Participated · Seed · Jul 2026

Antares Labs builds an AI platform that embeds directly inside real estate owner-operators’ environments, creating company-specific AI systems without requiring a data lake or system overhaul. Its forward-deployed teams work onsite with customers to learn workflows and build solutions that integrate with major foundation models (AWS Bedrock, OpenAI, Gemini, Anthropic). The platform routes requests dynamically to optimize cost, performance, and quality while keeping proprietary data and logic within the customer’s environment. Antares positions its recommendations as fully traceable and audit-ready for finance, compliance, and boards, and says clients see ROI in roughly 30 days. The company is already working with large owner-operators including Quarterra. Antares announced its public launch from Chicago alongside its $7.25M seed raise.

Participated · Seed · Apr 2026

VFX AI develops an integrated, AI-first video platform that automates editing, smart reframing, dynamic captioning, semantic search, automated clipping, highlight extraction, and multi-platform distribution. The company positions its product to reduce friction in traditional video workflows by wrapping advanced AI capabilities into intuitive interfaces for creators, enterprise teams, and agencies. VFX AI is currently in alpha with a limited group of users testing features and shaping future development priorities, and it expects to launch a broader beta as it scales. The recent $1 million pre-seed raise will be used to accelerate the product roadmap, improve core AI models, expand third-party integrations, and grow engineering and go-to-market staff. The platform targets use cases such as repurposing long-form recordings into short-form clips, enterprise communications, and agency client workflows. VFX AI emphasizes semantic understanding of content to enable smarter search, tagging, reuse, and faster collaborative video production.