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Laconia Capital Group

381 Park Ave S, Suite 419, New York, NY, 10016, United States

Overview

Laconia leads investments in pre-seed and seed B2B software companies transforming how business is done. Submit your info here: bit.ly/laconiapitch In addition to the company's early-stage funds, it offers investment advisory services through Laconia Venture Asset Management (LVAM). LVAM serves as an outsourced venture capital office (OVCO) to institutions, family offices, and high net worth individuals by creating and executing a comprehensive and sustainable venture capital investment program.

Total investments
16
Lead investments
3
Investments · 12mo
2
Active investors
5

Sector focus

  • Finance
  • Financial Services
  • Venture Capital
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Investment portfolio

  • Bluefish

    Participated · Series B · Apr 2026

    Launched in 2024, Bluefish offers an end-to-end Agentic Marketing Platform combining AI monitoring, activation, and measurement for enterprise marketing teams. The platform is used by about 10% of the Fortune 500, with hundreds of accounts across 12+ verticals and customers that include Adidas, American Express, Hearst, LVMH, and Ulta Beauty. Bluefish processes millions of AI prompts and responses per day across major AI providers and reached over 1 billion monthly active users within 12 months of launch, covering billions of MAU. The company tracks sources, narratives, and competitor signals driving LLM behavior and enables targeted optimization campaigns with attributed lifts in visibility, favorability, and revenue. Bluefish was founded by Alex Sherman, Jing Feng, and Andrei Dunca and is scaling its enterprise footprint following the $43 million Series B that brought total funding to $68 million.

  • Messium

    Participated · Seed · Sep 2025

    Messium combines hyperspectral satellite data, crop growth models, and proprietary AI analytics to provide weekly, field-specific nitrogen and crop-health recommendations. Its platform ingests satellite imagery alongside weather, soil, and farm management data to generate actionable fertiliser guidance. The company reports trials across Europe and Australia using more than 13,000 lab-validated crop samples and is delivering results to over 75 farms in the UK and Europe; its trials found over 50% of fields were incorrectly fertilised. Messium says its technology can boost yields, cut input costs and reduce emissions by eliminating fertiliser guesswork. The business recently secured a €3.8M Seed investment to accelerate commercial rollout, scale its data and analytics infrastructure, and grow its team and partner network. Messium plans to expand in the UK, Europe and Australia and is preparing for a Series A to support further international expansion and technology development.

  • Trestle

    Participated · Seed · Sep 2024

    Trestle is the construction industry’s automated prequalification and vendor management platform that centralizes subcontractor and supplier information across internal and external systems. Its product enables contractors to qualify subcontractors and suppliers quickly using AI-powered document handling, automated approvals, precise data collection, and an API that connects to bidding, estimating, and ERP systems. The company aims to be the industry's single source of truth for vendor management and performance analytics, allowing contractors to choose partners, share real-time feedback, improve transparency, and mitigate risk. Trestle was founded in 2022 and is headquartered in New York; it serves contractors across the U.S. and currently has a database of 54,000 subcontractors and suppliers on its platform. Leading contractors such as Yonkers Contracting Company and TCE - An Iovino Enterprises Company have used Trestle to manage vendor relationships. The company recently secured funding to grow its engineering team and further develop its platform.

  • Auxa Health

    Participated · Seed · Apr 2024

    Auxa Health is an NYC-based care management co-pilot and payer-agnostic platform that uses AI to support benefit navigation. It demystifies benefit and drug coverage details, surfaces eligibility and prior authorization requirements, and enrolls patients into high-value health benefits across health plans, state and federal programs, and community organizations. Led by Monica Chopra, Samantha Adelberg, and Dr. Jeffrey De Flavio, the company provides a benefit navigation technology solution for payers and providers. Auxa plans to use new funding to further develop its technology, expand benefit coverage, and grow the team. Financially, the company announced a $5.2M Seed raise on April 22, 2024.

  • Wavy

    Led · Seed · Apr 2022

    Wavy is a culture management platform that acts as a central hub enabling people leaders to plan flexible events, collaborate across teams, track spend and engagement, and measure the impact of culture and team-building initiatives. Co-founded by Shawn Hewat (CEO) and Neshay Ahmed (CTO), the company also operates an Experience Marketplace launched in 2020 that offers experiences across food, drink, games, arts, wellness, and entertainment. Wavy says its platform helps companies attract new hires, create a sense of community, increase employee satisfaction, and improve retention by engaging employees in the culture development process and ensuring visibility of efforts across teams. The company has worked with hundreds of customers including high-growth tech companies such as Wattpad, FundThrough, Guusto, Relay Financial, and Achievers, and large enterprises including Intuit, Shopify, Deloitte and Intact. With the CAD$2.5M seed raise, Wavy plans to accelerate development of its culture platform, grow its global team, expand its marketplace of experience creators, and pursue a goal to engage one million employees across its customer base.

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