Participated · Equity · Jul 2025

Planted Solar offers an integrated hardware-and-software platform that generates optimized layouts, energy models, and engineering drawings while pairing terrain-following, high-density arrays with automated installation tools. Its system claims to cut land use roughly 50%, enable slopes up to 27%, use 70% less steel, and deliver projects about twice as fast, producing roughly 30% lower cost of energy. The platform targets developers, EPCs, and independent power producers to unlock sites previously infeasible due to grading or land constraints. Founded in 2020 and operating projects across the U.S., Planted is also ramping activity in Asia-Pacific and Europe. With this funding, the company intends to accelerate development of both its digital and hardware solutions, expand deployment capacity, and form strategic partnerships globally. The product focus is on improving project economics and shortening time to power amid surging U.S. solar demand and deployment challenges. Planted Solar sells a rapid solar power plant deployment platform that integrates development software, high-density terrain-following arrays, and construction robots. The company emerged from stealth and announced 11 MW of projects in the Chicago metro area in partnership with Cultivate Power. Its high-density arrays produce roughly 2x more energy per acre with a 2-acre-per-MW footprint and can be built on slopes up to 27%, avoiding grading. Planted Solar says its approach cuts balance-of-system costs by about 50%, reduces installation hours, and enables project throughput and completion times roughly 3x faster. The company has raised $20 million in Series A funding from Breakthrough Energy Ventures and Khosla Ventures and received a U.S. Department of Energy Solar Energy Technologies Office award to support commercial launch and scale-up. Those funds and awards are being used to commercialize and scale the integrated hardware-software-robotics product and expand deployments. Planted Solar is headquartered in Oakland, California. Planted Solar develops a novel ground-mounted photovoltaic (PV) system along with balance-of-system components and an installation methodology aimed at utility-scale projects. The technology is intended to enable highly automated, rapid installation of solar arrays. Its design aims to lower the levelized cost of electricity, reduce land-use competition, and increase siting flexibility. The company was selected for federal support to demonstrate and validate the system at scale. Planted Solar’s project focuses on commercialization pathways to accelerate deployment and strengthen the solar supply chain. The team says the work will support next-generation solar manufacturing and installation practices.

Participated · Series A · Nov 2023

Noice is a multiplayer game and livestreaming platform that turns a creator’s channel into an interactive multiplayer experience where viewers can play alongside and engage with streamers. The product integrates viewers into gameplay to boost engagement, retention and new ways for fans to financially support creators. The company exited over 4.5 years of stealth and is launching a closed beta this month. Noice plans to use the Series A proceeds to ramp platform promotion and expand its team. The company operates as a remote-first team of about 70 people across multiple countries with a 50-person core in Helsinki. Founding and leadership include co-founders with Unity and Applifier backgrounds and investor/incubator Jussi Laakkonen, reflecting the team’s prior experience with Everyplay, Applifier and Unity Ads.

Participated · Series B · Oct 2022

Landis operates a program that buys a home in an all-cash offer on behalf of a client, rents the home to that client, and provides personalized coaching to help the client qualify for a mortgage and repurchase the property. The company was founded in 2018 by Cyril Berdugo and Tom Petit and is based in New York. Landis runs a two-year coaching program focused on improving credit and savings milestones; it does not charge for coaching and earns revenue when it buys and later sells homes. The company declined to disclose revenue metrics but said its valuation increased with the new round. Since 2021 Landis has expanded from operating in 29 cities across 11 states to over 50 markets, its team has grown threefold, and applications to its program have increased more than seven times year-over-year. The new capital will be used to expand the coaching program (including a $2M allocation), enter new markets, and grow the team. Landis buys homes for prospective buyers who cannot yet qualify for a mortgage, rents the homes to them, and helps clients save, build credit, and become mortgage-ready within 12–24 months using underwriting technology and individualized coaching. The company provides a Landis Homeownership Coach mobile app (now free on iPhone) that dashboards credit, down payment savings, and debt with actionable insights. Clients are typically referred by real estate agents and mortgage lenders and are often held back by poor credit, lack of down-payment savings, or existing debt. Landis emphasizes financial literacy and partnership-style relationships rather than traditional landlord-renter dynamics. The company operates in 29 cities across 11 states and plans to expand to 20 states by next year. Founders Cyril Berdugo and Tom Petit launched Landis in 2018 and are focused on expanding headcount and improving user experience to scale impact. Landis operates a New York City marketplace enabling institutional investors to source and acquire portfolios of single-family homes. The company uses advanced data science and machine learning to source off-market portfolios and match them with relevant buyers. Typical portfolios comprise 10 to 50 properties, allowing buyers to scale quickly in target geographies. Landis counts as clients the largest residential investors in the U.S., which collectively have $200 billion of assets under management. The company was co-founded in 2017 by Cyril Berdugo and Tom Petit and recently acquired competitor GoldenKey. It plans to use new funding to build its team, improve its technology and better communicate its value to real estate owners.

Participated · Series A · Apr 2021

Safehub develops an internet-of-things platform that monitors structural integrity of buildings in real time, using cell-connected motion sensors, analytics, and third-party data to measure ground motion, building response, and changes in natural and resonant frequencies. Its sensors include an accelerometer, rechargeable battery, and connectivity options such as long-range radio for mesh networking and LTE, and Safehub says 99% of calculations can be performed on the sensor to reduce cloud communication. The company estimates damage and business-interruption losses and sends damage alerts and financial loss estimates via text, email, and a web dashboard. Safehub partnered with the Global Earthquake Model (GEM) foundation in 2019 to model structural robustness from in-building sensors and used that data to refine its algorithmic vulnerability and insurance calculations. Founded in 2015 and based in San Francisco, Safehub has 12 employees and has raised a total of $14 million to date. The company plans to use newly raised capital to expand its platform, acquire new customers, and grow its engineering team. Safehub provides a platform that delivers real-time, building-specific earthquake damage information using a combination of sensors, analytics, and third-party data. Its sensors measure earthquake ground motion, building response, and changes in building natural frequencies to estimate structural damage and related business interruption losses. The platform generates actionable damage alerts and financial loss estimates via text messages, email, and a web dashboard within minutes after an event. Led by CEO Andy Thompson, Safehub focuses on rapid post-quake assessment to support business continuity decisions. The company plans to use recent funding to accelerate deployment to Fortune 500 companies seeking to strengthen resilience and continuity efforts. Financially, Safehub closed a $5M seed funding round to support these deployments.

Participated · Series A · Sep 2020

InCountry develops data protection products positioned at the intersection of AI, identity, and data sovereignty. Its offerings include AgentCloak—an AI agent data protection solution launched alongside the financing—tools for AI data minimization and cross-border AI sovereignty, profile data residency for Identity and Access Management platforms, and end-user data residency integrations for enterprise applications such as Salesforce and ServiceNow. The platform is already used by Global 2000 enterprises across life sciences, semiconductor, and financial-services sectors. By handling regional compliance mandates from bodies such as the Cyberspace Administration of China, the Saudi Arabian Monetary Authority, and various European Data Protection Authorities, InCountry enables multinational companies to operate securely in multiple jurisdictions. The newly announced capital will fund expanded R&D, deepen strategic partnerships, and support broader global market expansion. CEO Peter Yared leads the company’s push to embed its solutions into AI and SaaS ecosystems worldwide.