• Niv-AI

  Participated · Seed · Mar 2026

  Niv-AI has developed an AI platform that links electricity consumption to computing workloads, aiming to help data centers use power more efficiently. The company's technology matches computing tasks with available electrical capacity to optimize energy use. Public reporting on the company centers on its recent Seed raise and investor syndicate rather than operational metrics. There are no reported revenue, user, or other key operating figures in the articles. The company raised $12 million in Seed funding to support its next stage of development. Additional details on future product plans or specific go-to-market initiatives were not disclosed in the coverage.

• Ezra

  Participated · Seed · Mar 2026

  Ezra recently closed an $8.0 million Seed financing from a group of early-stage investors. Public reporting on the company in these articles is limited to the fundraise and the participating backers (Congruent Ventures, Planeteer Capital, Wireframe KDX, stepchange ventures, and Leapforward). The articles do not provide information on Ezra's product, business model, founding year, location, revenues, users, or operating metrics. No prior funding history or valuation was disclosed. No statements about planned use of the capital or future roadmap were included in the available coverage.

• Ezra

  Participated · Seed · Mar 2026

  Ezra develops institutional-grade AI infrastructure tailored to private capital markets, with a focus on asset-backed finance and private credit transactions. Its platform ingests unstructured deal data rooms and transforms them into auditable, structured datasets that feed automatically generated investment memos and due-diligence reports, all linked back to their original source documents. This architecture seeks to eliminate the hallucination issues that plague general-purpose AI models, giving investors higher confidence in AI-generated outputs. Early traction includes adoption by investment firms overseeing more than $6 billion in assets under management and supporting transactions across renewable energy, infrastructure, and fintech. Looking ahead, the company plans to deepen technical integrations with capital providers and roll out dedicated investor and borrower portals. Proceeds from the recent seed round will fund expansion of engineering and data-science teams to accelerate these product initiatives. Ezra is headquartered in San Francisco and is led by co-founders Dan Rosen (CEO) and Dori Rutkevitz.

• Plug

  Participated · Series A · Feb 2026

  Plug is building core infrastructure for the rapidly growing secondary EV market by providing a dedicated marketplace that connects consumers, dealers, and commercial consignors. Its platform offers wholesale valuations derived from proprietary data, real-time market and pricing signals, battery-health intelligence, and VIN-level vehicle information, enabling most listings to receive market-rate offers within 24 hours. Since its 2024 launch, Plug has facilitated more than $60 million in used EV sales, with Q4 2025 volume alone surpassing its entire 2024 performance. Over 600 dealers and commercial sellers are active on the marketplace, attracted by faster, more accurate, and lower-risk transacting. The company plans to use new capital to expand supply pipelines, build additional technology for evaluating EV condition and capability, and scale its go-to-market efforts across wholesale and retail channels. Leadership additions in finance and marketing, along with new board appointments, are intended to support this next growth phase. Plug is headquartered in Santa Monica, California.

• Channing Street Copper Company

  Participated · Equity · Aug 2025

  Copper, led by CEO Sam Calisch, is a Berkeley, CA-based appliances company focused on improving electrification. Its first product is a battery-equipped induction stove that plugs into a regular 120V outlet. The stove enables cooks to upgrade from gas to induction without costly, complex electrical upgrades. The company raised $28M in funding. Copper intends to use the funds to continue to scale its technology platform into additional products. The round was led by Prelude Ventures and included participation from Building Ventures, Voyager, Collaborative Fund, Climactic, Designer Fund, Necessary Ventures, Leap Forward Ventures and Climate Capital. Channing St. Copper’s core product is an Energy Storage Enabled (ESE) induction stove that embeds a modest battery into the appliance to deliver high-performance induction cooking on a normal (120V) outlet, avoiding 240V wiring. The stove includes load-shifting capabilities designed to work with power utilities and to create a network of energy-storage-enabled appliances that plug into standard outlets. Embedding batteries into appliances is intended to eliminate permitting, wiring complexity, and labor costs associated with whole-home battery installs, and to lower the installed cost and installation barriers compared with systems like the Tesla Powerwall. The company positions the product as a fast, cheap pathway to retire gas ranges (the article cites 45 million gas ranges in use) and to reduce greenhouse gas emissions while improving public health and safety. Channing St. Copper plans to expand its offering toward whole-home electrification with a suite of ESE appliances including hot water heaters, mini-split/heat-pump air conditioners, and clothes dryers. The LinkedIn post congratulates Eric Wilhelm, Sam Calisch, and the Channing St. Copper team for the milestone.

No current team members are available.