The Venture Codex

Participated · Seed · Feb 2026

Ando is developing what it calls the world’s first AI infrastructure for the global hourly workforce, tackling the persistent mismatch between staffing levels and real-time demand. Its cloud platform ingests location-level data to forecast demand and auto-generate shift schedules that factor in each worker’s availability, preferences, and constraints. In pilots with enterprise customers over the past year, Ando’s models have achieved more than 90% daily demand-forecast accuracy and driven 100% conversion from presentation to pilot to paid contracts with full customer retention. Some client locations have reported $60,000–$80,000 in incremental revenue attributed in part to better staffing alignment. The company’s roadmap includes pushing forecasting granularity to 15-minute intervals to further optimize labor allocation. Fresh seed capital will fund product expansion and broader enterprise deployments. Prior to the seed raise, Ando had been operating with undisclosed pre-seed or founder capital; no other institutional rounds are mentioned.

Participated · Seed · Jun 2025

Typedef offers a purpose-built, inference-first AI data infrastructure that manages LLM-powered pipelines, unstructured data processing, and batch AI workloads with minimal operational overhead. The serverless platform exposes a developer-friendly, open-source client library that connects to data sources and handles token limits, context windows, chunking, and other inference complexities through familiar APIs and relational models. Typedef positions itself to move enterprise AI projects from prototype to production faster by enabling deterministic, scalable workflows on top of non-deterministic LLMs and supporting agentic and OLAP-enhanced workloads. The company emphasizes rapid, iterative prompt and pipeline experimentation to identify production-ready workloads and then scale them reliably. Customer testimony from Matic highlights faster deployment of semantic extraction pipelines, cost reductions, and lower E&O risk. Typedef emerged from stealth concurrent with a $5.5M seed raise and is led by co-founders Kostas Pardalis and Yoni Michael, the latter having sold his prior company Coolan to Salesforce in 2016.

Participated · Series C · May 2025

Sanity offers a content operating system (COS) that enables businesses to manage, optimize, and scale content workflows across web, product data, media, IoT, and other applications. Its product suite includes Sanity Studio, Content Lake, App SDK, Compute + AI, recent additions like Canvas (an AI writing tool), and a Media Library. The company targets engineering teams seeking to unify and automate content across business applications. Sanity was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in San Francisco and Oslo, serving customers such as Burger King, Expedia, Riot Games, and Morning Brew. The company is focused on expanding its platform globally and developing AI-powered features, including agentic automation and support for developer ecosystems. It is also investing in community growth, including a transition from Slack to Discord and staging its inaugural developer conference. Sanity is a platform for structured content with an API-first approach, an open-source editor, and a focus on developer experience. The product lets teams treat content as data so it can be programmed, shaped, and authored from a single source of truth and delivered across channels. Sanity serves thousands of global brands including Burger King, AT&T, Puma, Unilever, National Geographic, and Condé Nast. Since its launch in 2017 the company has emphasized customizability for complex projects and integration with modern developer stacks. Recently Sanity launched Sanity Connect for Shopify to operate with Shopify’s Hydrogen and Oxygen headless commerce framework, enabling immersive product stories, rich media, embedded product content, 1-click ordering, and cross-channel promotions. The company is dual-headquartered in San Francisco and Oslo and is backed by investors such as ICONIQ Growth, Threshold Ventures, Lead Edge Capital, Heavybit, Alliance Venture, Monochrome Capital, and notable angel investors. Sanity builds a headless content platform that lets companies store and repurpose content and data as a flexible, programmatic "content lake" for use across multiple endpoints. The product is developer-oriented and aims to break down silos between marketing, product and engineering teams by making content usable across channels. Customers named in the article include National Geographic, Puma, InVision, Datastax and Brex. Sanity reports almost 100,000 developers, marketers, content creators and product professionals using the platform, with 30,000 active users (roughly double the active users since October). The company is split between San Francisco and Oslo, with CEO and co-founder Magnus Hillestad based in San Francisco. The team is exploring further extensibility such as enabling translations between audio and printed content and expanding into other media types. Sanity provides a developer-focused content platform and set of tools for structuring, creating, managing and delivering dynamic content across multiple digital surfaces. Its SaaS product treats content as data and gives developers APIs and systems to control how content is created, input and presented. The company targets organizations that need regularly updated, non-static digital experiences, spanning e-commerce front ends, publishing, interactive configurators and specialized workflows like emergency medical training materials. Sanity reports about 25,000 customers, including Conde Nast, National Geographic, Sonos, Brex, Figma, Cloudflare, Mux, MIT and Nike. The product originated at an Oslo agency and was spun out by founders Even Westvang, Magnus Hillestad, Oyvind Rostad and Simen Svale Skogsrud; part of the team relocated to the Bay Area to integrate more deeply with the tech ecosystem. The company is using recent funding to fuel its growth and expand its developer-focused platform.

Participated · Seed · Jun 2023

Masthead Data offers a data observability platform that monitors data pipelines without requiring access to client data, relying solely on logs and metadata to detect and alert on anomalies in Google Cloud in real time. The platform surfaces data anomalies, pipeline anomalies and schema changes without integrating with ETL, and integrates with Looker so clients can see downstream impacts on business operations. Installation is described as simple, and the product is already used by organizations in ecommerce, finance and other technology domains. Masthead is currently available for Google Cloud and plans to roll out support for other providers in the coming months. Financially, the company raised $1.3M in funding to expand operations and broaden its business reach. Masthead was founded in March 2022 by Yuliia Tkachova and Sergey Tkachov.

Participated · Seed · Nov 2022

Kosli provides an automated governance platform that records software change events, automates controls and audits, and offers provable, append-only audit records for regulated industries. The company integrates with existing CI/CD and runtime toolchains and also offers professional services for controls engineering. Today Kosli launched Kosli Enterprise with features for large user bases, change-management automation, and audit-evidence generation targeted at financial services. Since its launch in 2019, Kosli has worked with banks and other regulated customers to modernize software delivery governance. The product emphasizes security and compliance by allowing customers to choose what data they push to Kosli and by producing trusted, auditable records. Kosli plans to use new funding to accelerate adoption among large banking clients, grow its team, and invest in differentiated technology to further automate the software delivery control plane. Kosli provides tooling that lets developers, DevOps engineers, platform engineers and CTOs record, connect and search for changes across their entire value stream. The product surfaces specific changes quickly so teams can avoid hours of log searching and it creates an automated trail of compliance evidence for regulated sectors. Kosli is available from the command line as well as a web-based GUI, a noted feature for developer workflows. The company plans to use new funding to accelerate growth and expand operations and business reach. Alongside the funding announcement Kosli launched a free tier that broadens use cases and lets developers use basic commands to understand how evolving software systems are changing. CEO Mike Long leads the company from Oslo, Norway.