Participated · Seed · Dec 2024

Provarity offers an AI-powered presales platform that tracks key presales functions, provides real-time visibility into activities, and delivers actionable insights to optimize sales engineering performance. The solution integrates with popular CRMs and is designed to streamline processes, accelerate sales cycles, and drive revenue growth for B2B presales teams. Led by CEO Chris Cabrera and based in Pleasanton, CA, the company currently serves over 1,000 users. Provarity intends to use the funds to expand its presence in the B2B sales ecosystem, grow its customer base, and enhance customer support. The company also plans to further refine its platform to meet the needs of modern presales teams.

Participated · Equity · Apr 2023

Staytuned Digital builds a software suite for e-commerce brands focused on the Shopify ecosystem, aiming to be the "Salesforce suite for e-commerce stores." The company acquires and develops e-commerce applications and has purchased seven apps to date. It works with more than 28,000 customers and reported being EBITDA positive in the fourth quarter. Staytuned pivoted from a video-focused product early in its history and subsequently brought on new investors and team members, including Lauralynn Drury joining the founding team. Future plans include acquiring additional apps from a long pipeline, hiring more engineers, and scaling the product suite and go-to-market efforts. The company emphasizes high-margin software growth as the rationale for building a large hub of merchant-facing tools. StayTuned Digital offers a platform that optimizes video for each destination, pushes content to multiple platforms, and measures performance to inform further optimization. The company is officially unveiling its product while targeting publishers, digital-native companies, e-commerce retailers, brands, and eventually small businesses. StayTuned was founded by CEO Serge Kassardjian (formerly global head of media app business development for Google Play) and Randy Jimenez (previously CTO at SinglePlatform). The founders built the product to address fragmentation and frequent format changes across platforms so publishers needn’t manage each one individually. StayTuned positions itself as providing ubiquity to where audiences are rather than forcing publishers to abandon major platforms. Financially, the company has raised $2.5 million in funding and is part of the current GCT Startup-in-Residence program.

Participated · Series A · Oct 2021

SOC Prime has built what it calls the world’s largest AI-Native Detection Intelligence Platform, underpinned by a private dataset of more than 600,000 context-enriched detection rules and queries. The vendor-agnostic solution integrates with over 56 SIEM, EDR, data lake, and data pipeline products, enabling real-time, cross-platform detection intelligence for more than 11,000 organizations worldwide. Recent engineering advances include a Shift-Left Detection model that runs closer to data sources and has demonstrated throughput of 23 TB per CPU core per day, transforming reactive alert management into self-optimizing, real-time defense. With the newly announced funding, SOC Prime plans to deliver the first scalable AI-native detection automation platform that tailors its vast rule library to each customer’s environment. The company also intends to expand its U.S. presence to serve customers in defense, energy, finance, and technology sectors and to keep its solutions cost-effective and sustainable. Management emphasizes a privacy-first approach and positions the platform as foundational for a fully AI-native SOC. No revenue figures were disclosed, but the company’s large user base and ongoing investor support indicate solid market traction.

Led · Equity · Aug 2021

Hive is a productivity software platform that positions itself as a community-built project management and collaboration tool for teams of all sizes. The company runs a public product roadmap where users request and vote on features; the engineering team prioritizes work based on those votes. Hive says two in three users will get a feature they requested built within their first year. One of its community-driven products, Hive Notes, debuted as a standalone collaborative note-taking and task-management app for Zoom Meetings. Customers named in the article include teams at Anthem, Comcast, Electronic Arts and Toyota. Led by co-founder and CEO John Furneaux, the company will use the new funding to continue building the software platform. Hive provides a real-time productivity platform that includes chat, tasks, email, notes and analytics for senior managers. Led by CEO and cofounder John Furneaux, the company was launched from accelerator AngelPad. Hive serves customers including Starbucks, Google, WeWork, Uber and the United States Government. The company plans to add features to automate email management by identifying next steps and assigning tasks, to turn recurring meetings into real-time notes with automatic recaps and next-step assignments, and to auto-suggest project plans from a large library of projects. Hive raised a $10.6m Series A and intends to use the funds to expand operations and its business reach. The round brought total funding to date to $16.7m. Hive is a New York City–based work management platform founded in 2015 and led by CEO John Furneaux. The company offers a mobile-first platform that centralizes teamwork and automates repeatable processes across applications. In one year it has reached over 2,000 enterprise teams, with customers including Pinterest, WeWork, HBO, Expedia, Salesforce, Nike, The Economist, and Harvard University. Hive plans to use the new funding to expand its business reach, add engineering resources (led by former Googlers), and extend its mobile-first platform to include email and calendaring. The company previously raised $1.3m in January 2016 from Tribeca Venture Partners and angels from Google and Grey Group. The current update is the $4m funding round announced in October 2017. Hive is an NYC-based provider of a team collaboration platform that puts all a team's actions, messages and files on one page. Its platform uses machine learning to automatically send actions to the right person and equips them with the tools on their dashboard to complete tasks. Hive integrates with over 90 SaaS tools including Salesforce and Zendesk, and with file stores like Box and Google Drive. The product is used by more than 250 companies, from small businesses to customers such as Pinterest and Deloitte. The company was co-founded by John Furneaux (ex-Global Head of Customer Success at huddle.com) and Eric Typaldos (ex-White House and Oracle platform architect) and graduated from AngelPad in December 2015. Hive raised $1.4M in seed funding and intends to use the proceeds to deliver Hive AI v2.

Participated · Equity · Dec 2020

Tensil is developing Scenery, a full-featured video editing and production tool that runs in the browser. The founding team includes Mike Folgner, Ryan Cunningham, Ashot Petrosian and Chris Martin; Folgner previously sold Jumpcut.com to Yahoo and SnappyTV to Twitter. Scenery leverages WebGL, WASM and modern web tech to deliver performant, feature-rich editing in the browser and replaces the traditional timeline with a two-dimensional canvas. The company positions Scenery as a video production system designed for faster, collaborative workflows and to bring non-editors into the process similar to how Figma changed design collaboration. Tensil is currently developing and testing an alpha and is taking signups from testers. The company has raised $3.89 million in funding to support product development and testing.