The Venture Codex

Led · Seed · Oct 2025

Founded in 2024 and headquartered in Los Angeles, Walkway offers an AI-driven growth platform that equips experience creators and tour operators with real-time pricing intelligence and competitor benchmarking. Its software analyzes market data to recommend optimal prices, enabling operators to maximize occupancy and revenue while scaling sustainably. The system also supplies revenue-management dashboards that track performance against peers. Led by CEO Brent Boone, the company targets the fragmented tours and activities sector, aiming to replace ad-hoc pricing decisions with data-backed strategies. With its recent capital infusion, Walkway plans to accelerate product development and expand its suite of AI and data-driven tools. Although still at the pre-seed stage, Walkway positions itself as a capital-efficient, analytics-first solution to help experience providers grow profitably.

Participated · Equity · Jul 2024

Tough Leaf operates a data-driven platform that connects contractors, developers, owners, and government agencies with qualified, vetted small and diverse businesses to satisfy subcontracting and diversity compliance on construction projects. The platform handles matching, outreach, vetting, and bid procurement, streamlining the process for prime contractors and small suppliers. Tough Leaf reports an average of three bids per bid package from a pool of 200,000+ subcontractors and vendors offering hundreds of different certifications. Prime contractors pay an annual usage-based fee for access while the platform is free for subcontractors and suppliers. The company targets the $2 trillion construction market and has been focused on the eastern U.S. to date. With the new funding, Tough Leaf plans to grow the team, increase revenue, and expand its presence nationally. Tough Leaf operates a mission-driven matching platform that uses machine learning and AI to connect general contractors and developers with qualified minority-, women-, veteran- and other disadvantaged business enterprises (MWDBEs). The company was founded in 2021 and is based in New York. Its platform has grown a database of over 90,000 diverse firms and, six months after closing its seed round, Tough Leaf reports having awarded more than $180 million in projects free of charge to diverse firms. Prior to the funding, the company focused primarily on the New York market; it now has projects in eight states and plans to expand to 28 states by the end of the year and to serve the entire United States by 2024. The seed financing has supported product development, headcount expansion, and building an expanded sales team as Tough Leaf pushes into new markets.

Led · Equity · Nov 2023

AireXpert builds collaboration and automation software for airlines and MRO (maintenance, repair & overhaul) organizations. Its platform is described as a mission-critical system that saves airline and MRO customers significant time and cost during maintenance events. Maintenance and finance leadership from customers are guiding the company's development and integration roadmaps. The company says it has forged partnerships with several major airline brands and MROs and is focused on delivering real-world value from day one. AireXpert plans to use new funding to grow its team, accelerate expansion into key markets, and add more features to its platform. The company is based in Buffalo, New York, and positions itself at the forefront of a $185 billion MRO landscape.

Led · Equity · Oct 2022

Erin offers an employee referral platform that automates the referral process from referral submission through bonus payment. The mobile app includes gamification and tracking features designed to keep employees engaged with talent-acquisition initiatives and increase converted referral hires. The solution includes an AI component aimed at career development for both employees and candidates. Its Internal Mobility feature matches employees with next-step roles to reduce turnover and bridge career development gaps, while a Referral Network add-on helps employees identify suitable positions for candidates. The company plans to use new funding to expand its business reach, drive innovative new features, and continue customer support.

Led · Equity · Aug 2022

Carefeed provides a HIPAA-compliant, cloud-based communication platform that digitizes and simplifies distribution of admission agreements, calendars, safety announcements, care conference schedules and other materials to residents, families, staff and referral sources. Its system automates paper-based and phone-dependent processes and delivers information via text, email and voice, and includes a family portal for resident-specific and community-wide updates. The platform is already used by some of the largest senior living companies in the U.S. Carefeed plans to broaden its suite of solutions and expand beyond senior living into other patient care settings. The company said the new financing will accelerate adoption by skilled nursing and senior living communities across the United States and Canada. Carefeed framed its product as helping communities save time and money while remaining compliant with state and federal regulations.