• Resquared

  Led · Seed · Jul 2024

  Resquared offers a suite of AI-powered email and social media messaging tools built on a proprietary local-business data set of over 11 million SMBs in the U.S. and Canada. The platform automates personalized outreach and provides analytics and playbooks to improve campaign performance, claiming open rates double the industry average and client-reported increases up to 30% in monthly sales. Resquared serves thousands of sales reps and hundreds of sales organizations across industries like retail landlords, marketing agencies, commercial services, insurance, and small-business lending. The product combines proprietary machine-learning features with OpenAI APIs and includes one-on-one onboarding and customized pricing (example: roughly $1,000/month for a five-rep team). The company is fully remote with team members distributed across hubs such as New York, Southern California, Florida, and founders based in Philadelphia and Tampa. Resquared plans to use new funding to expand its sales and engineering teams and execute an ambitious product roadmap to further tailor outreach to local businesses.

• Parabola

  Participated · Series B · Jun 2023

  Parabola provides a no-code, collaborative data tool that applies AI to automate workflows for nontechnical users, enabling them to standardize documents, extract invoice fields, categorize product lists and analyze Amazon keyword rankings. The platform ingests inputs like PDFs, text logs, images and emails to normalize, enrich and structure data for operational teams without heavy engineering support. Parabola positions itself as an operations-owned solution for fast-changing processes that are difficult for engineers to continuously code. The company says it serves just over 500 brands across e-commerce, retail, consumer packaged goods and shipping/logistics. Parabola currently has about 30 employees and plans to expand headcount to 60 by the end of the year. Management intends to use new capital for hiring and product R&D. Parabola provides a drag-and-drop canvas and a library of pre-built steps to automate repetitive data tasks in Excel and Google Sheets for nontechnical users. The company has added a Shopify connector as it focuses on serving e-commerce vendors experiencing increased online demand during the COVID-19 pandemic. Parabola has roughly 20 employees and is actively hiring to grow its team. Founder and CEO Alex Yaseen says the product brings programming-like automation to users who lack coding skills. The company plans to use the new funding to further refine product and design to make the platform easier and more approachable for less technical users. Usage on the platform has increased in recent months as retailers move online or expand their online operations. Parabola offers a drag-and-drop platform that lets teams pull live data from anywhere, transform it, and push the results into third-party tools, files, or trigger actions like emails or texts. The interface is designed to let non-technical staff automate processes, reducing burdens on engineering teams. Parabola's customers include enterprise SaaS, e-commerce, and retail companies. The company emphasizes workflow automation and integrations to streamline data-driven tasks. Management plans to use new funding to scale product development and expand sales efforts. Parabola is based in San Francisco, CA and was co-founded by CEO Alex Yaseen and Mike Lang.

• Korbit Technologies

  Participated · Series A · May 2023

  Korbit Technologies Inc. is a Montreal-based AI company focused on transforming workforce enablement through a generative AI platform that integrates directly into day-to-day workflows. Its flagship product, the AI Mentor for Software Engineering, automatically reviews code, detects and assigns issues, explains fixes, and delivers live tutorials and coding exercises tailored to each engineer and environment. The system also gives managers dashboards for tracking issue resolution, skill development, and project planning. Positioned as a perpetual personal coach, the mentor aims to raise code quality, increase productivity, and relieve senior engineers of routine review tasks. Over the past two years, Korbit’s earlier learning application has upskilled more than 20,000 students and professionals, including teams at some of the world’s largest tech companies. The company will use newly secured capital to accelerate platform development and broaden the beta launch of the AI Mentor. Financially, Korbit has just closed an $11.3 million Series A to fund these growth initiatives.

• Uplinq

  Participated · Seed · Dec 2022

  Uplinq provides AI-driven bookkeeping and tax solutions that automate transaction categorization, reconciliation, predictive insights, and tax compliance for SMBs. Its platform uses intelligent AI agents to reduce manual intervention and deliver real-time financial insights. Uplinq serves nearly 1,000 small and mid-sized businesses across the U.S. and customers report up to an 80% reduction in manual data entry. The company grew 3x in 2024 and integrates with existing financial systems to ensure compliance and forecasting. Uplinq plans to use new funding to accelerate growth, enhance AI capabilities, scale customer acquisition, strengthen infrastructure, and expand engineering, go-to-market, and customer success teams. Founded in 2020, the company operates with a hybrid HQ in Phoenix and remote talent across the U.S. Uplinq provides advanced bookkeeping solutions driven by data automation and machine learning. Led by CEO Alex Glenn, the company offers monthly subscriptions with pricing tailored to business needs across industries including technology, construction, healthcare and real estate. The platform integrates with over 10,000 financial institutions and with tools such as QuickBooks, ADP and BambooHR, plus most payroll, accounting, point-of-sale and HR vendors. Uplinq positions itself in a vastly underserved bookkeeping fintech market and recently reinforced its financial position through seed financings. The company plans to use new funds to scale marketing efficiency, sales, engineering and customer delivery to support demand for its solution.

• Sage

  Participated · Seed · Jul 2022

  Sage builds a fully integrated care platform that pairs software with AI-powered life-safety hardware to support senior living and skilled nursing operations. Its product suite includes Sage Core, Sage Detect, and Tasking, an EHR-integrated workflow, and the company is rolling out a Hardware-as-a-Service model to remove large upfront capital barriers for operators. Sage reports that Sage-powered communities have seen a $275 increase in NOI per resident per month, a 50% reduction in falls, and faster response times compared to the industry. The HaaS approach makes future upgrades part of an ongoing partnership, aligning Sage’s recurring revenue with long-term support and technology refreshes. Sage plans to use recent equity and debt financing to scale this model and expand deployment across communities, enabling faster transitions from signed agreement to full implementation.

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