Participated · Equity · Dec 2023

AiSDR provides an AI-powered platform that automates core sales development representative tasks such as crafting outreach emails, responding to inquiries, handling rejections, and scheduling live meetings. The software analyzes a client’s website to build an ideal customer profile and tailor communication style for personalized outreach. Since its public launch in August 2023, AiSDR has signed over 30 clients and ran more than 200 demos within a week. The company plans to become a single platform for prospect outreach by offering lead generation, domain health monitoring, and tools for designing and executing email campaigns. The new funding will be used to enhance messaging capabilities, introduce self-onboarding features, and develop additional functionalities. AiSDR was founded by Yuriy and Oleg Zaremba and operates from Ukraine.

Participated · Seed · Apr 2022

SaveIN, founded in 2020 by Jitin Bhasin, Anurag Varma and Gaurav Luthra, offers embedded finance and pay-later options to patients at zero-cost equated monthly instalments (EMIs) across its network of healthcare providers. Its flagship 'Care now, Pay later' product launched in January this year. Since launch the startup has onboarded over 2,500 healthcare and wellness centres across 50 cities. The company is building a network of providers to offer embedded finance at clinics and plans to invest in people, product and distribution to scale. The latest $1 million seed will be used for product development and to scale the team and marketing footprint. The new raise takes SaveIN's total seed fundraise to $8 million. SaveIn provides financing and embedded credit options that let patients pay for healthcare services via zero-cost EMIs at checkout across a network of providers. Its offering targets individual healthcare providers including dentists, ophthalmologists, dermatologists, veterinarians, wellness centers, and haircare services. The company says it has grown over 15X since launching five months ago, indicating early product-market fit. SaveIn plans to use new capital for product development, hiring, and market expansion. It aims to onboard 5,000 healthcare partners by the end of the year to build a hyper-local, discovery-led offline healthcare ecosystem. The startup highlights large out-of-pocket healthcare spending in India as the market opportunity it seeks to address. SaveIN is a credit-focused fintech that provides embedded finance and a flagship ‘Care now, Pay later’ BNPL product for clinics and outpatient/elective healthcare providers. The company aims to build a network of healthcare providers offering minimal- or zero-cost EMI digital checkouts, with a 60-second digital checkout finance option. Founded in 2020 and based in Gurugram, SaveIN was set up by Jitin Bhasin, Gaurav Luthra and Anurag Varma. It has focused on outpatient and elective areas including dental, eye care, veterinary, diagnostics, dermatology and alternate therapies. The startup says it onboarded over 500 healthcare and wellness clinics across five Indian cities within three months of launching its flagship product. SaveIN plans to use the new funds to accelerate product development and strengthen engineering, product, data sciences and sales teams while growing its network across the country.

Participated · Seed · Mar 2022

Aggero is a London-based company that connects brands and advertisers with the gaming/e-sports streaming industry via analytics and monetization mechanics. Its platform helps brands find and measure the performance of key streamers to maximize advertising spend and unifies partnership management, monetization systems, and measurement. The startup plans to use the funding to further develop its existing technology stack and press forward with R&D projects that include AI integrations, creator monetization tools, and Metaverse applications. Aggero raised a $2 million seed round led by LAUNCHub Ventures, with GapMinder, SCM Advisors, Klaas Kersting, and Phil Mohr participating. The new investors join existing backers bValue, Founders Factory, Engine Media, and a host of angel investors including Sundance DiGiovanni, Todd Harris, Craig Fletcher, Chris Chaney, Wouter Sleijfers, Joe Zhou, Darrel Lewis, Malin Stefanescu, Dan Ghita, and Octavian Patrascu. To date the startup has raised $3.3 million and is led by CEO and founder Cristian Manea.

Participated · Seed · Nov 2020

Grouparoo is an open source data framework that helps companies sync customer data from their database or warehouse to SaaS tools and build customer segments. After installation, users teach the framework which customer properties matter and it can push segments to tools like Marketo or Zendesk. The product is designed to make disparate customer data accessible to developers and teams across an organization. The startup is currently pre-revenue and is composed of its three co-founders: CEO Brian Leonard, CTO Evan Tahler and COO Andy Jih. Grouparoo is pursuing an open source approach to build a community around the tool while exploring commercial options. The team is considering an open core license, paid features or support, or offering the tool as a service as potential monetization strategies to be worked out in 2021. The founders have emphasized building a diverse and inclusive company from the beginning.

Participated · Equity · Apr 2020

MindsDB develops an open-source AutoML server that reduces model-training complexity by running machine-learning workflows where the data already lives. The platform enables data teams to build, train and deploy predictive models without leaving their existing analytics environment, thereby democratizing access to advanced ML. An active open-source community accelerates feature iteration, improves code quality and lowers execution risk. Market demand is validated by commercial AutoML incumbents such as DataRobot and Dataiku, yet MindsDB differentiates through its community-driven, open-core approach. The founders emphasize that this structure mitigates market, execution and founder risks for investors. To scale product development and go-to-market efforts, the company has raised $5 million in seed capital from venture backers experienced with open-source businesses. The fresh funds will help transition the project from community adoption to commercial traction.