Participated · Equity · Sep 2025

Salt AI offers an adaptive, SaaS-based collaborative operating system built for life-science and health-tech enterprises. The platform allows research and clinical teams to rapidly integrate, visualize, and operationalize AI models for tasks such as protein generation, biomarker discovery, clinical evidence synthesis, and diagnostics. With a visual-first interface and enterprise-grade scalability, the product is positioned to shorten R&D cycles and improve cross-functional collaboration in biotech and pharma. The company recently bolstered its leadership with veterans from Boston Consulting Group, Doctor Evidence, Concert AI, and Thermo Fisher Scientific, underscoring its commitment to pair scientific expertise with advanced machine learning. Following a $10 million funding round, Salt AI is scaling its adaptive pipeline across the life-science value chain and preparing demonstrations—such as oncology-focused protein design—at industry events like the 2025 AI Drug Discovery & Development Summit. CEO and co-founder Aber Whitcomb leads the firm’s push to deliver practical AI impact for translational scientists and drug developers. Financial details beyond the latest $10 million infusion, including revenue or user metrics, have not been disclosed.

Participated · Series A · Mar 2025

Topanga provides an enterprise software suite to manage and optimize each step of reusable packaging programs, from fulfillment and tracking to customer experience. Its flagship offering, ReusePass, is a track-and-trace reusables solution with a proven 98%+ return rate across 67+ dining programs in North America. The company’s newest product, StreamLine, is a smart scale with an interface and AI item recognition for production optimization and food-waste mitigation. Topanga is led by CEO Page Schult and is based in Los Angeles, CA. The company raised $8M in Series A financing and intends to use the funds to expand operations and accelerate product development. Current operating metrics disclosed include the ReusePass return rate and the number of dining programs using the solution.

Participated · Series A · May 2024

ChangeEngine provides a platform that brings Marketing and People teams together to discover, design, and execute employee-facing initiatives by syncing with employee data and creating persona segments for targeted communication. The product aligns visual content with brand identity and offers a suite of AI creator tools alongside a curated template library and broad integrations across systems of record. It automates internal communications to increase adoption of key employee initiatives and claims to save hundreds of hours for customers. The company emphasizes treating employees like internal customers and embedding workflows across HR and marketing systems. ChangeEngine recently raised a $10M Series A to support expansion and platform development. Planned product work includes people analytics, manager insights, enhanced AI workflows, employee recognition, and self-signup tools. ChangeEngine provides a workplace technology solution that enables companies to discover, design, and deliver key employee moments by syncing with employee data and creating employee persona segments. The platform designs engaging visual content that aligns external and internal brand and includes a hand-curated template library to launch workplace initiatives. ChangeEngine also empowers communications through visual design and tonal variations. The company plans to build modern AI into its platform to democratize idea generation, visual design, tonal variations, and predictive insights. Financially, ChangeEngine completed a $5.5M Seed funding round. The company is based in San Francisco and also has offices in London and LatAm.

Participated · Seed · Mar 2024

Paylode is a Miami, FL-based perks marketplace founded by Mikhail Naumov that provides pre-negotiated, pre-vetted offers and tools for companies to create private-labeled perks programs in less than 15 minutes. Its platform enables businesses to surface relevant perks at checkout, deploy email campaigns for micro-engagement, and deliver deals or freebies to motivate customer actions. While in beta the company enrolled 50+ clients and 1,000+ brands into its embeddable perks ecosystem. Clients include major hotel brands with thousands of locations, residential housing operators managing millions of apartment rentals, consumer mobile apps, and top-tier insurance companies. Paylode raised $5.5M in a Seed round with participation from Susa Ventures, Vinyl Capital, Struck Capital, Day One Ventures and others. The company intends to use the funds to build new digital customer engagement tools. Paylode is a Miami, Florida–based SaaS platform powering the Ancillary Partnerships Economy. Its platform provides a complete set of tools to help companies launch, manage and monetize ancillary partnership programs and to cross-promote products to each other's customers in a tasteful and relevant way. Paylode positions itself as the easiest way for companies to create and operate partnership programs while eliminating additional business development and engineering costs. The company emphasizes delighting customers through relevant cross-promotions. In March 2022 Paylode raised $2.5 million in a seed round led by Susa Ventures and Struck Capital.

Participated · Equity · Jul 2023

Topanga builds a reusable packaging system aimed at eliminating single-use takeaway containers from delivery orders on platforms such as Grubhub. Its product uses reusable containers tagged with QR codes to enable tracking and returns, and it offers rewards for participation. The company is integrated into Grubhub’s UI and has commercial partnerships with Aramark, Sodexo and Compass; its system is currently in use on six college campuses. Topanga pursues a campus-first growth strategy to simplify returns, limit tracking to restricted areas, and encourage habit formation among students. It plans to expand into campus-adjacent markets and similar food-provision systems, and will deploy Topanga-tagged containers via zero-emission Starship robots at Colorado State University this fall. Topanga recently raised $3.6M in a funding round led by Amasia, with participation from Struck Capital and Wonder Ventures.