Participated · Seed · Sep 2025

Parento offers a three-in-one paid parental leave solution that bundles customizable parental leave insurance, parental leave management services, and personalized one-on-one parent coaching. Its insurance product can provide up to 100% financial coverage and converts unpredictable leave costs into predictable premiums for small and mid-sized employers. The company reports strong outcomes: 95% of Parento parents return to work after leave, 10% average engagement rates for its coaching services, and 46% of claims were filed by men with up to 33% of men using one-on-one coaching. Parento serves diverse industries—25% of clients are in nonprofit or manufacturing/warehousing—and works with professional services, healthcare, law firms, nonprofits, and municipal organizations. Partnerships include the International Union of Operating Engineers (enabling first international expansion into Canada) and PEOs including one that serves more than half a million clients. Parento will use new capital to expand product development, sales, and marketing while launching additional insurance offerings and new products.

Participated · Seed · Apr 2025

Faye offers a marketplace that pairs households with vetted, local Family Advisors who handle multi-step, high-trust tasks—event and travel planning, vendor management, personal shopping, and family logistics—supported by AI tools. Founded in 2023 by Emily King and Kip Kaehler, the company blends human expertise with software to address tasks where AI alone falls short. Advisors are matched based on location and firsthand experience rather than being anonymous or offshore shift workers. Faye’s platform enables end-to-end support: researching providers, gathering quotes, communicating with vendors, and creating decision frameworks. Memberships start at $169/month, positioning the product as a recurring consumer service. The company plans to accelerate product development, expand its national Advisor network, and grow in existing markets including New York, Dallas, Austin, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, and Denver.

Participated · Series A · Mar 2025

Brisk Teaching provides an AI-driven browser extension that integrates with educators' existing tools to create resources, tutor, grade, authenticate writing, and deliver personalized learning experiences. The product lives on top of legacy classroom apps, unifying workflows and leveraging compounding feedback loops to tailor content and save teachers up to 10 hours per week. Brisk says more than one million educators in over 100 countries use its platform, and it has partnered with over 2,000 schools. Since a $5M seed in September 2024, the company expanded its user base five-fold and emphasizes student privacy and security via recognitions such as the Student Privacy Pledge and Common Sense Media. Future plans include evolving from a suite of tools into a full classroom agent, expanding reach to combat teacher burnout, and investing in product development to enable an AI-native edtech stack. The company positions its platform as a way to replace fragmented legacy tools and drive end-to-end automation in K-12 instruction. Brisk Teaching is an AI-powered Chrome extension for educators, schools, and districts that automates routine instructional tasks and integrates with curriculum, learning management systems, and Google Workspace. The product offers teacher-facing features including differentiated texts, content creation, feedback, and writing authentication. Within a year of launch the extension is used by over 500,000 teachers across 30,000 school districts and is claimed to be the most popular AI-powered Chrome extension for educators. Brisk reports saving educators more than 10 million hours to date and aims to automate roughly 20 hours of weekly digital work per teacher. The company also launched Brisk Boost, a student-facing tool that converts content into AI-powered activities—providing tutoring, adaptive quizzes, brainstorming, and real-time feedback tied to lesson objectives. Brisk positions itself as an integrative layer that works inside teachers' existing tools rather than adding another separate platform.

Participated · Seed · Feb 2025

Level Zero Health develops DNA-based aptamer sensors and minimally invasive wearable patches to continuously and remotely monitor hormone levels. Its initial product is a camera-readable colourimetric patch, and it is developing a microneedle wearable that delivers real-time measurements of stress and reproductive hormones. The company is also building what it calls the world’s largest hormone health dataset and has validated its sensors in simulated samples across 98% of the human clinical range. It is initially targeting B2B clinical applications—including IVF, menopause care and testosterone replacement therapy—with potential B2C and pharma expansion. Level Zero has already assembled a pipeline of customers and says it will use recent funding for R&D, hiring in the UK and US, and to bring the product to market. The startup was founded over a year ago by Ula Rustamova and Irene Jia and emphasizes transforming hormone tracking into a clinical-grade data platform. Level Zero Health is building technology for continuous hormone monitoring that aims to uncover previously inaccessible hormonal data. The company says its work grew out of personal frustration and years of research, which produced a roadmap to access new physiological information. Its product is positioned to improve patient care for clinicians, advance personalised medicine, and empower individuals to make better daily choices. The team came together at Entrepreneur First and has received a joint investment from Entrepreneur First and SOSV HAX. Level Zero Health has just arrived at HAX in New Jersey and plans to continue building toward its vision while in the program. The company frames its mission as revolutionising metabolic health.

Led · Equity · Feb 2025

Little Otter provides AI-powered virtual mental health care that treats children (0–18) and their families with a holistic, evidence-backed suite of services. Its platform uses advanced AI to triage patients, personalize services, and scale assessments alongside human clinicians. The company is available in 15 states and plans to expand state coverage to reach millions of families covered by Medicaid and commercial insurance. In 2024 Little Otter achieved 2.5x revenue growth and delivered over 56,000 care visits, with 85% of families reporting progress within six sessions and 71% of children achieving remission after 12 sessions. The company is unveiling a brand refresh and intends to continue leveraging data-backed outcomes to improve access and effectiveness. Founded in 2020 by Dr. Helen Egger and Rebecca Egger, Little Otter emphasizes clinical excellence across mild to severe conditions. Little Otter offers a precision digital mental health platform that assesses family needs via a questionnaire, delivers a personalized report, and matches families with a personal care lead who builds a tailored care plan. The platform provides virtual, on-demand integrated care with parenting specialists, early childhood-trained therapists, couples therapists and pediatric psychiatrists. Co-founded in May 2020 by Rebecca Egger and Dr. Helen Egger, the company emphasizes treating the whole family and uses proprietary assessment methods and data visualization. Little Otter reports 45% month-over-month growth and says 85% of families using its care plans reach clinical improvements within six sessions. It is currently available in California, Colorado, North Carolina and Florida and plans to be available nationally by 2023. The company aims to become an in-network benefit covered by insurance plans and employers while investing in a state-of-the-art tech and data platform and hiring a chief technology officer to scale.