The Venture Codex

Led · Seed · Jun 2026

HighGround builds an intelligence layer for defense and aerospace capital markets, ingesting budget, procurement, and vendor signals from more than 500 federal sources and linking them into a behavioral model of government purchasing. Its products include a chat interface, a structured API, and an MCP endpoint that integrates with large AI models like Claude and ChatGPT. The company is led by co-founder and CEO John Price, a former Green Beret and Senate defense and technology policy advisor. HighGround positions its platform to give investors, operators, and advisors a single source of truth to accelerate diligence and surface procurement-driven demand signals earlier. The recent $6.5 million seed round will be used to accelerate data coverage and deepen analytical models so customers can embed defense intelligence into decision workflows. The business frames itself as bringing institutional-grade intelligence to a capital-intensive and under-analysed asset class.

Led · Equity · Apr 2026

Gravity develops Orion, described as an AI analyst that continuously investigates customers' data, surfaces what’s changing, and delivers insights to users proactively. The company emphasizes a strong team and customer-driven product iteration, saying customers challenge them to improve Orion weekly. Gravity positions its recent $10M financing as acceleration capital to move faster on product and category invention. The announcement highlights ambitions to challenge the status quo and build new analytics categories, though no revenue, user metrics, founding year, or location were disclosed in the report. Public communications focused on product development and scaling rather than specific operational metrics.

Participated · Equity · Apr 2026

GetWhys provides a platform that treats buyer research and go-to-market (GTM) work as a single motion, grounding GTM decisions, messaging, and customer conversations in verified buyer intelligence. Its product is built on a proprietary database of in-depth B2B buyer interviews and a data foundation that compounds with each contributing customer. The company serves product marketing and GTM teams at mid-market and enterprise B2B companies and counts customers such as Intel, Verizon, and CDW. Over the past year GetWhys doubled headcount to 16, grew revenue more than 10x, and expanded its customer base more than 20x. The recent funding will support accelerating go-to-market efforts, continued product development, and advancement of its proprietary dataset. GetWhys is headquartered in Boise, Idaho, with offices in Portland, OR, New York, NY, and Bozeman, MT.

Participated · Series A · Dec 2025

Paramify offers a cloud-based risk operations platform that automates evidence collection, continuous monitoring, and multi-framework compliance for highly regulated enterprises. The software supports U.S. federal standards such as FedRAMP, CMMC, and FISMA, as well as commercial and international frameworks including SOC 2, PCI DSS, HITRUST, HIPAA, and ISO 27001. Founded in 2022, the Salt Lake City company reports more than 4× year-over-year growth driven largely by organic demand and serves over 150 enterprise customers—among them Cisco, Palo Alto Networks, Elastic, Ramp, and xAI. Its technology is also used by major advisory firms like Coalfire, Schellman, and A-lign, and it underpins more than 20 % of the FedRAMP Marketplace. With new capital, Paramify plans to deepen automation around enterprise risk and issues management, expand continuous monitoring capabilities, and add coverage for emerging AI-focused frameworks. The company’s goal is to cut compliance preparation from months or years to mere hours, making enterprise-grade risk management accessible and repeatable across diverse environments.

Led · Seed · Nov 2025

Mindsmith, based in Provo, Utah, provides an AI-native authoring platform that enables learning and development teams to convert existing materials into interactive, instructionally sound courses up to 12 times faster than traditional methods. The software blends generative artificial intelligence with contemporary learning science while maintaining enterprise-grade security, scalability, and an intuitive interface. Current customers include Laing O’Rourke, Gaylor Electric, HubSpot, and several Fortune 500 companies, underscoring early enterprise traction. Founded by CEO Zack Allen and co-founder Ethan Webb, the company focuses on reducing cost and time-to-deployment for corporate training without sacrificing quality. Mindsmith plans to use newly secured capital to expand operations and accelerate product development. The business has raised at least $4.1 million to date, though no revenue or user metrics were disclosed in the article.