Participated · Series B · Dec 2025

Founded in 2024 and led by CEO Robin Rombach, Black Forest Labs is a frontier visual-intelligence company focused on advancing production-grade generative AI. Its flagship product, FLUX, delivers 4-megapixel photorealistic image generation and editing with multi-reference control, enabling users to translate imagination into detailed visuals. The technology has already been integrated into the creative and enterprise workflows of partners such as Adobe, Canva, Deutsche Telekom and Meta. The company’s business model centers on licensing and embedding its models into partner platforms while scaling enterprise offerings. To accelerate growth, Black Forest Labs is investing heavily in R&D, expanding technical talent and upgrading computing infrastructure. Following its latest capital raise, the company has secured more than $450 million in total funding, providing significant resources to advance its product roadmap and commercialization efforts.

Participated · Series D · Aug 2022

VidMob provides an end-to-end Intelligent Creative platform to help brands produce, track, measure, score and optimize the performance of their creative advertising across major digital advertising platforms. Its platform integrates with channels including Google, Meta, Amazon Ads, TikTok, LinkedIn, Twitter, Snap, Pinterest, Hulu and Reddit. Led by CEO and Co-Founder Alex Collmer, the company highlights the breadth of its solution. VidMob raised $110m in a Series D funding round. The company will use the funding to continue to invest in sales and marketing, accelerate platform development and expand its global presence. VidMob is based in London, UK. VidMob operates the Intelligent Creative platform, which uses AI to measure creative performance and unifies creative and data to help marketers optimize ad design. The platform connects brands to a global network of elite content creators trained on best practices for digital channels and next‑gen ad formats. Originally focused on major social platforms, VidMob has expanded distribution into the programmatic web and CTV/OTT. The company says it will use new capital to support global expansion, new e-commerce initiatives, and ongoing investments in advanced technology and data science. VidMob counts clients including Johnson & Johnson and Colgate Palmolive and highlights certifications as a creative partner across major social and digital platforms. A portion of revenue funds its 501(c)(3) VidMob Gives, which has supported 84 nonprofit organizations across 63 countries. VidMob began as a marketplace connecting marketers with professional video editors, animators and designers and has expanded into a broader product called the Agile Creative Studio. The platform lets marketers find talent and, with a single click, send hundreds or thousands of custom ads to partners like Facebook, Google/YouTube, Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter. VidMob analyzes how different creative elements affect audience response and uses that data to iteratively improve campaign performance; the CEO says the decay curve can invert as ads improve over time. Brands using VidMob include Bayer, InterContinental Hotels Group, Ikea, Neutrogena and startups like Acorns. The company has raised $25 million in a Series B and more than $45 million in total funding. Founder and CEO Alex Collmer describes a vision of VidMob as an "API for creativity" that could expand beyond social video into future media types such as augmented reality. VidMob is a video creation platform that combines proprietary technology and a network of trained creators to develop insight-driven, personalized, and scalable marketing video content across social and digital channels. Founded in 2014 and led by CEO Alex Collmer, the company produces video content across every channel, format and language. VidMob serves global brand clients including InterContinental Hotel Group, Mondelez and BMW, and works with agency partners such as Mindshare, Wavemaker and Universal McCann. The company recently opened a London office and plans to use new capital to support continued international growth and to expand its creative insights platform. VidMob has now raised $20m in total funding after an additional extension to its Series A round. VidMob is a New York-based video creation platform and network that connects brands and advertisers with a global network of professional creatives. Clients use VidMob to collaborate with expert creatives to develop suites of video assets optimized for every digital channel. The company, led by founder and CEO Alex Collmer, operates offices in Los Angeles, New York, Chicago and Massachusetts. VidMob plans to use the Series A proceeds to grow headcount across its four offices, expand technology capacity and tools, and deepen agency and brand partnerships. Earlier in 2017 the company was awarded official marketing partner badges by Facebook and Snap and won innovation awards from Instagram and Twitter for its creative solutions. VidMob has raised more than $13m in total since its 2015 founding.

Led · Equity · Feb 2018

ZCool Network Technology Limited is a Chinese creative social network and artist platform that operates an e-commerce page HelloRF.com and distributes creative content. The company has been the exclusive distributor of Shutterstock’s creative content in China since 2014, and that partnership was extended in 2016. ZCool distributes creative images and video collections for commercial use and provides Shutterstock enterprise plans through Plus.HelloRF.com. Through its API, Shutterstock content on ZCool powers large technology platforms in China such as Tencent Social Ads and WPS Office. The company has nearly six million registered users. Shutterstock’s $15M investment deepens the partnership and Shutterstock has appointed a director to ZCool’s board; Shutterstock said the investment will further expand its presence in the Chinese markets.

Participated · Series B · Oct 2017

ActionIQ provides a customer data platform designed to help enterprises use first-party customer data to deliver personalized experiences across channels. The company is investing in product development, including expanded support for real-time data and analysis. It has signed large enterprise customers in the past year, such as Morgan Stanley, The Hartford, Albertsons, JCPenney, GoPro and The New York Times. ActionIQ says the market shift away from third-party data and greater regulatory/platform restrictions increase demand for its first-party–focused platform. Management describes its plans as more ambitious, targeting both product enhancements and customer growth. The company reported 100% year-over-year revenue growth and says its valuation has risen by more than 250% (valuation not disclosed). ActionIQ is a customer data platform providing self-serve tools that enable enterprises to unify customer data and drive personalized experiences across channels. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in New York, it counts customers such as The New York Times, Condé Nast, American Eagle Outfitters, Vera Bradley and Pandora Media. The company emphasizes a product-first approach designed to activate intelligent actions without relying on heavy consulting or IT services. ActionIQ positions itself ahead of larger marketing clouds by addressing what it calls a data gap between promise and delivery. It raised a $32M Series C led by March Capital Partners and has now raised $75M in total. Most of the new funds are earmarked to expand sales and marketing after earlier rounds were invested heavily in product development. ActionIQ builds a marketing activation platform that corrals large-scale big data into a user-friendly interface for marketers to run and measure campaigns. The product targets the execution stage between campaign planning and performance measurement, enabling non-engineers to use complex data. CEO Tasso Argyros and CTO Nitay Joffe emphasize serving sophisticated B2C marketers across financial, publishing, subscription and retail verticals and the broader global 5000. The company says it has seen higher-than-expected demand and has tripled its customer count since January, driving rapid scaling plans. ActionIQ positions itself against internal IT teams and claims it can handle larger, more complex datasets than many competitors. It has not disclosed valuation but described the new round as a significant increase versus its Series A. ActionIQ provides a SaaS platform that connects multiple data sources—email, CRM, and clickstream—and centralizes them onto a single analytics dashboard for marketers. The product includes an AI layer designed to let marketers focus on strategy and campaigns with no engineering or IT input. Its target customers include Global 2000 companies, B2C brands, and subscription businesses; named customers include Gilt Groupe and Blue Apron. The company plans to use new funding to expand sales and marketing and to further business development. Founded in 2014, ActionIQ is led by founder and CEO Tasso Argyros, who previously founded Aster Data Systems and sold it to Teradata in 2011 for $263 million. The company has just under 40 employees in its New York City office.