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Studio VC

530 5th Avenue, 9th Floor, New York, NY, 10036, United States

Overview

Studio VC is an early stage investment fund that provides capital and hands-on guidance to growing companies with breakout potential.

Total investments
20
Lead investments
1
Investments · 12mo
1
Active investors
2

Sector focus

  • Big Data
  • Finance
  • Financial Services
  • Information Technology
  • Internet
  • Logistics
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Investment portfolio

  • Inspiren

    Participated · Series B · Sep 2025

    Inspiren offers senior living operators a comprehensive AI-driven platform that combines resident safety monitoring, fall detection, care planning, staffing management, and emergency response into a single system. Introduced in March 2025, its complete senior living ecosystem integrates these previously siloed functions, enabling real-time behavioral alerts and actionable clinical and operational insights through the Inspiren HQ web interface. The newly added Inspiren Intelligence analytics engine gives community leadership a holistic, data-rich view of resident health, staffing efficiency, and risk, delivered in an intuitive dashboard. Communities report measurable results: Heritage Communities achieved an 86 % reduction in bedroom-related falls with injury, and Ascent Living detected a stroke-related fall within hours of implementation, while Arrow Senior Living deployed the solution in 27 communities across six states. Over the past year the company more than doubled its customer base and expanded its executive team with veterans from Anduril, Peloton, Shopify, and other high-growth firms. Fresh capital will allow Inspiren to expand nationwide, accelerate product innovation, and deepen its AI capabilities to improve clinical outcomes, staff efficiency, and family trust. Founded in 2016 by former Green Beret and cardiothoracic nurse Michael Wang, the company has raised $155 million to date.

  • Oraion

    Led · Seed · Jul 2025

    Oraion is an AI-powered, agentic enterprise intelligence and automation platform that delivers a single source of truth by surfacing deep insights and automating critical workflows. The platform interrogates internal and external systems, lets teams chat with their enterprise data in real time, and can serve as an enterprise data store or connect to existing infrastructure. It supports over 300 data sources and integrates directly with productivity apps like Slack and Microsoft Teams to embed recommendations into existing workflows. Founded in 2024 and led by alumni of Apple, N26, Revolut, MongoDB, Printify, and Bolt, the company has moved from stealth to landing enterprise customers across e-commerce, cloud infrastructure, cybersecurity, private equity, investment management, and financial services. Oraion plans rapid expansion into the US and Latin America and aims to triple its workforce to 45 staff in engineering, R&D, and go-to-market by the end of 2026. The company has a stated ambition to capture 50% market share of Fortune 500 companies within three years, and it positions its product as a secure, reliable AI solution for time-sensitive, data-dense decisioning.

  • Acre Homes

    Participated · Seed · Dec 2024

    Acre Homes is a Durham, NC–based, tech-enabled real estate company founded in 2021 that offers a streamlined, consumer-centric alternative to renting and traditional mortgages. The company uses a shared home appreciation model to let customers benefit from home appreciation without taking on debt. Acre says its approach simplifies the home-buying process and provides flexible, financially attractive options for residents. In three years the company has launched in the greater Raleigh and Atlanta metro areas and serves growing families, mobile professionals, and new and experienced homebuyers. Acre reports the average customer has saved $9K in purchase costs and is projected to benefit from roughly $50K in ongoing savings and home appreciation over three years (based on an estimated 4% annual price appreciation). The company plans to use the new funding to accelerate growth in existing markets, including newly launched Atlanta.

  • Knownwell

    Participated · Seed · Oct 2024

    Knownwell is a Washington, CA-based AIaaS company that develops a Commercial Intelligence platform for professional services organizations. The company leverages AI to synthesize an organization's natural communications, enterprise data, and public information into an integrated operating system. Its flagship Commercial Intelligence platform is designed to improve client outcomes, increase satisfaction, and reduce churn. Knownwell will use the funding to enhance the Commercial Intelligence platform, expand the development team, and advance product capabilities. The company reported a $4.0M seed round closed in September 2024. Knownwell is an AIaaS platform company that offers a digital CXO and an intelligent enterprise operating system to surface proactive intelligence from an organization’s data. Its system monitors an array of data points, including natural information flows in business, and recommends high-leverage decisions and orchestration. The platform is designed to equip executives of mid-market companies with capabilities previously reserved for corporate giants. Knownwell raised $2M in a pre-seed funding round and intends to use the funds to build an AI-powered platform that helps executives drive client-driven operations and high-level execution. The company is led by CEO David DeWolf and is based in Washington, DC. Backers for the round were not disclosed.

  • Monitaur

    Participated · Series A · May 2024

    Monitaur provides a model governance platform that helps highly regulated enterprises and their partners define, manage, and automate best practices across the modeling project lifecycle. Its software focuses on transparency, performance, fairness, safety, and compliance to help businesses, regulators, and consumers trust modeling systems. The company cites major customers and partners such as Progressive Insurance, CAPE Analytics, and Nayya. Monitaur reported more than 6x growth across revenue, customers, and product utilization in 2023. Founded in 2019 and based in Boston, the company plans to accelerate growth and add talent across functions to serve regulated industries—particularly insurance—more broadly. The product roadmap and go-to-market emphasize enabling innovation while embedding performance and safety into AI workflows. Monitaur is a Boston, MA-based AI governance software company led by CEO Anthony Habayeb. It provides a machine learning assurance platform that allows enterprises and their partners to build and deploy responsible AI and machine learning models for business leaders, regulators and consumers. The platform’s integrated products — GovernML, RecordML, MonitorML, and AuditML — empower AI/ML teams to deliver transparency, fairness, safety and compliance for their high-impact systems. Monitaur secured $4.6M in funding in a round led by Cultivation Capital with participation from Rockmont Partners, Presidio Ventures, Plug and Play, and Studio VC. The company intends to use the funds to expand operations and its business reach. The financing was reported by FinSMEs on 15/03/2023. Monitaur develops ML assurance technology designed to build trust and confidence in AI and machine learning. Its software helps companies govern and assure consequential decision systems by aligning stakeholders to minimize risk, maximize opportunity, and deliver compliance. The platform creates a system of record by recording, documenting, monitoring, and making every decision and model auditable; it combines continuous recording, monitoring, and independent validations to address bias, drift, and anomalies while streamlining audit and compliance workflows. The company reports engagement with and deliveries to major global corporations and partners and has demonstrated early traction with insurers. Monitaur recently closed an oversubscribed $2.6M funding round to accelerate hiring for technical and market-facing teams focused on the insurance industry. It added Jillian Froment, former director of the Ohio Department of Insurance, to its advisory board to support product development and industry approach. The article frames rising regulatory scrutiny and accelerated AI investment as drivers increasing demand for ML governance solutions.

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