Participated · Seed · Sep 2025

Founded in 2024, Miru is building a unified investigation platform that turns the fragmented data and toolsets common in security operations into a native knowledge graph. This structure allows analysts and Miru’s AI agents to pull the right data, correlate alerts and automate deep-link analysis across domains. A feature called “Agentic Dispatch” enables fully autonomous investigations that can scale with the volume of security alerts. The company’s engineering base is in Europe with a small R&D hub in Ireland, while its headquarters is in San Francisco. Miru’s founding team previously held senior security roles at eBay, Meta, Circle and various government agencies, giving them firsthand experience of the data-chaos problem they aim to solve. The freshly raised capital will go toward accelerating R&D and pushing the platform into customers’ hands. No revenue or user metrics have been disclosed to date, but the product is reportedly already in use by advanced investigative analysts. Miru positions itself as the defining investigations tool for the AI era.

Participated · Series C · May 2025

Quantum Systems develops an interoperable family of unmanned platforms across air, land, and sea domains unified by its MOSAIC UXS tactical software command ecosystem. The company operates as a deep-tech defense prime and has deepened strategic industrial collaboration with Airbus Defence and Space. It reports having achieved double-digit profitability alongside triple-digit revenue growth and has expanded its global corporate production footprint across Germany, Ukraine, the United States, Australia, Romania, the United Kingdom, and the Baltics. Led by co-CEOs Florian Seibel and Sven Kruck, the company is investing in scaling physical manufacturing and software R&D. The Series D financing will support expansion of manufacturing capacity, bolster supply chain resilience, and accelerate its software roadmap.

Participated · Equity · Dec 2023

Unbabel offers AI-supported translation services and operates a LangOps platform that combines machine translation with human language experts. Founded in Lisbon in 2013 by Vasco Pedro (CEO), the company has expanded internationally with offices in Portugal, the United States (San Francisco), the United Kingdom, Romania, the Philippines, Germany, Bulgaria and Israel. Its recent strategy includes acquisitions—last year it bought German EVS Translations and Israeli Bablic—to bolster capabilities and global reach. The company calls itself a scaleup and emphasizes making organizations operate in multiple languages simultaneously. Unbabel is focused on growing its LangOps platform and pursuing further international expansion while strengthening its path to profitability. The firm says the new capital will support global growth, acquisitions and efforts to scale toward profitability. Unbabel offers a translation-as-a-service platform that combines machine translation speed with human-in-the-loop edits from a global community of translators. The company says it has more than 100k registered translators and 200+ full-time employees, and serves over 150 enterprise customers including Facebook, Microsoft, Booking.com and easyJet. It processes more than 1,000,000 customer service messages per month, a fivefold increase since 2018, and touts cost savings and improved customer satisfaction for clients. Unbabel reports its strongest quarter yet in revenue growth, though it is not disclosing figures. The firm is investing in AI improvements and has announced an AI research lab in Pittsburgh. Planned use of new funding includes ramping up growth in the US, Europe and Asia and enhancing its AI capabilities. Unbabel offers a proprietary platform that combines natural language processing, neural machine translation, quality-estimation algorithms and a global network of 55,000 translators to deliver AI-powered human translations at scale. The company exposes APIs and dedicated integrations (Salesforce, Zendesk, WordPress, Mailchimp and others) to plug into customers' content-creation, translation and communication workflows. Customers named in the article include Booking.com, Pinterest, Trello, Vimeo, SoundCloud, Evernote and many other large online and consumer brands. Led by CEO and co-founder Vasco Pedro, Unbabel graduated from Y Combinator’s 2014 Winter Batch. The company announced it raised $23M in new funding and said it will use the proceeds for international expansion and further product development. No revenue or user metrics were disclosed in the article. Unbabel’s core product is the Unbabel Language Engine, a Translation-as-a-Service platform that blends machine translation with crowdsourced human post‑editing. The platform combines natural language processing, artificial intelligence and quality-estimation algorithms with a global network of 40,000 human post‑editors. Unbabel targets conversational content such as email and chat and offers APIs plus dedicated integrations for Zendesk and Salesforce to enable multilingual customer support. The company cites early customer traction with Pinterest, Microsoft and Skyscanner and is a graduate of Y Combinator’s 2014 Winter Batch. Unbabel plans to use recent funding to build out and scale the Unbabel Language Engine and to further reduce the cost of human translation. The company was founded in August 2013 and has offices in Lisbon and San Francisco. Unbabel pairs automated machine translation with human editors who refine output to deliver faster, affordable translations. Customers send content via email, online order or the Unbabel API; the content is automatically translated and then refined by two human editors before being returned. The company charges $0.02 per word (with bulk discounts) and reports about 160 paying customers. Four months after launching, Unbabel was growing roughly 15% a week in sales and 12% a week in the number of editors on its platform. Editors earn $8 and anyone proficient in two or more languages can become an editor; the company is rolling out Marvin, an automated feedback tool to help editors improve and become paid. Unbabel also launched a beta Zendesk plugin to enable customer-service reps to support customers in any language. The company says the new funding will be used to expand engineering and marketing to grow its customer base and meet demand.

