Participated · Series A · May 2026

Status AI builds a social platform where users create personas and step into user-generated worlds, playing characters in multiplayer or single-player modes. The app uses AI to enable immersive, dynamic interactions and role-play at scale. Founders Fai Nur, Amit Bhatnagar, and Pritesh Kadiwala launched the product out of stealth last year. Status reports more than 13 million worlds created and over 5 million character profiles, with early users skewing toward young women. The company is fielding interest from studios and streamers as it positions the product as a new form of interactive entertainment. The new funding is intended to help scale the platform.

Participated · Seed · Feb 2026

Giant operates an interactive storytelling platform that lets kids become cartoon characters, star in personalized shows, and build their own digital worlds. The product offers three adaptive experiences—Create, Watch, and Talk—allowing children to design episodes, appear in customized content using their own name and voice, and hold conversations with responsive characters. Led by CEO John Kobs, the San Francisco-based company positions its technology as a way to shift screen time from passive consumption to active engagement. While no user or revenue metrics were disclosed, Giant recently secured outside capital to accelerate development. The company plans to direct the new funds toward scaling operations and expanding its product features. Future initiatives are expected to deepen personalization and broaden the platform’s creative toolkit for young users.

Participated · Seed · Jan 2026

Cashmere operates a proprietary OmniPub infrastructure that converts premium content into structured, rights-cleared datasets usable by AI systems. Its platform offers token-level access control, automated rights management, granular usage tracking, and revenue settlement, enabling publishers to monetize their intellectual property while maintaining protection. For AI companies, Cashmere supplies scarce, authoritative material that boosts model quality and differentiation beyond ordinary web-crawled data. The company has inked content partnerships with John Wiley & Sons and Harvard Business Publishing and already serves AI clients such as Perplexity. NAVER’s venture arm plans to collaborate with Cashmere, potentially integrating the platform into NAVER’s search and content products. Strengthened by a newly announced $5 million seed round, Cashmere aims to establish itself as the industry standard for licensing premium data to the AI ecosystem.

Participated · Series A · Nov 2025

Founded in 2021 in Cincinnati, Ohio, Vurvey Labs has developed an agentic AI suite that conducts interviews with real consumers to generate panels on trends. These consumer panels are sold to large brands to support their business decision-making. The company’s technology automates interviewer-like interactions to gather insights from real people. The article notes Vurvey as a provider of trend panels to major brands but does not disclose revenue, user counts, or other operating metrics. The recent investment from Havas was announced at Cannes Lions and signals industry interest in scaling the company’s commercial reach.

Participated · Series A · May 2025

Affiniti is building an AI CFO platform that streamlines financial operations for traditionally underserved small and medium-sized businesses. Its system combines expense management, spend controls, credit cards, and predictive analytics into a single operating system, giving operators real-time clarity and control over cash flow. The company distributes these services through co-branded partnerships with industry trade associations, enabling it to reach Main Street businesses at scale. Affiniti’s AI capabilities deliver industry-specific financial guidance, helping customers reduce time spent on back-office tasks and focus on growth. Recent financing will fund continued product development and platform expansion across America’s backbone industries. Although no revenue or user metrics were disclosed, the company positions itself as a modern financial infrastructure provider for nearly all of the nation’s SMBs.