Participated · Seed · Aug 2026

Led by CEO Andy Ruben and based in San Francisco, Clarity Systems offers a retail fraud detection platform that combines diagnostic-grade X-ray intelligence with computer vision and AI to view inside returned and received products in three seconds or less. The platform compares items against their original manufacturer profiles to detect anomalies such as counterfeit goods, product swaps, and missing components. The company emphasizes rapid, nondestructive inspection at scale to address return fraud. Following the $4.4M Seed raise, Clarity Systems intends to expand operations and extend its business reach. The article does not disclose revenue, user counts, or prior funding rounds.

Participated · Series A · Nov 2025

Founded in 2020, New-York-based TULU installs plug-and-play, IoT-enabled cabinets in multifamily buildings that dispense items such as vacuums, VR headsets, e-scooters, projectors, and household essentials. Residents reserve and pay through the TULU app, while the company’s proprietary “TULU Brain” analyzes real-time usage data to personalize offers and supply landlords and brand partners with consumer insights. The platform is active in more than 60 cities across North America and Europe and has served over 500,000 residents to date. Major property owners including Greystar, Brookfield, and Blackstone deploy TULU to boost leasing performance and retention, while brands like Bosch and Philips use it to reach Gen Z and millennial consumers and advance circularity initiatives. Revenue details were not disclosed, but management highlights “exceptional unit economics” and “impressive revenue momentum.” The company plans to use new capital to accelerate global expansion, deploy thousands of additional in-building touchpoints, and further develop its AI capabilities. Across its Seed and Series A rounds, TULU has raised a total of $42 million.

Led · Seed · Oct 2024

Neutreeno, a University of Cambridge spinout, provides a digital system built on proprietary process networks and mass-and-energy flow research to map product lines and identify emissions-reduction actions across thousands of suppliers. Its platform reduces the primary data burden on suppliers and automatically pinpoints solutions that cut emissions and costs faster and with greater precision than existing tools. Neutreeno counts customers across Asia, Europe, and North America, including S&P 500 and FTSE 250 companies as well as a range of SMEs. The company demonstrated a 35% emissions-reduction potential across Scope 1–3 for one supplier and identified actionable changes in just four weeks. Neutreeno positions itself to democratize emissions reductions for millions of businesses and accelerate industry decarbonization at scale. The company recently raised a $5 million Seed round to support its growth and commercialization.

Participated · Series A · Apr 2024

Meridia, founded in 2015 and based in Amsterdam, develops tools for complex smallholder-heavy agri-commodity supply chains. Its flagship product, Verify, is a data verification platform accessible via a SaaS portal and API that identifies and rectifies erroneous, fraudulent, and non-compliant field data in real time. Verify supports procurement, sourcing, trade, and sustainability teams by improving evidence-based decision-making and helping companies comply with regulations such as the EU Deforestation Regulation and industry standards from the European Cocoa Association and European Coffee Federation. The platform leverages earth observation and verified datasets and is currently operational in 35 origin countries across commodities including cocoa, coffee, palm oil, soy, and rubber. Meridia partners with ICE Benchmark Administration through the ICE Commodity Traceability (ICE CoT) service and plans to extend Verify’s application to new commodities and sectors. The company completed a €5.2M Series A to accelerate expansion of Verify; the new portal enters beta for existing customers on July 1, 2024 with a full commercial launch scheduled for September 2024. Landmapp, established in 2015 by Simon Ulvund and Thomas Vaassen, offers a mobile platform that provides smallholder farmer families with documentation of their land. The company operates a field-based team of surveyors who use handheld GPS devices to map each farmer’s plot, verify the farmer’s identity, validate land claims with neighbours, submit claims to authorities for legalization, and deliver a final land certificate. Landmapp has sold more than 2,000 documents to smallholder cocoa farmers in Ghana. It received an investment of undisclosed amount from Omidyar Network alongside existing investor HERi Africa. The company intends to use the funds to grow its customer base in Ghana and to expand into other countries following this rollout. The article does not disclose revenue or other financial metrics beyond the investment.

Participated · Series A · Sep 2023

Ambient Photonics builds low-light solar energy harvesting technology designed to replace disposable batteries in connected devices such as remote controls, keyboards, mice, electronic shelf labels, and sensors. Its low-light solar cells deliver high power density at mass-market price points and are integrated with global electronics manufacturers. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Scotts Valley, California, where it recently opened a flagship manufacturing facility. Ambient plans to use new funding to expand manufacturing capabilities and drive mass-market adoption of its technology. Its technology originated at the Warner Babcock Institute for Green Chemistry and initial funding was provided by Cthulhu Ventures LLC. Ambient positions its solution as a way to reduce e-waste and eliminate battery replacements across consumer, retail, and industrial IoT applications. Ambient Photonics, founded in 2019 in California, develops low-light solar PV cells that harvest energy across the full light spectrum for connected devices. Its technology reportedly generates more than three times the power of conventional solutions from ambient light and can reduce the carbon footprint of battery-powered devices by up to 80 percent. The company positions its cells as an alternative to disposable and rechargeable batteries, aiming to eliminate associated landfill waste. Ambient works with global smart home and IoT device manufacturers to embed its cells for improved design possibilities, performance, and sustainability. The company is planning to open what it describes as the world’s largest low-light solar cell production facility in the U.S. to scale low-cost, high-power cells to the mass IoT market. Recent financing activity — equity and equipment debt — is being used to support that U.S. manufacturing buildout. Ambient Photonics develops low-light energy-harvesting photovoltaic (PV) cells that generate as much as three times more power than conventional technology by harvesting across the entire light spectrum, including artificial and natural light. The company works with global smart-home and IoT manufacturers, including Universal Electronics Inc., to embed its cells and reduce or eliminate disposable batteries, cutting landfill waste and device carbon footprints by up to 80%. Ambient plans to build the world’s largest U.S.-based low-light solar cell production facility in Mill Valley, California, featuring a fully automated production line with capacity for tens of millions of units per year to enable mass-market adoption. The company was founded in 2019 and its technology was originally developed at the Warner Babcock Institute for Green Chemistry; initial funding since inception came from Cthulhu Ventures LLC. Ambient is pursuing a Part II application for a $162 million DOE Title XVII loan guarantee to support scaling; the facilities are projected to generate hundreds of local U.S. jobs and reduce Scope 3 emissions. Its technology targets batteryless or lower-battery-mass IoT devices, enabling new product form factors with operational and sustainability benefits.