Led · Equity · Oct 2023

Upvest provides an investment infrastructure platform that facilitates asset classes such as stocks, ETFs and some mutual funds and is built on a fractional trading engine. The platform can be extended to additional asset classes including bonds, derivatives and crypto, and to other investment use cases enabled by fractional trading. Upvest partners with fintechs and digital wealth managers — including Revolut, Raisin Bank and Plum — to offer savings plans, tailored portfolios and real-time fractional investing. Led by CEO Martin Kassing and based in Berlin, the company plans to use recent funding to enhance its product offering and pursue regional expansion with leading fintechs, banks and wealth managers. The company recently raised €30M in funding to support those efforts. Upvest offers a simple gateway API that integrates with existing infrastructure to let fintechs deliver capital market products — from ETFs and stocks to crypto assets — to their end customers. The company holds BaFin licenses for securities and crypto brokerage and custody, allowing clients to avoid building their own brokerage and custody infrastructure. Upvest positions its platform as delivering significant time and cost savings for both neo and traditional banking players. Recently it signed a deal with ABN AMRO to provide payment rails and transaction banking services, and it could win BNP Securities Services as custodian for B2B clients. The new $42 million Series B will be used to further develop and optimize the API, support internationalisation goals, and augment the team. Upvest is based in Berlin. Upvest offers an API-first Investment API designed to let any business provide investment opportunities to its customers, effectively embedding brokerage into apps. The platform is positioned to simplify and lower the cost and regulatory complexity of traditional European investment structures. Upvest says its API is "battle-tested" and has been reviewed by a selected group of experts. The company reports it is in talks with more than 30 companies interested in its offering. Management expects the product to go live in Q4, contingent on receiving a securities trading bank license. Financially, Upvest has raised a total of €20 million to date, including a recent Series A extension. Upvest provides a plug-and-play, pan-European securities API that lets fintechs create investment products such as ETFs, equities, and commodities with faster integration while complying with European regulations. Its API is designed to be easy to integrate into existing infrastructure, enabling greater flexibility and speed for clients. The company recently closed its Series A with an additional €5 million, building on an earlier €7 million tranche. Upvest will use the fresh funding to add a brokerage bank license (Wertpapierhandelsbank) and extend its product into investment brokerage and traditional securities custody. The startup plans to grow its team from 14 people to about 40 by the end of the year. No operating metrics (revenue/users) are disclosed in the article. Upvest offers fintech-ready, blockchain-agnostic APIs that enable companies to store financial assets on the blockchain and lower barriers to investment. The platform allows users to invest with minimums as small as €1 and to manage investments from anywhere. Upvest says its solution reduces issuance, distribution and custodial costs—clients report saving up to 85% in custodial and security issuance costs. Founded in 2018 by Martin Kassing and based in Berlin, the company has attracted API sign-ups from over 80 countries. The platform has processed €50 million in volume to date, and investors noted the company generates real revenues with a clear ROI for customers. Company and investor statements position Upvest as an enterprise-grade asset tokenization provider aiming to scale globally without compromising user experience.

Participated · Seed · Jul 2022

Passionfruit is an AI-powered platform that enables businesses to discover, arrange and engage vetted independent talent, initially focused on marketing. It provides on-project collaboration tooling that lets all parties plan, implement and report on entire work-streams within a single system. Led by co-founder and CEO Raffi Salama and based in London, the company serves a diverse community of mid-sized and Fortune 500 customers across North America, the UK and Europe. Customers include PepsiCo, Mars, ABinBev, HSBC and The Match Group. The company recently raised $9M in a Series A and plans to use the funds to continue product development and expand further into North America. Passionfruit also intends to add software features for businesses to track progress in real time across growth planning, execution and reporting cycles. Passionfruit is a London-based freelancer platform enabling users to manage their business with access to work, financial tooling and community-led upskilling, with an initial focus on marketing specialists. Led by Raffi Salama and Issah Abdul-Moomin, the company also maintains an office in Lisbon, Portugal. Passionfruit has already gained hundreds of specialists and customers across the EU, UK and US. It closed a $4.3M seed round in July 2022 and will use the funding to expand its product offering and to push its commercial reach into ever-larger businesses across Europe and North America. The round was co-led by firstminute Capital and Playfair, with participation from FJ Labs, Portfolio Ventures, the Atomico, Accel and Notion scout networks, and angels including Mandeep Singh, Xav Collins and executives from Stripe, Airbnb and Workday. Its offering combines a freelancer marketplace with financial tooling and community-led upskilling to support freelancers' business needs.