Participated · Seed · May 2024

Greenboard builds AI-driven software to automate aspects of financial compliance, offering a conversational compliance product called Greenboard Go. The company serves more than 500 financial institutions that run their compliance programs on its platform. Greenboard emphasizes an "expert in the loop" approach where AI handles routine tasks while human experts oversee outputs. Founded by Dave Feldman and Ed Schembor, the team emerged from Y Combinator's winter 2024 cohort and draws on Feldman's prior experience at Guideline. The company reports that 88% of customers eliminate multiple legacy compliance solutions after switching to Greenboard. Financially, Greenboard raised a $4.5 million seed in 2024 and has now closed a $15.5 million Series A led by Base10 Partners.

Participated · Seed · Apr 2024

PeerDB builds a data-movement platform specialized for PostgreSQL, implementing techniques like parallel snapshotting, native Postgres data-type replication, and infrastructure cost optimizations. It offers open-source, a fully managed cloud service, and a self-hosted enterprise offering and targets use cases such as replication to Snowflake/BigQuery/ClickHouse, real-time streaming to Kafka and other queues, database migrations, HA/backups, and vector ETL for LLM workflows. The company claims up to 10x faster data movement and up to five times lower cost compared with incumbent ETL tools, and reports revenue is doubling every two months. Named customers include Harmonic AI (saved $80,000 yearly), Expedock (replicates 700M rows monthly to Snowflake with under one-minute latency), Fiber AI (real-time terabyte replication to ClickHouse), and Flatiron Health (migrated 35,000 tables to Snowflake in a week). Co-founders Sai Krishna Srirampur and Kaushik Iska, both IIIT Hyderabad alumni, previously worked at Citus Data/Microsoft Azure, Google, SafeGraph, and Palantir and emphasize deep Postgres expertise. PeerDB plans to use new funding to grow its engineering team, accelerate go-to-market and client acquisition, and extend its infrastructure to support mission-critical Postgres use cases at scale.

Participated · Seed · Dec 2023

Sonu (previously Sona) is a web3 streaming protocol that launched Sonu Stream, a free ad-free streaming service paired with a marketplace where artists auction SONUs, unique digital twins of songs that only one person can own at a time. Artists can auction SONUs for 24 hours, set minimum prices, and get instant liquidity from sales. According to the company, SONU owners receive 70% of streaming payout rewards based on pro-rata shares of total streams; artists receive 30% and the company takes a 7% fee, with the rewards pool funded in part by a percentage of SONU sales. SONUs are intended to drive fan investment and promotion, and their rewards are confined to the Sonu ecosystem rather than other streaming platforms. The service currently hosts five million tracks and aims to reach 16 million songs next year; planned features include tipping, merchandise, ticket purchases, stem downloads and fixed-price audio downloads for DJs. Collectors must be U.S. residents aged 18 or older, and Sonu launched with co-founders Laura Jaramillo and Jennifer Lee.

Participated · Seed · Dec 2023

Sonu (formerly Sona) launched an open beta of Sonu Stream, a free, ad-free music streaming service coupled with a marketplace where artists auction one-of-one digital assets called SONUs. Artists can set 24-hour auctions with minimum prices and receive instant liquidity; SONU owners receive 70% of streaming payout rewards (pro-rata by streams), artists receive 30% and the company takes a 7% fee. The rewards pool is funded by a percentage of SONU sales and is distributed every two weeks to artists and collectors proportional to streams. Collectors must be U.S. residents aged 18 or older, and SONUs can be resold on Sonu or third-party marketplaces. The platform currently hosts five million tracks and plans to reach 16 million by next year, and Sonu plans to add tipping, merchandise, ticketing, stem downloads and fixed-price audio downloads for DJs. Sonu was founded by Laura Jaramillo and Jennifer Lee (TOKiMONSTA) and emerged from stealth with a model intended to give financial power back to artists and their fans.

Participated · Seed · Jul 2022

Strac provides a SaaS platform that automatically detects and tokenizes or redacts sensitive information — including Social Security numbers and driver licenses — across documents, email, chat and web apps. It integrates via API with platforms such as Office 365, Gmail, Slack, OneDrive, Google Drive and Zendesk. Founder Aatish Mandelecha, an ex-Amazon principal engineer, launched Strac in 2021 after a personal identity-theft incident inspired the product. The company says it has "dozens" of customers and reports revenue growing 22% month over month. Strac targets regulated industries such as financial services and health care and markets itself as a way to avoid touching or storing personally identifiable information without changing existing workflows. Competitors and comparable solutions noted in the article include DocuVision (acquired by OneTrust), FoxIt, Private AI, Redacted.ai and cloud-provider redaction tools from Google and Amazon.