The Venture Codex

Participated · Seed · Jul 2026

Linker Finance provides a unified, modular platform designed to help community banks grow deposits, streamline onboarding, and deliver white-label mobile and online retail and commercial banking experiences. The platform supports deposit account opening, commercial onboarding workflows, treasury and payments functionality, fraud and identity integrations, CRM and Customer Intelligence tools, and integrations with leading core providers and third-party services. Linker says its turnkey approach enables community banks to launch and go live in as little as eight weeks and is live with more than 10 customers across cores including Fiserv Premier, CSI and FIS (with DCI coming soon). The company is developing an Agentic AI layer called Grandir to help banks understand customer needs, identify growth opportunities, and reduce manual work, and is currently piloting that product. Linker plans to expand its payments rails, including cross-border and stablecoin-enabled capabilities, while continuing product development across retail and business banking. Financially, Linker has raised $8.7 million in total Seed funding following the latest $5 million infusion.

Participated · Seed · Sep 2025

Elysian is an AI-native TPA built to modernize complex commercial claims handling by combining AI-orchestrated claims processing with experienced adjusters. The company offers two core products: end-to-end claims handling and Dynamic Claim Review (DCR), both supported by proprietary multimodal AI-agent orchestration, purpose-built machine learning, statistical optimization, and autonomous decision systems. Elysian’s platform surfaces coverage and liability insights, drafts tailored communications, and delegates the ‘‘messy middle’’ to AI so adjusters can focus on human decisions. Grace Hanson, founder and CEO, brings legal expertise and senior claims leadership from roles including Chief Claims Officer at Allied World, Homesite Insurance, Hiscox, and Hippo Insurance. The company plans to use new capital to accelerate go-to-market efforts, support customer onboarding, and scale delivery operations and its technology platform. Elysian is headquartered in Nashville, Tenn.

Participated · Seed · Aug 2025

Loman AI provides a voice AI customer engagement platform for restaurants that answers every call, takes orders, handles FAQs and reservations, and integrates with leading POS and ordering systems to drive revenue and guest satisfaction. It serves independent operators, multi-unit groups, and national brands across the United States. Founded in 2022 and led by CEO and founder Christian Wiens, the company is based in Austin, TX. On August 26, 2025, Loman AI raised $3.5M in a Seed round led by Next Coast Ventures with participation from TenOneTen Ventures and Antler. The company intends to use the funds to advance product development and expand its team as demand for its AI phone platform rapidly accelerates.

Participated · Series B · Feb 2025

Urban Sky develops high-altitude balloons (Microballoon™/mHAB), custom stratospheric payloads, control software, and AI-derived forecasting and autonomous flight control systems. Its flagship mHAB product is a rapidly deployable, navigable stratospheric balloon that can operate above 60,000 feet for multiple days. The company serves commercial, civil government, and U.S. defense customers, including NASA, the oil & gas sector, wildfire monitoring organizations, the U.S. Army, and the U.S. Air Force. Urban Sky demonstrated its Hot Spot LWIR imaging system with NASA and the Air Force, producing wildfire heat maps the company says are 100x finer than publicly available MODIS and VIIRS data. The firm plans to develop and commercialize a connected suite of products and to pioneer technologies to deploy a global constellation of long-duration, persistent stratospheric balloons for search & rescue, environmental monitoring, disaster response, communications, and intelligence support. Financially, Urban Sky closed a $30M Series B to accelerate development and commercialization of its technology and product portfolio. Urban Sky builds small, reusable stratospheric balloons—branded Microballoons—that are deployed from a pickup truck to collect high-resolution Earth imagery and data products. The company offers natural color optical images today and is developing near-infrared and long-wave infrared sensors (the latter, HotSpot, has been demonstrated to monitor wildfires in real time under a NASA grant with Air Force support). Urban Sky uses a patented termination and descent mechanism to recover balloons and a stratospheric flight simulator to back-predict launch sites, lowering operational costs. The 14-person startup has been running tasking missions in the Rocky Mountain region and has brought in millions in revenue. It plans to scale operations by building a routine catalogue of refreshed data over highly populated areas and other customer areas of interest. Urban Sky aims to drive down imagery costs—reporting roughly $5–$10 per square kilometer at 10 cm resolution—and compete on cost and revisit cadence with traditional satellite providers. Urban Sky is a Denver, CO startup focused on stratospheric technology and remote sensing. The company develops the Microballoon, leveraging component miniaturization and first-of-its-kind balloon reusability to operate in the stratosphere. Its approach uses the high vantage point of the stratosphere to reduce the cost of high-resolution remote sensing and weather-related data capture over broad areas. Urban Sky says this enables more impactful data collection across larger regions than traditional platforms. The company announced an over-subscribed $4.1 million Seed financing round. Investors in the round include Catapult Ventures, Union Labs, TenOneTen Ventures, New Stack Ventures, and Techstars.

Led · Seed · Oct 2024

3Laws develops dynamic safety software called Supervisor that supervises AI-driven machines and enforces real-time guardrails to enable safe unsupervised operation in dynamic environments. Supervisor is designed to integrate with existing autonomy stacks and sensors without requiring modifications to underlying systems. The software has been deployed in a variety of hardware and operational settings, including drones, articulated robot arms, quadrupeds, and ground vehicles. 3Laws’ technology originated from over a decade of research at Caltech and was developed by a founding team including Professor Aaron Ames, Dr. Andrew Singletary (CEO), and Dr. Thomas Gurriet (CTO). The company says Supervisor deterministically modulates autonomy signals to remove corner cases, shorten development time, and improve operational efficiency and reliability. 3Laws plans to scale delivery and make its technology more widely accessible to customers that need safety and performance optimization for autonomous systems; the company recently raised seed funding to support that growth.