Participated · Equity · Jul 2026

TytoCare develops a clinician-grade handheld remote examination platform paired with FDA-cleared AI-powered software-as-a-medical-device algorithms to enable comprehensive remote physical exams. The company serves health systems, payers, and employer health programs and is positioning its platform for cardiopulmonary screening, oncology supportive care, and chronic disease management including CHF and COPD. TytoCare announced leadership appointments of Adam Pellegrini as CEO and Greg Orr as COO concurrent with its $25M+ growth round led by Insight Partners. The company intends to use the new capital to expand its AI algorithm pipeline, deepen integrations with health systems and payers, and accelerate go-to-market efforts. TytoCare is headquartered in New York and Netanya, Israel, and emphasizes FDA-cleared diagnostic fidelity as a competitive differentiator.

Participated · Seed · May 2026

Flick builds an AI-native film production platform designed to combine generative models with real film production through non-linear workflows and filmic control features. The product targets filmmakers who want aesthetic control, iterative creative tools and the ability to direct AI-generated films without relying on raw prompting. Flick is led by co-founders Zoey Zhang, an award-winning filmmaker, and Ray Wang, a founding engineer of Instagram Stories. The company runs the Flick Filmmaker Residency to support emerging AI-native filmmakers; the first cohort debuts with over 10 AI-based short films shown at festivals including Cinequest, MIT and the Omni AI Film Festival. Flick plans to use its recent seed financing to accelerate product development, expand core creative tools, and grow its filmmaker community.

Led · Series B · Feb 2026

Phoenix Tailings is developing the Freedom Facility, a fully integrated rare earth separation and metallization platform intended to produce both light and heavy rare earth metals from concentrates, recycled materials, and secondary sources. The company plans the facility to act as a midstream processing hub that can purchase output from mines and recyclers and supply materials to manufacturers and government entities. The project will use domestically controlled technology and intellectual property and aims to deliver cleaner, more efficient operations than conventional refining methods. Phoenix Tailings has targeted initial operations at the Freedom Facility for 2028. Financially, the company announced an approximately $1 billion financing initiative that includes a conditional $500 million long-term debt commitment from the U.S. Department of War’s Office of Strategic Capital to support construction and scaling of the facility.

Participated · Seed · Jan 2025

Arva AI offers an AI-powered business verification platform that automates low- to mid-risk manual compliance tasks in real time for banks and fintechs. Its platform analyzes unstructured data from registries, social media, websites, and documents to verify businesses. The company positions itself to reduce manual review workload and accelerate verification decisions. Arva AI plans to use the seed funding to accelerate product development and expand into new markets. The article identifies the company as San Francisco–based and notes the recent $3.0M seed raise.

Participated · Seed · Aug 2024

Waza offers a payments and liquidity-management platform focused on enabling African businesses, traders and fintechs to pay suppliers and manage cross-border liquidity. The startup began operations in January 2023 after participating in Y Combinator’s winter batch. It serves hundreds of clients across six continents and addresses three customer segments: multinationals operating in Africa, importers/traders, and fintechs needing API infrastructure. Waza’s revenue comes from FX spreads and a 0.75%–1% take rate; transaction volumes and revenues have been growing roughly 20% month over month. Operational traction includes $280,000 in payment volume in its first month and processing up to $70 million in monthly payment volume in May (about $700 million annualized). The founders — CEO Maxwell Obi and CTO Emmanuel Igbodudu — have deep payments and engineering experience; the team plans to expand beyond Ghana and Nigeria and may build business banking, credit/financing, or stablecoin banking products in future.