Participated · Series B · Jul 2024

avatarin develops a world‑common platform that transforms professional skills into AI and connects them to robots, mobility and other devices so people can remotely "avatar in" to assist others. The company is developing multi‑modal AI via a method it calls "remote-to-AI" and is building a communication AI robot named newme to deploy those capabilities. avatarin aims to address labor shortages by linking people who need help with AI‑encoded professional skills and deploying those skills across diverse devices. It plans to accelerate research and development in generative AI, robotics and related technologies to create industry‑specific services where humans and AI coexist. Financially, the company completed a third‑party share issuance raising ¥3.7 billion from six corporate investors and has now raised a cumulative ¥7.7 billion including prior investments. avatarin says it will collaborate with its new investors to commercialize services and expand deployments of newme and avatar core®‑equipped devices.

Participated · Series B · Apr 2022

PhableCare is an app-based, full-stack chronic disease management platform that connects patients, doctors, pharmacists, device makers, hospitals, e-pharmacies and insurers. Its solution delivers remote consultations, decision-support for doctors, patient engagement, IoT device integration and data-driven disease management. The platform already serves 3M+ patients, 10k+ doctors and 1k+ pharmacists, making it a market leader in India’s chronic-care segment. The company plans to expand to 30M+ Indian households and 100,000+ super-specialist doctors and aims to capture 25% of the market over the next two years. PhableCare will use recent funding to strengthen its full-stack, value-driven chronic-care ecosystem, accelerate customer acquisition and brand building, build new revenue streams, and pursue strategic acquisitions. It has also allocated capital and arranged additional venture-debt to invest in other health-tech startups to expand capacity and capabilities. PhableCare operates a technology platform that creates an ecosystem of patients, doctors, hospitals, health devices, insurance and patient-care service providers to manage chronic diseases. The company provides online doctor consultations and a mobile app that lets patients order medicines, connect health IoT devices (Google Fit, Fitbit, Garmin) and manually or visually upload test results via computer vision. Its platform claims a network of 5,000+ doctors, more than 20,000 booked online consultations, and tracking of over 30 million patients' vitals. The founders say the company aims to reach 5 million patients and 35,000 doctors by the end of the year. PhableCare was founded in 2017 and is led by founders Mukesh Bansal, Sumit Sinha and Prasanth Reddy. To date the startup has raised over $13 million in funding.

Participated · Series A · Jan 2022

ClimateTrade is a Valencia, Spain-based blockchain-enabled climate marketplace that provides an API and widget to let companies offer carbon-neutral products and services. Led by CEO Francisco Benedito, its client roster includes Cabify, Banco Santander, Telefónica, Correos y Telégrafos, Prosegur and others. The company closed a €7m Pre‑Series A and is pursuing an additional €13m US-focused round to reach a €20m international expansion target. ClimateTrade plans to reincorporate in the US and establish ClimateTrade US, headquartered in Miami, within the next five months. The new capital is earmarked for international expansion. Investors in the €7m round include GED via Conexo Ventures, ClearSky, Borderless Capital, Algorand, SIX FinTech Ventures, Telefónica/Wayra, Omron Ventures, Amasia and Zubi Capital.

