• Nada

  Participated · Series A · Dec 2025

  Nada is a financial technology company focused on giving homeowners flexible, non-debt access to their home equity. Its flagship product, the Home Equity Agreement (HEA), allows owners to convert a portion of their equity into cash in exchange for a share of the home’s future appreciation, eliminating the need for monthly payments or interest. The company currently operates in 14 states and plans to expand into additional markets nationwide. Nada supplements the HEA with an integrated homeowner finance platform designed to support equity management across every stage of homeownership. With U.S. households holding more than $35 trillion in tappable equity, the firm positions itself as a scalable alternative to traditional home-equity loans and cash-out refinancing. Nada is backed by investors including LiveOak Ventures, Interlock Partners, and Nomura Strategic Ventures, providing additional strategic support for its growth. The recent institutional partnership with Medalist Partners further bolsters its capital base, enabling accelerated origination of HEAs.

• Ocient

  Participated · Series B · Mar 2024

  Ocient builds data analytics software that delivers high-performance, compute-intensive analysis of very large and complex datasets using technologies such as Compute Adjacent Storage Architecture (CASA), Megalane™, OcientML®, and OcientGeo®. The company offers pilot-to-production deployments on premises, in the OcientCloud®, or in public clouds and emphasizes up to 90% price savings and reduced environmental impact. Ocient plans to use new capital to advance development and delivery of energy-efficient solutions for costly, complex, and operationally burdensome data and AI workloads and to expand customer deployments globally. The startup reported doubling revenues for the third straight year as it transitions into growth stage and has deepening industry partnerships with AMD, Solidigm, Amdocs, and others. Ocient was also accepted into the NVIDIA Inception program and recently launched a named telecommunications solution for data retention and disclosure. The company appointed Henry Marshall as CFO to manage financial operations as it scales. Ocient provides data analytics software that enables always-on, compute-intensive analysis of large, complex datasets, including in-database ML and geospatial capabilities. Its Compute Adjacent Storage Architecture (CASA) removes network bottlenecks to facilitate rapid data access and supports always-on loading, ETL/ELT, Zero Copy Reliability™, OcientML™, and OcientGeo™. The company says its platform delivers energy and cost efficiencies—including up to 80% price savings—and is positioned for next-generation, growth-scale analytics. Enterprises can deploy Ocient on premises, in OcientCloud™, or in the public cloud with minimal integration from pilot to production. Ocient reported 109% year-over-year revenue growth in its last fiscal year and plans to use new funding to advance product capabilities and deliver hyperscale data analytics solutions to a growing global customer base. Founded in 2016, Ocient is a global, carbon-neutral company headquartered in Chicago and has been recognized in the GigaOm Radar for Data Warehouses as a Fast Mover and Challenger. Ocient provides a proprietary data analytics solution (Ocient DAS) designed to enable rapid analysis of extremely large datasets. The platform can hold quadrillions of rows, ingest billions of rows per second, and filter and compute across trillions of rows per second. Ocient is deploying its DAS in Auction & Exchange Analytics, Security, and Geospatial customer use cases using industry-standard interfaces and hardware. The company was co‑founded in March 2016 by Chris Gladwin, Joseph Jablonski, and George Kondiles. Ocient closed a $40M Series B that brought total invested capital to $65M. The company plans to use the funds to grow engineering, customer success, operations, and sales and marketing, and expects headcount to double to 150 by the end of 2021. Ocient builds an ultra-large-scale relational database platform and SaaS designed to analyze multi-petabyte to exabyte-class datasets with interactive, sub-second query latency. Its DAS product can hold quadrillions of rows, ingest billions of rows per second, and filter/compute trillions of rows per second, and runs on commodity hardware or public cloud. The system targets use cases where NoSQL and Hadoop fall short, offering massively parallel processing and benchmarks that are typically ~50× faster than alternatives such as Presto (and up to 1,000× in some comparisons). The company says analytics that once took an hour can now take 10 seconds or less, enabling interactive insights on previously intractable datasets. Ocient has been expanding its team (hiring 15 employees and 9 interns in 2020 to reach over 50 employees) and plans to more than double headcount over the following year. The company also added senior management and advisory board members as it scales commercial and technical efforts. Ocient builds a relational database and analytics software platform designed to handle petabyte- to exabyte-scale data sets. Its platform is engineered to hold quadrillions of rows, ingest data at speeds of billions of rows per second, and filter and compute results at rates up to trillions of rows per second. The product targets organizations that need to analyze immense amounts of data at extreme scale. The company will use the new capital to support its engineering team, continue research and development, and activate a new development lab. Ocient was co-founded by Chris Gladwin, Joseph Jablonski and George Kondiles and is based in Chicago, IL. It secured about $10M in Series A funding to advance product and engineering work.

• GigEasy

  Participated · Equity · Jan 2024

  Ocient develops energy-efficient data analytics solutions aimed at handling always-on, compute-intensive workloads. The company says it serves a growing number of customers around the globe. Ocient announced a $49.4M funding round to further deliver its energy-efficient analytics offerings. The firm emphasized its focus on customer success and thanked its customers for continued support. The announcement also highlighted appreciation for the Ocient team behind the product.

• Offline

  Participated · Equity · Sep 2023

  Offline operates an invitation-driven, paid membership platform for top startup founders in India, grouping members into small "pods" of six to eight peers for guided, off-the-record monthly meetings led by executive coaches. Membership requires stringent eligibility—founders must have raised $5M, generated $5M in revenue, or achieved a $10M exit—and candidates undergo interviews and approval by a Membership Advisory Committee. Members pay an annual fee of about $6,000 (₹500,000) plus a one-time fee of $600, and must adhere to a strict privacy agreement and an 80% minimum attendance requirement. Meetings follow a playbook inspired by methodologies such as the Mochary Method and include curated social events, cross-chapter networking, and annual retreats. The platform targets a select few hundred members initially and aims to expand beyond India to markets including Singapore and Dubai.

No current team members are available.