Led · Equity · Oct 2025

Prezent.ai provides AI-enabled enterprise communication solutions tailored to Life Sciences customers. The company reported more than 150 Life Sciences customers, including 45 leading biopharma firms, and stated it has completed over 5 million deliverables across the sector. Prezent said it is in a scale-up phase and has grown ARR more than 200% year-over-year. The company launched Prezent Vivo, an offering that integrates purpose-built AI with expert services to deliver outcome-focused communications. Management frames Vivo as a strategic evolution to combine technology and domain expertise for regulated industries. The recent secondary investment by True Global Ventures is positioned to support the Vivo rollout and continued expansion.

Participated · Series B · Jun 2025

Runwise offers a vertically integrated smart control platform that automates building operations by combining proprietary wireless hardware with cloud-based software to optimize heating, cooling, electric, and water systems. The platform enables rapid deployment with a typical payback period of under five months and delivers measurable ROI and operational simplicity. Runwise is installed in more than 10,000 buildings across the U.S. and serves upwards of 1,000 customers, having saved customers over $100 million in energy costs to date. The company reports growth of over 30X since its seed round and says it is on track to nearly double again this year. Runwise plans to use new capital to support product innovation, expand its team, and enter new core markets. The company positions itself as a large private-sector reducer of carbon emissions and a leader in scaling smart infrastructure across real estate portfolios. Runwise provides building control services using intelligent, easy-to-install wireless hardware and software to optimize heating and other key building systems. Its platform is installed in over 4,000 buildings and serves almost 400 customers, including large owners and operators such as Related, Blackstone, Lefrak, Equity Residential, Fairstead, and Douglas Elliman. Runwise says its service controls key building systems in thousands of buildings across 10 states and delivered an average 20.1% reduction in fossil fuel emissions in retrofitted buildings last year. Energy savings typically pay for the system within a handful of months, and the company expects its growth this year will remove the equivalent of nearly 100,000 cars' worth of carbon emissions. Financially, Runwise has raised $19 million in a Series A and now has $24 million in total equity funding. The company plans to use the new capital to expand operations and deploy its technology more broadly across the U.S. to increase building efficiency, lower costs, and reduce fossil fuel emissions. Runwise develops wireless sensors and a controller computer that retrofit decades-old heating controls to reduce energy consumption and costs. Its sensors claim a 10-year battery life and the system takes charge of boilers and heating previously run by timers or static logic. The company says average install payback from reduced heating bills is around nine months. Runwise has been bootstrapping for a decade and its tech is already deployed in roughly 4,000 buildings serving more than 300,000 people. Customers include large real estate operators such as Related, Blackstone, Lefrak, Equity Residential, Douglas Elliman and Fairstead. The company plans to use new funding to enter a phase of hyper growth and pursue a vision of dramatically cutting building carbon and improving affordability at scale, targeting many more of the ~12 million U.S. buildings.

Led · Equity · Oct 2024

Facet operates a tech-driven platform that pairs members with CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ professionals to deliver personalized, unbiased financial planning without asset minimums via an affordable flat membership fee. The company is an SEC-registered investment adviser and reports serving over 14,000 households. Facet says it will use new capital to advance technology development, expand its suite of financial planning services, and improve the overall member experience. The firm emphasizes a subscription model that targets consumers often overlooked by traditional AUM-based advisors. Facet has received recognition from outlets including Real Simple, NerdWallet and TIME. Since its founding in 2016, it has raised approximately $210 million in funding to date. Facet Wealth offers tech-driven, subscription financial planning that pairs proprietary technology with CFP® professionals to deliver fiduciary, no‑asset‑minimum advice across all aspects of clients' financial lives. The company emphasizes a transparent subscription fee model intended to democratize access to financial planning and reach an estimated 40 million underserved American households. Its core product is integrated, personalized financial plans delivered 1:1 by CFPs and supported by a suite of technology and client‑experience tools. Facet plans to use the new funding to continue fueling rapid growth and to invest in its technology, product suite, and client experience. The firm has grown roughly 10x since 2020, serves more than 10,000 clients, and employs over 300 people across 42 states. Facet was founded in 2016 and has raised approximately $165 million in total funding since inception. Facet Wealth offers comprehensive financial planning services that pair clients with fiduciary financial-planner professionals to develop long-term relationships. The company also provides a Financial Wellness offering for employers seeking to give employees comprehensive financial guidance. Facet has pre-launch employer partnerships with ClassPass, MyVest and ChiliPiper. The business reports rapid product growth and intends to use new funding to accelerate market expansion. The company is headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland and is led by co-founder and CEO Anders Jones. Professionals serving clients are located across the United States. Facet Wealth provides comprehensive, transparent financial planning by pairing clients with dedicated CFP® Professionals supported by a proprietary technology platform. The company is an SEC-registered investment advisor and positions itself as a fiduciary serving mass-affluent households often underserved by traditional wealth managers. Facet delivers personalized, on-demand service intended to lower the cost and increase access to high-quality financial advice. The firm partners with incumbent financial services firms to identify and transition clients who do not fit those incumbents’ ideal profiles, enabling broader access and practice-level benefits for partners. Facet plans to use new capital to accelerate expansion, scale its proprietary technology platform, and pursue substantial industry partnerships. The company is based in Baltimore and serves clients nationwide.

