• Cypris

  Participated · Series A · Jul 2024

  Cypris offers an AI-powered research platform and market intelligence ecosystem designed for R&D and innovation teams. Its platform surfaces LLM-driven insights, semantic search, advanced data monitoring and access to 500M+ global data points. The company also provides bespoke research via a team of data analysts working from a focused technical database. Cypris serves leading Fortune 100 companies, government agencies, universities, and research institutions. The company plans to use the new capital to accelerate scaling of its platform for global R&D teams. Cypris is led by CEO Steve Hafif and is based in New York City. Cypris is a market-intelligence platform built for research, development, and innovation teams that serves as a single ecosystem for global innovation data. Led by CEO Steve Hafif, the platform aggregates and curates a proprietary database of more than 500M global data points, updated daily. Datasets include research papers, patents, product launch news and other major sources, which the platform uses to generate automated, interactive reports. Users can run queries on keywords, competitor names or forward-looking concepts to receive reports on the historical and current status of innovation for fields or companies. The company raised a $4M Series A and intends to use the proceeds to expand development efforts and broaden its business reach. Cypris is based in New York.

• Frich

  Participated · Seed · May 2024

  Frich operates a community-driven money app for Gen Z where users can anonymously ask questions and share spending, investing and credit information to compare themselves with peers. The app surface anonymized peer data (e.g., spending on entertainment, rent, investing) and uses those insights to match users with relevant financial brands. Frich monetizes via a B2B subscription model, charging partner banks and brands a flat fee to appear on the platform. The company has grown to over 100,000 users nationwide with primary markets in New York, Florida and Texas, and is approaching $1 million in annual recurring revenue. The six-person startup launched its app in summer 2021 and markets via campus ambassadors and digital channels like TikTok. Funds from the recent seed are being used in part to hire growth and product talent, including former employees from Bumble and Robinhood.

• Revelio Labs

  Participated · Series A · Oct 2022

  Revelio Labs ingests public profiles, resumes and job postings and uses in-house algorithms and taxonomies to produce metrics on headcounts, inflows/outflows, job postings, skills, seniority, education, gender, ethnicity, sentiment and layoff notices. The platform maps job titles, activities, skills and companies to show where talent is acquired and why people join or leave firms. Revelio sells to corporate HR, strategy teams and professional services, and counts over 150 customers including the U.S. Federal Reserve System, Bank of America, Morgan Stanley, Citi, KPMG, EY, MIT and Harvard Business School. The company acknowledges data-source limitations (for example, it lost access to user skills last May and its documentation has shown gaps like missing highest-degree reporting) and says it applies internal processes to mitigate errors. Revelio plans to use the new funding to expand its offerings for corporate HR and strategy. The company was co-founded by CEO Ben Zweig and Yedidya Gorsetman in early 2018 and is New York–based with around 50 employees; Zweig declined to disclose revenue figures. Revelio Labs builds tools to understand the workforce of every company by ingesting the universe of public workforce data and creating a standard structure for job titles, skills, activities, and companies. Its data scientists develop methods to remove sampling bias and adjust for reporting lags to produce a comprehensive, unbiased, and current view of workforce dynamics. The company’s data provides insight on occupational composition, hiring and attrition trends, geographic composition, career transitions, and demographic diversity. Customers include investors, corporate strategists, HR teams, and governments who use the data to make actionable, data-driven decisions. Led by CEO Ben Zweig, Revelio Labs intends to use its recent funding to grow its business reach and expand its offering beyond investment management into corporate HR and strategy. The company is headquartered in New York City and was valued at $29M in the seed round.

• Andi

  Participated · Equity · Sep 2022

  Andi offers an AI assistant search that generates answers by combining large language models with live web data rather than returning traditional link lists. The system extracts and ranks information from web results and uses specialized AI components for different verticals such as factual knowledge, programming, and consumer health. Andi emphasizes privacy, saying it does not record personally identifiable information or log searches, and currently provides the core service for free. The company is in alpha, reports roughly 5,000 users, and plans paid pro and business tiers with API access and support for private/internal data. Leadership says the product will evolve as they add features that let customers use Andi with paid content and team data. Andi intends to stay lean while iterating and will add at least one full-time AI developer, bringing headcount to three.

• Kogniz

  Participated · Equity · Jun 2022

  Kogniz is a Berkeley, CA and Montreal, Canada-based provider of an AI-driven computer vision SaaS platform for improving safety and operations, led by CEO Daniel Putterman. Its product suite focuses on gun detection, safety, and anomaly detection and integrates with clients' existing camera infrastructure. Kogniz Gun Detection identifies firearms in real time using multi-pass AI backed by human verifiers to minimize false alarms and delivers real-time alerts via phone, SMS, Slack, and email. The platform includes prebuilt automated workflows, two-way communications, emergency response plans, visual simulations, and dynamic reports to support incident, evacuation, and incident management. The company says the platform is used by more than 50 enterprise clients, can be implemented in days, and integrates with a customer’s existing infrastructure. Kogniz raised funding to bring its technology product suite to commercial, industrial, school, and governmental organizations. Kogniz provides a suite of products that use computer vision and artificial intelligence to enhance security, safety and efficiency in physical environments. Its cameras process video in real time to recognize people, objects and activities using next‑generation facial and object recognition technologies. The company reports cameras are live in twenty implementations across the United States. Led by Daniel Putterman, Kogniz operates from San Francisco and maintains development offices in Montreal, Quebec. The $4M seed funding will be used to expand the engineering and data science team and to grow product distribution. The company focuses on scaling deployments and improving its AI-driven security product suite.

No current team members are available.