Participated · Series A · May 2026

Ember LifeSciences develops reusable, modular cold-chain shipping platforms, including the flagship Ember Cube and the newly commercially available Ember Cube 2, which features real-time monitoring and cloud-based tracking. The Ember Cube 2 has received design recognition such as a Red Dot “Best of the Best,” and the company’s products have been cited by TIME and Fast Company. Ember’s customer base includes major pharmaceutical distributors and pharmacies such as CVS Health, Cardinal Health, Chartwell and USADA. The company originated as an offshoot of Ember Technologies, the maker of a temperature-control mug that has exceeded half a billion dollars in total sales. Ember says it will use recent strategic investments to scale its logistics platform rapidly and expand its global footprint.

Participated · Seed · Oct 2024

Hotglue is a B2B SaaS provider of an embedded integration platform that allows software companies to offer integration experiences to their customers. The platform enables developers to embed over 250 pre-built integrations into their applications, providing connectivity across CRM, accounting, and e-commerce tools. Customers range from early-stage startups to established enterprises, including Chargebee and a recently signed publicly traded company. Founded in late 2020 and based in Washington, DC, Hotglue is a Y Combinator alum. The company previously raised $1.5M in a 2021 pre-seed round and recently secured $4M in Seed funding. Hotglue intends to use the new capital to expand its team and further develop its technology to serve its customer base. Hotglue builds embeddable connectors that help developers integrate business applications like Salesforce, QuickBooks and HubSpot, and has created about 250 connectors based on the open-source project Meltano. The product targets engineering teams rather than traditional data-integration customers, offering an embeddable way to access data from business systems. Hotglue was founded by CEO Hassan Syyid and CRO David Molot, who dropped out of the University of Maryland and participated in Y Combinator's Summer 2021 cohort. The company has roughly 15 customers, a similar number in the pipeline, is generating revenue, and reports active user growth of about 50% month-over-month. With the seed investment, Hotglue plans to hire a couple of engineers and continue building the product and go-to-market efforts. The founders have used content marketing and YC learnings to refine the product and customer approach.

Participated · Series B · Sep 2024

BlackCloak is an Orlando, FL–based company that specializes in digital executive protection and personal cybersecurity for corporate executives, high-net-worth individuals, and family offices. Its BlackCloak Concierge Cybersecurity & Privacy™ platform helps shield clients from threats such as deepfakes, advanced social engineering, cyber-extortion, doxxing, and physical threats. The company is used by Fortune 500 and Fortune 50 companies, the world’s largest financial institutions, prominent public officials, and talent management firms in the entertainment industry. Led by CEO and founder Dr. Chris Pierson, BlackCloak markets itself as a trusted solution for high-profile clients across industries. The company raised $17M in a Series B to support product development and protection services; the round brought total funding to $30M. BlackCloak says it will use the proceeds to enhance its personal cybersecurity platform for executives, high-net-worth individuals, and family offices. BlackCloak provides a Concierge Cybersecurity & Privacy™ platform that protects corporate executives and high‑profile individuals from cybersecurity, privacy, financial, and reputational risks. The holistic solution includes mobile and desktop apps as well as concierge support. Led by CEO and founder Dr. Chris Pierson, the company published 2020 research showing 40% of executives were already compromised, 70% had exposed passwords on the deep/dark web, and 87% had no security installed on personal devices. BlackCloak is used by Fortune 500 companies across industries. The company intends to use the funds to expand its proprietary technology offering in cybersecurity and privacy, deepen relationships with members, and grow its team and sales operations. BlackCloak is a US creator of a cybersecurity platform that provides Concierge Cybersecurity services to high-net-worth individuals, high-profile persons, and corporate executives. The platform protects clients in their personal lives to mitigate hacking, financial, and reputational risks. The company is led by Dr. Chris Pierson, Founder and CEO. BlackCloak raised $1.9M in funding from DataTribe. It intends to use the funds to strengthen its concierge cybersecurity platform and expand its presence within key sectors where cybercrime losses and intellectual theft are on the rise. As part of the investment, John Funge, Chief Product Officer at DataTribe, will join BlackCloak’s board of directors.

Participated · Series B · Jan 2024

Rewest provides a purpose-built RPA automation platform that enables managed service providers (MSPs) to connect tools and automate end-to-end processes via pre-built "Crates" or custom workflows. The platform includes features such as RoboRewsty, which harnesses OpenAI to simplify automation building, Custom Integrations (drag-and-drop Swagger/OpenAPI actions), and Version Control for workflow history and easy reverts. The company intends to use the new funding to accelerate product innovation and invest in community, education, and support to help MSPs drive business value from automation. Founded in 2020 and led by CEO Aharon Chernin, Rewest has scaled rapidly: ARR grew 182% year-over-year in H1 2024 and total customers increased 204%. Rewest serves more than 900 MSPs, doubled headcount to expand engineering, customer success, education, and its Robotic Operations Center, and maintains a significant base in North America with a presence in the EU and APAC. Rewst offers a purpose-built automation platform that enables Managed Service Providers to deploy RPA and automate end-to-end processes via pre-built automations or visually designed workflows and forms. The platform supports common MSP use cases such as user onboarding/offboarding, billing reconciliation, group membership changes, MFA alerting, just-in-time admin access, and ticket categorization and prioritization. Led by CEO Aharon Chernin, the company emphasizes improving operational efficiency, service delivery, and customer satisfaction for MSPs. Rewst serves more than 700 MSPs with a base in North America and a growing foothold in the EU and APAC. The company recently raised funding to accelerate growth and expand its product, customer success, education, and Robotic Operations Center teams. Financially, the latest round brought the company’s total funding to $59M. Rewst delivers a purpose-built RPA platform that enables MSPs to automate routine manual tasks and low-return tickets. The platform integrates deeply with 30+ products commonly used by MSPs to automate workflows such as onboarding/offboarding, phishing remediation, license purchasing and reconciliation, billing reconciliation, and approval processes. Led by founder and CEO Aharon Chernin, the company is building a Robotic Operations Center (ROC) to centralize and scale automation for MSPs. Rewst said it will use the funding to drive growth and continue the ROC buildout. The product targets both time-saving automations and tasks MSPs commonly ignore because the return is too low for the time investment. No revenue or user metrics were disclosed in the article. Rewst offers an online robotic process automation (RPA) platform focused on Managed Service Providers, with operations managed by its Robotic Operations Center (ROC). The platform connects products and automates routine manual tasks for MSP workflows. Led by CEO Aharon Chernin, the company emphasizes accessible RPA tailored to MSP needs. Rewst intends to use new funding to expand its ROC and to build integrations into other MSP software tools. The company raised $4M in funding to support those plans. Investors in the round included TDF Ventures, Florida Funders, MDJ, GroTech Ventures, Adam Slutskin and David Bellini.

Participated · Seed · Aug 2023

Arpio provides cloud-native recovery automation that enables enterprises to replicate, test, and recover cloud workloads automatically, aiming to replace manual, legacy disaster recovery approaches. Its platform allows customers to test recovery capabilities in minutes and outside maintenance windows to ensure recovery environments function properly. The company is led by CEO Doug Neumann and is headquartered in Durham, NC. Arpio plans to deepen integrations with AWS and Microsoft Azure and expand support to Google Cloud and other AI-native services. Financially, Arpio has just completed a $15M Series A round to fund this product and market expansion.