Participated · Seed · Jan 2026

Founded in 2024 and based in Portland, OR, AheadComputing is developing a breakthrough CPU microarchitecture that marries RISC-V extensibility with proprietary design to maximize per-core performance for AI inference, agentic AI, and other data-center tasks. The 120-person team, which collectively holds hundreds of compute patents and has shipped more than 70 products in prior roles, is currently building its first high-performance general-purpose CPU. The company positions its architecture as a critical complement to GPUs, arguing that CPU performance is still essential as 70% of data-center workloads are expected to be AI-related by 2030. Proceeds from recent funding are earmarked for R&D, software innovation, and test-chip development, as well as continued team expansion. Key technical collaborations include Alchip, Cadence, Skyechip, and Tenstorrent. To date, the company has raised $53 million, giving it runway to bring its initial product to market and further integrate RISC-V into mainstream AI infrastructure.

Participated · Seed · Apr 2025

Foundation EGI offers an engineering general intelligence (EGI) platform that combines purpose-built large language models with physics-based context and engineering best practices to tackle design-to-manufacturing complexity. The platform transforms disorganized specifications, siloed tribal knowledge, and outdated instructions into succinct, structured, auditable, and human- and machine-executable workflows. It targets multiple manufacturing domains including automotive, heavy industry, appliances, power tools, and advanced manufacturing and is used at leading Fortune 500 industrial brands. The company was born from MIT cross-disciplinary research led by co-founders Wojciech Matusik and Michael Foshey and cites a 2024 paper, "Large Language Models for Design and Manufacturing," as foundational. Foundation EGI says its vision is to turn manufacturing's biggest bottlenecks into breakthroughs and enable AI-native co-design between humans and machines. Financially, the company announced an oversubscribed Series A of $23M, raising over $30M in total. Foundation EGI has launched a proprietary domain-specific large language model and agentic AI platform purpose-built for engineering and manufacturing workflows. The platform interprets complex natural-language instructions, converts them into clean, structured code and machine-executable workflows, and integrates with industry-standard design tools. Early pilots with several unnamed Fortune 500 industrial companies reportedly show reductions in design-to-manufacture cycles, fewer production errors, and faster time-to-market. The company plans to use the new funding to expand engineering and product teams, scale enterprise pilots and onboard new clients, enhance integrations with leading engineering tools, and advance its core LLM to cover more specialized manufacturing domains. Foundation EGI was co-founded by Mok Oh, Ph.D., Professor Wojciech Matusik, and Michael Foshey, and its work was catalyzed by a 2024 MIT paper titled “Large Language Models for Design and Manufacturing.”

Participated · Series B · Sep 2022

Movellus builds an Intelligent Clock Network™ platform and patented architectural innovations designed to maximize performance, power, and yield for advanced silicon architectures. Customers have integrated the platform into products spanning ultra-low-power edge AI devices to performance-centric cloud datacenter compute and AI offerings. The company says the new funding will be used to expand R&D and build out marketing and sales to support growth plans. Movellus closed a $23M Series B and reported a significant step up in valuation in the current round. SK hynix made a strategic investment and, along with other investors, endorsed Movellus’ technology and long-term strategy. The company is headquartered in San Jose with R&D centers in Michigan and Toronto. Movellus uses digital infrastructure to automatically produce design-optimized, process-portable analog blocks (PLLs, DLLs and LDOs) built from standard cells. Its initial products are optimized per design for markets ranging from edge AI to high-performance cloud computing. The company can create nano-watt PLLs for ultra-low-power, battery-less applications and serves customers across cloud computing, AI, edge AI and FPGA markets. Movellus aims to dramatically reduce SoC time-to-market while improving power, performance and area through automated analog design. The company has raised $10M to date, including a new $6M Series A. The new funding will be used to expand infrastructure, broaden the product portfolio, and increase market penetration. Movellus develops traditionally analog IPs using proprietary generators that leverage industry-standard digital implementation tools and standard cell libraries. Its generators automatically produce PLLs, DLLs and LDOs optimized per design and are process-portable. The generated IP delivers comparable performance with lower power consumption and a smaller footprint. IP from Movellus is customizable, silicon-verified, and can be delivered faster to meet aggressive schedules. Customers include semiconductor and systems companies in the artificial intelligence, networking, and FPGA segments. Movellus is located in San Jose, California. Movellus builds technology that enables digital design tools to automatically create and implement functions that were previously implemented using custom analog methods. Its flagship products are Movellus PLL, DLL and LDO Generators, which the company says deliver optimized, process‑portable, 100% digitally‑implemented IP in hours. Movellus claims the digital approach shortens implementation time, reduces power consumption, and yields a smaller footprint compared with traditional analog IP. The company targets semiconductor and systems customers in AI, networking, and FPGA segments. Movellus says the newly closed funding will be used to accelerate market deployment and adoption of its technology by semiconductor and system design companies. Movellus is located in San Jose, California.

