Participated · Series A · Apr 2024

Bite builds customizable, user-friendly self-service kiosk ordering software for fast-casual and quick-service restaurants and convenience stores. Its platform integrates with existing tech stacks to improve order accuracy, increase throughput, and enhance customer satisfaction. Bite uses a patented AI, called Bite Lift, to analyze each transaction in real time and provide personalized upsell recommendations that drive higher average checks. The company reports its software helps more than 1,100 restaurant locations and yields average check-size increases of about 20%. Bite plans to invest in scaling its technology with existing partners, onboarding new clients in its pipeline, and expanding focus to enterprise restaurant brands, emerging fast-casual concepts, and innovative c-stores. Recently secured funding (see deal) will be used to accelerate growth and continue development of its technology capabilities.

Participated · Series B · Feb 2022

Northspyre is a cloud-based platform that automates financial tracking and project delivery for real estate owners and developers, using automation, data analytics, and artificial intelligence to deliver proactive, data-driven insights. It is positioned as the industry’s first purpose-built operating system for teams managing complex projects across asset classes including multifamily, office, retail, hospitality, and mixed-use. The company reports it has facilitated more than $44 billion in client capital projects and is used by over 130 customers in nearly every major U.S. city. Since its Series A in 2020 Northspyre says it has grown 6x and expanded from initial New York and Boston markets to a national footprint. The company plans to use new funding to bring its solution to additional U.S. and select international markets, launch new products, and further refine its core offering. Named customers include Madison Realty Capital, Leggat McCall, and SunCal. Northspyre provides a cloud-based intelligence platform that uses automation, data analytics and proactive insights to help real estate teams manage development, capital and asset projects. The software is designed to replace spreadsheets, manual workflows and legacy applications, enabling teams to deliver projects faster and more efficiently. Since launching in 2017, Northspyre has expanded into most major US markets, served more than 35 customers and facilitated over $13 billion in capital projects. During the COVID-19 pandemic the company experienced its highest user engagement since founding as customers relied on its cloud platform for remote collaboration. Management says customers save up to 30% of their time and between 2–8% in overall project costs by using the product. Northspyre plans to reach more customers and enhance offerings for existing users while continuing to transform traditional real estate project delivery methods.

Participated · Series A · Nov 2021

Huckleberry offers a parenting app that pairs data science, pediatric sleep experts and AI to deliver accessible, expert advice on developmental areas such as sleep, feedings and tantrums. Its SweetSpot feature is a real‑time predictive algorithm that analyzes an individual child’s sleep patterns alongside hundreds of millions of global data points to predict optimal nap times. Led by CEO Jessica Toh, the app has served 1.2 million families across 179 countries and maintains a 4.9‑star rating with over 40,000 Apple App Store reviews. The company intends to use the Series A proceeds to expand its team with hires across engineering, marketing and product development. It also plans to continue research and development into categories including tantrums, sleep, language and screen time.

Participated · Series A · Aug 2020

Breezeway offers a software platform purpose-built for vacation rental operators, enabling them to schedule, track, and verify all tasks related to property preparation, maintenance, and guest services. The cloud-based system centralizes workflows so managers can ensure quality standards and respond quickly to issues. Breezeway currently supports more than 3,500 clients and powers operations for over 265,000 properties across 85 countries, underscoring meaningful global traction. Revenue figures were not disclosed, but the large installed base signals material recurring SaaS income. The company plans to use new capital to accelerate product development and scale go-to-market efforts. Headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, Breezeway is led by founder and CEO Jeremiah Gall. Management aims to deepen feature sets that further automate property care and elevate guest satisfaction for professional vacation rental managers.

Led · Seed · Sep 2019

Aural Analytics develops a cloud-based, model-driven speech analytics platform that combines speech signal processing and cognitive-linguistic analysis into extensible APIs and clinical-grade mobile and web products. The platform is mobile-first, disease-, language- and device-agnostic, and has been deployed in eight languages across four continents. The company’s technology is grounded in more than 25 years of NIH- and NSF-funded speech neuroscience research and has been clinically validated in multiple disease indications. Aural’s tools are used in interventional clinical trials, observational research, and clinical and consumer settings to detect speech changes associated with neurological conditions. Planned uses of new funding include expansion of the clinical trial platform, a global release of a next-generation integration portal for easier speech collection and analytics, new clinical-grade mobile and web products, and researcher tool kits to accelerate speech neuroscience breakthroughs. The company was founded in 2015 and maintains headquarters in Scottsdale, Ariz.