Participated · Equity · Jan 2023

Komprise builds an unstructured data management platform that scans petabytes of file and object data to give enterprises visibility, searchable metadata, analytics and automated workflows to move data to the right storage tier. The platform tags and enriches files, preserves user access during migrations, and can apply retention, deletion and backup policies to support compliance and cost optimization. Komprise says it does not store customer data itself, only metadata stored in customer-specified locations. The company claims more than 300 customers across sectors such as healthcare, life sciences, public sector, higher education, financial services, media and manufacturing, and reports about 150 employees. Leadership says Komprise grew 306% from 2018 to 2021, though the CEO declined to clarify what that growth metric precisely represents. The company is prioritizing cloud data migration, lifecycle management and self-service, and is using external capital to expand go-to-market efforts and channel partnerships. Komprise provides an intelligent data management platform to manage the complete data lifecycle, including data analytics, replication, archive and effortless migration. The company is led by CEO Kumar K. Goswami and is based in Campbell, California. Komprise sells through partnerships with Western Digital, IBM, NetApp, EMC, Google Cloud Platform, Amazon Web Services and Azure. The business raised a $24M Series C to accelerate sales, marketing, product development and customer support. Total financing since inception reached $42M, reflecting prior financing before this round. The platform and partner ecosystem position Komprise to support enterprise data management and cloud integration initiatives. Komprise offers an intelligent data management platform designed for enterprises to manage, archive, replicate and protect data across both on-premises and cloud storage. The platform handles massive scale on-demand and reduces costs by requiring no hardware or storage agents. It serves verticals including financial services, genomics, healthcare, manufacturing, engineering, media and entertainment, and government. Komprise partners with cloud and storage providers such as Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Storage, Microsoft Azure, HPE, NetApp, EMC, Quantum, SpectraLogic and Scality. The company is led by CEO Kumar K. Goswami, President & COO Krishna Subramanian, and CTO Michael Peercy. Komprise intends to use recent funding to scale operations globally. Komprise provides an automated way to store, organize, and analyze data across on-premise servers and the cloud. The company aims to help organizations reduce storage costs and eliminate data silos by enabling expansion of on-premise capacity with cloud storage. Komprise says customers can save up to 70% of costs while increasing efficiency and notes that many businesses spend a quarter of their annual IT budgets on storage and data management. The startup is preparing a beta program for its service and plans to use new capital to hire more employees. The founding team—CEO Kumar Goswami, COO Krishna Subramanian, and CTO Michael Peercy—are on their third startup together and previously sold Kaviza to Citrix in 2011. Use cases highlighted include making data available where Dev/Ops teams need it so apps can run in the cloud while accessing on-premise data.

Participated · Series C · Mar 2020

Second Nature began as FilterEasy, a D2C subscription service to help homeowners remember to change air filters and has expanded into partnerships with HVAC companies, real estate agents, utilities and commercial properties. Its core products are recurring air filters and a new water‑filtration line launching with refrigerator filters; the company is positioning itself as a broader “home wellness” brand. The business reports hundreds of thousands of customers and around 150 employees, roughly two‑thirds of whom work in fulfillment and distribution across warehouses in Ardmore, OK and Wilson, NC. In response to COVID‑19 it has retooled manufacturing to produce masks for hospitals, with materials on hand to make ~800,000 masks and capacity to produce up to 2 million per month as materials allow. The company says demand has generally risen even as some commercial channels were hurt, and it plans to use new funding to expand, hire and advance first‑party products in R&D with an emphasis on product/process improvements and environmental benefits. FilterEasy is a subscription-based HVAC air filter fulfillment service launched in 2014 and based in Raleigh. It uses a proprietary web-based platform to guarantee correct-size HVAC air filters are delivered to a customer's doorstep so they may be replaced on a regular cadence. The service addresses the common problem of consumers forgetting to change air filters and aims to simplify that task so filters are changed "on time, every time." Proper filter replacement is presented as improving indoor air quality and human health, and the company cites potential reductions in monthly heating and cooling expenses of 5%–15%. FilterEasy announced a $6.9 million Series B1 financing led by One Better Ventures and joined by Lead Edge Capital. The company says the funding will be used for product innovation and development, expanding warehouse and fulfillment capabilities, and accelerating growth. FilterEasy is a Raleigh, North Carolina-based company offering a subscription-based HVAC air filter fulfillment service via a proprietary web-based platform. Co-founded by Thad Tarkington and Kevin Barry, the company focuses on residential HVAC filter subscriptions and fulfillment. Its filters are manufactured in the United States by AAF Flanders, the nation’s largest residential HVAC filter manufacturer and a supplier to NASA and U.S. hospital systems. In July 2017 FilterEasy raised $6.9M in a Series B led by Arsenal Venture Partners. The round brought the company’s total funding to $11.4M. The business operates as a direct-to-consumer subscription fulfillment service for residential HVAC filters. FilterEasy operates a subscription-based air-filter replacement service for homeowners, letting customers pick filter size and quality and choose how often replacements ship. The site offers over 40 filter sizes and three quality levels, and pricing is the same as retail but sold on a recurring basis. The company partners and co-locates with U.S. manufacturer Flanders to ship filters directly to customers at store cost. Since launching out of beta in March 2014, FilterEasy has signed up over 10,000 paying subscribers and is running at a revenue run rate of more than $1 million per year. The team of 13 plans to use new funding to expand marketing and is beta-testing a commercial program for businesses such as gyms and restaurants. FilterEasy was founded by former NCSU students Kevin Barry and Thad Tarkington and is based in Raleigh, N.C.; the founders participated in The Iron Yard accelerator in Greenville.