Karman Ventures
311 Bowie Street, Austin, TX, 78703, USA
Overview
Karman Ventures (fka Moving Capital) is a venture capital firm backed by early employees of Uber and other decacorn startups.
- Total investments
- 23
- Lead investments
- 0
- Investments · 12mo
- 7
- Active investors
- 2
Sector focus
- Finance
- Financial Services
- Venture Capital
Investment portfolio
- Henry AI
Participated · Series A · Jul 2026
Henry automates production of commercial real estate deliverables—offering memorandums, underwriting packages, pitch decks, buyer lists and transaction summaries—claiming a 90% reduction in analyst production time and a platform-wide median turnaround under four hours. The platform has produced more than 20,000 client-ready deliverables representing over $150 billion in underlying deal value and is used by teams from all of the largest commercial real estate brokerages, reaching more than 150 firms. Henry reports that more than 20% of its customers have reduced staffing requirements as a direct result of the platform. The company launched Henry Deal to turn firms' institutional memory into deliverables across the full lifecycle of a transaction. Henry plans to use new capital to expand engineering and product teams and build the system-of-record capabilities described in the Henry Deal launch. Adam Pratt and Sammy Greenwall are co-founders and the company announced significant enterprise traction in the press release.
- Bluecore Energy
Participated · Seed · Jul 2026
Founded seven months ago by Kofi Asante, Bluecore Energy develops small modular reactors (SMRs) installed on floating barges intended to supply clean power to ports and nearby communities. The reactors heat water to produce steam that drives a turbine; the system is water-cooled in a closed loop and the company says refueling would be required only once every few years. Bluecore’s barges are designed to be relocatable by ship and can connect to the grid via subsea cables, with targets including powering the equivalent of approximately 15,000 homes or scaling to meet a major port’s needs. The startup has secured a port terminal, a barge and a test reactor pressure vessel to validate flow and cooling, and is combining hardware and software testing to verify its designs. The company is working with regulators and emphasizes multiple layers of safety and redundancy, including uranium clad in a thick steel pressure vessel with concrete shielding and steel lining. Financially, Bluecore announced a $10 million pre-seed raise led by Slauson & Co. to fund deployment and testing.
- Sancho
Participated · Seed · Jul 2026
Sancho is a robotics company developing autonomous mobile manipulators that link discrete workcells into continuous production workflows to address manual handoffs in manufacturing. The company emerged from stealth and has announced a $7 million seed round to accelerate its go-to-market and product development. Sancho positions its offering as an orchestration layer between machines, enabling flexible manufacturing and higher throughput. The team highlighted in the announcement includes founders Chao Cao and Jack Yang. Sancho plans to deploy systems in real-world industrial environments and use the resulting data to iteratively improve performance. The announced seed financing is intended to support these deployment and product-improvement efforts.
- BizScout
Participated · Seed · Apr 2026
BizScout operates a Zillow-like marketplace for small business acquisitions, guiding users from discovery through close. The platform offers proprietary tools such as ScoutSights, a real-time valuation tool, DealOS to manage deal progression, and a white-glove BizScout Private Client service for more serious buyers. BizScout reports over 150,000 registered users, has connected over 50,000 buyers and sellers, and has closed 220 deals. It offers tiered access including a free option and a $59/month premium subscription. The company currently operates in the U.S. and Canada and intends to expand into Europe by the end of the year. BizScout recently completed a $5M seed raise to fund growth and expansion efforts.
- Valerie Health
Participated · Series A · Dec 2025
Valerie Health embeds large-language-model and vision-language-model agents directly into a clinic’s existing EHR and communication systems to automate labor-intensive front-office work such as referral intake, fax processing, and appointment scheduling. Its orchestration layer routes each task according to clinic-specific rules and incorporates human review to deliver near-100% accuracy, cutting administrative costs by about 50% while boosting new-patient conversions by 5–7%. Across early marquee customers—including some of the nation’s largest independent provider groups—the platform has driven 6× ROI, brought referral processing times down to a median of 19 minutes, and eliminated inbox backlogs. Over the last six months, Valerie has grown revenue more than 5× (including a 3× expansion within existing accounts) and opened a second office in Chattanooga. The company plans to use fresh capital to build a comprehensive AI front office, add new workflows and modalities such as voice, expand embedded operations teams, and deepen analytics capabilities. Co-founders Peter Shalek (ex-AbleTo/Optum, Joyable) and Nitin Joshi (Uber Health, Stripe, Bridge) bring extensive healthcare operations and software-scaling experience. Total funding now stands at $39 million, supporting further product expansion and customer growth.