Participated · Series A · Feb 2026

SIQ Basketball (also referred to as SportIQ in the article) builds connected sports balls that house a patented, in-valve sensor system to capture data on shooting position, power, angle and technique. The data syncs to a subscription-based mobile application that analyzes performance and offers personalized training recommendations for athletes at all skill levels. Its technology is already embedded in the Spalding TF DNA basketball and is being piloted in a professional league to assist officiating. Multiple patents cover the sensor system and analytics platform. The company intends to broaden its product lineup within basketball and adapt the sensor platform to additional sports. New capital will be channeled toward market expansion, further platform development and professional-league applications. To date, the company has raised $6.2 million in Series A funding.

Participated · Equity · Jan 2026

The Realest develops technology that authenticates sports and entertainment merchandise, aiming to curb memorabilia fraud by having an independent third-party auditor onsite to collect evidence and verify items. The platform has garnered early traction with professional leagues, player associations, and teams, including projects with the MLBPA in Japan and a partnership with the Philadelphia Eagles. Beyond high-end collectibles, the company intends to build an e-commerce arm that offers a wider range of authenticated products for everyday fans. With fresh capital, management plans to deepen technology integrations and launch new partnerships across the broader sports and entertainment ecosystem. Founder & CEO Scott Keeney says the focus will be on scaling authentication capabilities and strengthening security features. Financially, the Realest has now raised a total of $16.6 million, comprising a $4.6 million seed round in 2024 and the latest $12 million growth round. No revenue or user figures were disclosed in the article.

Participated · Seed · Nov 2025

IDL is building a worldwide professional league that positions dance as a spectator sport, bringing together teams from multiple countries to compete in a structured season that features player contracts, major cash prizes, and championship events. Founded by the creators of STEEZY and led by CEO Connor Lim, the company blends the rigor of traditional sports with the spectacle of live entertainment to appeal to a new generation of fans. Its platform includes core competition technology and event-production infrastructure that underpins live shows and a broader digital ecosystem. The recent seed financing will allow IDL to accelerate development of this technology stack and scale its event operations. By offering standardized rules, season scheduling, and professional pathways for dancers, IDL aims to formalize dance as a mainstream sport. Although the company has not disclosed user, revenue, or audience metrics, the successful seed raise indicates investor confidence in the model and the market potential of professionalized dance.

Participated · Equity · May 2024

Symitri acquired TRUSTX from Digital Content Next and is positioning itself around privacy-first programmatic infrastructure. The company says it will launch “the world’s first integrated privacy firewall and real-time data clean room” to help balance open-web programmatic economics with growing privacy demands. Symitri closed $5 million in funding from institutional investors and ad‑tech executives to support the initiative. It ran a beta with TRUSTX in 2024 and plans to expand supply‑chain partnerships and integrations with select identity and data technology providers. Symitri is collaborating with Akamai Technologies to assist with the rollout. Financial terms of the TRUSTX sale were not disclosed; the TRUSTX exchange had connections to DCN publishers including News Corp, Hearst, and The Washington Post.

Participated · Series B · Dec 2023

Allganize provides enterprise LLM solutions including the Alli LLM App Market, the Alli AI chatbot, and Alli for Invoice to help companies automate and optimize workflows. The Alli LLM App Market offers 100+ ready-to-use LLM apps and no-code app creation, with multi-LLM support (GPT-4, GPT-3.5, Llama2, PaLM2) and options for sLLMs and on-premise deployment. The Alli chatbot delivers high response accuracy, document-based QA extraction, external tool integrations, and is offered from ¥100,000 per month. Alli for Invoice extracts data from non-standard invoices without complex setup and supports required invoice items for Japan’s invoicing system. Allganize plans to further advance its AI solutions, accelerate global expansion focused on Japan, the U.S., and Korea, and aggressively hire AI talent. The company was founded in 2017 and operates from Tokyo, Houston, and Seoul; it recently raised $20.2M in a Series B to support product development and international growth. Allganize develops NLP technology that extracts answers to natural-language questions directly from millions of unstructured text documents without manual preparation of training data. The platform can also automatically generate questions and answers from unstructured data. Led by founder and CEO Changsu Lee and based in San Francisco, the company has acquired over 100 enterprise customers in the US, Japan, and Korea, including SMBC, Persol, Kao, JPower, KB Securities, Hyundai Card, and Smilegate. In August 2021 it raised $10M in a round led by Atinum Investment with participation from Stonebridge Ventures, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation and existing investors, bringing total funds raised to $15M since its July 2017 founding. The company plans to use the proceeds to accelerate research and development, expand globally, and increase headcount in 2021. Allganize develops deep learning–based natural-language understanding (NLU) and conversational AI for enterprise customers. Its Alli.ai conversational AI and chatbot service aims to deliver highly personalized customer experiences by recognizing complex named entities and user intents from chat and voice data. The company leverages proprietary high-performance NLU technology to help companies build their own AI systems and services. Allganize has demonstrated market traction, securing business with Persol Process and Technology in Japan. The company intends to use the Series A proceeds to accelerate distribution of its solution to businesses. It operates from offices in Oakland, Seoul (Gangnam-daero, Gangnam-gu), and Tokyo.