Participated · Equity · Jul 2022

VulcanForms has built what it calls the first fully integrated digital metal manufacturing platform in the U.S., unifying metal 3-D printing, precision machining, automation, inspection, and AI-driven software into a single end-to-end workflow. By collapsing traditionally fragmented, multi-step supply chains into one domestic operation, the company reduces cost, waste, and lead time while delivering production-grade parts with consistent quality. Its facilities already support large multi-billion-dollar commercial programs across medical devices, consumer products, aerospace, defense, and other industrial sectors, signaling strong market adoption and a shift of mission-critical manufacturing back onshore. The platform’s ability to provide secure, high-performance domestic production is positioned as a key advantage amid geopolitical and supply-chain disruptions. Newly raised capital will fund capacity expansion, materials portfolio growth, and continued R&D to advance the technology roadmap. While specific revenue figures were not disclosed, VulcanForms emphasizes scaled industrial production and surging customer demand as indicators of its financial momentum.

Participated · Equity · Oct 2018

Yottaa offers an eCommerce optimization platform that manages third-party applications to improve website speed and conversion. Its solutions, including RAPID CTRL, BRAND CTRL and Super Accelerator, can increase website speed by up to 60 percent. The software is designed to reduce friction in the online shopping journey and drive higher revenue per session and improved ROI/ROAS on marketing spend. Yottaa works with over 250 eCommerce customers and has recently expanded into the CPG end market. Management says the products are easy to implement and deliver immediate benefits to revenue per session. With new funding, Yottaa plans to accelerate product development and execute its go-to-market strategy across multiple product categories. Yottaa provides a cloud eCommerce acceleration platform that speeds site loading and resilience by optimizing third‑party technologies, images, and other website elements. Its patented optimization engine plus embedded analytics and machine learning can make sites up to 60% faster and drive up to 20% increases in conversion. The platform is used on more than 1,000 eCommerce websites and supports major eCommerce platforms including Salesforce, Oracle, Shopify, and SAP. Yottaa counts customers such as ASICS, Jockey, Nelly.com, Samsonite, Carter’s, The Container Store and others. The company reported bookings growth of over 80% in 2017 and said it expects to double revenue over the next 18 months. Yottaa is expanding its worldwide sales organization to scale global revenue and meet growing demand. Yottaa offers a SaaS eCommerce Acceleration Platform built on its patented ContextIntelligence™ architecture to accelerate, manage, and secure end‑user experiences in real time with zero code change. Since launching the platform in 2013, the company has secured hundreds of eCommerce destinations as customers, including Puma, Hallmark, Kraft, eBags, King Arthur Flour, Jo‑Ann Fabric and Craft Stores, and Moosejaw. Yottaa reports its technology can improve web page load speeds by 40–60% and says many Internet Retailer 500 customers have realized billions in incremental revenue. The company announced a $13 million funding round led by Stata Venture Partners with participation from existing investor General Catalyst. Yottaa will use the funding to grow sales, marketing, engineering, and network operations worldwide and to scale to meet growing demand for its platform. The company also appointed Rich Stendardo as CEO to expand its leadership in eCommerce acceleration. Yottaa provides a mobile and web performance platform that enables end-to-end acceleration, protection and visibility for web applications across the wired and wireless web. Its platform delivers speed, scale, security and actionable insight and runs on a global network of over 30 data center locations. The company's carrier-class performance automation service is used by websites across eCommerce, financial services, media, SaaS, consumer goods, business services, electronics and enterprise software. Customers include G20 government sites, Fortune 500 companies, startups approaching IPO, and online brands such as PC Mall, Bayer, H&R Block, Fossil, HubSpot and Logitech. Yottaa is based in Boston and Beijing and is led by CEO Coach Wei. The company closed a $16M financing and plans to use the proceeds to accelerate its hybrid cloud network, build sales and marketing operations, and grow its engineering teams in both headquarters. Yottaa offers cloud-based web performance monitoring, front-end optimization, and a content delivery network (CDN) aimed at startups and SMBs. Its Site Speed Optimizer serves over 100 million unique visitors per month and the company has attracted more than 80,000 business customers; roughly 5% of web users have visited sites accelerated by Yottaa’s network. The company combines patented cloud-routing technology and front-end optimization (two patents granted, eight pending) and recently launched a mobile acceleration solution developed with partner MocoSpace. Yottaa operates with near-50 employees, the majority based in China, while maintaining headquarters in Boston. Recent hires and board additions include former Yahoo CTO Raymie Stata and sales executive Morris Porter. The team is prioritizing faster product release cycles and plans to roll out larger products approximately every three months.