Participated · Series B · Jul 2026

Databento provides a unified API delivering real-time and historical market data across futures, options, and equities, owning the market data stack end-to-end and colocating servers at exchanges to capture data directly. The company emphasizes performance, reliability, and a developer-friendly experience, and reports more than doubled active API users in recent months. Financially, Databento reached profitability with 24 employees, grew revenue 6.65x year over year, and has maintained over 97% enterprise logo retention since inception. It plans to expand its infrastructure footprint to more than 20 data centers worldwide and has secured over 100 petabytes of additional storage capacity. Databento aims to broaden coverage across asset classes and geographies as part of its growth strategy.

Participated · Series A · Jul 2026

EdVisorly provides an admissions and enrollment automation platform called EddyAI that automates workflows such as transcript processing, transfer credit mapping, and GPA recalculations for colleges and universities. Institutions using the platform have reported reductions in manual processing of up to 85% and more than a 6x increase in admissions data processing productivity. EdVisorly partners with over 100 colleges, universities, and higher education systems, including the University of Connecticut, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, University of Massachusetts, and Carnegie Mellon University. The company plans to continue investing in product and engineering, expand partner success and implementation teams, and build onboarding and adoption resources to scale institutional deployments. EdVisorly was founded by Manny Smith, an Air Force veteran and officer who attended the U.S. Air Force Academy and UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business.

Participated · Series A · Jul 2026

Bidbus operates a live bidding marketplace where dealerships compete to buy used cars from private sellers, displaying bids in real time to drive up offers. The company emphasizes price discovery for trade-ins and claims its process yields offers roughly $2,000 to $3,000 higher than services like Carvana on average. Founded and based in Los Angeles, Bidbus has facilitated about 10,000 car sales and partnered with dealer groups such as Lithia Motors and Penske Automotive. The startup began life bootstrapped and has dealt with platform governance challenges, including banning a large dealer for low-balling. With a $15 million Series A led by Ibex Investors and participation from several venture firms and angels, Bidbus plans to scale beyond its initial California and Texas markets. The business model captures part of the spread between online seller pricing and dealer payouts while aiming to grow dealer participation and consumer awareness through a social, stock-trading-like bidding experience.

Participated · Series A · Jul 2026

KredosAi offers an intelligent engagement platform that applies behavioral science and AI to determine the right message, channel, and timing to improve payment outcomes and preserve customer relationships. The company reports processing more than 200 million customer interactions over the past two years and growing revenue more than 6x in that period. Across its enterprise portfolio it has demonstrated an 11.5% reduction in write-off rates, a 13.6% increase in customer lifetime value, and claims over $50 million in annual bottom-line benefit for some large enterprises. KredosAi is a FICO partner, serves Fortune 50 clients and other enterprise customers, and is SOC 2 Type II certified with multilingual support. Future plans funded by the Series A include expanding into financial services and auto lending, building a multi-agent framework with voice agent support, and scaling the team.

Participated · Seed · May 2026

CLEATUS develops an agent-based AI platform that automates the find-bid-win workflow for government procurement, scanning opportunities, analyzing regulations, checking eligibility, and drafting proposal drafts aligned with evaluation criteria. The startup targets the roughly $2.7 trillion annual market of federal, state and local government contracting by making public tenders more accessible to SMEs. CLEATUS has assisted over 500 SMEs in winning public contracts so far. The company plans to use new funding to bolster its AI infrastructure, broaden its data sources, and build a full procurement operating system to manage end-to-end processes. Founders include Yiğit Güney, Mithat Çakmak and Erik Sherman. The articles did not disclose revenue or valuation information.