Participated · Series B · Apr 2024

Oden Technologies provides AI-driven solutions that transform complex manufacturing data into actionable insights for front-line workers. Its platform delivers real-time process recommendations and predicted outcomes directly to operators, ensuring they have the exact information needed to achieve peak production. Led by CEO Willem Sundblad, the company focuses on applying AI to resolve an industry-wide productivity plateau. Oden intends to use the new funding to accelerate development of AI products that address pressing manufacturing pain points. Financially, the company completed a $28.5M Series B to support that product roadmap. Oden Technologies builds retrofittable Industrial IoT hardware paired with a cloud analytics platform and software adaptors that integrate ERP and quality-control systems to give manufacturers real-time factory-floor visibility. Its device plugs into a wide range of machines to capture process, health and quality metrics (for example melt pressure, temperature profiles, dimensional readouts, RPM, motor load and production speed). Oden analyzes that raw data to surface alerts, identify defects and degrading performance, and recommend throughput and uptime optimizations that reduce waste and increase efficiency. The company positions its offering as enabling "perfect production": faster, cheaper manufacturing with less scrap. Oden recently hired Deepak Turaga as VP of Data Science to advance its machine‑learning and AI capabilities. It will use new funding to expand R&D and engineering in New York and to grow sales teams in manufacturing hubs across Illinois, Ohio and Texas.

Led · Series A · Nov 2022

Rep Data operates Research Defender, an advanced fraud-detection platform, and Research Desk, a centralized research platform that integrates real-time fraud controls, multi-source sampling, and automated reconciliations. Research Defender analyzed 2.9 billion security scans in 2024, helping to identify and block fraudulent responses from tech-enabled fraudsters, professional survey takers, and click farms. The company sells tech-enabled research services and partners with market research agencies, consultancies, Fortune 500 companies, advertisers, and universities. The new growth investment will be used to advance fraud-prevention technology, expand tech-enabled services, and broaden global sourcing to improve data reliability and speed to insights. Rep Data emphasizes reducing operational complexity for clients and strengthening research accuracy through integrated fraud mitigation and centralized execution. Rep Data provides service data collection solutions that expedite data collection for primary quantitative research studies. Led by founder and CEO Patrick Stokes, the company serves market research agencies, consultancies, Fortune 500 firms, advertising and communications agencies, universities, and other clients. Rep Data plans to use the new funding to continue building solutions that address critical industry needs and to expand its sales and client services teams. The company was founded in 2020 and has grown organically since inception. Rep Data reported year-over-year revenue growth of 140%, has grown its team to 43 people, and has served 350 clients globally.

Led · Equity · Jun 2022

Zello offers a voice-first instant communication platform powered by push-to-talk technology that connects deskless and operations teams with one touch. The company reports over 5 million monthly active users, 170 million registered users, and supports 8 billion voice messages per month, with over 1 million new app downloads a month. Zello advertises 99.99% uptime and lists enterprise customers including PepsiCo, Bechtel, Waste Connections, the Salling Group, Lufthansa, Hyatt, Yellow, Hilton, Cemex, and Holcim. It provides its enterprise platform at no cost to qualified first responders through a program that now supports over 1,500 organizations across 65 countries. Zello says it began as a social radio with consumer growth DNA and has since transformed into business uses for retail, transportation, construction and hospitality. The company raised capital to support continued expansion of its voice-first communications for frontline workforces worldwide.

Led · Equity · Sep 2021

Hanzo develops software to preserve, collect, review, and export dynamic, complex collaboration and web-based data sources for legal, compliance, HR, and security teams. Its platform brings in-house control over sources such as Slack, Google Workspace, Confluence, Jira, and Trello to enable defensible preservation, targeted collection, and efficient review. Hanzo positions its product as a purpose-built ediscovery and compliance solution for increasingly digital-first workplaces. The company is SOC 2 Type 2 certified and serves large corporations worldwide. Hanzo plans to invest significantly in product development to expand and enhance its collaboration application ediscovery capabilities, and to grow its sales, marketing, and support teams. The announcement frames the funding as enabling the company to simplify management of complex enterprise data and meet strong market demand.

Led · Series A · Mar 2021

Founded in 2016, 101edu offers a mobile-first courseware platform that delivers active learning, homework, and assessment tools to help students visualize and interact with STEM concepts. Its first product, Chem101, is adopted by over 1,500 chemistry faculty at 400+ colleges and universities across North America. Chem101 is used alongside publisher textbooks and is directly integrated with free OER textbooks such as OpenStax Chemistry to reduce student course material costs. The platform enables instructors to engage students during and after class with real-time digital learning activities, online homework, timed quizzes, and extra practice. The company plans to use new funding to accelerate growth and expand into other STEM disciplines and markets. 101edu is headquartered in New York City and was founded by Dr. Justin Weinberg and Igor Belyayev.