Participated · Series E · Feb 2026

Founded in 2017 and based in Palo Alto, SambaNova designs and sells AI systems such as the SN40L and the next-generation SN50 for high-performance inference and model serving. The SN40L launched in September 2023 and became available on-premises in November 2023; the SN50 was unveiled in February 2026 and is due to begin shipping to customers in the second half of 2026 with SoftBank as its first deployment partner. SambaNova positions itself as a provider of “premium inference,” claiming the ability to fit multi-trillion-parameter models onto a single rack to run them quickly. The company has commercial wins including JPMorgan Chase, Saudi Aramco, Intel, and other Japanese firms. It has a multi-year partnership with Intel that includes co-developing products and go-to-market efforts, and it says current funding will help scale operations and secure its supply chain to meet strong demand.

Led · Series C · Mar 2022

Balbix offers the Balbix Security Cloud, a cybersecurity posture automation platform that uses AI and automation to help organizations inventory cloud and on-prem assets, run risk-based vulnerability management, and quantify cyber risk in monetary terms. Led by CEO and founder Gaurav Banga, the company plans to use the funds to build out go-to-market capabilities and continue engineering investments across unified asset inventory, software bill of materials (SBOM), vulnerability management, cyber risk quantification and security posture automation. The Series C follows growth in annual recurring revenue over the prior twelve months and four multi-million-dollar deals closed with Fortune 100 companies. Balbix launched an automated cyber risk quantification solution and reported more than 200% growth in new enterprise customers across the Americas, Asia, Europe, Middle East and Africa. The company has expanded its partner ecosystem with a new AWS integration and a partnership with global MSSP Microland. Balbix offers a predictive cybersecurity platform that uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to map an organization’s attack surface and surface prioritized vulnerabilities. The system integrates with existing operational security products to provide real-time visibility, reactive responses, and risk insights for stakeholders. Balbix’s approach measures a wide range of signals—from OS versions and weak passwords to poorly secured endpoints—so teams can decide and prioritize remediation based on data. The company does not charge by security event, aligning its incentives with breach prevention. Customers include enterprise organizations and global managed security service providers, and Balbix says it has international reach in sales. For now the company maintains a single office in San Jose but is weighing opening international offices to support growth. Balbix offers a predictive breach-risk platform that calculates and visualizes an enterprise’s cyber-breach risk and resilience across all devices, users and apps in an extended network. The system is designed to help CISOs and CIOs predict top breach scenarios, prioritize security mitigations and provide risk insights to prevent incidents before attacks occur. The company has just officially launched this platform and is using external funding to continue product development and expand operations. Balbix is led by founder and CEO Gaurav Banga. The company is based in San Jose, California.

Led · Series A · Nov 2021

Lumigo provides a cloud-native observability platform focused on monitoring, distributed tracing and debugging for modern cloud applications. It began with a focus on serverless platforms and integrations for AWS services such as API Gateway, DynamoDB, S3 and Lambda. The company is expanding its SaaS to cover containers, Kubernetes and virtual machines. Lumigo offers a paid SaaS service with a free tier and a free command-line tool for analyzing and tuning AWS Lambda and Kinesis-based services. Notable customers include Medtronic, Vimeo and Sonos. The company will use new funding to double its 30-person team and build out marketing, product and engineering headcount. Lumigo builds a visual-mapping monitoring platform that shows operations teams exactly what’s happening inside serverless applications and traces requests across adjacent services like databases and storage. The product surfaces end-to-end request paths to help teams identify root causes in environments using AWS Lambda and similar services. The company emerged from stealth and was founded by ex-Checkpoint executives Erez Berkner and Aviad Mor. For now Lumigo is working primarily with AWS but plans to add support for other cloud platforms. The founders also intend to expand beyond serverless to monitor containers and API services such as Twilio and Stripe. The startup has eight employees and about a dozen customers; the new funding is intended to hire more engineers and further develop the product.

Led · Series A · Sep 2021

DataChat provides an all-in-one data analytics platform that enables businesses to collect data and make data-driven decisions by chatting with the system using controlled natural language. The product targets nontechnical users who need simple, conversational access to analytics. The company was started as a spin-out from the University of Wisconsin and maintains its headquarters in Madison, Wis. Jignesh Patel is the CEO and co-founder. DataChat has previously received support from America’s Seed Fund and the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF). In July 2021 the company announced a $25M Series A round to advance its offering and operations. DataChat provides a Conversational Intelligence platform that lets business users obtain insights from their data by chatting with the platform, no coding required. Led by CEO and co-founder Jignesh Patel, the company targets non-technical users who need accessible analytics. DataChat closed a $4M seed funding round in October 2020. The round was led by WRVI Capital and Nepenthe Capital, with other participants including individual investors from Google and Palo Alto Networks. The company plans to use the proceeds to scale its team and expand its customer base.

Participated · Series A · Feb 2021

Katana Graph provides graph-processing software that lets businesses ingest and analyze very large unstructured datasets in memory. The platform works in Python and compiles data using C++ to accelerate ingest and processing; the company reports reducing ingest time from days to about 20 minutes for large graphs. Katana Graph’s customers include organizations in health, pharmaceuticals, and security, and one customer manages a graph with 4.3 trillion pages. The company was founded by UT‑Austin professors Keshav Pingali and Chris Rossbach and grew out of a research group that advised DARPA on data-at-scale projects. Katana Graph has 25 employees and is using new funding to expand its marketing, sales, and engineering teams.