• Buildforce

  Participated · Series A · Jul 2026

  Buildforce operates a two-sided platform composed of a mobile application for individual electricians to find and perform work and a web application for electrical contractors to find and manage electricians. The company focuses exclusively on the electrical trade within commercial and industrial construction and has logged over 2,000,000 electrician hours across more than 2,000 projects. Founded in 2019 and based in Houston and Austin, Texas, Buildforce positions itself as a modern marketplace with workflow integrations beyond simple job posting. With the new Series A financing, the company plans to expand nationally and further develop its technology. Management emphasizes a mission to improve careers in the construction trades while scaling to meet growing demand driven by data center construction, infrastructure investment, and the energy transition.

• Iris Finance

  Participated · Seed · Sep 2025

  Founded in 2024 by Drew Fallon, Alexander Heckmann, and Marko Iwanik, Iris Finance offers an AI-native CFO platform tailored to inventoried brands. The software delivers real-time margin tracking, automated forecasting, benchmarking, and cohort analysis by ingesting sales, marketing, accounting, and supply-chain data through its proprietary Iris DB. Designed specifically for businesses that sell physical goods, the platform aims to help brands manage profit, cash flow, and growth with greater precision. With its newly secured seed capital, the company plans to accelerate go-to-market expansion, add product features, and scale its team. Although no revenue or user figures were disclosed, the $6.2 million raise provides initial resources to support these goals. Iris Finance positions itself at the intersection of AI and finance software, focusing on consumer packaged goods and other inventory-heavy sectors.

• Carbon Robotics

  Participated · Series D · Oct 2024

  Carbon Robotics develops AI-powered farming systems centered on its LaserWeeder, which combines computer vision, AI deep learning, robotics, and lasers to identify and eliminate weeds with millimeter accuracy. Its LaserWeeder has eliminated more than 10 billion weeds across over 100 crop types without chemical herbicides, hand labor, or soil disruption, and is in operation in the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Australia. The company says the system cuts weed control costs by 80% and increases crop yield and quality. Carbon Robotics plans to use new funding to scale the LaserWeeder business, introduce new software and hardware products, and expand state-of-the-art manufacturing capabilities in Eastern Washington. It also intends to grow in new markets and continue geographic expansion into Eastern and Southern Europe and the Asia-Pacific region. To date the company has raised $157 million in total funding. Carbon Robotics develops laser weeding robots for agriculture. Its flagship product, LaserWeeder, uses computer vision and artificial intelligence together with 30 high-power CO2 lasers to identify, locate, and remove weeds in real time. The company markets an automated, non-chemical approach to weed control. The reported financing from NVIDIA’s NVentures is intended to further advance R&D and the application of its AI agriculture solutions. The article does not provide revenue, user, or other operating metrics. No additional financial details or other investors were named in the report. Carbon Robotics develops AI and computer-vision-powered agricultural robots, best known for its LaserWeeder machine. The LaserWeeder uses thermal energy to eliminate weeds without damaging crops or disturbing soil. Demand and units shipped for LaserWeeder tripled in 2023 versus 2022. The company raised an additional $8 million to accelerate development of a new ag‑tech product line that it says is not related to LaserWeeder, but declined to share details. The Series C extension brings that round to $43 million and the company has raised $80 million in total. Founded in 2018 and based in Seattle, Carbon is led by Paul Mikesell, co-founder of Isilon Systems. Carbon Robotics is a Seattle-based agtech company that builds LaserWeeder, a laser weeding robot. Its machines use lasers to remove weeds; the company says it has zapped 500 million weeds across 40 different crops. Carbon is on track to deliver LaserWeeder to 17 U.S. states and three Canadian provinces in 2023. The company plans to use new funding to grow sales, accelerate manufacturing, and pursue international expansion. To date it has raised $67 million, including a $27 million Series B in 2021 and the new $30 million Series C. Investors from Sozo and Voyager are joining Carbon’s board as part of the latest round. Carbon Robotics develops autonomous field robots that use AI and high‑power lasers for precision weed control. Its flagship product, the Autonomous Weeder, eradicates weeds via thermal energy without disturbing soil, allowing reduced herbicide use and lower labor. The company reports bookings that exceed $20 million, has sold out its 2021 and 2022 models, and has begun accepting orders for 2023. Carbon Robotics plans to scale production, grow its engineering team, establish regional sales and customer support across the U.S., and invest in new products and technology. The company positions its technology as a response to herbicide‑resistant weeds and as a tool for organic and regenerative farming methods.

• Knit

  Led · Equity · Sep 2024

  Knit is an end-to-end, AI-native platform transforming how enterprises conduct consumer research by combining human researcher expertise with generative AI. The platform enables teams to run custom quantitative and qualitative studies and receive report-ready insights within days. Knit embeds customer context and researcher nuance into its models so AI outputs preserve depth and rigor while accelerating analysis, synthesis, and reporting. The company reports 5X year-over-year growth and serves more than 60 enterprise brands, including Amazon, NASCAR, Mars Wrigley, and Overtime. Knit has raised over $30M in total funding to date and uses its product to make research faster and more decision-ready. Future plans include accelerating product development with new AI-powered features, expanding research use cases, scaling go-to-market and research teams, and growing international research capabilities. Knit provides an end-to-end, AI-native platform that streamlines the consumer research process by marrying quantitative and qualitative data in the same survey. The product uses researcher-driven AI to take time-intensive tasks off researchers' plates and deliver stakeholder-ready reports faster. In the past year Knit has onboarded more than 30 enterprise brands, including T-Mobile, NASCAR, the WNBA, Mars Wrigley, Overtime, and JBL. The company reports that its annual recurring revenue grew 5X over the past year. Knit launched Report-Ready Insights — an offering that produces agency-quality quantitative and qualitative research at DIY costs. The company says its approach centers researcher expertise as the engine with AI as the navigator, enabling faster, more customizable research. Knit was founded in 2021 and is based in Austin, Texas.

• Knit

  Led · Equity · Sep 2024

  Knit provides an end-to-end, AI-native platform that automates the consumer research process, using Researcher-Driven AI to take time-intensive research tasks off researchers' plates. The platform combines quantitative and qualitative data in the same survey to deliver agency-quality insights in days. The company is led by CEO Aneesh Dhawan and CTO Raahish Kalaria. Knit is using the new funding to launch Report-Ready Insights, its latest offering aimed at enabling researchers to run agency-quality quantitative and qualitative research at DIY costs. Over the past year it has onboarded more than 30 enterprise brands and grown its annual recurring revenue 5X. The company is based in Austin, TX. Knit operates a platform that lets brands upload custom research questions and receive 30–90 second selfie video responses from hundreds of Gen Z consumers in hours, alongside quick quantitative data. The company uses video-analysis AI to turn hours of footage into insights in minutes. Knit reports access to a panel of over 1 million Gen Z and 4 million Millennial consumers and more than 30 enterprise customers, including NASCAR, WNBA, Harman (JBL) and Moët Hennessy. Since its January 2021 launch the business has observed seven-times growth. Led by CEO Aneesh Dhawan and CTO Raahish Kalaria, the team are Techstars alumni and position the product as an on-demand think tank for Gen Z insights. With the new capital the company plans to further automate video analysis and expand its panel beyond Gen Z into a cross-generational solution, beginning in EMEA and LATAM.

No current team members are available.