Participated · Seed · Sep 2025

Le Walk develops a mobile application that delivers location-based, immersive guided experiences in major tourist destinations. Initially launched in Paris, the platform has since expanded its tours to Versailles, Florence, and Rome, with Barcelona and London slated to launch soon. The app supports 22 languages and integrates a travel-planning chatbot named Lora to help users customize itineraries. In beta, Le Walk has accumulated 110,000 downloads, more than 160,000 social followers, and over 20,000 tours taken, demonstrating early traction with travelers. The company partners with prominent creators and cultural institutions to generate its audio-visual content. Newly raised capital will be directed toward forging additional institutional partnerships, enhancing core product features, and accelerating geographic expansion. Le Walk was founded by Aaron Sekhri, Stephen Boyle, and Anthony Privitelli and operates from New York City. Prior to the current seed financing, no other funding rounds were disclosed in the article.

Participated · Seed · Sep 2024

Phacet builds personalised AI solutions and a central platform designed to help small and medium-sized enterprises identify high-impact use cases and co‑build AI applications alongside Phacet’s engineers. Customers attend an AI Bootcamp on Phacet’s platform and collaborate with the team to integrate customised applications into operations, ensuring data connectivity and cost control through a single supplier. The company emphasises augmenting human work by automating repetitive tasks while enabling employees to focus on higher-value activities. Phacet has already deployed solutions for European clients such as Smartbox across e-commerce, retail, finance and customer service. The startup aims to complete a range of ready-to-use AI applications across sectors including e-commerce/retail, industry, finance and services by 2025. The company positions itself as a partner helping SMEs move from AI interest to practical implementation.

Participated · Seed · Nov 2023

Augment builds a polished, opinionated online 'Augment MBA' consisting of videos, case studies, quizzes, written assignments and downloadable handbooks. The program is unaccredited, delivered entirely online, includes high-production videos featuring business founders and a faculty that includes Jimmy Wales, Steve Chen and Chris Barton. Augment also emphasizes community and networking and has enrolled more than 500 students in six months, about 80% of whom are from the U.S.; the core product is sold via a one-time payment ($1,750) rather than a subscription. The company plans to expand beyond its flagship program into shorter 'mini-MBA' courses, corporate offerings, bundles and other sales channels. There are high upfront content production costs that the startup aims to recover to fund expansion. Augment raised a $6 million seed round led by RTP Global to support growth.

Participated · Series A · Jul 2022

Stadium Live Studios’ flagship product, Stadium Live, is a sports community app for users ages 12 and up that lets fans customize avatars, buy digital collectibles, draft teams during live matches to earn XP, form squads, and participate in livestreams, polls, trivia and chat. The app has amassed over 500,000 users and saw average growth of 30% month-over-month during the last NBA season (Oct 2021–Apr 2022); active users spend about 35 minutes per day in the app. The company operates moderation both in‑app and on Discord with roughly 30 moderators. With the new funding, Stadium Live plans to hire engineering and product staff to build features that improve retention and monetization, ship an Android release (slated for Oct/Nov 2022), and roll out social features such as Clubs and Rooms. Stadium Live is expanding partnerships and content verticals, exemplified by a partnership to stream Fan Controlled Football matches and host league-specific rooms. The team aims to connect Gen Z fans to brands, leagues and properties and build micro‑communities within its digital playground.

Participated · Series A · May 2022

Founded in 2021 and headquartered in Paris, Upway buys used e-bikes, performs a rigorous in-house 50-point refurbishment, and resells them online with a one-year warranty and home delivery. The marketplace offers more than 200 brands and 2,500 models at an average 45% discount, saving customers roughly $1,000 per bike. To date the company has refurbished and sold over 100,000 e-bikes and saw global sales double in 2025 versus 2024, with U.S. sales set to double again in 2026. Upway operates six industrial UpCenters across Europe and the United States and plans to open six more by 2027, creating a network expected to employ more than 2,000 mechanics and operations specialists by 2030. The firm’s broader goal is to refurbish one million e-bikes annually by 2030 while adding financing, insurance, maintenance, and subscription services to its offering. Environmental impact is central to its mission, with each refurbished bike cutting CO₂ emissions by up to 90% per mile compared to cars. After the latest financing, Upway has raised more than $125 million to build what it calls the backbone of circular mobility.