Participated · Seed · Mar 2026

Inhouse provides an artificial-intelligence legal platform that executes substantive legal tasks for small and midsize businesses. The system blends proprietary AI software with an affiliated law firm and a nationwide network of licensed attorneys, enabling users to draft contracts, resolve complex legal questions, and seamlessly consult human counsel when necessary. Current product capabilities cover contract lifecycle management, compliance workflows, and proactive risk management. The company also maintains partnerships with prominent national law firms, including Baker Hostetler, Morgan & Morgan, and Imhoff & Associates. With fresh capital, Inhouse plans to deepen its AI agent functionality and further automate key legal processes. Co-founders Ryan Wenger and Aarshay Jain lead the Los Angeles-based venture as it seeks to modernize legal services for growing companies.

Participated · Series B · Dec 2021

NewtonX developed search technology and a knowledge graph to match research questions to verified experts within an open network of more than 1 billion professionals, providing on-demand B2B insight. The company focuses on automating expert recruitment and verification to deliver high-quality, enterprise-grade research faster. NewtonX works with more than 200 companies, including Pinterest, and sells to consulting firms, financial institutions, market-research firms and mid-sized companies. It is growing 100% year over year and has expanded headcount from 45 a year ago to 80 today, with plans to exceed 200 employees by the end of 2022. CEO Sascha Eder said the business was close to the path of profitability but raised new capital to prioritize growth. The company plans to invest heavily in product-suite development, automation and AI, and to build out marketing, sales and engineering teams. NewtonX, founded by Germain Chastel, Sascha Eder, and Anuja Ketan in early 2017, operates a knowledge access platform that matches business clients with vetted experts. The company offers two core products: Expert Calls (single-expert consultations) and Expert Surveys (broader, multi-expert questionnaires); Expert Surveys account for roughly 70% of current revenue. Clients complete structured questions to scope queries, which NewtonX then routes to its expert network, while the startup is building a knowledge graph to improve speed and accuracy over time. NewtonX counts Microsoft, 23andMe, and Gartner among its public clients and serves about 20 corporate customers along with many top consulting and research firms. Early revenues enabled the company to grow to 32 employees near Grand Central, and the firm reports a majority of employees and managers are women. With new funding, NewtonX plans to scale hiring and expand its client success and expert success teams. NewtonX leverages a proprietary search methodology (developed by a former Google engineer), a dynamic matching algorithm, and a knowledge graph to identify and deliver relevant experts in real time. Its core products are one-on-one expert consultations and large-scale expert surveys, supported by proprietary speech-to-text software and automation to speed delivery and cut costs. The company targets C-suite advisory needs across governments, corporations, financial services, and startups, aiming to disrupt the multi-billion-dollar executive advisory market through data science and automation. NewtonX reports rapid early traction: in under a year it grew from three employees and one client to 25 employees, more than 20 clients, and seven-digit revenue, with revenue multiplied tenfold and headcount tripled in the past six months. The team includes former McKinsey alumni founders and a CTO with enterprise engineering experience, and the company operates across two international offices. NewtonX also emphasizes diversity, reporting 50% women overall and 50% women in leadership.

Led · Equity · Jun 2016

Planet3 is a Washington, D.C.-based exploration-based learning company offering a personalized digital learning platform that uses the planet Earth as a laboratory to teach Earth, Life, and Physical Science. The platform leverages narratives, real-world data, and visualization to engage and inspire students and future scientists, engineers, artists, and technologists. Planet3 launched an initial pilot focused on middle school Earth and Life Sciences and plans to target a minimum of 25 pilot schools across six Nevada districts, including Clark County. The platform is scheduled for a formal launch in Fall 2017, and long-term plans include expanding into K–12 curriculum across all STEAM subjects. Co-founded and led by Tim Kelly, former President of the National Geographic Society and media pioneer, and Tim Kelly, co-founder and Chief Executive Officer, the company is advancing an Early Adopter program. Planet3 has raised a total of $13M and will use the additional $3M investment to further develop its digital learning platform and expand the Early Adopter program. Planet3 has developed a digital learning platform that combines game-based environments, real-world context, and standards-based curriculum to present the entire Earth as a living laboratory. The platform targets Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math (STEAM) subjects. Its first product focuses on middle school Earth, Life, and Physical Sciences with an initial release scheduled for Fall 2016. The company plans to use proceeds from its Series A to launch the digital learning platform. The founding team includes CEO Tim Kelly, Chief Science Officer Dr. Albert Yu-Min Lin, and Chief Creative Officer Vijay Lakshman; the team also lists Chief Learning Officer Kelly McGrath and Chief Technology Officer Royal O’Brien. Planet3 is based in Washington, DC.