Participated · Equity · May 2026

Nord Quantique develops a hardware-efficient quantum computing architecture that embeds error correction at the individual qubit level using superconducting bosonic codes. Its design targets a 1:1 logical-to-physical qubit ratio to reduce physical qubit overhead and capital requirements compared with legacy quantum systems. The architecture is said to enable faster clock speeds and data-center-compatible scaling. The company is led by co-founder and CEO Julien Camirand Lemyre and is based in Sherbrooke, Quebec. Financially, Nord Quantique recently raised $30M in growth equity at a $1.4B valuation, and previously secured $16M from the Canadian Quantum Champions Program and $5M in active DARPA Stage B funding with potential for further DARPA funding. The company plans to use recent proceeds to scale engineering operations and advance toward commercially viable, fault-tolerant quantum computers by 2030.

Participated · Seed · May 2026

Ranger AI builds an autonomous software infrastructure that deploys specialized AI agents trained on each organization’s technical blueprints to manage workflows from Inquiry to Order for complex RFPs, Order to Remittance, and technical and commercial bid evaluations. The platform is designed to replace manual, fragmented workflows across the industrial revenue cycle and has been deployed on more than 1,000 projects. Customers cited in the article include Celeros Flow, Farabi Petrochemical, MRP Solutions, and Pace Solutions, and the company reports accelerating tendering timelines by up to 50% for those users. Led by founder and CEO James Zhan and based in San Francisco, Ranger AI plans to broaden platform deployment across legal, engineering, and commercial workflows and to expand its engineering team. The company’s immediate financial plan includes using the newly raised seed capital to advance its agentic operating system and scale deployments.

Participated · Seed · May 2026

InstaSwitch builds software that automates the full switching process for business bank accounts, updating income, payroll, and payment instructions and guiding users through remaining steps to turn open accounts into activated primary accounts. The company says income and payment instructions update in under 30 seconds once its platform is deployed. InstaSwitch cites a market gap where roughly 5.4 million U.S. small businesses attempt to switch banks annually but most never complete the move. Early customers include Arc, Relay Financial, and Lettuce Financial; Arc reported activated accounts with operating balances 13.1 times the average, while Lettuce reported thousands of completed migrations and completion rates above 80%. The company was founded by Daniel West and operates from New York with an additional office in Chicago. Its stated plan following the seed raise is to scale partnerships across fintechs, regional banks, and community banks.

Participated · Series A · Apr 2026

Featherless.ai operates a serverless inference platform designed to make open-source AI models production-ready and accessible at scale. The platform supports over 30,000 open models across language, vision, and audio and is described as the fastest-growing Hugging Face inference partner. The founding team created RWKV, an open-source architecture intended to provide an alternative to transformer dominance. Featherless.ai positions itself as a neutral layer unaligned with any hyperscaler or proprietary ecosystem and hosts core infrastructure in the US and EU while maintaining a global team. It pursues hardware diversity through a strategic collaboration with AMD to run popular open models natively on AMD ROCm. The company plans to launch a marketplace for specialized open models and deepen integrations with diverse hardware to lower inference costs and expand enterprise adoption. Financially, it recently completed a $20M Series A led by strategic corporate venture investors.

Participated · Seed · Apr 2026

Soma Energy provides a platform that uses AI-driven real-time dispatch and control to optimize generation, battery storage, and load across sites or pools of data centers. The technology connects on-site generation, storage, and load into a single control layer to enable facilities to act as flexible grid assets and to help power producers lower cost per MWh and reduce price volatility. Today the company is optimizing two gigawatts of electricity for power-producing clients and is actively working with five data center customers. Soma intends to use its recent funding to grow engineering and commercial teams and to accelerate deployments across North America. The company is led by CEO Ath Caramanolis, CTO Mario Souto, Ph.D., and Chief AI Scientist Henrique Hoeltgebaum, Ph.D.