• Datavations

  Participated · Series A · Jul 2025

  Datavations, founded in 2020 by Philip Odelfelt and Jacob Lucas, builds AI- and machine-learning-powered intelligence for the building materials and home improvement sectors. Its product suite offers assortment, pricing, and inventory optimization tools to help manufacturers and retailers improve retail execution. The company is New York–based and targets data-driven decision-making for manufacturers selling through retail channels. Datavations will use new funding to scale its team, advance product development, expand across North America, and strengthen client relationships. Financially, the company has raised $17.0M in this Series A, bringing total funding to $27.0M to date. Datavations builds the Commerce Alert Hub, a market intelligence platform that uses proprietary datasets, data analytics, and machine learning to help consumer durables manufacturers make informed decisions. The platform targets manufacturers seeking to gain and maintain market share and boost margins. Customers named in the article include Saint Gobain, Masco, Spectrum Brands, Bosch, and Masonite. The company is led by CEO Philip Odelfelt and recently added JR Becko as Chief Revenue Officer to lead growth initiatives. Datavations plans to use the new capital to further develop Commerce Alert Hub functionality and to execute its go-to-market strategy through sales and marketing efforts.

• Grifin

  Participated · Series A · Jun 2025

  Grifin offers an app that automatically invests in brands where users shop, originally branded as “Stock Where You Shop” and evolved in 2024 to an adaptive model that automatically invests $1 from transactions into related stocks. Users can manually adjust investment amounts and the company supplements investing with daily educational content to build financial literacy. Grifin reports roughly 500,000 registered users, about 1 million total downloads, and 100,000 monthly active users; its internal data showed a 234% increase in spending at Walmart six months after users bought the stock. The company plans to expand its educational offerings, build an AI chatbot to summarize platform articles and answer account questions, and introduce family plans and potential budgeting tools. Grifin was founded in 2017 by Aaron Froug, Bo Starr, and Robin Froug and has raised around $22 million to date. The app’s product and growth metrics suggest its approach resonates with both older and younger women, and the company is investing in product, software engineering, and UX to support expansion.

• Canopy Connect

  Led · Series A · Oct 2023

  Canopy Connect offers a unified platform and API to collect, verify, and monitor insurance information by connecting directly to carriers. Its API verifies insurance data in seconds and can sync verified information to comparative raters, CRMs, or agency management systems. The service leverages consumer consent-driven data sharing technology and secure cloud infrastructure to improve client experience and streamline workflows. More than 3,000 insurance agencies use Canopy Connect’s API. The company plans to use new funding to accelerate growth with insurance agencies, insurance carriers, lenders, and to open new markets. Canopy Connect is led by CEO and founder Tolga Tezel and is based in Beaverton, Oregon.

• Pontoro

  Participated · Seed · Sep 2023

  Pontoro, founded in late 2018 and based in Mountain View, Calif., is creating a patented, structurally differentiated technology solution to unlock greater access to institutional-grade private market real assets. The company's initial focus is addressing the $15 trillion shortfall in infrastructure debt finance. The platform is intended to enable a new type of enhanced private investment product with liquidity generally not readily available in traditional private investments, and features intended to ease fund administration. Pontoro will use the $4.6 million Seed II funding to further develop its technology to provide enhanced customization, pricing, and liquidity to market participants. The company expects to announce an expanded leadership team of seasoned finance and technology executives and is continuing discussions with institutional participants for advancement and adoption of the solution. The recent round was oversubscribed and came at a significant increase in valuation from its previous seed round. Pontoro is a financial technology company building an institutional-grade digital asset securitization and liquidity platform to expand investor participation in infrastructure debt finance. The platform curates bank-originated infrastructure project loans into tokenized and securitized digital asset pools, built on Ethereum and interoperating with other chains. It aims to reduce transaction times and settlement risk, improve cost efficiencies, and enable secondary liquidity and enhanced price discovery for institutional investors. Pontoro plans to accelerate platform development, deepen strategic partnerships with global banks and institutional investors, and continue recruiting senior talent. The company announced a $6 million preferred seed round to fund scaling and product rollout. Its senior leadership and advisors collectively bring a reported $100 billion infrastructure finance track record and experience from firms including J.P. Morgan Asset Management, BitGo, GE Energy Financial Services, InterGen, NASDAQ Private Markets, and the SEC.

• Calculum

  Participated · Seed · Mar 2023

  Calculum is a Miami-based fintech that uses advanced analytics and AI to help companies optimize supplier selection, payment terms, supply-chain disruption risk, cash flow, and sustainability. Founded in 2021 by Oliver Belin, the platform provides data-driven insights for treasury and procurement teams to compare with peers and find opportunities down to the supplier level. Calculum delivers automated negotiation scripts tailored to each supplier to help teams secure better terms. The company says its platform identifies up to 20% in free cash flow for every supplier spend analyzed. Calculum has a partnership with London-based InvestVerte to provide ESG metrics that let companies use payment terms to incentivize supplier compliance. It positions its AI-driven treasury solution as an embedded, enterprise-wide process to generate free cash flow amid elevated interest rates and borrowing costs. Calculum offers an AI-driven platform that analyzes supplier risk and financial metrics to recommend optimal payment terms. Its database covers roughly 750,000 providers, enabling benchmarking of a company's terms against competitors. The company says its platform can free up 8–10% of cash flow for every dollar of spend analyzed, and its clients collectively spend billions with suppliers, including a major multinational pharmaceutical company and the largest treasury management solutions provider. Calculum has added ESG data through a partnership with InvestVerte so buyers can use payment terms to incentivize supplier ESG improvements. Product road map items include an API to integrate with client ERPs and features to help suppliers optimize their negotiations. Calculum was launched in 2021 by Oliver Belin and is Miami-based with 15 employees (10 in Downtown Miami); it plans expansion across Western Europe, North America, and Latin America.

No current team members are available.