The Venture Codex

Participated · Seed · Nov 2025

Parable has built an intelligence layer that ingests millions of activity data points from a company’s workplace software stack to create a detailed ontology and chronology of work. Its platform establishes a baseline of how time is spent, pinpoints costly inefficiencies, recommends AI-driven automations, and then measures the realized operating leverage. Deployed in private instances, the dashboards help executives answer both “What do we do about AI?” and “How do we know it’s working?” Early pilots have uncovered $80 million in potential cost savings and contributed to a 2.5× increase in one client’s market capitalization. Founded by four second-time entrepreneurs and based in New York City, Parable positions itself as the canonical measurement system that sits alongside every other AI tool in the enterprise stack. The fresh capital will allow the company to scale its observability platform and accelerate go-to-market efforts with large enterprises.

Participated · Equity · Feb 2023

Beyond The Box operates an AI-driven platform that matches professionals to short remote lessons (20 or 40 minutes) to solve specific work problems. Users describe their needs in natural language and the algorithm translates the request and selects suitable experts from thousands of professionals. Subscriptions start at €35 per month, allowing users to ask unlimited questions without paying per session. The startup was co-founded in 2019 and is led by co-founder and CEO Aleksandra Maravic. Beyond The Box aims to reduce skills mismatch by enabling fast, on-demand access to targeted expertise and training. As part of its growth plans, the company will integrate high-level programs from Polimi Graduate School of Management into its offering and invest in improving its technology to reach more professionals and enterprises.

Participated · Seed · Mar 2022

Vygo is an Australia-based SaaS platform reinventing the conventional social support ecosystem in higher education by connecting students with mentors, tutors, advisors and other support services. The platform offers personalized support beyond the physical campus and already works with a third of Australian universities while rapidly growing in the UK. In March 2022 Vygo raised £1.5M in a pre-seed funding round. The round was led by edtech VC Sparkmind and supported by Angel Investment Network, with Supercharger Ventures and the Australian Catholic University participating. Vygo says the funds will be used for platform development and to expand its UK and European presence. The company aims to use the capital to fuel its ambition to build borderless social education for every student. Vygo is an EdTech platform founded in 2016 by University of Queensland civil engineering graduates Joel Di Trapani and Ben Hallett. The platform focuses on increasing student engagement and reducing university dropout rates. Vygo progressed through UQ's Ventures programs, including the Ventures ilab Accelerator in 2017. The company has received government and accelerator funding, including a $100K Ignite Ideas Fund grant from the Queensland Government and $10,000 from the Ventures ilab Accelerator. Vygo has expanded its offices to Sri Lanka, indicating early international expansion. The company recently secured a AU$850K investment from the Australian Catholic University. Vygo is a mobile marketplace that connects university students with affordable peer tutors and lets tutors earn money by assisting their peers. Co-founded in November 2015 by Ben Hallett, Joel Di Trapani and Steven Hastie, the company is based in Brisbane, Australia. Vygo launched after a 16-week pilot at the University of Queensland in 2016, during which one tutor earned $4,000. To date over 5,000 students across Queensland and Victoria have downloaded the app, which is available on the Apple App Store and Google Play. The company recently secured $500k in pre-seed funding (including a $100k government grant) and plans to use the proceeds to accelerate national expansion and further product development.

Led · Seed · Sep 2021

Noodle Factory is a Singapore-based edtech company that uses natural language processing to automate creation, preparation, and marking of tests and assessments and to build knowledge bases for AI-assisted tutoring. The platform is designed to help educators scale tutoring and exam-preparation workflows. The company was founded in 2018 by Yvonne Soh and Jim Wagstaff, who also co-founded Jam Factory. In September 2021 Noodle Factory raised $500,000 in a seed round backed by edtech accelerators EduSpaze and SuperCharger Ventures and a consortium of angel investors. With the seed funding the company plans to extend its platform to K-12 institutions and expand into English-speaking markets including the UK, Australia, the US, and Canada. The company lists its website as noodlefactory.ai and is categorized as edtech–AI software.