Participated · Seed · Apr 2026

Cloneable builds agentic AI and field-to-office automation that captures expert institutional knowledge and deploys it as specialized agents. Its Cloneable Agent product creates back-office agents by shadowing experts in their existing desktop or web software, and the company also offers a field platform launched in 2025 for in-field data capture and inspections. At launch the company provided purpose-built templates for energy workflows and reports time-to-value in as little as 24 hours. Cloneable says dozens of customers use its platform, including utilities, ISPs, engineering firms, and agribusinesses. The company was founded in 2023 and is based in Raleigh, N.C., and has raised $4.6 million in a seed round—bringing total venture funding to $5.35 million. Cloneable plans to use its recent financing to expand across infrastructure-intensive markets that it describes as chronically underserved by point solutions.

Participated · Series A · Aug 2025

Verdata provides proprietary commercial risk data and analytics to automate partner assessments and continuous monitoring across the B2B relationship lifecycle. Its platform delivers verified cross-industry insights on business identity, financial stability, service reliability, and regulatory compliance, supported by a proprietary network of more than 20 million active U.S. businesses. The company’s solutions are used in SMB lending, POS financing, commercial insurance, and embedded finance to reduce fraud, manage compliance, and prioritize high-impact workflows. Verdata announced an $8 million Series A to accelerate product innovation, strengthen customer support, and extend its reach across key industries. The platform aims to reduce manual intervention, mitigate fraud and compliance risks, and unlock new revenue opportunities through scalable, objective risk assessments. Verdata provides a counterparty data and insight network that helps finance and payments companies mitigate risk through a proprietary contributed database augmented with public and third‑party fraud, licensing, and verification data. The platform delivers deep behavioral insights and comprehensive predictive analytic solutions for retail financing companies, payment service providers and SME lenders. Initial core products include a partner onboarding platform plus continuous monitoring and notification capabilities across a company’s partner portfolio. Verdata also offers a Complaint Hub that provides unified communication, workflow efficiencies, seller-centric visibility, and insights for managing consumer-related disputes and complaints. The company is led by CEO Mike Mondelli and is based in Atlanta, GA. Verdata raised seed funding and intends to use the proceeds to continue expanding operations and its business reach.

Participated · Seed · Jul 2025

Franzy operates an AI-powered marketplace that delivers personalized franchise matching for new units via its proprietary Fit Score, AI-powered recommendations, and expert coaching. The platform hosts in-depth profiles for 3,000+ brands and provides guidance to prospective franchisees. Franzy plans to launch the first dedicated franchise resale marketplace to enable buyers to purchase existing franchise units, compare opportunities with verified financials, and complete secure, data-driven transactions. The company positions itself as digital infrastructure for franchising, aiming to bring transparency, liquidity, and structured exits to a fragmented secondary market. Franzy says its mission is to help more people become business owners and to empower one million people to own their future through business ownership. Since launching in January 2025 the company has attracted over 3,000 prospective franchisees and achieved 309% growth in its user base. Franzy is an AI-powered marketplace that streamlines the process of buying franchise businesses. The platform matches users with franchising opportunities using a proprietary Franzy Fit Score that analyzes thousands of data points to predict likelihood of success and align brands to users’ interests, investment level, and location. Franzy provides due-diligence materials — financials, Franchise Disclosure Document data, franchisee testimonials and other information — to increase transparency and help users bypass traditional franchise brokers. The company reports more than 3,000 participating franchise brands and says its sourcing process is four times faster than traditional methods. Franzy launched after a $1 million pre-seed raise and has a stated goal of creating one million entrepreneurs. Founder Alex Smereczniak built Franzy from experience scaling LaundroLab, a $100 million franchise business that raised $30 million in venture capital and sold over 100 licenses with more than 25 stores opened.

Participated · Series A · May 2025

BreachRx offers a secure, central workspace that enables real-time, cross-functional collaboration during cybersecurity incidents by defining roles, responsibilities, timelines, and workflows. Its platform automatically generates tailored incident response playbooks, provides targeted guidance to stakeholders, and includes integrated privileged communication channels and audit trails. The company markets patented technology designed to bring operational resilience before, during, and after incidents, and to produce reports for boards, auditors, and regulators. BreachRx has achieved more than 3x year-over-year ARR growth for the second consecutive year and currently serves more than 100 customers, including publicly traded and Fortune 500 companies across financial services, technology, healthcare, and critical infrastructure. The team plans to use new funding to scale go-to-market and engineering teams to accelerate adoption and product innovation. Andy Lunsford (CEO and co-founder) and Matt Hartley (co-founder) lead the company from its San Francisco base. BreachRx offers a patented intelligent incident response platform that automatically generates tailored incident response plans and delivers targeted guidance to relevant stakeholders through every step of a breach. The platform includes integrated privileged communication channels and audit trails to ensure compliance with evolving regulations. It is positioned to proactively protect CISOs and executive leadership from personal liability. BreachRx serves more than 70 customers, including publicly traded and Fortune 500 companies. The company announced executive and board additions, including former Uber CSO Joe Sullivan as senior advisor, Tim McKnight (SYN Ventures) to the board, and Art Coviello as board observer. BreachRx is based in San Francisco and plans to use new funding to scale its go-to-market and engineering teams.

Led · Seed · Feb 2025

Pickleheads operates a leading website and mobile app that helps players find courts, organize games, collect payments, run round robins, and recruit local players. The company is positioning itself as a complete platform to power recreational play and is introducing level-based formats to create balanced, competitive games. Pickleheads reports 9 million visits last year, is the #1 mobile app for pickleball, and served nearly 1 million players per month. It has 354,000 registered users, growing 405% year-over-year, and is the official court and game finder of USA Pickleball and the Global Pickleball Federation. The company says the funding will help enhance the on-court experience through technology and expand its product beyond a court finder into structured programming. Pickleheads is hiring for remote roles as it scales its team. Pickleheads is an Atlanta-based startup that offers a platform to help pickleball players find local courts and connect with nearby players. The company first introduced a court finder last summer and says thousands of players use the site every day. On Feb. 21, 2023 Pickleheads released new scheduling and group management tools that let organizers post schedules, collect signups, and manage waitlists. The startup quietly raised pre-seed funding last fall from Ardent Venture Partners, Overline, and Kevin Durant's and Rich Kleiman's Boardroom Pickleball to support growth and its technology roadmap. Planned roadmap items include flex leagues, an instructor marketplace, and other tools to enhance the on-court experience. The company was founded by Max Ade, Brandon Mackie, and Ian Langworth and positions itself as a digital home and operating system for pickleball players and organizers.