Led · Equity · Mar 2026

Founded in 2010, Findhelp provides a technology platform that links people to more than 900,000 verified community program locations across the United States. The system enables healthcare providers, government agencies, health plans, and employers to identify social needs, route individuals to local resources, and track outcomes through integrated analytics. It also offers benefits eligibility verification and enrollment, streamlining access to programs such as Medicare and Medicaid through a unified interface. Each year, the platform serves tens of millions of users and supports over 800 customers in all 50 states. On a monthly basis, it facilitates hundreds of thousands of referrals for needs like food, housing, utility assistance, and transportation. By reducing administrative burdens and strengthening the social safety net infrastructure, Findhelp aims to scale its reach and deepen its impact. The company plans to accelerate network expansion and technology investment following its recent capital raise.

Led · Series B · Sep 2025

Hala is a Saudi Arabian fintech founded by Esam Alnahdi and Maher Loubieh that empowers more than 142,000 MSMEs with a full stack of embedded financial products. Its platform offers business bank accounts, card issuance, payment processing, domestic and international transfers, and point-of-sale solutions, collectively processing over $8 billion in annual transactions. With its latest capital infusion, the company plans to deepen its market share in Saudi Arabia, broaden its suite with new lending products tailored for MSMEs and freelancers, and commence regional expansion. Hala’s strategy centers on becoming the primary financial operating system for small businesses across the Middle East by layering credit, working-capital, and other value-added services onto its existing payments infrastructure. The company’s scale, transaction throughput, and specialized focus on underserved business segments position it to capture significant share in the Gulf’s fast-growing digital finance market. Financial performance metrics beyond transaction volume were not disclosed, but the firm’s user base and processing volume highlight rapid traction. Management intends to deploy the newly raised funds toward product development, regulatory licensing, and go-to-market initiatives across neighboring countries.

Participated · Series C · Mar 2025

Persefoni is a Sustainability Management SaaS and AI platform serving companies and financial institutions. Its product lineup includes Persefoni Pro, a free self-guided offering for SMBs and supply-chain participants launched in March 2024 that has seen more than 6,000 organic sign-ups. The company is expanding its AI suite—PersefoniGPT and smart emission factor matching—and reports model breakthroughs in energy and utility bill management and physical risk modeling, with commercial products expected in 2025. Planned 2025 product releases include a dedicated Product Carbon Footprint/LCA capability, enhanced audit and controls, and a self-serve analytics builder. Persefoni has broadened from a pure enterprise model to include successful self-service offerings and has expanded Persefoni Pro to offer free multi-framework sustainability reporting in addition to carbon accounting. Management expects the recent progress and financing to carry the business toward profitability as early as the second half of 2025. Persefoni offers a Climate Management & Accounting Platform that helps businesses, financial institutions, and governmental agencies manage climate-related data, disclosures, and performance. Its software simplifies carbon footprint calculations, identifies decarbonization strategies, and performs climate trajectory modeling aligned to Paris Agreement temperature scenarios. The platform also enables benchmarking by region, sector, and peer group. The company has launched PersefoniGPT, an AI co-pilot product for carbon accounting and management, expanding its AI capabilities. Persefoni serves enterprise and financial-institution customers and emphasizes regulatory and disclosure workflows. Financially, the company has raised over $150 million to date, reflecting investor interest in its product and market opportunity. Persefoni offers an "ERP for Carbon Data" that automates carbon accounting and helps organizations comply with standards such as the Greenhouse Gas Protocol and PCAF. Its platform targets asset managers, banks, insurers, pensions/endowments and corporates across manufacturing, agriculture, energy, apparel, retail, software and business services. The company emphasizes avoiding proprietary methodologies to ensure auditability and claims automated accounting without consulting services. Persefoni has strategic partnerships with Bain & Co., EDF and SMBC, has expanded into the Japanese market, launched a free-tier for SMBs and introduced a Temperature Scoring Model for 1.5C/2C implied temperature scenarios. It also integrates with the Patch offsetting platform on a commission-free, pass-through basis. Financially, the company recently completed a Series B and has raised a total of $114.2 million to date. Persefoni builds a carbon accounting and management platform that assembles, calculates, manages and reports organizational carbon footprints with real-time reporting on scope 1 through 3 emissions. The company was founded only last January and launched its product in August alongside an initial $3.5M raise. Persefoni has attracted corporate customers, with private equity firms like TPG signing on to its service. The startup recently added Robert G. Eccles, founding chairman of the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board, to its board of advisors. It plans to use new funding to support international expansion, product development, and recruitment. Persefoni develops an AI-powered carbon footprint management platform that generates business-centric sustainability reports and automates organizational emissions accounting. The company was founded in January by Jason Offerman, Kentaro Kawamori and Kim Stroh and is based in Tempe, Arizona. Persefoni plans to use its seed funding to continue product development, add features for large customers, expand its team beyond an 18-employee base, and pursue a Series A. The company said full availability of the platform will come in the fourth quarter and that it anticipates several million in sales by the end of the year. Persefoni positions itself against consumer and enterprise alternatives such as Klima, Salesforce Sustainability Cloud and SAP’s Climate 21 products, viewing some as competitors and others as potential partners. The platform emphasizes serving clients that are already serious about sustainability and meeting institutional investor demand for annual sustainability reports.

