Led · Equity · Jul 2024

Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Chicago, 160 Driving Academy operates a national network of state‑licensed commercial driving schools and safety programs. It runs 151 CDL schools across 44 states and is certified under the FMCSA Entry Level Driver Training Program. The company also operates Truckers Network, a mobile platform offering fuel, jobs, hiring and factoring services and claims over 200,000 curated CDL drivers, plus the 160 Driver Score safety‑scoring tool for employers. 160 is integrated with more than 550 workforce offices to create jobs for unemployed and underemployed workers and supplies large employers with recruiting, training and driver analytics. In 2024 it plans to train over 30,000 students, and the company aims to expand to 200 schools and train over 50,000 drivers by 2026. Its product suite emphasizes safety, employer compliance, and lower hiring costs for small and mid‑sized trucking companies, positioning it for continued market share growth.

Participated · Seed · Aug 2021

Juno, led by physician-CEO Akili Hinson, operates brick-and-mortar clinics that deliver family-focused care in diverse neighborhoods. Its model provides open-access in-person services from pediatrics to OB-GYN, same-day care, and higher-acuity services such as X-rays. The company positions itself between membership models like One Medical and Medicaid-focused providers like CityBlock Health, targeting patients who fall outside both categories. Juno has begun offering optional paid plans ranging $20–$50 per month for families seeking night and weekend appointments, greater convenience, and savings. The team emphasizes technology as an enabler and describes the business as a high-tech–enabled healthcare service rather than a pure digital-health company. With new capital, Juno plans to expand its team and services into East Atlanta, Greenwood, and Inglewood while working to scale beyond its existing brick-and-mortar locations. Juno Medical is a New York-based primary care company led by founder and CEO Akili Hinson. The company combines hospitality, technology, and transparent pricing to deliver pediatrics, adult primary care, women’s health, same-day care, and diagnostic services in one place. It operates a Harlem location and plans to open a Brooklyn location. Juno raised $5.4M in seed funding to support its growth. The company intends to use the proceeds to launch its Brooklyn location, expand virtual care services and price-transparency capabilities, and hire new team members across the business. Juno plans national expansion in 2022 and to roll out new virtual and wellness services in the coming months.

Led · Series A · May 2021

Sharebite is a corporate food-ordering and employee meal benefits platform that partners with restaurants to deliver meals to corporate clients and remote employees. The platform provides a curated selection from thousands of restaurants and centralizes ordering, expense management, receipts, reimbursements, allowance limits, and admin controls for HR, IT and accounting teams. Sharebite offers manager features that recommend three to five restaurants for events and recently launched Sharebite Passport, a payment card that lets employees buy meals or groceries across restaurants and third-party delivery platforms with company-set allowances. The company plans to expand market share, launch new products and develop AI-powered tools to enhance the meal-ordering experience. Sharebite donates for every transaction to nonprofit partners including City Harvest and Feeding America and charges restaurants commissions starting at 12.5%. Founded in 2015 by Dilip Rao and Mohsin Memon, the company has grown to over 250 corporate clients including government-owned entities like NJ Transit, employs 150 people, and has raised $56 million to date. Sharebite offers an enterprise-focused food ordering platform and contactless delivery solution designed for workplaces, including its Sharebite Stations group-order product. The platform lets companies centrally manage food ordering, expense allocation, and batched contactless drop-offs at designated office locations. Sharebite partners with over 3,000+ curated restaurant merchants and serves numerous top law firms, investment banks, tech companies, and professional services firms. The company reported a 400% growth in contractual business in 2020 and says it has hundreds of companies in its pipeline. Every order on the platform triggers a donation to City Harvest to help alleviate childhood hunger. Sharebite is headquartered in New York City and operates in Chicago, the Bay Area, Austin, Charlotte, Irvine, and Washington, DC, and plans to expand Sharebite Stations across major U.S. metropolitan markets as offices reopen.

Led · Series B · Nov 2020

Factory_OS takes an integrated, industrialized and tech-enabled approach to multifamily housing development, combining design, technology, construction and workforce innovations. Led by CEO Rick Holliday, the company operates manufacturing facilities on Mare Island and plans a second facility there. It has built nearly 1,000 units to date and, through a partnership with the Northern California Carpenters Regional Council, employs 500 union workers who earn competitive wages and benefits. The company maintains an active research and development program to advance its industrialized construction methods. Factory_OS says it will use the new capital to ramp up manufacturing at its second Mare Island facility, invest in robotic and other advanced technology initiatives for both facilities, expand into Los Angeles and open a housing innovation center. Factory OS is a Vallejo, California-based company that designs and builds homes using prefabricated, modular components. The company operates a large manufacturing facility opened in 2018 that can produce an estimated 2,000 to 3,000 units per year, with assembly-line stations and 150 to 250 union employees. Modules are built inside the factory—some as large as 16 by 70 feet—then trucked whole to building sites, and Factory OS is working on developments in West Oakland and El Cirrito. Its first customer was Alphabet, which ordered 300 apartment units in 2017 in a deal reported to be worth $25–30 million. The company partners with Autodesk through the Entrepreneur Impact program and is establishing an innovation lab within UC Berkeley’s Terner Center, with the lab to be housed at the factory for $1 per year. Co-founder James Pace has said the company can reduce construction time by 40 to 50 percent compared with traditional techniques, and its latest SEC filing shows it raised $22.7 million in equity financing.