Participated · Seed · Jan 2024

Crew’s core product is a mobile “pre-spend” banking platform that merges checking, savings, and budgeting so users can allocate funds before making purchases. Through a partnership with Bangor Savings Bank (Member FDIC), the app offers a checking account paying 3.2% APY—about 45 × the U.S. average for interest-bearing checking. The company debuted in early 2024 with a family-focused version featuring child accounts, automated allowances, and shared budgets, and has since broadened to general consumers with unlimited pockets, paycheck automation, and virtual cards that carry configurable spending limits. Crew reports that daily active users and debit-card transaction volume both doubled in the last month, signaling early traction. Founded by former Divvy product leaders Gentry Davies and Steve Domino, the startup emphasizes security, scale, and ease of use. Its app is available nationwide on the App Store and Google Play. The firm continues to lean on its bank partner’s 170-year compliance track record to differentiate itself from other neobanks.

Participated · Seed · Nov 2023

Siena builds an "empathic AI" customer service platform designed to understand context, respond with empathy, and solve complex problems across email, text, social DMs, and comments. The company says its AI autonomously handles up to 80% of customer interactions in over 100 languages with a 99.7% alignment score and a 4.81 Customer Satisfaction (CSAT) score. Siena reports it already resolves 80% of conversations and matches or exceeds some customers’ top human agents. Customer-impact metrics cited include $46,340 in incremental revenue for Kitsch over 90 days, 79% ticket automation for Simple Modern, and 60% and 45% drops in first response and resolution time for Everyday Dose. Siena targets mid-market to enterprise e-commerce brands to convert shoppers and automate support at scale. The company plans to launch Siena AI Academy, a learning hub with courses on building AI agents, emotional intelligence in AI, and CX metrics.

Participated · Seed · Mar 2022

Sweater operates a professionally managed venture fund that invests on behalf of retail investors, whom it calls “Members,” and provides investment breakdowns and company stories through an app launching soon. The team conducts due diligence and makes venture investments on behalf of those Members, enabling retail access to startup investing. The company intends to use the funds to accelerate growth and expand operations. Sweater was co-founded by Jesse Randall, Chad Lewkowski, and Matthew Klein and is based in Boulder, Colorado. The article does not disclose revenue or user metrics; its current disclosed financing is a $12M Seed round. The product focus is on making venture capital accessible and transparent to nonaccredited investors via a managed fund and accompanying app. Sweater operates a mobile-first venture investing platform that allows everyone to become investors in venture-backed startups. The company raised a $2.3M pre-seed financing to further develop its platform and accelerate its go-to-market strategy. In late November 2020 Sweater received SEC approval to pursue its proposed fund structure. The team is led by founders Jesse Randall, Chad Lewkowski, and Matthew Klein and includes former employees from SoFi, Dow Jones, and Lucid Software. Sweater plans to open a waitlist in early July 2021 with an expected public market launch in early 2022. The company is based in Boulder, CO.