
Starling Ventures
866 W End Ave, New York, NY, 10025, United States
Overview
Starling Ventures is a COA contract operator and ship broking company that provides chartering, operations, consulting, and SNP services.
- Total investments
- 13
- Lead investments
- 2
- Investments · 12mo
- 0
- Active investors
- 0
Investment portfolio
- Recall.ai
Participated · Seed · Dec 2022
Recall.ai offers a unified API that abstracts the complexity of building and scaling meeting and conversation capture across platforms like Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, and Slack Huddles. The platform supplies recordings, transcripts, and metadata in near real time (metadata available within 10 seconds after a meeting ends), enabling developers to embed conversation-aware AI features quickly. Recall.ai processes over three terabytes per second of raw video through custom pipelines and launches over eight million EC2 instances monthly to support its infrastructure. The company serves over 2,000 customers, including HubSpot, ClickUp, and Apollo.io, and processes millions of meetings monthly. Product expansion plans include Desktop Recording SDK, dialers, phone, and in-person meeting support, plus additional storage, playback, and agentic AI integrations. Recall.ai is headquartered in San Francisco and positions itself as the infrastructure layer for conversation data across sales, recruiting, healthcare, and productivity applications. Recall.ai provides infrastructure and a unified API that lets companies access raw audio and video from virtual meeting platforms including Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Slack Huddles and Zoom, plus platforms with no API. Customers use that data to build AI-powered meeting apps such as sales coaching, meeting notetakers and daily standup bots. The company charges per hour of audio and video processed and in less than two years has grown annual revenues from zero to several million dollars, with more than 300 enterprise customers and “millions” of end users. Recall.ai says it is SOC2, GDPR, CCPA and HIPAA compliant, stores recordings for a maximum of seven days and offers an API endpoint for immediate deletion. The startup launched in 2022 and was founded by David Gu and Amanda Zhu, who previously built a real-time transcription tool and integrations for conferencing platforms. Recall.ai currently has nine employees and plans to grow to more than 16 by year-end; the new capital will be used to expand the team and build integrations with more data sources. Recall.ai offers a unified API that accesses meeting data including real-time video and audio, participant identities, speaking times, join/leave events and screen-sharing signals to enable apps across sales, support, hiring, research and more. The API currently integrates with Zoom, Google Meet and Microsoft Team and is being used by about 50 companies while the product remains in private beta. Recall.ai charges customers per minute of audio and video processed and is already generating revenue. The company abstracts away the engineering and infrastructure needed to capture and process meeting streams, saving teams months of integration work and large hosting footprints. Founders David Gu and Amanda Zhu built the product after working on a research tool that produced real-time transcription from meeting recordings. Plans include adding more video conferencing and telephony system integrations as the product expands.
- Vozy
Participated · Series A · Oct 2022
Vozy develops a layered voice AI platform—Lili (conversational assistant), Speech Analytics, and Voice Biometrics—to automate operational voice processes and personalize customer interactions. The company serves over 150 corporate clients across more than 16 countries and reports a 250% annual growth rate. Vozy aims to reach 100 million user interactions and to improve customer service efficiency by up to 40%. The new capital is intended to fund expansion into Spain and the U.S., scale R&D, advance global brand strategy, and strengthen channel partnerships. Founders are Colombian entrepreneurs Humberto Pertuz, Ricardo Martin, Helmuth Corzo, and Alejandro Lopez; the company is based in Miami, Florida. Vozy builds voice AI assistants and conversational intelligence that deliver human-like conversations, speech analytics, and voice-based authentication and fraud prevention across existing customer channels. The company serves clients including Nequi, BCP, Gestiona, Celsia, HDI Seguros, Sura, Mapfre, Banco Promerica, Kubo Financiero, Sempli and Telefónica. Vozy is developing technology to create human-like voices that incorporate local lexicon to address diverse accents and vocabularies across Latin America. The company plans to grow its presence in Colombia and Mexico and to acquire clients in fast-growing industries such as finance and health, which the article says grew 600% during the pandemic. Vozy aims to increase voice interactions by 230% to reach 100M interactions per year and to expand its team to over 100 employees. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Bogotá, Colombia.
- Posh
Participated · Seed · Jun 2022
Posh develops automated EV battery recycling systems that disassemble and repurpose batteries to produce sustainable energy storage solutions. The company combines computer vision and robotic arms to deliver a safe, universal, and scalable recycling process. Posh’s technology targets the growing need for end-of-life EV battery management and second-life energy storage. Led by CEO Wesley Zheng, the company emphasizes automation to improve safety and throughput. Posh intends to use newly raised capital to accelerate growth and expand operations. The company is based in Hayward, California.
- Topship
Participated · Seed · May 2022
Topship is a digital freight forwarder that helps African merchants export and import parcels and cargo, with a deliberate focus on air freight. The company was founded in 2020 by CEO Moses Enenwali and went live in March 2021 with CTO Junaid Babatunde. Topship serves roughly 1,500 merchants moving cargo from Nigeria to more than 150 countries and can accept inbound deliveries from the U.S., the U.K. and China. Its revenue comes from selling shipping insurance and taking a margin on transactions, and it is exploring additional streams including trade financing and customs clearance charges. The startup reports about 50% month-on-month revenue growth since joining Y Combinator in January. Topship emphasizes an air-first model (arguing ocean freight is less viable across much of Africa) and aims to make shipping as easy as booking an Uber; it plans to use new capital to improve its asset-light technology and build proprietary global shipping infrastructure while preparing expansion into Ghana, Tanzania and Kenya, and has set aside $3,500 fashion and retail grants for Nigerian brands.
- MadEats
Led · Seed · Apr 2022
MadEats operates a full-stack, delivery-only restaurant group with virtual storefronts, ghost kitchens and an in-house fleet of riders. Launched in November 2020 and a Y Combinator alum, the company runs three ghost kitchens in Makati, Quezon City and the City of Manila and manages six brands including Yang Gang, Chow Time, Fried Nice, Dot Coffee, MadBakes and MadMakes. Its core technology, MadEatsOS, provides automated order routing and analytics to scale multi-brand operations. The company handles most deliveries with its own riders while also partnering with third-party logistics providers and listing on GrabFood and Foodpanda. More than 50% of orders reportedly come through its own platform, Madeats.co. MadEats plans to expand coverage across northern Metro Manila, add new brands (including smash burgers and Japanese food) and eventually open physical storefronts.
Team
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