Led · Equity · Mar 2026

Digit, headquartered in Atlanta and led by CEO Dan Koukol, provides an AI-native operating system designed for manufacturing and distribution businesses. The platform embeds artificial intelligence to help operators identify revenue opportunities, improve margins, and increase throughput across operations. Digit positions itself as an alternative to legacy ERP systems and is supporting a growing number of manufacturers transitioning away from those systems. The company plans to use the new funding to expand engineering and product development, accelerate platform capabilities, and scale go-to-market efforts. Digit has raised a total of $6.3M to date following the $3.0M financing announced in March 2026. No revenue, user, or valuation figures were disclosed in the article.

Led · Seed · Oct 2025

Bricklayer.ai, founded in 2024 and headquartered in Arlington, VA, delivers a platform that lets Security Operations Centers build, manage, and orchestrate teams of specialized AI agents. These agents perform multi-step tasks such as alert triage, vulnerability management, threat intelligence gathering, and reporting while maintaining auditability and human-level context. The company targets Fortune 500 enterprises and managed security providers, helping customers automate thousands of analyst hours each month. Bricklayer.ai reports that its monthly recurring revenue has expanded more than 14-fold year-to-date and more than doubled in the most recent quarter, underscoring rapid market adoption. The fresh capital will be directed toward accelerating product development, expanding go-to-market efforts, and enhancing customer experience to meet rising demand for AI-driven security automation. By enabling SOC teams to create cohesive AI agent teams, Bricklayer.ai aims to establish an AI-native model for security operations.

Participated · Seed · Oct 2025

Founded in 2021 and headquartered in Dayton, Ohio, DEXA (Drone Express) designs and manufactures the DE-2020 U.S.-made hexacopter and operates DEXA NOW, a marketplace app that connects retailers, local businesses, and consumers for autonomous drone deliveries. The company positions its service around hometowns and local storefronts rather than large, remote fulfillment centers, aiming to reduce delivery distances and suburban sprawl. Its drones provide rapid, eco-friendly delivery options that can reach dense metropolitan areas as well as suburban neighborhoods. DEXA’s strategy includes expanding its delivery network, onboarding additional retail partners, and scaling operations across multiple markets, with an early focus on metro regions. Financially, the company has secured a cumulative $15 million in seed financing raised over three tranches between 2021 and 2025. The fresh capital will fund network expansion, partner acquisition, and operational growth. No specific revenue or user metrics were disclosed in the article.

Participated · Series B · Sep 2025

Rainforest builds a purpose-built embedded payments stack and service specifically for vertical software platforms, offering low-code integration, merchant portability, transparent pricing, and a no-risk model. Its product includes embeddable chargeback management, advanced ACH with real-time bank validation, real-time BIN lookup, partial authorizations, and a Forward API for secure data sharing. The company serves a range of verticals including healthcare, non-profit donation management, professional services, and youth sports, and counts nearly 100 software platforms as customers. Rainforest processes billions of dollars in annual payment volume and reported more than 10x revenue growth year-over-year since its last round. Customer outcomes cited include margin expansion (21 to 54 basis points), 1600+ merchants migrated in weeks, a 16% card-volume lift from UI optimizations, HSA/FSA auth rate improvements (<30% to 94%), and a 90% reduction in chargebacks due to fraud. Future plans called out in the articles include hiring, geographic expansion to Canada, and product development such as tap-to-phone, alternate payment methods, and fintech orchestration. Rainforest builds payments-as-a-service that embeds payment processing into other software platforms, helping SaaS companies build and optimize embedded financial services. The company offers white-glove service and handles risk management, merchant onboarding and compliance, with a consumption-based revenue model that earns a small percentage of each transaction. In the past six months it says it grew payment volume 17x, signed "dozens" of platform customers across industries, and landed CRM/marketing automation provider Keap (200,000 users; processes billions in payments). The two-year-old Atlanta-based company has about two dozen employees and says its valuation has increased by more than 2x, declining to share specifics. On the product side Rainforest added support for Apple Pay, 3DS, Plaid and instant bank verification to boost adoption and reduce fraud. The company plans to use new capital to double down on product and support as it competes with Stripe, FIS and Fiserv for embedded payments in mid-market SaaS. Rainforest, founded in 2022 and based in Atlanta, offers a payments-as-a-service (PaaS) product built specifically for software platforms with low-code integration, merchant portability and white-glove service. The company bears risk and compliance burdens for its software customers and uses a consumption-based revenue model, taking a small percentage of each transaction. Rainforest says it has secured client commitments representing more than $500 million in processing, with much of the volume guaranteed. Its customers include PayGround, RoadSync, Curae, Rose Rocket and QuoteMachine across verticals such as healthcare, logistics, membership management, nonprofit and retail. The startup competes with modern processors and platforms like Stripe as software platforms migrate from legacy processors. Rainforest plans to use the funding to invest in product development, strategic hiring, expand product breadth through partnerships with banking-as-a-service and lending-as-a-service providers, and emphasize data portability via contractual ownership of client onboarding data. The company currently has just under two dozen employees, up from about one dozen the prior year.

Participated · Series A · Jun 2025

Qualytics provides an AI-driven, enterprise platform for augmented data quality that automates anomaly detection, intelligent rule generation, and remediation via no-code workflows. The platform integrates with cloud-native and legacy systems and tools including Databricks, Snowflake, SQL Server, Oracle, Atlan, and Alation. Qualytics surfaces more than 30,000 real-world anomalies per month and recently signed a top‑3 U.S. financial institution, demonstrating traction with large data-driven enterprises. The company reported 5x revenue growth over the past year, driven by demand for proactive data quality in AI and analytics initiatives. To support accelerating demand the company is scaling its team across engineering, product management, customer success, and sales. Planned product and go-to-market expansion aims to deepen platform capabilities, speed customer onboarding, and increase support for existing users. Qualytics provides an active, scalable data quality platform for enterprises. Led by CEO Gorkem Sevinc and based in Orlando, FL, it offers a scalable solution across the entire data quality lifecycle. The platform enables subject matter experts and data engineers to collaborate on data quality at scale through advanced automation and intelligent workflows. Qualytics raised $2.5M in funding in a round led by Tech Square Ventures. The company intends to use the funds to scale demand from Fortune 500 enterprises. The funding involved a mix of venture firms, funds and individual backers. Qualytics offers the Qualytics Data Firewall, a platform that monitors data with real-time surveillance. The platform uses advanced data operations and machine learning to enable governance, auditing, and data security by detecting data quality anomalies in real time and preventing bad data from entering downstream systems. The company is focused on a critical gap—data integrity. Qualytics was founded in April 2020 by Gorkem Sevinc and Dan Roche and is based in Baltimore, Md. The company operates as a tenant at the bwtech@UMBC Research & Technology Park. Its current financing activity includes an ongoing seed round with participation from institutional and angel investors.