• Faye

  Participated · Series C · Aug 2026

  Launched in 2022, Faye offers an award-winning app and platform that lets travelers purchase coverage quickly, file claims digitally, and receive near-instant reimbursements to mobile wallets while in-trip. Its product suite includes distribution platforms for travel agencies, OTAs and airlines, AI-first policy and claims management, telemedicine, eSIM connectivity, lounge access and real-time concierge assistance. The company says it has become the fastest-growing and highest-rated travel insurance provider in the U.S., has earned more than 20 industry awards, and doubled revenue over the past year. Faye is investing heavily in AI to make underwriting, traveler assistance and claims faster and more autonomous, targeting that AI will resolve over half of claims autonomously by year-end. It plans geographic expansion and deeper partnerships with travel distributors, and will expand its travel fintech features through Faye Wallet to improve in-trip money management and payouts. The company has raised $100M in total funding following the Series C and recently established a U.S. headquarters in Richmond, Virginia.

• Quantum Art

  Participated · Series A · Dec 2025

  Quantum Art was spun out of Prof. Roee Ozeri's group at the Weizmann Institute of Science and is led by CEO and co-founder Dr. Tal David, CTO Dr. Amit Ben Kish and CSO Prof. Roee Ozeri. The company focuses on trapped-ion quantum computing and has developed proprietary techniques for multi-qubit gates, scalable modular architectures, and robust quantum error correction. It is advancing a multi-core roadmap including Perspective, a planned 1,000-qubit system aimed at commercial-scale deployment. Quantum Art is transitioning toward commercialization with plans for a Quantum-as-a-Service (QaaS) platform that lets customers move from algorithm development and co-design to execution on its hardware. The company said it is expanding internationally and building partnerships to support early customer adoption while hiring to support development and business growth.

• Guardz

  Participated · Series B · Jun 2025

  Guardz offers an AI-native, unified cybersecurity platform and 24/7 Managed Detection and Response (MDR) purpose-built for Managed Service Providers (MSPs) to protect SMBs across identities, email, endpoints, cloud, and data. The platform combines AI-automated detection and response with expert threat hunting and an integrated SentinelOne EDR, plus Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace integrations to monitor user behavior and prevent account takeover. Since launching from stealth in early 2023, Guardz has onboarded hundreds of MSP partners and is securing thousands of businesses across the globe. With this funding, the company plans to scale go-to-market efforts, expand in the U.S., grow R&D, and develop a next-generation platform with natively built controls to increase automation, risk prevention, and cyber compliance and insurance capabilities. The company emphasizes reducing manual effort for MSPs while enabling them to detect threats faster and respond more accurately. Guardz builds an AI-driven, all-in-one cybersecurity and cyber insurance platform tailored for SMBs and delivered as a managed service. The platform automates detection, remediation and reporting, and enables MSPs to run customized breach simulations and employee training. Guardz pivoted from selling directly to SMBs to working through managed service providers (MSPs), letting MSPs brand offerings “powered by Guardz.” It is selling primarily into the U.S., U.K. and Australia and currently works with about 200 MSPs that serve some 3,000 SMBs and roughly 36,000 seats. Security is the main revenue driver, with cyber insurance offered as an add-on. The company plans to use the new funding to hire additional engineering talent and continue expanding its toolset to keep pace with increasingly sophisticated attacker techniques. Guardz positions itself against competitors including CyberSmart, CrowdStrike and Check Point in a large SMB market served by an estimated 150,000 MSPs globally. Guardz offers a two-part product: a SaaS-based set of low-code security tools for cloud services and white-label cyber insurance sold alongside those tools. The security tools are designed to be implemented without specialized security or advanced technical expertise and to address perimeter and cloud-data attacks driven by Attack‑as‑a‑Service. The company says it launched initially in the U.S. and in a closed beta has acquired 300 customers, with target customers of 10–250 employees and average current cohort size of 30–40 employees. Pricing plans start at $9 per user per month. Guardz’s founders, Dor Eisner (CEO) and Alon Lavi (CTO), bring decades of security experience including intelligence work in Israel’s defense forces and prior enterprise security work (Eisner previously researched the Dark Web at Rapid7). Financially, Guardz emerged from stealth with a $10 million seed financing; the company is not disclosing valuation and is partnering with third-party insurers rather than building its own insurance products.

