Participated · Seed · Mar 2026

Krane is an AI-native construction supply chain management platform led by founder and CEO Eshan Jayamanne and based in San Francisco, CA. Its product automates materials workflows by assigning AI "team members" to tasks such as turning specs into submittal and procurement logs, connecting schedules and procurement data, following up with trade partners, creating submittal templates and QCs, automating delivery scheduling, and controlling procurement from quote comparison to delivery. The company recently added Theo to expand the platform’s capabilities to owners and subcontractors by helping teams control procurement and RFP processes. Krane integrates with construction systems including Autodesk, Procore, Microsoft Project, CMiC, Microsoft SharePoint, Trimble Viewpoint, and Oracle Primavera P6. It currently manages $15 billion in active projects across the U.S. and Canada spanning data centers, K–12, and biotech. The company plans to use the new seed funding to accelerate its product roadmap and expand enterprise deployments.

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.

Participated · Seed · Jul 2025

Chariot, recently rebranded from ClaimClam, has built an advanced web platform that streamlines the entire mass-action claims process for both consumers and law firms. Using sophisticated automation and a user-friendly interface, the product helps individuals identify class or mass actions they qualify for, links them with leading litigation firms, and manages each step from discovery through payout. To date, the platform has already processed more than 65,000 claims, with an estimated $92 million in gross settlements expected—amounts that could translate into thousands of dollars returned to each claimant. For its 21 partner law firms, Chariot supplies a steady flow of qualified plaintiffs, automates administrative work, and plans to roll out new case-origination tools that will let firms pursue a wider array of high-impact actions more efficiently. By addressing the gap where only 4% of the $50 billion corporations spend on misconduct settlements reaches victims, Chariot aims to rebalance the system in favor of consumers. The recent seed funding gives the company fresh capital to launch and scale the platform nationally, deepen product capabilities, and expand partnerships within the complex litigation ecosystem.

Participated · Series A · Feb 2025

Edera sells Edera Protect, a cloud-native workload isolation solution that makes containers secure by default and enables strict isolation without changing developer workflows. The company also launched Edera Protect AI to automate GPU configuration and isolate AI workloads, addressing recent vulnerabilities in GPU container toolkits. Edera says its isolation preserves native container-like performance, enables workload consolidation onto standard cloud instances, and reduces cloud costs while supporting multi-cloud portability. The product roadmap includes expanded support for AI infrastructure and automated GPU isolation capabilities. The company has been expanding its leadership team, including hiring Kaylin Trychon as CMO. Edera is female-founded and headquartered in Seattle and has raised funding to accelerate product expansion and go-to-market efforts. Edera has developed a low-level hypervisor, effectively a Rust rewrite of Xen, designed from the ground up to secure multi-tenant Kubernetes containers and AI workloads on GPUs. The team argues existing container security solutions are largely bolted on and aims to provide isolation without requiring hardware virtualization. Founders Ariadne Conill, Emily Long, and Alex Zenla bring security-focused Linux, operations, and systems engineering experience from projects and companies including Wolfi, Alpine Linux, Chainguard, Anchore, Radix, and Google. The company is working with design partners to test the technology and is opening its Kubernetes project to a wider audience. Edera is also developing support for confidential computing and GPU virtualization to enable sharing and stronger protections for AI workloads. The product emphasis is on reducing risk and operational complexity compared with layering many existing Kubernetes security tools.

Participated · Equity · Dec 2024

Sunairio is a Baltimore, MD-based climate and energy analytics startup. Founded by Rob Cirincione, an energy trading veteran, the company develops high-resolution climate simulation technology for the energy sector. Its software platform leverages high-resolution historical climate data and future climate simulations to help renewables investors, energy traders, and utilities simulate energy-asset risk and grid variability. The company plans to use the $6.4M round to grow its team and expand availability of its new climate simulation technology. The round brought total funding to date to $8.8M. Sunairio was awarded an NSF Small Business Innovation Research grant in 2024 for its energy-industry-focused climate simulation technology. Sunairio is the first software platform to leverage hyperlocal climate simulation for energy prediction and planning. Its platform combines generative AI and advanced statistics with outputs from traditional global climate models to replicate local (3-km x 3-km) hourly weather patterns and climate trends for up to 15 years. The company says this approach can produce climate insights at roughly 1,000 times the resolution of traditional physics-based global climate models. Sunairio currently offers hyperlocal simulations for parts of the country and plans to expand these high-resolution insights across all of North America and beyond. An NSF SBIR Phase I grant will fund R&D to build a highly scalable simulation engine intended to make the solution orders of magnitude faster, with the company expecting the R&D to be complete within the year. The platform targets energy stakeholders — including investors, portfolio managers, renewable developers, and grid operators — to improve grid reliability and reduce weather- and climate-driven investment risk.