The Venture Codex

Participated · Series A · Aug 2026

Silicon Data provides pricing indices, performance benchmarks, forward curves and market intelligence for the AI compute economy, aimed at buyers, sellers, exchanges and financial institutions. It has built a portfolio of nine financial-grade indices covering GPUs and LLMs and offers alternative datasets that track supply, demand, utilization, pricing and economics across compute. The company has over 1,000 registered users and counts semiconductor manufacturers, AI model builders and financial institutions among its daily users. SiliconMark, a product funded by the Series A, benchmarks real-world GPU cluster performance to normalize output differences driven by networking, topology and configuration. Silicon Data spent two years building the pricing and performance history needed to support a futures market and is positioned to be the reference layer for cash-settled GPU futures being planned by CME Group. Financially, the company raised a $4.7 million seed in March 2025 and completed a $30.5 million Series A initial closing to fund its next phase of product and market expansion.

Participated · Equity · Jan 2026

indē wild is a beauty brand co-founded by Diipa and Oleg Büller-Khosla that fuses ancient Ayurvedic principles with contemporary scientific formulation to produce skincare and haircare lines. Its flagship Champi Hair Oil has become the top-selling hair oil on Nykaa, surpassing products from Olaplex, L’Oréal and Kama Ayurveda. The company also sells directly to consumers in the US and UK, where items such as Champi Hair Oil, Dewy Lip Treatment and SPF Rose Sun Mist Spray have driven strong growth. indē wild operates a community-centric model that emphasises authenticity and heritage-based ingredients backed by scientific validation. The brand is expanding its retail presence through an existing partnership with Sephora UK and a planned launch at Sephora US. Recent capital will be channelled toward accelerating this international expansion and scaling operations. The company’s investor base now includes Unilever Ventures alongside earlier backers SoGal Ventures and True.

Participated · Series A · Nov 2022

Torigen Pharmaceutical is a commercial-stage animal health biologics company that aims to innovate pet cancer treatment by leveraging the pet’s immune system to create personalized cancer immunotherapies. Led by CEO Ashley Kalinauskas, the company is a spin-out from the University of Notre Dame and is based in Farmington, CT. Torigen is focused on developing new biologic products to treat cancer in companion animals. The company says it will use the proceeds from its latest financing to continue to develop new products and expand its salesforce. The company is described as commercial-stage. The recent financing provides additional capital to support its product development and commercial expansion.

Participated · Seed · Jul 2022

Welbi provides a resident experience software platform that helps senior living communities streamline administrative processes, personalize programming, and leverage assessment tools and real-time analytics to better understand residents. Its planning tools guide teams to deliver and evaluate programming, automate administrative tasks, and aim to boost quality of life and occupancy rates. Founded in 2016 and based in Ottawa, Canada, Welbi positions itself as the fastest-growing platform in its category. In July 2022 Welbi raised a CAD 3 million seed round, bringing its total funding to $6 million. The company plans to use the funding to expand into the United States and to triple its team from 11 to 30 people by the end of 2022.

Participated · Series C · Oct 2021

Lovevery provides an early learning system built around its flagship Play Kits and a companion app that offers activity ideas, research summaries, live expert Q&As and other resources tailored to a child’s developmental stage. Led by President Roderick Morris and Cofounder & CEO Jessica Rolph, the company serves families with children across early life and builds parental content including e-courses. At launch the app is available on iOS and currently serves Play Kits subscribers with children ages 0–12 months, with plans to expand to more years of early life. Lovevery intends to add features such as e-commerce integration, digital-only subscriptions and deeper integration with its parent learning resources. The company reports over 220,000 active Play Kits subscribers and has shipped over 1 million Play Kits in the past 12 months. It is using its product and content focus to accelerate digital growth and broaden its international presence. Lovevery provides an early learning platform centered on stage-based play and sells curated physical products such as The Play Gym and The Play Kits. The company launched The Block Set via lovevery.com and selected retail channels at a $90 price point. Led by cofounder and CEO Jessica Rolph and cofounder and President Roderick Morris, Lovevery has received acclaim from parents and educators for its stage-based products. The company intends to use new capital to continue expanding its product line and to develop new digital capabilities to support parents. Lovevery is based in Boise, Idaho. The article does not disclose operating metrics or prior financing details.