• Smart AI Connect

  Participated · Seed · Apr 2026

  Smart AI Connect develops SuppliAssure, a platform that provides continuous assurance of supplier security posture using live control signals and API-driven evidence rather than point-in-time assessments. The platform targets regulated sectors, notably financial services and superannuation, and is moving toward live deployment across Australian superannuation funds. The company advanced through Fusion Venture Labs' 12-week Cyber Security Lab, partnering with institutions such as Insignia Financial and supported by Queensland Investment Corporation to validate its solution in real-world settings. Smart AI Connect presented to the Australian Superannuation Cyber Security Forum and is engaging multiple institutions for pilot deployments and broader sector rollout. The recent oversubscribed $1 million seed round, backed by UniQuest Extension Fund, Admiralty Capital Group, Torus Capital and Pipeline Capital, is intended to support commercialisation and deployment activities.

• Sydecar

  Participated · Series A · Jan 2025

  Sydecar automates banking, compliance, contracts and reporting to help venture fund and syndicate managers launch and operate SPVs and funds. The platform simplifies onboarding and the user experience for GPs and LPs and streamlines investor management, deal tracking and communications. Customers can launch an investment vehicle in a matter of hours, and Sydecar automates ongoing administration to increase compliance and reduce administrative burden. The company plans to use the new funding to expand its product suite, reach new customers and scale distribution through channel partners. Sydecar has doubled year-over-year revenue for the past two years and has surpassed $1.6B in assets under administration. Founded in 2021, the company positions itself as infrastructure that powers private markets. Sydecar provides a platform that allows investors to launch investment vehicles and navigate the regulatory challenges of venture investing. The platform automates back-office operations including banking, compliance, contracts, and reporting to remove operational burdens for emerging venture investors. Led by Founder & CEO Nik Talreja and CBO David Meister, Sydecar has supported deals ranging from $25k to $100M for thousands of investors. The company recently closed an $8.3M Seed funding round and intends to use the proceeds to hire across product and engineering, customer experience, marketing, and operations. Sydecar is based in San Francisco, CA. The planned hires and capital are aimed at expanding product and operational capacity to better serve emerging venture investors.

• Voze

  Participated · Series A · Oct 2024

  Voze is a Salt Lake City, UT–based provider of a sales solution dedicated to empowering sales professionals in gray-collar industries. Led by CEO Dan Caffee, the company offers an engagement-focused sales platform that delivers tools to improve sales habits, increase prospect access, boost visibility, and speed communication. The solution can be used as a standalone tool and supports more than 6,000 bi-directional integrations with CRMs, DMSs, ERPs, email syncing and calendars. Voze serves a customer base of more than 5,000 sales professionals across sectors including heavy equipment, commercial trucking, and commercial tire. The company raised a $12M Series A, bringing total funding to $15M, and plans to use the proceeds to expand product and engineering teams and to enhance and accelerate its solution. Management expects these investments to further increase user engagement and drive revenue growth through better sales practices and faster workflows. Voze builds AI-driven field sales software for industrial sales teams, focusing on the nuances of in-person sales and tangible product interactions. Its platform provides adaptive tools that match established sales processes and helps reps collect, process, and leverage sales data throughout the day. The software is designed to increase sales visibility, adoption, and engagement by offering tools that are actively used by reps to exceed their goals. Voze plans to use new funding to accelerate product development and expand into additional industrial sectors. The company emphasizes making a modern sales experience for an often-overlooked segment of industrial sales. Voze is based in Sandy, Utah.

• CruxOCM

  Participated · Series A · Aug 2024

  CruxOCM develops a co-pilot platform that provides real-time automation, optimization, and data connectivity for control-room operators across pipeline and energy networks. Its product suite includes pipeBOT™, maxOPT™ and leanOPT™ to drive operational and business decisions. The platform integrates cross-domain, real-time, AI-driven software to help energy organizations improve financial, sustainability, and QHSE outcomes. The company is led by CEO Vicki Knott and targets energy-industry clients. CruxOCM intends to use the new funding to deliver additional value to its energy customers and expand deployment of its co-pilot capabilities. CruxOCM builds RIPA-enabled operations control management software that automates control-room tasks for oil and refined-products pipelines, helping maximize flow rates, streamline startup/shutdown procedures, and improve safety and asset utilization. The company claims its software increases revenue and safety for critical energy infrastructure and counts early customers including Phillips 66. CruxOCM plans to refine its user experience to deliver a more off-the-shelf product and to expand into additional energy verticals. Its near-term product-market focus is on US pipelines, with plans later to enter gas pipelines, gas plants, and offshore facilities. The company has seen rapid growth over the past two years, currently has 18 employees and plans to grow to 25 by year-end to support product development and deployments.

• Champions Round

  Participated · Series A · Feb 2023

  Champions Round offers short-form "micro fantasy sports" games that can be played daily, weekly, monthly or quarterly, removing the need for season-long commitments. The app supports free and buy-in game options across multiple modes (Daily Dozen, Boost Ball, Big Board, Spicy Slips, 7 Stakes and Sunday’s Best) and currently focuses on the NFL, NBA and esports. It emphasizes creator-driven engagement and is building a Creator Rooms feature to let content creators host games, monetize audiences, and earn via engagement, sign-ups, cosmetic sales, revenue share and ad revenue. The company says it recently turned profitable, averaged 28% month-over-month growth in 2022, and has an average user age of 22 with over 10,000 downloads to date. Champions Round launched publicly in September 2021, is available worldwide on iOS and Android, and plans expansion to many more leagues by 2024. Champions Round operates a mobile fantasy sports platform offering NFL and NBA games through its app, with shorter multi-week game modes and a winner-takes-all format. Users can join public leagues or create private leagues and play for free or pay $2, $5 or $10 per entry. Founders Carter Russ and Chase Payne met in May 2018 and partnered to launch Champions Round; the app was updated the week of the article. The company reports that 58% of users are ages 13–24 and 28% are ages 25–34, but it did not disclose total participant counts. Champions Round has grown to 10 employees (up from five earlier this year) and plans to hire more engineers to improve the app. It has formed marketing partnerships with athletes including Baron Davis and a co-branding deal with YnG DnA, and it hopes to offer traditional sports betting in coming years while taking a cautious approach to NIL partnerships. Champions Round is a Los Angeles-based startup that operates a fantasy sports app focused on specific sports events. The app centers on events such as playoffs and the NFL draft and runs on both iOS and Android. The company is led by co-founder and CEO Carter Russ. In January 2021 Champions Round disclosed it had raised $1M in a seed funding round. The funding was led by Quest Venture Partners and was announced during the holidays. No revenue, user metrics, or detailed future plans were disclosed in the article.

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