• Cashmere

  Participated · Seed · Jan 2026

  Cashmere operates a proprietary OmniPub infrastructure that converts premium content into structured, rights-cleared datasets usable by AI systems. Its platform offers token-level access control, automated rights management, granular usage tracking, and revenue settlement, enabling publishers to monetize their intellectual property while maintaining protection. For AI companies, Cashmere supplies scarce, authoritative material that boosts model quality and differentiation beyond ordinary web-crawled data. The company has inked content partnerships with John Wiley & Sons and Harvard Business Publishing and already serves AI clients such as Perplexity. NAVER’s venture arm plans to collaborate with Cashmere, potentially integrating the platform into NAVER’s search and content products. Strengthened by a newly announced $5 million seed round, Cashmere aims to establish itself as the industry standard for licensing premium data to the AI ecosystem.

• GoDaddy

  Led · Series A · Feb 2025

  PLAiR’s core product is a dolphin-fin-shaped USB dongle that plugs into a TV and, once connected to Wi-Fi via a companion mobile app, lets users send photos and videos from computers, tablets, or phones directly to the big screen. Priced in the $59–$79 range, the device seeks to differentiate itself from Apple TV and Roku by allowing playback of almost any online or mobile content rather than being limited to pre-approved apps. PLAiR supports iOS and Android apps as well as browser extensions for creating and managing video playlists, and multiple dongles can be linked to beam content to several TVs simultaneously. The company has raised $2.1 million to finance the product’s rollout. While specific revenue, user numbers, founding date, and location were not disclosed, the firm is positioning its affordable, platform-agnostic hardware as an alternative to Apple’s AirPlay ecosystem and other set-top streaming solutions.

• HowNow

  Led · Series A · Feb 2025

  HowNow is an AI-powered learning and knowledge management platform headquartered in London. The product helps businesses and teams upskill, share knowledge, and access relevant learning resources efficiently, creating a smarter, more accessible way to learn and improve productivity. The company partners with Pearson and has clients including TomTom, MoneyBox, Bausch & Lomb, UKTV, and Good Energy; it also works with Pearson to deliver the UK Government's Learning and Skills Platform. HowNow completed a £7.5M Series A in February 2023 and has total funding to date of over £10M. The majority of investment is being used to drive product development and continued AI integration. Co-founder & CEO Nelson Sivalingam has set a goal to upskill 10 million people by 2030. The UK's EdTech market was valued at approximately $6.73B in 2023 and is projected to grow at a CAGR exceeding 10% from 2023 to 2028. HowNow is a learning experience platform (LXP) that helps organisations onboard, upskill and support employees faster by connecting every employee with learning opportunities, skills and knowledge in the flow of work. Led by CEO and co-founder Nelson Sivalingam, the platform is used by over 100 organisations across more than 150 countries, including Depop, Vanmoof, Permutive, Checkout.com, Mercer, Telenor, Sanofi and Investec. The company provides tools to engage, retain and develop employees through integrated learning and skills features. HowNow intends to use new funding to expand internationally and grow its team. It plans to develop features that scale knowledge sharing, make it easier to measure impact, and better connect learning and skills into the overall employee experience. HowNow is an integrated workforce learning platform that aggregates and autonomously organises learning resources from internal sources, external content libraries, blogs, podcasts and peer-shared ‘nuggets’. The product uses a browser extension, integrations with Slack, Salesforce, HubSpot and more than 300 other apps, and machine learning to push contextually relevant content to employees. It builds user skill profiles from self-review, peer-review and real-time job‑market data, monitoring more than 20,000 job specifications and offering real-time analytics and built-in certification to identify skills gaps. Employees can access recommendations inside the applications they already use and convert colleague messages into stored learning nuggets. Customers include fast-growing companies like GymShark; HowNow says it has more than 500,000 users across over 125 businesses in 14 countries. The company sells via a per-user licence fee and has raised capital to date, including a recent $3M pre-series A.

• Acadeum

  Participated · Series B · May 2023

  Acadeum operates a course-sharing platform that enables higher-education institutions to create academic partnerships and place students in online courses. More than 460 colleges and universities use its network to provide access to needed courses. The platform supports a wide range of learners, including high school students and full-time workers, to help them stay on track for timely graduation. Acadeum’s technology also supports sharing across national and regional consortia, including CIC, League for Innovation in the Community College, and the Southern Regional Education Board’s HBCU‑MSI consortium. The company has partnered with Coursera to expand institutions’ offerings of professional certificates aligned with workforce needs. Acadeum is led by CEO David Daniels and is based in Austin, TX. Acadeum operates Course Share, a marketplace that enables colleges and universities to form course-sharing consortia and allow students to access online courses from other institutions. The platform provides a global catalog of more than 40,000 online courses and powers consortia created by associations including the Council of Independent Colleges, the League for Innovation, the Council for Christian Colleges & Universities, and the Digital Higher Education Consortium of Texas. More than 300 colleges and universities use Acadeum’s cross-enrollment platform and over 14,000 students have taken courses shared through it. Founded in 2016 and led by CEO Josh Pierce, the company is based in Austin, Texas. In March 2021 Acadeum raised $5M in funding. Backers named in the raise included Rethink Education, Socratic Ventures, Lumina Foundation and LearnStart. Acadeum develops the Academic Sharing Platform™, a consortial course‑sharing system that lets faculty review and select courses from participating institutions that count toward graduation, GPA, and financial aid. The platform facilitates exchange of academic resources, student and enrollment data, and financial payments among member colleges and universities. Founded in 2016 and based in Austin, Texas, Acadeum supports formation of consortia including the Council of Independent Colleges, the Council for Christian Colleges & Universities, and Digitex. To date the platform has powered more than 150 separate consortia and enabled 5,000 students to complete courses. Institutions using the model have collectively generated over $10 million in additional revenue and used the approach to advance retention and graduation solutions. The company plans to use the new funding to grow and strengthen communities of course‑sharing institutions and expand use of best practices through the consortial model.

• Plum.io

  Led · Equity · Feb 2023

  Plum offers a software-as-a-service platform that measures talents such as adaptability, innovation, and communication to generate predictive data on employee fit for hiring, learning and development, workforce planning, and leadership identification. The product combines artificial intelligence with industrial/organizational psychology and integrates directly with SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting to embed its assessments into existing HR workflows. Enterprise customers cited in the article include Bloomberg, Intact Insurance, and Deloitte, underscoring early traction among major employers. The 21-person company plans to use new capital to expand its team and deepen its partnership with SAP, potentially broadening distribution through the SAP ecosystem. CEO Caitlin MacGregor leads the firm from Waterloo, Canada. To date, Plum has raised a total of $6.1 million across angel and seed rounds, providing runway for continued product development and go-to-market expansion. No revenue or user figures were disclosed in the article.

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