Participated · Seed · Aug 2026

Synthefy develops foundation models specifically for structured numerical data — data types such as tables, time series, transactions, sensor readings, and other numeric signals. Its flagship open-source model, Nori, is available under an Apache 2.0 license and the company says Nori ranks first across 130 public regression benchmarks; Synthefy reported almost 600K Nori model downloads and about 5,000 Python installations in the weeks after launch. The platform is designed for enterprise deployment with options including an open model, managed API, enterprise platform, and on-premise deployments integrated with AWS, Databricks, Snowflake, and Google Cloud. Synthefy positions its models as smaller, purpose-built architectures that require less compute and energy than large general-purpose language models. Targeted use cases cited include demand forecasting, pricing optimization, fraud and risk detection, infrastructure failure prediction, and operational improvements across retail, financial services, telecommunications, infrastructure, healthcare, and defense. The company was founded in 2023 and the team includes former engineers and researchers from Meta, Nvidia, Adobe, Uber, and top academic institutions.

Participated · Seed · Aug 2026

Riven Systems was founded to rethink industrial chemistry design using density functional theory (DFT), AI, and autonomous experimentation to design highly selective ligands for separations in critical minerals processing. The team includes co-founders Orion Archer Cohen and Kurt (Chip) Breitenkamp and has built an autonomous lab in New York City. Riven says it is hiring across computational, experimental, and engineering sciences to grow its founding team. Financially, the company announced a $7.9 million financing led by Cerberus Ventures, participation from several VC firms, and a DOE Genesis Mission grant. New System Ventures incubated the company and acted as an early backer through its partners. Riven positions itself to address bottlenecks in critical minerals supply chains by accelerating development and deployment of chemistry solutions.

Participated · Series A · Feb 2026

Profitmind is a Pittsburgh-based software company that builds an AI decision-intelligence platform for retail merchandising, planning and marketing teams. Its native agentic AI architecture fuses a retailer’s internal data, competitive signals and strategic goals to produce a ranked list of actions such as price changes, promotion tweaks, inventory reallocations and assortment shifts, each tied to projected sales, profit and working-capital impact. The system exports approved actions to execution tools and feeds actual results back into the model, continuously improving recommendations. Retailers using Profitmind span apparel, footwear, auto parts and home goods categories and range from $20 million to $100 billion in revenue across three continents. Reported outcomes include profit improvements of more than 250 basis points and hundreds of hours saved per month in manual data work. Recent partnerships with Microsoft (to list on Azure Marketplace) and Accenture aim to streamline enterprise adoption and support large-scale retail transformations. The newly raised capital will be directed toward global expansion, product enhancement and team growth.

Participated · Seed · Nov 2025

Parallax Worlds offers a vertically integrated platform that converts simple video captures—such as an iPhone walkthrough—into accurate, interactive 3D digital twins of factory and warehouse environments. Robotics teams can then run their own control software inside these twins, executing thousands of edge-case simulations at cloud scale to evaluate reliability, safety, cost, and ROI before any hardware touches the floor. The system integrates with industry engines like NVIDIA Omniverse, Unreal, and Unity, while adding robotics-specific behaviors and AI-assisted scenario generation. Early customers span manufacturing, construction, and consumer-service robotics, including Orangewood Labs, BotBuilt, and Rainier Labs. Led by CEO Tanmay Agarwal and CTO Aumkar Renavikar, the founding team combines Stanford and UIUC robotics research credentials with hands-on industrial automation experience. With fresh funding, the company plans to expand into large-scale enterprise manufacturing, continue product R&D, and grow headcount and go-to-market efforts. Parallax Worlds is headquartered in San Francisco and aims to shorten robot deployment cycles from years of on-site trials to weeks of virtual iteration. To date, it has raised $4.9 million across its pre-seed and seed financings.

Participated · Series B · Oct 2024

Vizit offers a patented Visual AI platform built around proprietary Audience "Lenses" that interpret, measure, and predict consumer visual preferences to optimize visual content. Its technology uses synthetic human preferences so creatives and ecommerce teams can deliver personalized, high-converting visuals at scale. Customers include Fortune 500 brands such as Mars, Heineken, and Ghirardelli, which reported outcomes including a 30% increase in conversions and a 10% lift in Amazon sales after deploying Vizit. Vizit positions its product as 'Intuitive AI' that goes beyond generative models by simulating audience reactions and improving digital-shelf performance. The company announced a $25 million Series B to accelerate platform expansion and unlock new markets. Vizit is headquartered in Boston. Vizit builds an AI-powered image analytics platform called the Visual Brand Performance Platform that analyzes organic consumer interactions with commercial imagery to generate predictive models called Vizit Audience Lenses. The platform scores and predicts which images and design elements will capture target audiences’ attention, improve merchandising on digital shelves, and drive ecommerce conversion. Vizit serves enterprise customers in 10 countries across industries, including several of the top 10 food and beverage companies, the largest motorcycle manufacturer, and the largest cosmetics and beauty company. Mars reports that higher Vizit Scores have led to up to 30% more units sold across major retailers. Vizit announced a $10M Series A to fuel growth led by Infinity Ventures and Brand Foundry Ventures, with participation from eGateway Capital, Lakefront Partners, Lubar & Co and others. The company says the funding will be used to help ecommerce, marketing, and creative teams measure, manage, and optimize image effectiveness and to expand its customer footprint.