Participated · Series A · Jun 2024

Rising Team provides a team performance platform that equips managers to run connecting, interactive team-building sessions remotely or in person without needing an outside facilitator. The software covers leadership topics that drive high-performing teams and offers tools to develop managers, increase employee engagement, and improve retention. Customers named in the article include Bank of Hawaii, Yahoo!, DXC, and Achieve. Led by CEO and founder Jennifer Dulski and based in Menlo Park, the company is introducing aRTi, a conversational AI leadership coach, this summer; aRTi combines research-based leadership best practices with insights from Rising Team sessions to offer personalized recommendations and scripts. Rising Team recently closed an $8M Series A and plans to use the funds to enhance its platform with AI, hire new team members, and expand market presence. The platform is positioned to deepen manager coaching and scale talent development across distributed teams. Rising Team offers a platform that combines management tools and training to help managers motivate, organize and lead their teams. Its tools suite includes proprietary assessments and 1:1 templates designed to surface who team members are, how they want to be appreciated, and what motivates them. Alongside assessments, Rising Team provides training via videos, articles, and audio resources and is building a community for managers to communicate with one another. The company plans to add AI-based custom training tips powered by assessment data in the future. Rising Team is pursuing a bottom-up revenue approach that allows individual managers to purchase the product while also enabling organizations to license it for full employee bases. It is currently in free beta and has a team of eight people, with 60% female and 50% BIPOC representation.

Participated · Seed · May 2024

Remepy develops Hybrid Drugs that integrate prescription medicines with personalized, AI-driven therapeutic apps to combine pharmacology with adaptive physical, cognitive, and behavioral interventions. The company partners with pharmaceutical firms to co-develop these drug–software combination products and recently announced a strategic collaboration with Merck KGaA. Remepy’s lead program, Hybridopa for Parkinson’s disease, produced encouraging Phase IIa results supported by peer‑reviewed publications and is being prepared for a global Phase III trial expected to begin in Q4 2026. The Series A financing and existing investor base have brought total capital raised to $62 million, providing funds to expand the company’s pipeline, platform, and pharmaceutical partnerships. Remepy positions its approach within emerging FDA frameworks for drug‑software combination products and aims to create new IP and lifecycle-management opportunities for partner drugs.

Participated · Equity · Jun 2023

Gradient Health operates a secure, unified platform that gives researchers and developers access to raw and labeled medical images needed to train and validate AI technologies. The company offers machine-learning-ready formatting, searchable access by disease and imaging modality, and tools to facilitate compliant research and seamless collaborations. It emphasizes state-of-the-art security measures to protect patient privacy and ensure regulatory compliance. Gradient Health collaborates with academic institutions, healthcare organizations, and technology partners to advance medical knowledge and improve patient care. Led by CEO Josh Miller, the company recently raised $2.75M and intends to use the proceeds to continue assembling its comprehensive annotated medical imaging library.

Participated · Series A · Dec 2022

Shabodi is a Toronto-based platform that enables enterprises, system integrators, and telcos to build next-generation, network-aware applications in multi-vendor 5G and LTE environments. Founded in 2020 by Vikram Chopra and former Cisco and Juniper Networks CTO Harpreet Geekee, the company focuses on helping customers tap into 5G, Advanced LTE, WiFi 6 and 6G capabilities. Its product targets enterprises and service providers looking to accelerate development and deployment of network-aware applications. Shabodi recently raised $10.3M in a Series A to expand its business reach and support global expansion. Ramesh Kaza joined earlier this year as President & Chief Commercial Officer to support the company’s global expansion. The company has also added veteran telecom entrepreneur Joe Beatty to its board alongside investors Bruce Taragin and Vishal Makhijani. Shabodi builds an application enablement platform that abstracts 5G network complexity and exposes simple APIs so developers can create Industry 4.0 and enterprise applications. The company targets enterprises, system integrators and telecommunications firms aiming to monetize 5G deployments and accelerate return on investment. Founded in 2020 by telecom veterans Vikram Chopra and Harpreet Geekee, Shabodi positions itself as a bridge between 5G infrastructure and application developers. It is already working with customers and is in talks with about a dozen enterprises. The startup has 15 employees and holds two patents, with a third patent expected next year. Shabodi plans to use new funding to build out product and sales teams and to ready its first product for public consumption by the end of this year.

Participated · Seed · Nov 2022

Anything World provides a platform for developing interactive 3D experiences using 3D-object automation technology. The platform allows users to request, see, manipulate and experience anything in 3D with behaviors applied. A key component is the combination of voice computing with behavioral intelligence. Led by CEO Gordon Midwood, the company powers games such as Avatar Runner, Coheed and Cambria, Ubisoft Rabbids and the Pink Planet Experience. The company raised $7.5M in Series Seed Plus funding to secure two years of runway, expand the team and launch a new high-fidelity animation system. The new animation system is intended to allow anyone to become a 3D content creator. Anything World has built a deep‑tech platform that conjures 3D environments and objects from spoken requests using AI, natural language processing, computer vision and a large library of remixable 3D assets. The company analyses open-source and available assets, then algorithmically assigns animations and behaviours to produce ready‑made content. It has launched a public beta and says the technology currently reduces gaming production time and costs by around 40 percent. Anything World is working with major partners including Ubisoft, Instagram, Facebook and Warner Music, and sees applications beyond gaming in education, marketing and other creative industries. The team expects even greater adoption as mixed‑reality wearables from companies like Apple, Facebook and Snapchat become affordable. Founded in 2018 and based in London, the startup recently completed a funding round that supports continued product development and commercial partnerships.