The Venture Codex

Participated · Equity · May 2026

Slamcore develops spatial intelligence software that uses stereo cameras and proprietary visual AI to continuously track the position and behavior of industrial vehicles without GPS, beacons, floor markers or other infrastructure. Its products, Slamcore Aware and Slamcore Alert, provide facility-wide vehicle visibility and monitor driver behavior and proximity to pedestrians and structures. The company says its solutions are deployed across more than 30 facilities in Europe and North America and have scaled to hundreds of units in under two years. Headquartered in London, Slamcore has raised a total of $40 million following the latest $14 million round. Company leadership and investors emphasize the operational datasets produced by deployments as a foundation for future physical AI applications.

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 · Equity · Apr 2026

Reliable Robotics develops the Reliable Autonomy System (RAS), an FAA-certifiable autonomy stack designed to enable fully automated aircraft operations and prevent the leading causes of aviation accidents. The company says RAS is built to integrate with certified aircraft and existing aviation infrastructure without changes to the National Airspace System. Reliable has secured commitments for over 200 systems from commercial and military customers, been selected for the Department of Transportation’s eIPP advanced aviation pilot program, and holds a contract to provide automated air cargo operations for the U.S. Air Force. The business has been advancing FAA certification—having had its certification plans and means of compliance accepted—and is delivering required compliance materials under the FAA-agreed plan. Since its last financing the company has nearly tripled its workforce and plans to use the new $160M to expand production facilities, grow headcount, and accelerate deployment toward autonomous cargo operations in 2026. The company is headquartered in Mountain View, California and maintains a distributed global workforce.

Led · Equity · Dec 2025

Realm.Security is a Boston-based cybersecurity startup building what it calls the industry’s first AI-native Security Data Pipeline Platform (SDPP). The platform automates the collection, filtering, and normalization of security logs so security teams can reduce data noise and curb expensive SIEM ingestion fees. Early customer Vensure Employer Solutions reported trimming firewall log volume by 83 %, saving $250,000 annually, illustrating the product’s cost-saving impact. The company has raised $22 million over the last 15 months and grew headcount by 250 % during 2025, underscoring rapid operational expansion. Recent leadership hires include former Cado Security SVP Holly Cappello as CRO and ex-SecurityScorecard executive Colin Jermain as VP of Data Science, reinforcing its go-to-market and AI capabilities. With new backing from Presidio Ventures, Realm plans an aggressive Asia-Pacific rollout through Sumitomo-aligned channel partners while continuing to invest in revenue, data, and AI functions.

Participated · Equity · May 2025

TrustCloud offers an AI-native security assurance platform purpose-built to help CISOs and CROs make data-driven security and risk decisions across hybrid IT environments. The platform combines AI- and API-driven automation to convert traditional GRC into a business enabler that reduces financial liability and accelerates revenue. In the last year the company introduced three capabilities—Hybrid Data Fabric, Continuous Control Monitoring on a Control Graph, and Assurance AI—to automate first‑party and third‑party risk and compliance assessments. Hybrid Data Fabric aggregates IT, business, security, and GRC data via 100+ integrations and an SDK; ConMon uses proprietary AI-driven relationship models to continuously test controls; Assurance AI applies ML, NLP, and RAG techniques over the Control Graph. Led by CEO Sravish Sridhar, TrustCloud serves hybrid enterprises and focuses on enhancing its AI capabilities and channel go-to-market motions. The company raised $15M in the reported round to support those plans. Kintent builds automation-first compliance products, including TrustShare (a live portal for sharing privacy and security information), TrustOps (tools to manage frameworks like CCPA and GDPR) and Respond, an AI engine that drafts answers to security questionnaires. The company emphasizes programmatic, truthful sharing of security and compliance information between vendors and customers. Kintent has grown quickly, reaching over $1M in annual recurring revenue within 12 months and serving more than 80 organizations, including Evisort, Jeeves, Snyk, Notarize and DataRobot. Founder and CEO Sravish Sridhar started Kintent in 2019 after co-founding Seven Numerals and Kinvey (the latter was acquired by Progress in 2017). The company plans to expand headcount from about 25 to between 50 and 60 by year-end and to invest in product expansion and support for additional compliance standards. Kintent intends to apply its automation and AI to reduce the manual burden of lengthy security questionnaires and to help CISOs transform compliance from a cost center into a trust and revenue enabler. Kintent’s core product, Trust Cloud, automates the tedious process of answering security and privacy compliance questionnaires by mapping systems and data to desired standards, generating remediation best practices, and continuously testing for validation. The platform assesses a customer’s technology landscape, classifies stored data (including PHI where relevant), and produces actionable recommendations to improve compliance. The company launched in 2019, developed the product in early 2020, and began selling in October 2020. As of the article, Kintent has 35 paying customers, 14 employees, and is in the high six figures in revenue, growing roughly 20–30% month‑over‑month since launch. CEO Sravish Sridhar, who previously sold Kinvey to Progress Software in 2017, says the seed will support hiring and continued product development. Kintent is also building a free DEI component for Trust Cloud to provide diversity metrics and reporting.