Participated · Series A · Feb 2024

VAPAR builds cloud-hosted AI software that reviews stormwater and sewer pipe inspections to streamline and automate pipe-infrastructure management. The platform hosts utilities' inspection data to make decision-making quicker, easier, and more objective. The company is on a mission to eliminate failures in underground infrastructure and ensure infrastructure investment meets community needs. VAPAR serves water authorities in the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand. Founded in 2018 by Amanda Siqueira and Michelle Aguilar and based in Sydney, Australia, the company raised $5.0M in a Series A in January 2024. The funds will be used to fuel the company's expansion into the US market.

Participated · Seed · Oct 2022

TuMeke provides a computer vision platform that automatically assesses workplace musculoskeletal injury risk for manufacturing facilities. The software is packaged as a smartphone app that allows safety staff to take a video and reduce the identified risk of a job in minutes, without purchasing equipment, cameras, or exoskeletons. The company is led by Zach Noland, Riley Noland, and Diwakar Ganesan and serves customers including AF Group, Chemtrade Logistics, and Sentry Insurance. TuMeke raised a $10M Series A led by Intel Capital. It intends to use the funds to expand and scale its team of engineers, ergonomists, and academics and to launch new features to enhance EHS teams' capabilities and workplace safety. The company's stated mission is to eliminate workplace musculoskeletal injuries through its ergonomic risk assessment platform. TuMeke Ergonomics offers a computer-vision platform that records tasks and automatically identifies noteworthy postures, movement frequency, and duration to assess injury risk. The system delivers automatic recommendations on which parts of a job to prioritize and what adjustments to consider, including estimates of risk-reduction impact. Its software is already extensively used by many manufacturers and workers’ compensation insurance firms. The company is led by Zach Noland, Dr. Alan Hedge, Riley Noland and Diwakar Ganesan. TuMeke intends to use new funding to enhance its models to account for more variables in injury-risk identification and to expand the sophistication of its recommendations. The company is based in San Mateo, California.