Participated · Series A · Jun 2026

General Intuition builds a single agentic model that learns spatial-temporal reasoning from hundreds of millions of hours of gameplay and associated action labels provided via Medal. The company uses a frame-by-frame generated world model as a training environment and has demonstrated transfer from gameplay to simulation to physical embodiments such as a quadruped robot and drones. It has a handful of customers in gaming, simulation, and robotics and is pursuing a data flywheel strategy that prioritizes partners capable of providing diverse real-world data. General Intuition recently launched Nerve, a jobs marketplace that lets gamers earn money through tasks like data labeling and robot teleoperation. The firm emphasizes ethical limits on use—declining lethal autonomy—and plans to broaden access to its models via a public API by the end of the summer. Financially, the company has raised $454 million in disclosed funding after the latest $320 million round and is directing most new capital toward scaling compute infrastructure.

Participated · Seed · Mar 2026

Reson8 develops highly accurate, customisable automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems that adapt in real time using contextual data such as documents, websites, and calendars. The company builds lightweight, modular adapters to tailor recognition to specific conversations without increasing latency, and is focused on professional use cases in sectors like healthcare, legal, and customer support. Reson8 emphasizes operating its own European infrastructure to offer data residency and compliance advantages and plans to support more than 20 European languages at launch. Founders Thomas Kluiters, Raoul Ritter, and Jarno Verhagen bring expertise in high-performance systems, AI, and speech technology. Financially, the company recently raised €5 million in a pre-seed round led by Balderton Capital with participation from NP Hard to fund infrastructure expansion, model and inference-stack development, and team growth.

Participated · Equity · Oct 2025

Deta is a Berlin- and New York-based startup founded in 2019 that is developing Surf, an AI browser blended with a research notebook akin to Google’s NotebookLM. The beta-stage app allows users to open URLs, PDFs, and YouTube videos, then employ an integrated chatbot to summarize, extract insights, or generate code that can be saved into topic-based notebooks. Surf keeps data local so it can operate offline, and users can reference multiple open tabs as context when querying the AI. The product is currently free, and the team is experimenting with image generation while planning a future premium tier that could add cloud backup, collaboration, and multi-device sync. Deta originally aimed to build a new operating system on an infinite white canvas but sunset that effort in 2023 to focus on an AI browser opportunity. Financially, the company raised a $3.6 million seed round in 2023 and later secured an additional $500,000, bringing total funding to roughly $4.1 million. No revenue or user metrics have been disclosed.

Participated · Seed · Apr 2025

Founded in 2024 by Alexander Fitzgerald, Isembard operates and franchises factories powered by its proprietary MasonOS platform, which unifies quoting, scheduling, supply-chain, manufacturing, quality control and delivery into a single intelligent operating layer. By automating these processes, the company aims to revive British manufacturing and provide rapid, high-quality component production for sectors including space, defence and robotics. Isembard plans to deploy dozens of software-enabled factories across the UK and expand into Germany, France and Ukraine. The firm targets the opening of 25 factories by the end of 2026 and is actively recruiting engineers across Europe and the United States to support this growth. Its franchise model allows external operators to leverage MasonOS while benefitting from Isembard’s centralized supply-chain and quality systems. Financially, the company closed a $9 million seed round less than a year ago and has now secured a substantial Series A to accelerate expansion. Although revenue figures were not disclosed, the fresh capital underscores strong investor confidence in Isembard’s industrial automation vision.

Participated · Seed · Aug 2024

trail is a Copilot for AI governance that embeds LLM-powered automation into an easy-to-use interface to automate governance workflows, technical documentation, and transparency. It integrates via a few lines of code into developer environments and governance workflows to bridge gaps between compliance and technical teams. The founders—Anna, Nikolaus, and Sven—met at TU Munich and the CDTM program and built the product from conversations with early users across computer vision and LLM applications. Customers use trail to prepare for the EU AI Act and certifications such as ISO 42001, and the company provides a free website tool to help teams understand compliance needs. The team notes that organizations already spend up to 50% of their time on non-coding tasks like documentation and multi-stakeholder collaboration, a key pain point trail addresses. Market demand in Europe is rising; trail plans to accelerate product development, expand its team, and strengthen its position as a go-to AI governance solution. The company is actively hiring software engineers and business interns to join its team in Munich.