• Epum

  Participated · Seed · Jul 2024

  Epum offers a commercial real estate research platform built on what it describes as the largest real-time dataset of urban zoning and planning activity across the United States. The platform combines that dataset with proprietary algorithms to evaluate local demand drivers, zoning, ownership profiles, demographics, competitive supply, land area, topography, traffic data, and more for site selection. Epum's tools let developers, investment managers, and lenders identify optimal development sites, organise proprietary data, forecast submarket trends with purpose-built machine learning models, and prepare investment committee memos significantly faster than traditional analysis. The company is already working with two nationwide commercial real estate developers and one real estate private equity fund, demonstrating early commercial traction. Founded by former commercial real estate developers, senior engineers and data scientists, and a geospatial AI researcher with a PhD, Epum aims to accelerate product development and distribution. The startup recently completed a $1.6 million Pre-Seed funding round to support those plans.

• PartyKit

  Participated · Seed · Sep 2023

  PartyKit offers an open-source deployment platform and developer libraries to add real-time multiplayer collaboration (e.g., whiteboards, games, code editors) into applications with minimal infrastructure work. The platform runs on Cloudflare technology and supports both cloud and on-premise hosting to meet enterprise regulatory needs. PartyKit can integrate LLMs (such as OpenAI or in-house models) to enable human–AI collaborative agents, handling long-running processes, memory, and context. The product moved from an initial version built with Tldraw to a full rewrite to support broader use cases, and has been in open beta since July. The company recently announced its first hires and is launching the platform into general availability while preparing premium enterprise features including teams, analytics, and compliance. Founder and CEO Sunil Pai, who previously worked at Cloudflare and on multiplayer apps at Meta’s Oculus, leads the effort to commoditize multiplayer infrastructure for developers.

• ShapesXR

  Participated · Seed · Aug 2023

  ShapesXR is a creation and collaboration platform for XR content and experiences that enables remote product teams to brainstorm and ideate in 3D, rapidly prototype, and co-edit in real time. Users can create immersive storyboards to show designs in function and invite teammates to ideate, iterate and run design reviews. Led by CEO and founder Inga Petryaevskaya and based in San Mateo, California, the company focuses on tools for XR and metaverse workflows. ShapesXR recently raised $8.6M in seed funding to support growth and development. The company intends to use the proceeds to grow its business reach and expand the product onto new platforms such as Apple’s Vision Pro and the Magic Leap 2. Investors named in the articles include Supernode Global, Triptyq Capital, Hartmann Capital, Geek Ventures, Boost VC, LETA Capital, WXR Fund and STRATMINDS, alongside early backers like HTC VIVE and The VR Fund.

• Tilebox, Inc.

  Led · Seed · Aug 2023

  Tilebox provides an integrated midstream platform for the space industry, enabling companies to develop and maintain in-house data pipelines more efficiently. The product focuses on removing friction between teams and replacing suboptimal, hard-to-maintain solutions. Core capabilities include data processing, integrations with downstream services such as analytics tools and marketplaces, and upstream interfaces to space service providers. The business is led by Stefan Amberger and Laura Costa. Tilebox raised $1.7M in pre-seed funding and intends to use the proceeds to expand operations and broaden its business reach. The company is based in Dover, DE.

• Blocktorch

  Participated · Seed · May 2023

  Blocktorch is a web3 observability platform that enables engineers to query logs, traces, and metrics of all components of a decentralized application in one place. Users can find relevant insights, set metric- and event-based monitors on any data point across the full dApp stack, and deliver alerts to the right person at the right time. Led by CEO Gery Pollak and based in Berlin, Germany, the company aims to help developers take data-driven decisions about their decentralized applications. Blocktorch raised $4.2M in a Seed funding round and intends to use the proceeds to continue expanding operations and development efforts. The company plans to launch the official version 1 of its product as part of its near-term roadmap. The Seed investors include a mix of venture firms and individual backers.

No current team members are available.