Participated · Series A · Jun 2021

Realtime Robotics provides automatic, collision-free motion planning and runtime control that optimizes cycle time for single- and multi-robot workcells. Its award-winning multirobot optimization software rapidly generates and evaluates hundreds of thousands of possible solutions during iterative design, while runtime control enables robots to work closer together and react to dynamic changes. The company’s solutions span the lifecycle of robotic workcells, simplifying deployment, production, and retooling by producing optimized motion plans and interlocks. Customers named in the announcement include BMW, Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles, integrator Valiant TMS, and Schaeffler Group, who report improved cycle times, reduced downtime, and increased throughput. Realtime says it will use the Series B funds to support refinement and scalability of its workcell optimization and runtime solutions and to accelerate development of additional interfaces. Its technology already interfaces with leading simulation software and industry-standard controllers to drive industry-wide accessibility. Realtime Robotics is a Boston-based robotics software company focused on the manufacturing sector. Its flagship product, RapidPlan, provides simulation, control, task management and programming tools to accelerate robot deployment, claiming to save deployers "weeks to months" of automation setup. The company targets orchestration and deployment friction across heterogeneous hardware and has announced clients including BMW Group. Realtime says it will use recent funding for deployment, scaling and R&D on existing and future offerings and to speed rollout to global end users and line builders across the automotive and automated warehouse industries. The firm is selectively hiring robot control engineers, product design engineers and a senior robotics software engineer to refine products and launch new ones. Realtime is currently valued at $130 million and has raised north of $54 million to date as part of what it describes as one prolonged Series A. Realtime Robotics, headquartered in Boston, generates collision-free motion plans in milliseconds for industrial robots and autonomous vehicles and recently launched RapidPlan. RapidPlan automates programming, deployment and control of industrial robots, autonomously creating and choreographing robot movements without brand-specific programming. Within RapidPlan users create a digital twin of their workcell, point-and-click to visualize collision-free task plans, and use the same software to control real-world robots, saving weeks to months of programming time per project. The company has pivoted away from hardware to focus on pure software to ease integration with customers' existing stacks and workflows. Realtime said it will apply the new funds to scale to meet demand, invest in engineering development, and enable enhancements to its core software. RapidPlan has been demonstrated with partners Kawasaki Robotics and Mitsubishi Electric Automation at Automate 2022 and was planned to be shown at IMTS 2022. Realtime Robotics has developed a specialized processor and software for real-time, collision-free motion planning that allows single or multiple industrial robots to operate autonomously at full speed in unstructured and uncaged environments. Its solution reduces engineering complexity by enabling robots to be deployed, updated, and redeployed with minimal programming, shortening cycle times and improving throughput. The technology lets robots function together in collaborative workspaces and react instantly to dynamic obstacles, expanding automation potential across manufacturing, logistics, and automotive supply chains. Realtime reports early deployment success and says a broad spectrum of customers and partners are working with the company to refine features and user experience ahead of rollouts. The company plans to apply the new funds to accelerate product rollouts, continue investment in enhancements and solutions, deepen its reach in warehouse automation, and keep serving global automotive manufacturers and their supply chain. Realtime is also continuing development of a collaborative “holy grail” system that integrates its real-time planning with certified system components so robots can proactively adapt motions and avoid unwanted contact with humans while accomplishing tasks. The raise occurs amid industry tailwinds, including heavy warehouse labor costs and an industrial automation market projected to grow to $306.2 billion by 2027. Realtime Robotics builds a two-part solution—RapidPlan and RapidSense—that combines proprietary hardware and software to enable motion planning and collision avoidance for robots in dynamic environments. The technology stems from research done at Duke University in 2016 and is aimed at allowing people and multiple robots to work collaboratively without expensive safety systems or time-consuming programming. The company is working with 13 customers on proof-of-concept projects with the aim of having those customers act as OEMs and sell the products. Realtime Robotics is engaging major robotics companies and several automotive firms that have an interest in collision-avoidance applications. Toyota was an early investor and other strategic robotics and automotive players have participated in recent financings. CEO Peter Howard says the company may expand into industries such as agriculture, food service, and construction once established in core markets.

Participated · Series A · Mar 2016

LifeRobotics was founded in December 2007 and is developing a co-robot named Coro for small manufacturing spaces where conventional robots are difficult to position. The Coro system lets users teach motions using a 3D mouse or a game pad without complex programming skills, targeting productivity improvements and automation in small-scale manufacturing. The founder, Dr. Woo-Keun Yoon, has over 15 years of experience studying livelihood-support robot arms at AIST and other research institutions. The company plans to use the recent funds to boost technology development and expand its sales team. LifeRobotics is hiring software and hardware engineers as well as interns to support product and commercial growth. The company aims to make cooperative robots accessible in environments that are challenging for traditional industrial robots.