, alongside a range of strategic investors across insurance, finance, manufacturing, healthcare, consulting, and tech.

No current team members are available.