The Venture Codex

Participated · Seed · Jun 2026

Lium (formerly Astromind) builds an "agentic harness" platform that creates custom AI agents to restructure raw scientific and industrial datasets—such as satellite imagery, seismic surveys, electromagnetic spectrum data, and sparse X‑ray measurements—so large language models can reason over them. The company reports early traction with paying customers, including work with astrophysicists on exoplanet X‑ray analysis, processing terabytes of satellite and weather data for the North Carolina Institute for Climate Studies, and automating electromagnetic spectrum analysis for industrial partner nexGEN Inc. Lium says its agents improve over time as more queries hit a dataset, aiming to reduce LLM hallucinations when handling complex numerical inputs. The startup raised a $5.5M seed led by SJF Ventures to launch and scale this platform. No revenue figures were disclosed in the article.

Led · Seed · Mar 2026

Pathfinder builds a financial product — the Pathfinder Education Visa Charge Card — issued by Column, N.A., Member FDIC, under license from Visa, specifically for participants in education savings account programs. The company spent two years researching families and alternative education settings to design its offering and was informed by the founder’s prior experience starting an alternative school and operating across six cities. The card is currently available to ESA participants in Arizona. Pathfinder positions itself to help scale school choice and put educational decision-making back into parents’ hands, and the recent $4M seed raise led by Gradient and Reach Capital is intended to support that expansion. The company announced numerous angel supporters and early believers alongside the funding.

Participated · Series A · Feb 2026

Founded in 2024 and headquartered in San Francisco, NationGraph makes public sector data accessible and actionable for suppliers targeting cities, counties, state agencies, schools, and special districts. The company indexes information from roughly 110,000 government entities across about four million websites and applies AI reasoning to surface actionable insights. Its core offerings include Signals, which predicts upcoming government purchasing decisions; Public Record Request Automation, which automates data extraction and delivery; and Contacts, which identifies and verifies relevant government buyers. NationGraph’s platform pushes structured intelligence directly into customers’ existing sales workflows, reducing research time and improving bid accuracy. Led by CEO Kimia Hamidi and CTO Eden Ding, the startup plans to expand data coverage, strengthen its Signals engine, and enhance user experience. To date, it has secured $22.5 million in total funding, underscoring investor confidence in its mission to streamline public-sector sales.

Participated · Series A · Feb 2026

Founded in 2023 by Jen Wirt, Coral Care delivers pediatric speech, occupational, and physical therapy directly in children’s homes while equipping clinicians with software that handles credentialing, scheduling, billing, and documentation. The company operates in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Texas, Illinois, and Pennsylvania, and has recently launched services in Dallas, Houston, Chicago, Philadelphia, and Pittsburgh. Coral Care’s network has grown to more than 400 licensed clinicians, and its platform reportedly cuts administrative workload by up to 15 hours per provider each week. More than 75% of families continue therapy for longer than four months, indicating strong engagement and retention. By embedding care in a child’s natural environment, the company aims to improve access, continuity, and contextual relevance of therapy. Coral Care plans to continue scaling its clinician base, enter additional markets, and further invest in its technology infrastructure using the newly raised capital. Its dual-sided model simultaneously increases provider supply and improves convenience for families seeking insurance-covered developmental care.

Participated · Series A · Feb 2026

Take2 is an AI agents platform focused on streamlining healthcare recruiting. Its flagship product, the AI Interviewer, autonomously conducts phone interviews around the clock, evaluates candidates, records calls, and syncs results directly into applicant tracking systems without human intervention. Trained on healthcare-specific hiring data, the system delivers predictive insights that improve quality of hire and employee retention while addressing high vacancy costs and turnover in the sector. The company already serves several of the largest U.S. health systems and reports growing adoption as organizations seek faster, more scalable staffing solutions. With new capital, Take2 intends to launch additional agents that handle sourcing, screening, credential verification, scheduling, and onboarding, moving toward fully automating the end-to-end hiring funnel. Management believes the platform can save healthcare providers millions of dollars each year by reducing manual workload and improving retention. The firm has just secured a $14 million Series A to accelerate these plans.