Led · Series C · Jun 2026

Founded in 2019 by Himanshu Gupta and Vishal Chopra and based in Bengaluru, WeRize operates a social commerce-led financial services platform targeting consumers in roughly 5,000 smaller cities and towns. It leverages a network of more than 19,000 trained financial micro-entrepreneurs to offer loans, insurance and investment products in six Indian languages without physical branches. Its AI stack has been trained on over 20 billion data points from more than four million households to support customer acquisition, underwriting, risk assessment and product recommendations. The company has recorded three consecutive years of profitability and reports an annualised gross revenue run rate of $65 million and a net revenue run rate of $32 million, with annualised EBITDA around $15 million and pre-tax profit exceeding $7 million. WeRize plans to expand into additional financial products including mutual funds, online bonds, secured co-branded credit cards and housing loans as it scales.

Participated · Series A · Apr 2026

Solidroad offers an AI platform that automatically evaluates 100% of a company's customer interactions to surface risk, identify skill gaps, and trigger personalized coaching in real time. Since launching in 2023, it has grown a customer base that includes Ryanair, OURA, ActiveCampaign, and Crypto.com and says its platform has scored millions of interactions. The company reports its tooling can reduce manual QA effort, accelerate agent onboarding, and increase analyst productivity by up to 10x. Solidroad combines automated QA coverage with data-driven coaching and personalized training simulations to maintain quality as ticket volumes grow. With the recent Series A, the company plans to expand teams in San Francisco and Dublin and further develop its platform capabilities to serve enterprise support operations.

Participated · Series A · Mar 2026

Startale Group builds blockchain infrastructure and consumer-facing products for tokenized finance, operating a Strium blockchain for tokenized securities and real-world assets, issuing yen stablecoin JPYSC and dollar stablecoin USDSC, and providing the Startale app tied to the Sony-backed Soneium layer-2 network. The company operates in Japan and partners closely with SBI Group and Sony. Following the $63 million Series A, Startale intends to scale Strium to support tokenized securities trading and real-world asset transactions, drive broader adoption of its stablecoins, and expand the Startale app into a SuperApp for asset management, payments and onchain services. It is also pursuing tokenized stocks linked to Japanese equities and wider yen stablecoin usage in the near term. The Series A financing represents the company’s most recent capital infusion and consolidates strategic support from SBI and Sony.

Led · Seed · Mar 2026

augment AI was founded by former members of the team that developed Sony’s wena smartwatches after acquiring the wena trademark and patents; Teppei Tsushima leads the company as representative director and CEO. The firm’s first product under the new company, wena X, emphasizes a discreet, two-way snap-on/snap-off design that lets users switch between a classic watch and a smart wristband and claims to be the smallest smartwatch in its category. Technical highlights include a proprietary RTOS-based wena OS optimized for ultra-low power (about one week battery life), a wide curved AMOLED display, SUS316L stainless steel parts with DLC coating, a three-wavelength optical heart-rate sensor with improved accuracy, and support for over 130 activity types. augment AI has a strategic alliance with ACCELStars to develop AI-driven sleep analysis features and states that all user data will be stored and handled on servers located in Japan. The company is launching crowdfunding for wena X on GREEN FUNDING with various early-backer discounts and a 10th Anniversary special mechanical edition limited to 400 units. Its current financial position includes the recently closed ¥170 million seed round (equity and debt) to fund development and mass production.

Participated · Equity · Mar 2026

Founded in 2019 by Zohaib Ahmed and Saqib Muhammad and based in Mountain View, CA, Resemble AI develops AI voice generation and real-time multimodal deepfake detection technology. Its platform offers both cloud and on-premise deployment to allow organizations to analyze voice and audio without sending sensitive data to external servers. The company positions its tools for government, defense, and regulated organizations to detect synthetic media, prevent AI-generated fraud, and ensure secure handling of voice and audio data. With the $13.0M strategic investment, Resemble plans to expand into Saudi Arabia and the wider Middle East and to deploy real-time AI verification and deepfake detection solutions in those markets. The company’s recent investors include Wa’ed Ventures, Google's AI Future Fund, Sony Innovation Fund, Javelin, and Ubiquity.