Led · Series A · Jun 2025

Canid offers an integrated platform that automates pediatric vaccine workflows by scanning a vaccine barcode and handling ordering, reporting, billing and compliance. The platform integrates directly with electronic health records and uses AI, software and economies of scale to remove administrative burden and financial risk from practices. Key features include automated logistics, guaranteed payments (no inventory risk), and data-driven patient outreach to improve vaccination completion rates. The company says its solution reduces the 15 weekly hours pediatricians spend on administrative tasks and frees clinicians to focus on patient care. Canid partners with more than 150 pediatricians across 12 states, covers over 300,000 children in patient panels, and has facilitated vaccinations for 121,000 patients. The recent funding will be used to expand the company’s reach among independent pediatric practices across the U.S. Canid provides an end-to-end vaccine workflow automation and management platform that helps practices manage the purchasing, delivery, and record management of vaccines. Its suite of tools offers practices a unified way to engage patients, close care gaps, and reduce provider burnout while delivering higher-quality care. The company’s platform is designed to empower clinicians and drive improvements in public health. Canid raised $1.5M in funding to support growth. The company intends to use the proceeds to expand its geographic presence to ten new U.S. states and to add new tools to manage vaccine patient populations.

Participated · Equity · Jan 2025

Fundraise Up provides a donation platform nonprofits can add to their websites or use via campaign pages to manage fundraising drives, track donation stats, and accept multiple payment types. The company emphasizes deep AI integration to personalize suggested donation amounts, recommend upgrades to recurring gifts, and intervene when donors are about to cancel. Fundraise Up charges nonprofits a pay-as-you-go fee model (4% per transaction plus payment processor fees) and offers technical support without upfront contracts. The platform claims over 3,000 nonprofit organizations use its tools, including the Canadian Red Cross, the American Heart Association, and The Salvation Army UK. Founded in 2017 by Peter Byrnes, Anton Isaykin and Yuriy Smirnov, the company positions its AI models and dataset as competitive advantages versus later adopters.

Led · Series A · Sep 2024

Fathom is an AI meeting notetaker and transcription product that launched in 2020. It provides transcriptions, smart meeting summaries with chapters, automatic action items, draft follow-up emails, the "Ask Fathom" chatbot, and team-focused features. The company builds and fine-tunes its own models (variants of open models) with an internal team that treats model work differently from typical engineering. Fathom offers a generous free plan and paid plans that start at $19/month. Over the last two years the company says revenue increased 90x and usage increased 20x, and more than 8,500 companies use its HubSpot integration. Its roadmap emphasizes more integrations, AI agents that can perform tasks and interface with CRMs, and surfacing ambient intelligence to company leadership. Fathom builds an AI notetaker that automatically records and transcribes Zoom calls and generates post-call summaries. Users can highlight important moments during calls via Fathom’s Zoom or desktop app, then email summaries or import them into CRMs. The product was spun out of work begun at UserVoice by founder and CEO Richard White and the startup went through Y Combinator. Fathom is available for free today, with paid features planned over time while the core experience will remain free. While sales teams are an obvious early user base, the founder says the platform targets anyone who spends a significant amount of time on Zoom calls. Competitors cited in the article include Chorus, Gong, and Otter.

Led · Series A · Jul 2023

Stay Ai, founded in 2021 by Gina Perrelli, Pierson Krass and Taylor Cawiezell (originally called Retextion), provides a recurring-commerce enablement platform for subscriptions, clubs and memberships across the Shopify ecosystem. Its ExperienceEngine is an AI-powered system that enables merchants to run A/B tests, leverage predictive analytics and apply machine-learning models to optimize retention and lifetime value. Feature sets include SMS chatbots, surveying, rewards and loyalty programs designed to reduce cancellations between initial and subsequent orders. The company cites client results such as Olipop increasing subscriber revenue by 35% within 90 days of using Stay Ai’s tools. Stay Ai is deployed by roughly 300 Shopify merchants, including Vita Coco, Momofuku and Snow, and reports revenue pacing 10x from 2022. It charges $500 per month plus 1% and $0.19 on subscription transactions and plans to expand its team, accelerate product innovation and pursue acquisitions (it has acquired RetentionEngine and Bellwethr).

Led · Series A · Jan 2023

Beaconstac builds a QR-code management platform that lets businesses create, manage, and track branded QR codes across physical touchpoints, with customization of shape, captions and background colors. Its customers include United Airlines, Amazon and Deloitte, and the company says it has over 20,000 customers—double the figure from last year. Beaconstac’s platform can track engagement signals such as a customer’s location at the time of a scan while stating it does not collect personally identifiable information and is GDPR compliant. CEO Sharat Potharaju said the new capital will be used to expand the startup’s team and product R&D; the company plans to double its 75-person workforce. Beaconstac was co-founded in 2019 by Sharat Potharaju and Ravi Maddimsetty and has offices in the U.S. and India. The CEO declined to share revenue figures.