Participated · Series A · Feb 2025

SingleFile provides automated compliance solutions designed to help businesses navigate complex regulatory environments. Led by CEO Aaron Finn, the company emphasizes innovation and customer success in legal and compliance technology. It intends to use the $9M Series A to expand operations and IT development efforts. The company added Mindy Lauck as Chief Product Officer and Teresa Kotwis as Chief Financial Officer. Since its 2019 founding, SingleFile has raised over $24M in total funding, including $15M in the past 12 months. The article does not disclose revenue or user metrics. SingleFile provides cloud-based compliance software to automate filings to local, state, and federal agencies, aiming to replace email, PDFs, and spreadsheets in the compliance process. Its product set covers Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) compliance, company formation documents, business license renewals, employee-related filings, and state franchise, excise and use taxes. The startup sells to law firms (including Wilson Sonsini, Fenwick and Gunderson Dettmer) and customers in venture capital, private equity and real estate. SingleFile positions itself as the “Stripe of compliance,” seeking to pull company data from systems of record and pass it to government agencies with minimal human interaction. The company is focused on the U.S. market, was incubated out of Pioneer Square Labs, and employs more than 25 people. CEO Aaron Finn (joined 2021) and founder/CL O Sean Flynn are leading growth as regulatory changes such as the CTA create demand tailwinds. SingleFile provides technology that files formation documents and annual reports with secretary of state offices, effectively acting as a registered‑agent and compliance filing platform. Its service is used by law firms (including Wilson Sonsini, Fenwick and Gunderson Dettmer) and by customers across venture capital, private equity and real estate. Customers named in the article include Techstars, AngelList, High Alpha Innovation and Pacific Current Partners. The company spun out of Pioneer Square Labs and is a Seattle‑based business; Wilson Sonsini is both a partner on its Neuron startup platform and an investor. SingleFile has 10 full‑time employees, and CEO Aaron Finn said revenue has grown 3X in the past 18 months. Founder Sean Flynn remains with the company as chief growth officer; Finn joined as CEO in 2021. SingleFile is a Seattle-based startup offering an online filing and registered agent platform that simplifies filing and compliance workflows for companies and law firms. The company launched its beta product in 2019 and has processed thousands of orders from hundreds of customers. It works with six national law firms and is a technology partner for Wilson Sonsini’s Neuron startup platform. Law firms use SingleFile to file formation documents, act as registered agent, and track and file annual reports to avoid falling out of good standing. The company has 10 employees and expects to add three or four more in the near term. Management was bolstered with Aaron Finn named CEO while founder Sean Flynn shifted to chief growth officer to focus on customer acquisition and operations; the new capital is intended to scale the business and accelerate growth.

Participated · Series B · Jan 2024

weavix provides a platform that leverages AI to analyze frontline efficiency and safety data and give executives visibility into their facilities. The platform outfits the workforce with a walt® smart radio to increase collaboration across facilities. It is designed to enhance safety protocols, create a culture of retainment, and deliver data-driven insights that weave systems, processes, and people together. weavix sells into industries including manufacturing, construction, food and beverage production, hospitality, and energy. The company plans to use new funding to expand product offerings and strengthen its market presence. weavix recently raised $23.6M in a Series B to support scaling operations across the United States. weavix provides an Internet of Workers™ platform and the walt™ smart radio that create an enterprise communication ecosystem and generate frontline efficiency and safety data. The platform, powered by Microsoft Azure® private multi-access edge compute (MEC) solutions, delivers data-driven insights and visibility across facilities and teams to maximize productivity. weavix's capabilities include Enterprise‑Vital Push‑to‑Three (EVPT3) and other multimedia features. Led by Founder and CEO Kevin Turpin, the company focuses on transforming communication, safety and productivity for frontline operations. It raised $10M in a Series A round led by Koch Disruptive Technologies to accelerate growth of its communication, safety and productivity platform and further develop the walt™ smart radio. Koch Disruptive Technologies is the growth and venture arm of Koch Industries and is a fellow Wichita company.

Participated · Seed · Jan 2020

dot.LA is a news and events company dedicated to covering L.A.’s startup and tech ecosystem. The company, launching in 2020 and co‑founded by Spencer Rascoff, will report on new companies, funding rounds and other aspects of the local startup community and will host events to bring the community together. At launch its newsroom will have at least five journalists and it is actively hiring additional reporters and editors. Its editor‑in‑chief is Joe Bel Bruno; other journalists named include Tami Abdollah, Ben Bergman, Rachel Uranga and Eric Zassenhaus. dot.LA closed a $4M seed funding round to support its launch.

Participated · Seed · Aug 2017

Drive Motors builds e-commerce experiences for auto dealerships, providing an online-checkout system that integrates into dealership websites and showrooms and turns dealers into e-commerce destinations. For buyers the company offers an end-to-end checkout that removes showroom sales pressure and enables purchasing from home. The company is led by founder and CEO Aaron Krane and is based in San Francisco, CA. Since completing Y Combinator’s 2016 incubator program, Drive Motors has grown to over 1,000 car orders per month and $250M in annual order volume for its dealership customers. The company will use the new funding to expand its dealership network and develop additional features to streamline the car-ownership experience. Operational metrics indicate substantial transaction volume through its dealer partners, underpinning its product-market fit in the dealer e-commerce segment. Drive Motors provides a dealer‑side SaaS plugin that lets shoppers configure options, set up financing, trade in vehicles, and complete payment online so buyers only need to pick up the car at the lot. The product integrates with dealers’ existing systems so dealerships do not have to change their workflows and Drive does not take a cut of sales. The company charges dealerships a $695 per month licensing fee and says that pricing will make it profitable by Demo Day. Early traction includes a pilot with a single dealer and more than 50 dealerships signed in the six months after the pilot. The startup positions itself to expand beyond transactions into service, maintenance, valet/towing integrations and insurance (including potential per‑mile insurance partnerships). Founder Aaron Krane built the product after selling his prior startup and serving as an entrepreneur‑in‑residence at Khosla Ventures.