The Venture Codex

Participated · Seed · Dec 2025

Marble builds generative-AI software tailored to tax and accounting firms, starting with a free online research tool that converts complex government tax data into concise, citation-backed answers. The company is expanding this capability into full AI agents able to reason through compliance scenarios and, over time, automate substantial portions of tax-return preparation while keeping human professionals in the loop. CEO Bhavin Shah and co-founder Geordie Konrad position Marble as a solution to the U.S. accounting sector’s labor shortage—about 340,000 accountants have left the field since 2019—within a $250 billion annual market that still relies heavily on manual processes. Security is emphasized; Marble obtained software-compliance certifications before launch and embeds data-protection practices across its organization. The team believes its tools will free accountants from repetitive tasks, enabling higher-margin advisory work and better client service. Backed by venture investors, Marble plans to integrate with existing accounting platforms while eventually offering end-to-end workflow automation.

Participated · Seed · Oct 2024

Tildei provides an AI-driven conversational marketing platform that enables marketers to create personalized, context-aware conversations and capture conversational data to drive outcomes. The platform's initial channel support focuses on Instagram and WhatsApp, with plans to add additional social channels within the year. Tildei says it will use its seed funding to further develop the platform's AI capabilities, expand channel support, and grow the team. The company emphasizes templates, quick replies, and channel-specific voice to help marketers scale conversational experiences. Tildei was founded in 2022 by Mark Ghermezian, Kevin Dutra, and Manisha Shah and was incubated out of MXV Capital. The company is based in New York City and launched from stealth alongside the funding announcement.

Participated · Equity · Sep 2024

Rep.ai, formerly ServiceBell, is rebranding and pivoting to create lifelike AI avatars that replicate a company’s sales representatives for 24/7 web interactions. The core product combines visual and voice replication with NLP trained on a company’s marketing materials and CRM data to enable real-time video and audio conversations. Founder Daniel Ternyak says the goal is to provide human-like availability without human constraints, positioning the product between impersonal chatbots and live sales staff. The startup plans to use its new funding to further develop its AI models and hire engineering talent. Rep.ai raised $7.5 million in funding to support this launch. The company will need to navigate ethical questions around employee likeness and consent as well as competition from large tech firms entering the AI agent space.

Participated · Seed · Jun 2024

Cuvama is a Value Selling Platform that guides salespeople to discover pain, sell outcomes, and deliver customer value. The product emphasizes ease of use and adoption during the sales cycle and was named highest performer with the highest user satisfaction and easiest to use in a recent G2 market study. Cuvama reports that customers using its approach win 2x more, achieve 43% larger deals, and close 30% faster. The company announced a $2.75M seed round to accelerate the platform’s generative AI capabilities. Investors in the round include Boost Capital (lead), m]x[v ventures (reinvesting after leading the March 2022 pre-seed), and Angel Invest. Cuvama positions itself to scale value selling beyond the top 20% of sellers by prioritizing usability and in-workflow engagement.

Participated · Series A · Feb 2024

Alembic Technologies has built a proprietary Causal AI platform that uses graph neural-network architecture and continuous-learning spiking neural networks to reveal how specific business actions drive outcomes. Its first application lets marketers connect every advertising dollar to resulting revenue, and the company plans to broaden the engine’s causal-inference analysis across other enterprise functions. Current Fortune 500 clients include Delta Air Lines, Mars, and founding customer NVIDIA. To support rising data volumes and demand, Alembic is deploying an NVIDIA NVL72 SuperPOD cluster at Equinix’s SV11 data center, powered by the NVIDIA AI Enterprise software suite. This high-performance computing backbone will enable real-time causal insights as customer datasets expand. The company is headquartered in San Francisco and is led by founder and CEO Tomás Puig.