Participated · Seed · May 2026

Imagenomix has developed a patent-protected AI platform that identifies genetic alterations of cancer directly from standard histopathology images and maps the spatial distribution of those mutations without DNA sequencing. The company is a New York City–based spinout of NYU Langone Health and is led by CEO Travis Wold. Imagenomix plans to focus initially on lung, brain, and breast cancers. It intends to initiate a clinical trial in breast cancer and to commercially launch a V2 lung cancer classifier later this year in collaboration with Proscia. The firm also supports an alliance with Alterome Therapeutics, which is applying the technology in Phase I therapeutic trials. Financially, Imagenomix recently raised $3.2 million in seed funding to support these development, clinical, and commercial activities.

Participated · Series C · Oct 2021

Clarifai builds AI tools to help developers, operators and data scientists automate model development for unstructured data such as images, video, text and audio. The company began as a computer-vision specialist and has expanded to offer NLP, audio recognition, an automated labeling tool called Scribe, and an Edge AI capability for local hardware. It has integrated with Snowflake to link Clarifai’s unstructured-data AI to customers’ data stores. Clarifai more than doubled revenue over the prior year and topped 130,000 users. The company has about 100 employees and plans to double headcount, invest in sales and marketing, and pursue international expansion (it already has an office in Estonia and is exploring Australia, India and Turkey). It is continuing product development and planned further announcements at its Perceive 2021 conference; its Edge AI product has attracted its first commercial client. Clarifai provides image and video recognition technology built on machine-learning systems and accessible via an API, allowing developers to build intelligent applications. Its API recognizes more than 11,000 different concepts and offers domain-specific models such as Not Safe For Work (adult content moderation), Travel, and Food. The company recently released Custom Training to let users teach new concepts and Visual Search to organize and recommend images by visual similarity and keywords. Clarifai's platform predicts more than 1.2 billion concepts in photos and videos every month across applications used by clients from Fortune 500 companies to startups, including BuzzFeed, Trivago, 500px, and StyleMePretty. The company says the technology—previously available only to large tech companies—is now available to anyone through the Clarifai API. It intends to use new funding to expand engineering and business teams, hire key research talent, and continue AI innovation with new product releases. Clarifai develops machine learning algorithms that provide deep understanding of image and video content at scale, initially launching with image recognition in 2013. The system automatically understands video content, recognizes 10,000 different objects and concepts, and processes videos at 10x faster than real-time. The solution is offered through the company’s API and has expanded to incorporate new data sources and support a variety of platforms. Clarifai plans to use the Series A proceeds to hire researchers and engineers and to expand operations. The company raised $10M in Series A venture capital funding led by Union Square Ventures, Lux Capital and Osage University Partners, with participation from Google Ventures, Qualcomm Ventures, Nvidia Ventures, Corazon Capital, LDV Capital and New York University. Clarifai was founded by Matthew Zeiler (CEO) and Adam Berenzweig (CTO) and is based in New York City.

Participated · Seed · Jul 2021

Revelio Labs ingests public profiles, resumes and job postings and uses in-house algorithms and taxonomies to produce metrics on headcounts, inflows/outflows, job postings, skills, seniority, education, gender, ethnicity, sentiment and layoff notices. The platform maps job titles, activities, skills and companies to show where talent is acquired and why people join or leave firms. Revelio sells to corporate HR, strategy teams and professional services, and counts over 150 customers including the U.S. Federal Reserve System, Bank of America, Morgan Stanley, Citi, KPMG, EY, MIT and Harvard Business School. The company acknowledges data-source limitations (for example, it lost access to user skills last May and its documentation has shown gaps like missing highest-degree reporting) and says it applies internal processes to mitigate errors. Revelio plans to use the new funding to expand its offerings for corporate HR and strategy. The company was co-founded by CEO Ben Zweig and Yedidya Gorsetman in early 2018 and is New York–based with around 50 employees; Zweig declined to disclose revenue figures. Revelio Labs builds tools to understand the workforce of every company by ingesting the universe of public workforce data and creating a standard structure for job titles, skills, activities, and companies. Its data scientists develop methods to remove sampling bias and adjust for reporting lags to produce a comprehensive, unbiased, and current view of workforce dynamics. The company’s data provides insight on occupational composition, hiring and attrition trends, geographic composition, career transitions, and demographic diversity. Customers include investors, corporate strategists, HR teams, and governments who use the data to make actionable, data-driven decisions. Led by CEO Ben Zweig, Revelio Labs intends to use its recent funding to grow its business reach and expand its offering beyond investment management into corporate HR and strategy. The company is headquartered in New York City and was valued at $29M in the seed round.

Participated · Seed · Jul 2017

Vidcode offers a project-based coding curriculum that teaches students basic to advanced object-oriented programming through video-making and social-media–style projects (memes, filters, interactive games, GIFs). Its courses cover beginner to advanced JavaScript, design thinking, and interaction design, and the company is beginning to explore VR as a stepping stone to tools like Unity. Vidcode sells software, curriculum, and teacher training directly to schools and via strategic partnerships such as BrainPOP, which also embeds Vidcode’s creative coding tool across hundreds of BrainPOP topics. The startup reports growth from 1,000 schools last year to over 25,000 schools today, with concentrations in New York, California, Arkansas, Kansas, and Texas. Vidcode aims to reach 20 million students (10 million girls) by 2020. The team plans to use new funding to extend sales through more strategic partnerships and to expand its curriculum into AR/VR and more advanced coding.

Participated · Seed · Oct 2015

Alpaca operates a brokerage infrastructure API that powers fintechs, banks, broker-dealers, wealth managers, algorithmic trading firms, active traders, and crypto-native financial platforms. The company supports over 10 million brokerage accounts across hundreds of fintechs and institutions in more than 40 countries. Alpaca has expanded its regulated footprint through acquisitions, including an IFSCA-regulated broker-dealer and payment service provider in GIFT City and UK/European entities with passporting across the EEA, and has launched global equities access beginning with European equities. It has onboarded major global crypto exchanges and tokenization platforms, reported doubling revenue year-over-year for three consecutive years, and surpassed $1.5 billion in assets under custody for underlying stocks backing tokenized equities. Alpaca plans to use the new financing to accelerate its agent-first brokerage and API-first prime brokerage infrastructure to support tokenized markets and AI-native financial services.