Participated · Series C · Aug 2024

Asuene is a Tokyo-based sustainability AI company founded by CEO Kohei Nishiwada that serves over 50,000 clients worldwide. Its flagship ASUENE platform supports greenhouse gas measurement, reduction, and reporting, and the company also offers NZero, an AI Energy Optimization Platform, and Carbon EX, an Integrated Carbon Credit AI Platform. The company raised $87M in Series D financing in 2026, bringing its total funding to $161M. Asuene plans to use the new capital to pursue M&A to accelerate business expansion in Japan and internationally, to advance AI and product development, and to launch new businesses. Corporate investors in the round included firms such as DAIKIN and RICOH alongside other domestic and international backers.

Participated · Series B · Nov 2020

Fabric provides term life insurance through a fully digital experience designed to make coverage quick, simple, and affordable for young families. Policies are issued by Vantis Life, which carries an A rating from A.M. Best, giving customers additional confidence in claims-paying ability. Since launching roughly a year ago, the company has attracted thousands of families who have purchased coverage via its proprietary online process. The platform removes traditional pain points—lengthy applications, medical exams, and opaque pricing—by automating underwriting and offering transparent, mobile-friendly onboarding. Fabric positions itself as a modern financial-protection brand, competing with legacy insurers by emphasizing speed, cost, and user experience. To support accelerating demand, the firm is expanding headcount at its Brooklyn, New York office. Backed by top-tier investors, Fabric plans to scale marketing, product development, and partnerships that further integrate insurance into everyday financial planning for parents.

Participated · Series C · Sep 2020

eFileCabinet offers its Rubex SaaS product, which combines intelligent document automation, encrypted file-sharing, and workflow automation for organizations across multiple industries. The platform is positioned to help customers work more efficiently and compliantly by automating cumbersome processes. Leadership says the company is witnessing rapid growth as customers seek improved operational efficiency, particularly amid remote-work trends. eFileCabinet plans to use new capital to expand commercialization efforts deeper into industries including insurance, healthcare, and human resources. Management also intends to continue developing and refining products to solve real-world customer problems in an evolving world. Founded in 2001 and based in Lehi, Utah, the company frames its offering as one of the more advanced document management systems on the market. eFileCabinet provides on-premise and cloud document management platforms that automate organizing, managing, routing, retaining and sharing of files. The platform serves as a central repository and integrates with Salesforce, Microsoft Office and QuickBooks while supporting compliance requirements such as HIPAA, SEC/FINRA, FERPA, GLB and SOX. The company serves SMBs and enterprises across accounting, financial services, insurance, medical, HR, small government and other verticals and reports more than 153,000 users worldwide. eFileCabinet says its solution increases revenues for paper-heavy industries and reduces compliance workload. The company plans to invest the new funding into sales and marketing and pursue strategic partnership and OEM opportunities. Leadership positions the platform as scalable from SMB to enterprise and highlights strong market traction across multiple verticals.

Participated · Equity · Oct 2019

Sensely is a London and San Francisco–based provider of a digital health and insurtech platform that uses avatar and chatbot interfaces. Its multi-lingual AI platform features a voice-enabled character interface and integrates into existing enterprise technology infrastructure. Led by Adam Odessky, CEO and co-founder, Sensely assists insurance plan members and patients with insurance services and healthcare resources. The platform is deployed with enterprise customers in the United States, United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates, Netherlands, China, Hong Kong, Japan, Switzerland, and Australia. Customers use the platform for symptom checking, insurance underwriting, claims management, medication management, and remote patient monitoring. Sensely raised $15M and intends to use the funds to accelerate commercialization efforts and extend its platform leadership. Sense.ly is a San Francisco startup that offers a virtual nurse app enabling physicians to stay in touch with patients and help prevent hospital readmissions. The app uses a nurse avatar to perform 5-minute check-ins via voice, rolling patient responses into medical records accessible to authorized providers and ingesting data from medical devices and wearables. Its platform integrates AI technologies from MindMeld, Beyond Verbal, Affectiva and others to respond to patients’ moods and provide empathetic interactions, as well as to surface mental-health signals to clinicians. Sense.ly’s core engine is rule-based and built around commonly accepted medical protocols for chronic diseases, with content and protocols added from partner hospitals and clinics. The company has focused on engaging patients aged 60 and older with conditions like COPD, heart failure and diabetes, while expanding partnerships with large providers including the U.K. National Health Service and major U.S. clinics and hospitals. CEO and founder Adam Odessky says the technology is intended to augment clinicians’ capabilities rather than replace nurses. Sense.ly provides a mobile-first virtual nurse, Molly, that engages patients via natural conversation for administrative needs and complex chronic conditions. Patients can take vitals, report on pain, sleep, stress and diet, and be connected to an attending physician via video call when risks are elevated. The platform focuses on patient engagement and remote chronic disease monitoring. Customers and partners include the National Health Service of the UK, Dudley CCG, Novartis and UCSF. Led by co-founder and CEO Adam Odessky, the company plans to use new funding to launch new markets, expand support for its global customer base, and enhance its product with artificial intelligence and machine learning. Financially, Sense.ly announced a $2.2M Series A raise to support those initiatives. Sense.ly delivers a SaaS patient-engagement platform combining advanced sensor capabilities with avatar-based technology to produce actionable, real-time data and intelligent analytics for clinicians. The platform is positioned to help clinicians monitor and engage patients while optimizing workflow. Sense.ly was co-founded by Adam Odessky (CEO) and Ivana Schnur, MD/PhD (CMO), and was incubated within Orange SA before launching independently in 2013. The company is a member of the LaunchPad Digital Health accelerator and previously graduated from the Alchemist Accelerator. Sense.ly plans to use new funding to continue building out products, expand the team, and broaden its customer base. It recently completed a seed financing round to support these initiatives.

Participated · Equity · Apr 2017

Emerada develops a financial‑customer integrated platform called Emerada Cash Manager and AI products such as Emerada Analytics (a credit Copilot). It also offers a BaaS promotion cloud, Emerada SmartBank Assistant, and plans a B2B cash‑conversion improvement payment service, Emerada Payment, for 2024. The company focuses on partnering with regional financial institutions to drive supply‑chain DX and improve financial workflows for small and medium enterprises. Emerada reports partnerships with about 80 financial institutions to date. Its stated capital (including reserves) is ¥1,103 million, and the company completed fundraising that brought cumulative post‑seed financing to about ¥1.9 billion. Proceeds are earmarked to deepen financial institution partnerships, accelerate AI and BaaS commercialization, develop online/data lending and guarantee‑backed loan digitization, and launch credit+payment offerings such as BNPL for banks. Emerada is preparing an online platform to give unlisted companies access to a broad range of fundraising options, including equity-type investments and borrowings. The company’s stated mission is to bring transparency to the 99% of the financial market made up of unlisted firms by ensuring necessary information is disclosed to investors. Its first product is a platform that enables growth-stage startups to raise equity-style capital from many individual investors online. Within the year it plans to begin trial operations of a lending platform that will allow unlisted companies to obtain loans online. The company said it will use the newly raised capital to advance both its equity and borrowing businesses, hire staff, and strengthen marketing and compliance. Emerada was founded in June 2016 and is headquartered in Chiyoda‑ku, Tokyo.