Participated · Seed · Feb 2025

Verix provides an enterprise-focused authentication and verification platform powered by blockchain and generative AI that issues blockchain-backed certificates, badges, and authenticated assets with branding, video, and living updates. Key features include AI-assisted certificate creation, attachable content and community access, instant social sharing, living certificates that update with new achievements, and analytics for redemption and sharing. The platform is multi-chain and currently lives on Polygon and SKALE, and integrates with enterprise workflows such as Salesforce. Verix serves customers across sectors — including Netflix, Amdocs, Glider.ai, The Stevie Awards, and Room to Read — and has been adopted by over 200 enterprises and used by over 200,000 users in more than 100 countries. The company pivoted from creator monetization to an enterprise verification focus and invested in AI-powered design, enterprise compliance, analytics, and integrations. Future plans include expanding enterprise integrations, member-organization badging use cases, and several large confidential partnership initiatives.

Participated · Seed · Sep 2023

Revefi, co-founded by Sanjay Agrawal and Shashank Gupta in 2021, offers a SaaS platform that connects to data stores (e.g., Snowflake, Databricks) to automatically detect and troubleshoot data issues and recommend optimizations. The product aims to deliver a unified view of a company’s data operations and to analyze cost and quality across providers. The founders say customers can reduce cloud data platform costs — one customer reportedly cut costs by 30% using Revefi. Revefi positions itself against data-observability and quality vendors such as Monte Carlo, Acceldata, Anomalo and Informatica. The company says several large enterprises are paying customers, including a $5 billion public security company and a $10 billion public data company. Revefi is in a high-growth phase, plans to expand its product and scale its current 30-person team, and is hiring across AI, engineering, sales and marketing. Revefi offers a zero-touch Data Operations Cloud that monitors and manages data quality, performance and costs for cloud data warehouses. The platform acts as a co-pilot and includes a proprietary Intelligence Layer that delivers AI-powered insights for rapid detection and resolution of data issues. Revefi converges data quality, spend, usage and performance management into a single integrated solution so data teams can ensure the right data is reliably, promptly and affordably available. The company reports meaningful customer ROI — one user discovered insights that cut nearly 30% from Snowflake spend while usage increased 35%, yielding close to six-figure savings. Founded in 2021 by ThoughtSpot co-founders Sanjay Agrawal and Shashank Gupta, the leadership team draws on engineering experience from Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft and Yahoo. Revefi says it will continue developing its zero-touch Data Operations Cloud to save data teams time and reduce costs for customers.

Participated · Seed · Nov 2022

Virtualness is a mobile-first platform powered by generative AI and blockchain that enables users to create, mint, gift, share, and sell digital goods all in one place. Authenticated creators, brands, and sports and media organizations can design, mint, and showcase branded digital goods, share across social channels, directly interact with their communities, and unlock new monetization channels. The platform emphasizes education, personalization, discovery, integration with Web2 and Web3 platforms, and a mobile-first user experience. Virtualness announced Gratitude OnChain, a program inviting the community to express gratitude on-chain beginning World Gratitude Day (Sept 21, 2023) and running for 21 days through Oct 12; top creators will create, gift, and sell digital goods via the platform. Participating creators named in the activation include Leah Ibrahim Sams, Firoozeh Dumas, Shayamal Vallabhjee, Shira Lazar, Nathan Piland, Taylor Lorenz, Daya Burton, and Nuseir Yassin; participating organizations include HUG, Liftery, and 100 Girls In Blockch(AI)n. Financially, the company raised an $8M seed in late 2022 and recently closed an additional undisclosed financing that brought total funding to eight figures. Virtualness is a mobile-first platform that helps creators and brands navigate Web3. The platform enables authenticated creators and brands to design, mint, and showcase branded digital collectibles, share them across social channels, interact with fans and communities, and generate new monetization channels. Core product priorities include education, personalization, discovery, and integration with both Web2 and Web3 platforms, delivered via a mobile-first experience. The company plans to launch in early 2023. Virtualness intends to use the funds to hire engineering, product, and design staff across the United States, India, Singapore, and Dubai, expand platform support to additional blockchains, and integrate offline and online experiences. The company was founded by Saurabh Doshi and Kirthiga Reddy and is based in San Francisco, CA. It raised $8M in Seed funding.

Participated · Seed · Nov 2021

Cacheflow is a zero-code SaaS platform that simplifies and automates the end-to-end SaaS sales process. Its solution integrates CPQ, dynamic quote generation, interactive B2C-style checkout, and integrated payments into a single, no-code product. Sales teams can generate dynamic quotes in seconds, and the platform reduces closing times from weeks or months to hours; customers report 3X faster closes. Cacheflow also supports upsells, expansions, and cross-sells on existing contracts and MSAs to grow revenue. The company plans to use new funding to accelerate sales and marketing and reach more sellers in need of its deal-closing platform. Since its 2021 founding, Cacheflow has attracted customer traction and investor interest and has raised $16M to date. Cacheflow offers a hybrid product that combines a simplified SaaS checkout/buying experience with financing options for software purchases. The service lets customers pay monthly, quarterly or on a deferred basis while providing upfront cash to software vendors. Cacheflow says it can assess risk by peering into a customer firm’s SaaS metrics to account for the chance of non-payment. The company has a few pilot customers as it exits stealth and plans to bolster its roster in the coming months. Cacheflow positions itself between checkout technologies and SaaS financing services, aiming to embed its software into many SaaS checkout processes. CEO and co-founder Sarika Garg emphasized a diverse cap table as part of the company’s early strategy.

Participated · Series B · Jun 2021

Orum develops ML-powered APIs and products (Foresight and Momentum) to enable real-time movement of funds and intelligent routing across multiple payment rails. Its Momentum product is powered on the back end by banking providers including JPMorgan Chase and Silicon Valley Bank. The company serves enterprise partners such as Alloy, HM Bradley, First Horizon Bank and Zero Financial. Orum reports transaction volume is growing roughly 100% month over month. The remote-first startup emphasizes diversity in hiring and investors and has joined the Cap Table Coalition to allocate part of its financing to underrepresented founders. CEO Stephany Kirkpatrick launched the company in 2019 and frames the mission as providing universal financial access by making money movement instant. Orum is a NYC-based financial-infrastructure company led by founder and CEO Stephany Kirkpatrick. It offers embeddable products that deliver smart, real-time and fully automated money-movement for enterprises, including Movement—an API that routes payments across multiple rails while optimizing for speed, cost and risk—and Foresight, which predicts ACH return risk. Initial customers include large financial services firms such as First Horizon Bank and next-generation fintechs like One and Alloy. Orum raised $21m in a Series A to accelerate hiring across data engineering, machine learning and data science, and to expand its partnership teams. The company also maintains a network of over 30 advisors and angel investors from the payments and fintech space. Orum is a New York City–based money movement platform that builds infrastructure for faster transfers. The company launched Foresight, its debut product aimed at enabling financial institutions to move money in real-time. Orum is led by founder and CEO Stephany Kirkpatrick. The founding team includes CTO Ryan Cooke, who led technology and U.S. expansion for consumer neobank N26, and VP of Data Science Christine Hurtubise, who previously led the function at Stash. In July 2020 Orum raised $5.2M in funding from a mix of institutional investors and industry operator angels. The raise supports the company’s early commercial launch of Foresight and broader product efforts to accelerate real-time money movement.