Participated · Series B · May 2025

Zeno Power develops compact, long-duration nuclear batteries intended to provide reliable energy in frontier environments. Its systems target demanding maritime and space applications such as seabed infrastructure, highly maneuverable satellites, and lunar landers. The company has secured over $60M in contracts from the U.S. Department of Defense and NASA to develop these batteries. Founded in 2018 and led by CEO Tyler Bernstein, Zeno Power has 65+ team members. The company plans to use the new funding to grow its team to over 100 employees across Seattle and Washington, DC, and to invest in manufacturing capabilities to scale production and meet customer demand. This funding brings Zeno's total capital raised to over $70M following a Series A led by Tribe Capital in 2022. Zeno Power develops commercial radioisotope power systems, transforming nuclear waste (notably strontium-90) into compact heat sources for use in frontier environments from seabed installations to lunar missions. The company successfully demonstrated its first strontium-90 heat source at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in late 2023. Zeno holds over $60M in contracts with NASA, the U.S. Navy, and the U.S. Space Force, signaling government demand for its technology. The firm is positioning its systems for both government space and terrestrial missions and is introducing a new category of power systems to the commercial market. To support development and operations, Zeno secured a revolving credit facility that provides working capital flexibility. No revenue or user metrics were disclosed in the articles.

Participated · Series B · Oct 2024

Vizit offers a patented Visual AI platform built around proprietary Audience "Lenses" that interpret, measure, and predict consumer visual preferences to optimize visual content. Its technology uses synthetic human preferences so creatives and ecommerce teams can deliver personalized, high-converting visuals at scale. Customers include Fortune 500 brands such as Mars, Heineken, and Ghirardelli, which reported outcomes including a 30% increase in conversions and a 10% lift in Amazon sales after deploying Vizit. Vizit positions its product as 'Intuitive AI' that goes beyond generative models by simulating audience reactions and improving digital-shelf performance. The company announced a $25 million Series B to accelerate platform expansion and unlock new markets. Vizit is headquartered in Boston. Vizit builds an AI-powered image analytics platform called the Visual Brand Performance Platform that analyzes organic consumer interactions with commercial imagery to generate predictive models called Vizit Audience Lenses. The platform scores and predicts which images and design elements will capture target audiences’ attention, improve merchandising on digital shelves, and drive ecommerce conversion. Vizit serves enterprise customers in 10 countries across industries, including several of the top 10 food and beverage companies, the largest motorcycle manufacturer, and the largest cosmetics and beauty company. Mars reports that higher Vizit Scores have led to up to 30% more units sold across major retailers. Vizit announced a $10M Series A to fuel growth led by Infinity Ventures and Brand Foundry Ventures, with participation from eGateway Capital, Lakefront Partners, Lubar & Co and others. The company says the funding will be used to help ecommerce, marketing, and creative teams measure, manage, and optimize image effectiveness and to expand its customer footprint.

Participated · Series A · Jul 2024

Gigpro operates an on-demand labor marketplace serving the hospitality industry, allowing businesses to post shifts and receive applicants from qualified, vetted professionals within minutes. The platform covers hotels, bars, country clubs, retirement communities, sports arenas, and more. Gigpro has helped fill over 350,000 shifts for more than 9,000 businesses and maintains a network of over 250,000 hospitality workers. The company currently operates in 28 U.S. cities, including Charleston, Atlanta, Nashville, Charlotte, and Philadelphia. Led by CEO and Founder Samuel Mylrea and CPO and Co-Founder Adam Phillips, Gigpro aims to expand its platform and enhance its technological capabilities. The company recently closed a $16M Series A financing to support these growth initiatives.

Participated · Series B · Nov 2022

Freight Farms develops vertical hydroponic farms housed in shipping containers that enable year-round local food production. Its farm automation software, farmhand®, allows indoor farm operators to control temperature, lighting, and other environmental variables and is flexibly architected to support many different indoor grow setups beyond Freight Farms’ containers. The company serves global customers ranging from small business farmers to corporate, hospitality, retail, education, and nonprofit sectors. Led by CEO Rick Vanzura, Freight Farms pursues a mission to create resilient, self-sufficient communities that can grow fresh, local, healthy food 365 days a year. The company raised $17.5M in a Series B3 round and intends to use the funds to expand operations and broaden its business reach. Freight Farms builds containerized vertical hydroponic farms for local production of fresh food. Founded in 2010 by CEO Brad McNamara and COO Jon Friedman and based in Boston, MA, the company pairs its hardware with an integral IoT data platform, farmhand®. It supports a large network of connected farms with customers in 25 countries and 44 U.S. states across small business, corporate, hospitality, retail, education and nonprofit sectors. The company raised $15M in a Series B to advance the technical potential of its platform through continued innovation. The round was led by Ospraie Ag Science with participation from existing investor Spark Capital, bringing total funding to more than $28M. Freight Farms plans to use the proceeds to continue product and platform development. Freight Farms builds shipping-container farms that grow lettuce using hydroponic technology, LED lighting, and automated watering and fertilizing systems. Its containers include cameras and a mobile app that let farmers track and control operations remotely. The company has deployed 100 farms to date. Financially, Freight Farms has completed a $7.3 million Series B and has now raised a total of $12 million. The startup previously raised $3.7 million in a 2014 Series A. Freight Farms was formed in 2010 by Brad McNamara and Jon Friedman. Freight Farms makes freight-truck-sized "farm-in-a-box" units that include all necessary equipment and storage to grow produce. The company released its 2015 model as an annual hardware update cycle and the founders describe it as the culmination of their performance improvements. The system can save up to 90% of water compared with traditional agriculture and may be able to go off-grid soon via solar or wind power. The farms auto-update their software over the internet, have a modular design to sit on brownfields with access to electricity and water, and use insulation to operate in different climates. Individual units are priced at $76,000 and the company highlights financing options for customers, including federal farm loan programs. The article also notes longer-term potential to ship units to regions like Africa and India and to serve both community and commercial growers.

Participated · Seed · Nov 2022

CloudTruth is a Boston, MA-based DevSecOps platform that helps enterprise development teams manage cloud configurations and secrets. The company provides a systematic way to inject and manage all configurations into code releases to accelerate build pipelines and improve developer, DevOps, and Platform Engineering productivity. Recent product updates include a Secrets Federated Manager/Broker, Terraform provider, Kubernetes operator, integrations with Hashi Vault, AWS Secrets Manager, Azure Key Vault, and GCP Secret Manager, CI/CD integrations, RBAC, advanced templates, and audit/change-tracking features. CloudTruth raised $2.4M in seed funding to scale its go-to-market approach, expand its customer base, and deliver product aimed at DevSecOps pipeline build teams. Christian Tate was appointed CEO and will lead operations, sales, and marketing reporting to founder and CPO Greg Arnette. The article cites market demand for repeatable, adaptive DevSecOps processes and secrets/configuration management as drivers of growth in the space.