Stride
11720 Plaza America Dr Fl 9, Reston, Virginia, 20190, United States
Overview
Stride is a for-profit education company that sells online schooling and curriculum to state and local governments. K12 Private educational products and services are designed as alternatives to traditional "brick and mortar" education, and are suitable for private school students, from Kindergarten through to 12th grade.
- Total investments
- 14
- Lead investments
- 4
- Investments · 12mo
- 2
- Active investors
- 8
Sector focus
- E-Learning
- Education
- Information Technology
- Internet
Investment portfolio
- Legend of Toys
Participated · Series A · May 2026
Legend of Toys is a Bengaluru-based toy brand founded in 2024 that develops and sells toys across multiple play categories. The company plans to expand into DIY and adjacent play formats while strengthening its sourcing and manufacturing capabilities. It intends to scale consumer marketing, digital outreach, and pursue entry into overseas markets. Legend of Toys reported Rs 30 crore in annual recurring revenue within 18 months of operations and a monthly growth rate of 20%. The recent pre-series A funding is intended to finance product-category expansion, manufacturing scale-up, and broader marketing investments. Management cited positive consumer feedback as a driver for the planned extensions and international push.
- Conceivable Life Sciences
Participated · Series A · Sep 2025
Founded in 2021 in New York, Conceivable Life Sciences is building AURA, an integrated in-vitro fertilization (IVF) lab platform that combines AI, robotics, and advanced optics to automate and standardize over 200 manual procedures spanning oocyte and sperm preparation, fertilization, embryo culture, vitrification, and thawing. The system provides end-to-end sample traceability and uses proprietary imaging (e.g., OCT) and machine-learning models to guide robotic manipulators in real time. Initial prototype work has already resulted in the birth of 18 healthy babies, and the company is running a 100-patient clinical trial with plans to gather data from an additional 120 patients this year. In a pilot deployment at Hope IVF in Mexico City, a three-person team processed roughly 2,000 IVF cycles annually with AURA, illustrating meaningful throughput and labor savings. Management aims to complete clinical trials and launch full commercial operations in the United States in early 2026. After its recent financing, the company has raised a total of $70 million to date, positioning it to move from pilot projects to commercialization.
- Buena
Participated · Series A · Jul 2025
Buena develops AI-driven property management software that automates repetitive tasks such as accounting and annual financial reporting to boost accuracy and efficiency. The company pairs its product-first approach with an M&A rollup strategy, having acquired 20+ property managers since 2023 to integrate teams and digitise operations. Buena says its software and recent AI features let property managers focus on complex problem-solving and customer interactions rather than routine tasks. It currently manages 60,000+ apartments and has a waiting list of over 5,000 landlords, targeting roughly 30,000 under-digitised firms in Germany. The business reported triple-digit growth, with revenues growing over 300% in 2023 and over 500% in 2024. Buena positions AI as augmenting service workers’ roles while delivering significantly higher profitability than traditional competitors.
- Zefir
Participated · Equity · Apr 2024
Zefir operates a digital platform that federates local agents around a single transaction to execute collective home sales, claiming access to about 95% of potential buyers. After pivoting in 2022 from a guaranteed-sale model to the collective-sales approach, the company reports strong growth: transactions rose from €200M to over €600M in one year and annual activity multiplied by three. The site lists more than 100,000 properties and the startup says it sells roughly twice as fast as the market average. Zefir is launching “ZIA,” a conversational AI real-estate agent currently offered for free to assist buyers and sellers and to make the platform more personalized. The company states it is operationally profitable on a per-transaction basis but remains loss-making at the corporate level while continuing to invest for growth. Planned priorities include expanding into about fifteen additional cities beyond Paris, Lyon, Lille and Nantes, doubling headcount, and strengthening technology to sustain growth above 2x per year. Zefir operates a collective sales platform that accelerates connections between home sellers and buyers and fosters cooperation among real estate agents. The platform divides roles among multiple agents, ensures fair compensation, evaluates agent performance, and centralizes a network of buyers and properties. Led by co-founder and CEO Remy Fabre, the company aims to streamline transactions through collaboration rather than exclusive listings. Zefir plans to use new funding to expand operations and invest in its online platform, including applying artificial intelligence to better serve customers and agents. The company also intends to triple its property portfolio and its network of real estate professionals. The financing provides capital to support these growth and product-development initiatives.
- Jow
Participated · Series A · Feb 2024
Jow is a Paris, France–based provider of a grocery shopping and menu recommendation app that helps users plan meals and shop more quickly. The platform partners with retailers and brands and combines retail media, consumer data, and algorithms to generate personalized meal plans and shopping lists. Jow works with major grocery retailers including Auchan, Carrefour, and Intermarché. The company reports over 6 million users globally and 150 million meals served. Jow raised $13M in additional funding and had previously raised $20M from investors named in coverage. The company intends to use the new funds to expand into the US market. CEO Jacques-Edouard Sabatier leads the business. Jow is a meal- and grocery-planning service that recommends meals, lets users customize weekly plans and automatically generates shopping lists. The app transfers those lists to major French supermarket brands (Carrefour, Auchan, Intermarché, Leclerc, Monoprix and Chronodrive), covering over 4,000 stores, and lets users choose pickup or delivery. Jow does not process orders or own inventory; it generates revenue from grocers and operates with a lean team of 35 employees. Users have ordered 20 million meals through the app, and nearly 70% of products in a customer’s basket come from Jow’s recipes. Founded in 2018, the company plans to expand to new countries starting with the U.S. Jow positions improved meal planning as a way to reduce reliance on food-delivery services, save money and cut waste. Jow combines recipe recommendations, personalized menus and one-click online grocery ordering to let users complete a weekly food shop quickly after onboarding. The app’s recommendation engine factors in tastes, household details, appliance availability and supermarket stock to auto-fill users’ carts. Jow claims its recipe-to-cart feature represents on average 75% of products users add to their carts, with staples making up the remainder. The service is free to end users; Jow generates affiliate revenue from supermarkets seeking to acquire younger, mobile-first customers and is largely asset-light, built on top of retailers’ existing infrastructure. The startup supports five leading French grocers (Monoprix, Carrefour, Auchan, Chronodrive and E.Leclerc) and reports that 90% of customers shop using mobile devices. Jow positions itself to improve the online grocery user experience and accelerate e-grocery growth versus takeout and recipe-kit alternatives.