Participated · Series A · Jun 2026

Board makes a 24-inch touchscreen in a wood-finish frame that uses proprietary technology to recognize physical game pieces, combining tactile board-game elements with interactive digital experiences. Founded by Brynn Putnam, the company is three years old and based in New York; Putnam previously sold Mirror to Lululemon for $500 million. Board reports strong early traction, with the device deployed in tens of thousands of homes, schools, hospitals, and restaurants across all 50 states and 85% of customers averaging 30 or more play sessions per month. The company previously raised $15 million in a round led by Lerer Hippeau. As part of its product roadmap, Board plans to launch Board Studio, an AI-powered game-creation platform, later this year.

Led · Series A · Nov 2025

Flint builds an AI-powered learning platform that helps teachers tailor lessons, boost engagement, and raise test scores for K-12 students. Its toolkit lets students practice speaking hundreds of languages, role-play historical events, receive instant writing and coding feedback, run guided science labs, and create shareable projects within their school community. Educators can turn creative ideas into interactive assignments while the system adapts content to each student’s skill level. The product is led by co-founders Sohan Choudhury (CEO) and Jinseo Park (CTO). With the newly announced $15 million Series A, the company plans to expand operations and accelerate product development. Previous participation in Y Combinator indicates early backing, though revenue and user figures have not been disclosed. The fresh capital positions Flint to deepen its AI capabilities and scale adoption across more schools.

Led · Seed · Oct 2025

Sweatpals operates a platform where users can discover and host in-person fitness classes, events, and communities, positioning exercise as the new social venue in what it calls the "daylife" movement. Co-founded by Salar Shahini and Mandi Zhou and headquartered in Austin, the company lets gyms, studios, instructors, and everyday enthusiasts list activities while earning income and attracting new members. According to the company, hosts on Sweatpals see an average 30% increase in customers, and the service is already active in 24 U.S. cities. Fresh capital will fund expansion into 12 additional markets by early 2026 and the rollout of new studio tools, host-monetization features, and social functionality. Investors view Sweatpals as enabling real-world community formation with built-in monetization, contrasting with purely digital social products. Including the latest financing, Sweatpals has raised $17.2 million to date, underscoring growing investor confidence in wellness-centric social platforms.

Participated · Seed · Oct 2025

Founded in 2023, ego AI is building a next-generation character engine powered by a proprietary foundation model that blends small language models with reinforcement learning to generate human-like behavior. Its flagship product, character.world, lets developers embed lifelike AI characters into games, while the open-source Character Context Protocol (CCP) preserves personalities, memories, and relationships as characters move across Discord servers, streaming platforms, and other digital environments. The company has demonstrated early market traction, attracting more than one million users to its initial Roblox experience within the first month and rolling out a Discord character game in partnership with MEE6. ego AI is preparing to launch “Accomplice,” an AI-powered social deduction game that will debut on Discord with a planned Steam release. To support compute-intensive model training and serving, ego AI collaborates with AI Singapore, the National University of Singapore, and Nanyang Technological University. Headquartered in San Francisco with research teams in Singapore and Tokyo, the company recently secured $6.7 million in seed capital to expand research and engineering and further train its foundation model.

Led · Seed · Jun 2025

Chronicle Studios is a VC-backed entertainment studio based in Los Angeles that partners with creators to develop original storyworlds and franchises. Founded by entertainment veteran Chris deFaria and tech entrepreneur Aaron Sisto, the studio focuses on elevating new storytellers and tapping audience communities on social platforms. Its entry point is animation; the growing slate includes two animated feature films slated for release via original content on YouTube and a live-action science fiction film tied to an upcoming web series. Chronicle leverages a proprietary promotion and analytics platform and is building AI-enabled tools to amplify creator-led stories. The company aims to pioneer a new model for franchise creation through early creator partnerships and strategic investment in original IP, targeting film, games, comics, and television.