The Venture Codex

Led · Equity · Aug 2026

Fabulate is an influencer marketing and technology platform that has expanded from Australia into multiple APAC markets including New Zealand, Singapore, Malaysia, the Philippines, Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia, South Korea and Japan. The company has developed an AI-powered product suite, including a product called SparQ, to support discovery, campaign execution and measurement at scale. Fabulate describes itself as profitable and has continued hiring regional commercial leads to support growth. Leadership cited the business's differentiated technology and disciplined execution as drivers of its expansion. The platform is used by brands to discover, vet, manage and measure creator marketing, and the recent funding is intended to accelerate growth across the region.

Led · Equity · Nov 2023

Founded in 2019 by ex‑pilot Tom Caska and former technology consultant Rakesh Routhu, Aerologix operates a marketplace that connects drone pilots with clients requiring aerial imaging. The company has signed up more than 29,000 drone pilots since launch. Aerologix recently completed a $2 million capital raise and has acquired Brazilian mapping software company Mappa to add high‑resolution mapping capabilities. Management says Mappa was the missing piece to build a comprehensive global drone ecosystem. The business is actively expanding internationally, launching in New Zealand earlier this year and now focusing on North and South America. The company is positioning the combined marketplace and mapping stack as the foundation for accelerated global growth.

Participated · Seed · Sep 2021

Sonavi Labs builds Feelix, a digital stethoscope that analyzes lung and body sounds to identify and diagnose respiratory disease. The company received FDA clearance for the Feelix hardware a year earlier. Sonavi closed a seed round this month raising over $3.5 million, supported by Sand Hill Angels of Silicon Valley, Gaingels, Nightingale Partners, Matt Hellauer of PTX Capital and other angel investors, and has two NIH grants totaling over $3 million. It also won $100,000 from the Princeton Empower 2021 pitch competition and $10,000 from Children’s National Hospital through the Bear Institute PACK, and will launch a remote monitoring pilot with the pediatric institution. Sonavi is based in Baltimore, nurtured at Johns Hopkins and ETC’s AccelerateBaltimore program, and operates out of 1100 Wicomico in Pigtown. The company currently has six full-time employees and plans to add about a dozen positions in the coming year. Sonavi Labs develops a digital stethoscope product that combines noise cancellation and AI and is based on technology initially developed by Johns Hopkins scientists. The company holds a license from Johns Hopkins for the Feelix technology, which integrates hardware and software. Its initial stethoscope will be designed to diagnose respiratory disease and does not require internet access. Cofounded in 2017 by CEO Ellington West and CTO Ian McLane, the company is Pigtown-based. After two years of bootstrapping, Sonavi Labs completed its first official fundraising round, raising $1 million in seed funding. Investor names were not disclosed; the company said backers come from the healthcare and scientific community as well as friends and family.