• WEKA

  Participated · Series E · May 2024

  Weka is a Campbell, CA-based AI-native data platform offering a cloud- and AI-native architecture deployable on-premises, in the cloud, and at the edge. Its platform transforms legacy data silos into dynamic data pipelines to accelerate GPU workloads, AI model training and inference, and other performance-intensive workloads. Weka's technology is designed to improve efficiency, reduce energy consumption, and lower associated carbon emissions. Over 300 of the world’s largest AI and GPU deployments run on the WEKA Data Platform. The company intends to use the new funding to increase cash reserves, scale rapidly to meet global demand for AI-native data infrastructure, and expand investments in developing its data platform software. The financing will also provide liquidity to Weka employees. Weka is a software-based data management provider whose WEKA Data Platform is purpose-built for the cloud and AI era. The platform is cloud-native and optimized to handle complex data challenges, delivering performance improvements on-premises, in the cloud, at the edge, and in hybrid and multicloud environments. Weka emphasizes sustainability and seamless data portability as part of its offering. The company operates in over 20 countries and is led by CEO Liran Zvibel. Weka plans to expand platform features and cloud integrations and to support new use cases while accelerating delivery of solutions to customers. The company intends to use recent funding to drive product development, global expansion, and to scale cloud, customer success, sales, marketing, operations, and human resources teams, and to reach profitability. WEKA (WekaIO) offers a unified, software-defined distributed file/object data platform optimized for NVMe-flash and the hybrid cloud to support AI/ML, life sciences research and high-performance computing. Its solutions target GPU-accelerated, data-intensive workloads and are deployed by eight of the Fortune 50. The company reported strong FY21 traction with greater than 2x ARR growth, over 125% growth in new customers, and deployments in 18 new countries, and was recognized by Gartner as a Magic Quadrant Visionary. Momentum continued into 1QFY22, when WEKA said it achieved its 1QFY22 revenue target in the first 14 days of the quarter. WEKA said it will use the new proceeds to accelerate go-to-market activities, operations, and engineering and to improve integration with its ecosystem. WekaIO’s flagship product, WekaIO Matrix, is an NVMe-optimized, POSIX-compliant parallel file system that targets AI, machine learning, high-velocity analytics and HPC workloads. Matrix supports multiprotocol access (NFS, SMB), integrates object storage for economics at scale, and offers features such as snapshots, cloud backup and disaster recovery. The software can be delivered on pre-engineered solutions with HPE, Supermicro and Western Digital, installed on industry-standard Intel x86 servers, or used on the AWS Cloud; the company sells via a capacity-based pricing model. WekaIO highlights industry benchmark performance (SPEC SFS 2014 and VI4IO rankings) and says Matrix delivers very low latency and high throughput for GPU- and I/O‑heavy workloads. The company cites awards and industry recognition and says customers have validated the product in production environments. WekaIO plans to use new capital to accelerate its market trajectory, expand internationally, and increase investments in engineering, sales and marketing. Weka.IO develops software-defined storage (SDS) technology that simplifies deployment of enterprise and cloud storage. Its patent-pending technology is designed to scale storage to hundreds of petabytes, deliver tens of millions of IOPs and achieve sub-millisecond latency at cloud economics. The company positions its product to replace legacy storage systems and address a large addressable market. Weka.IO plans to use new funding to accelerate its go-to-market strategy and expand sales and marketing in the U.S. It also intends to continue building engineering teams in Tel Aviv and San Jose and to grow customer support and business teams across multiple geographies. The company was founded in 2013.

• Magnus Metal

  Participated · Series B · Apr 2024

  Magnus Metal has developed a "digital casting" process that slices designs into layers and creates ceramic forms 4–20 mm thick into which molten metal is dripped and built up layer by layer. Each new layer melts the previous one to bond material and allow impurities to float out, yielding parts the company says have fewer defects and are 10%–20% stronger than traditionally cast parts. The system is positioned as faster than 3D printing, able to use customer-specified materials, and its ceramic bases can be reused for a finite number of parts. Magnus says the approach removes the need for expensive tooling used in sand casting, making lower-volume, complex parts more cost-effective while acknowledging simple parts will still favor sand casting. The company plans to sell both machines and proprietary ceramic feedstock, targeting $500,000 to $1 million of recurring revenue per machine. Magnus Metal has raised a $74 million Series B to support industrialization this year and to begin beta testing at the start of next year.

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