The Venture Codex

Participated · Seed · May 2025

Jozu provides enterprise-grade orchestration tools and an extensible AI operations control plane to deploy, scale, secure, and govern AI models and agents. The platform focuses on AI/ML lifecycle tooling for security-conscious organizations, enabling integration, testing, security, and auditing from development to production. Jozu maintains the open-source KitOps standard (part of the CNCF) for packaging and versioning self-hosted AI models, leveraging OCI to ensure portability and reproducibility. KitOps has been downloaded over 85,000 times in its first year and is used in enterprise production environments across North America, the European Union, and Asia. The company plans to expand platform capabilities, integrate AI/ML security scanning, model lineage tracking, and signing frameworks, and to grow its engineering and go-to-market teams to support enterprise adoption.

Participated · Equity · Dec 2024

Scalestack offers an enterprise-grade data orchestration and enrichment hub combined with an agentic infrastructure that deploys swarms of AI agents to clean, normalize, dedupe and augment customer and market data. The system can enrich about 450,000 accounts within hours and de-anonymize roughly 200,000 sign-ups with high precision, generating actionable insights that feed directly into existing enterprise workflows. Customers such as MongoDB, Remote, Typeform, Harness and Redis use the platform for dynamic account profiling, TAM calculations, lead prioritization and territory ‘smoke-signal’ detection. Co-founders Elio Narciso and Alessandro Prioni describe the product as “Clay for the enterprise,” emphasizing its multimodal data reasoning across dozens of sources on the public web. The company currently monetizes through usage-based enrichment credits and is launching a promotional offer of 3 million free credits (valued at $150 k) to attract 30 new customers. Fresh capital will be used to accelerate product development, expand integrations and scale sales efforts. Although revenue figures are not disclosed, the rapid processing volumes and marquee customers indicate early enterprise traction.

Participated · Seed · Sep 2024

Gestalt Tech provides a unified data warehouse that centralizes and organizes lenders' scattered data to accelerate insights and AI adoption. Its core product launched in 2023 and features a patent-pending, AI-powered smart mapper, anomaly detector, and pipeline maintainer. The company says its warehouse delivers insights six times faster and five times cheaper than legacy methods and can reduce data pulls that once took months and 200+ man-hours to less than a day. Gestalt is building additional components of its unified data ecosystem, including a compliance data tape and a vendor ecosystem for one-click trials. The business serves a variety of lending segments and emphasizes faster time-to-value and operational savings for financial institutions. The seed raise and existing capital position the company to accelerate customer growth and bring more product components to market faster.

Participated · Seed · Mar 2024

Velou offers AI-driven product data enrichment and the Sentient Product Catalog, which self-optimizes content in real time to improve discoverability and customer engagement. Its platform uses computer vision and natural language understanding to extract deep semantic product insights and align them with customer intent. The technology is positioned to provide foundational product data infrastructure for next-generation ecommerce intelligence. Velou plans to use the new funding to accelerate hiring and its go-to-market strategy. The company reports nearly tripling revenue over the past six months, driven by an expanding global customer base of retailers, brands, and marketplaces. Velou recently added retail software veteran Gavin Hewitt as its first chief operating officer to help scale operations and GTM execution. Velou provides an AI-powered product data enrichment and search automation platform that delivers industry-specific data models, analytics, and product data generation to streamline product launches and reduce manual errors. The platform integrates with systems such as SAP, Salesforce, Shopify, and BigCommerce and acts as an AI copilot for ecommerce teams. Velou serves renowned global luxury brands, large department stores, and rapidly expanding ecommerce retailers. The company plans to use the funding for strategic expansion, including product and partnership development and key hires. Led by founder and CEO Sadee Gamhewa and based in San Francisco, the company emphasizes automating catalog workflows and elevating customer relationships at scale.

Led · Equity · Oct 2022

Notably.AI offers a platform that lets teams collect, analyze, and share qualitative research. The company uses AI and data to help researchers and product organizations streamline research and analysis. Its product has supported mid-market and enterprise software companies, clinical researchers, government entities, and nonprofits, including teams at Alloy, Gem, Seattle Children's Hospital, AWS, Salesforce, Walmart, and Dropbox. The company was founded by Brittany Fuller and Allison Marshall. Notably intends to use the new funds to invest in engineering and machine-learning capabilities. It also plans to deploy capital toward overall growth.