Participated · Series A · Jul 2026

Assured provides AI tools and agents that verify provider information across 2,000 primary sources, prepare applications to meet state and payer requirements, and flag missing information. The platform automates provider credentialing, licensing, payer enrollment and network management and can credential providers within days, get them in-network about 30% faster, and save operations teams dozens of hours weekly. Assured is a National Committee for Quality Assurance–certified Credentials Verification Organization, enabling it to conduct credentialing verifications directly for health systems and health plans. The company serves more than 100 healthcare organizations, including Houston Methodist. Founders built the product after experiencing 60+ day credentialing timelines while operating a previous telehealth startup. With the latest financing, Assured has $25 million in total funding and plans to grow engineering, product and go-to-market headcount.

Led · Seed · Jun 2026

Kotoba Technologies, founded in 2023 by Noriyuki Kojima (CEO) and Jungo Kasai (CTO), builds the Koto family of real-time speech models — including speech-to-speech (S2S), ultra-low-latency speech-to-text (ASR), and text-to-speech (TTS) — optimized for Japanese, Korean, and Chinese. Koto models are deployable both in datacenters and on-device, including smartphones and wearables, and Kotoba reports outperforming leading models from American and European research labs on recognition and synthesis. The company is already in production with Fortune Global 500 organizations and AI-native startups, powering AI voice agents, contact-center voice interfaces, wearables, and simultaneous translation. Kotoba has released an alpha API and a Python SDK to broaden developer access and enable testing of its S2S and on-device models. Its consumer-facing Kotoba app delivers simultaneous translation, note-taking, and AI summaries across 21 languages and has surpassed 180,000 users. The company is headquartered in San Francisco with a Japan office in Tokyo and has raised $23 million in total funding to date.

Led · Seed · Jun 2026

Architect Labs develops an AI-driven system to design and verify custom chips end-to-end, aiming to turn demanding workloads into production-ready silicon. The company plans to expand its capabilities across the full computing stack, including co-designing compilers, runtimes, system software, and ultimately co-optimizing AI models with hardware. Founded by Ebrahim Hussain and Aaditya Subedi, the team includes frontier AI, systems and silicon researchers who collectively have completed 80+ tape-outs and held leadership roles at Intel, Meta, Anthropic, DeepMind, and xAI. Architect Labs is based in Palo Alto, California and emerged from stealth concurrent with its seed raise. Its current financial position includes a $24 million seed round led by Kindred Ventures, which it will use to scale compute, advance AI research, and co-design production silicon with partners.

Led · Series A · Jun 2026

Founded in 2021, Hydra Host began by serving cryptocurrency miners and has pivoted to offer automation software for data center operators and an AI server brokerage platform. The company enables operators to rent out idle NVIDIA AI server computing power and runs a GPU matching marketplace connecting GPU owners with renters. As of the latest reports, Hydra Host has deployed its technology in 50 data centers worldwide, up from 30 earlier in the year. The company completed a $100 million project funding round led by Kindred Ventures that values it at close to $800 million post-money, with participation from Nvidia, ARK Invest, Magnetar Capital, Founders Fund, and Flume Ventures. The articles do not report revenue, user, or other operating metrics beyond data center deployments.

Led · Seed · Jun 2026

Zest is a newly launched restaurant discovery app that imports users' dining transactions via Plaid to build a personal dining map and deliver personalized recommendations. Users link a credit card and Zest imports only food-and-drink transactions, excluding fast-casual/fast food, to surface frequently visited and preferred spots. The app combines real transaction data with more than 80 million reviews scraped from sources across the web to enhance its suggestions and context. Zest was founded in November 2024 and was in beta before opening to the public; in the weeks after launch it recorded over 100,000 visits. Founders include Mario Gomez-Hall (formerly Head of Design at Saturn) and technical co-founder Alex Moller (ex-Apple experience). The team is rolling out features like freeform place notes and a "Fresh Picks" discovery feature and says it plans to expand beyond restaurants to other city hot spots over time.