Led · Series C · Jul 2024

Hayden AI Technologies provides a vision AI platform that leverages geospatial data-collection sensor systems to deliver actionable urban intelligence. The platform can be mounted on virtually any vehicle to detect and enforce parking and moving violations, monitor city assets, predict congestion, and optimize transportation networks. Hayden AI is used by major transit agencies including New York’s MTA, Washington DC’s Metro, Los Angeles Metro, and AC Transit. The company cites measurable impacts in New York City: 5% faster buses on enforced routes, 20% fewer vehicle collisions, and an estimated 5–10% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions tied to automated camera enforcement. Hayden AI plans to use new capital to accelerate R&D, develop its platform into a broader urban operating system, and expand into additional use cases and new cities domestically and internationally. The company has been recognized on the GovTech100 list for four consecutive years and named by TIME as one of America’s Top GreenTech Companies of 2024. Hayden AI Technologies deploys cameras on school buses and other vehicles to detect traffic violations via image analysis and immediately report violations with image data to relevant authorities. The core product targets enforcement of rules such as stopping for school buses and parking infringements, enabling more efficient enforcement and improved urban traffic safety. The company also offers a traffic volume forecasting solution that leverages accumulated image data. Hayden plans to develop that forecasting capability into an urban traffic optimization platform to pitch to major U.S. cities. Mitsubishi Electric’s ME Innovation Fund has invested in Hayden AI and the companies are collaborating on a digital twin initiative. The digital twin effort aims to collect real-time image data to run highly reproducible simulations and predict traffic accidents and changes in traffic conditions. Hayden AI builds an AI/ML-powered platform and proprietary vehicle-mounted hardware that delivers geospatial intelligence and analytics for governments and businesses. Its system is deployed on commercial, fleet, and passenger vehicles to capture data used for traffic enforcement and operational optimization. Current deployments enable enforcement of violations that obstruct transit buses and supply data to improve transit ridership, traffic efficiency, and road safety. Use cases highlighted include bus lane and bus stop enforcement as well as digital twin modeling. The company frames its mission as helping cities deliver safer, smarter, and more sustainable mobility and public services. Hayden AI is headquartered in San Francisco. Hayden AI provides an autonomous traffic-management platform that combines mobile sensors with artificial intelligence to help governments monitor and enforce traffic and curbside regulations. The company partners with government agencies and converts public and private vehicle fleets into spatially aware sensors via its digital platform. Its system fuses IoT sensor data to create a real-time digital twin of roads and curbsides, generating insights to improve traffic flow, parking, and curbside management. The company raised a $20M Series A, bringing total funding to over $30M. Hayden AI plans to expand nationally and internationally and to accelerate hiring across R&D, cybersecurity, and customer support. Looking ahead, the company is pursuing integration with autonomous vehicles by embedding traffic enforcement rules into HD maps. It intends to partner with mapping companies so semantically annotated policy layers help self-driving vehicles automatically comply with city traffic laws. Hayden AI Technologies develops AI-powered smart-city solutions that combine mobile sensors with artificial intelligence to support safer streets, equitable transportation, and efficient urban mobility. Led by co-founder and CEO Chris Carson, the company partners with public transportation and mobility providers to deploy automated traffic law enforcement systems. It recently partnered with Conduent Transportation to deliver an automated bus lane enforcement solution using a transit bus-mounted perception system integrated with video analytics and violation processing. The platform also leverages sensor data and digital twin technology to simulate scenarios and generate actionable insights on hazardous driving areas, parking management, traffic patterns, and curbside management. The company intends to use the new funds to accelerate development and delivery of its AI-powered solutions. Financially, Hayden AI closed a $4.5M round, bringing total funding to $9.5M including a $5M seed round raised the prior year.

Led · Equity · Jun 2024

Foodsmart operates a telenutrition and food benefits management platform that pairs virtual nutrition counseling from a network of U.S. Registered Dietitians with digital tools to plan personalized meals and order food. The platform enables patients to order from nationwide grocers and local medically tailored food partners, apply for SNAP benefits, and learn cost‑effective shopping strategies. Foodsmart partners with health plans and providers to support people facing chronic disease and food insecurity. The company serves over 2.2 million members through contracts with regional and national Medicaid managed care organizations, Medicare Advantage plans, commercial insurers, and more than 1,000 employers. Founded in 2010 and led by CEO Jason Langheier, Foodsmart is based in San Francisco, California. It intends to use the new funding to expand operations and broaden its business reach. Foodsmart (doing business as Zipongo) is a San Francisco-based personalized telenutrition and foodcare leader. The company offers a fully customizable app-based platform backed by a national network of Registered Dietitians that guides members through personalized journeys to healthier eating. Its platform integrates dietary assessments and nutrition counseling with online food ordering and cost-effective meal planning for whole families, making the most of ingredients at home and on the go. The company describes itself as the world's largest telenutrition and foodcare solution. Foodsmart emphasizes making healthy eating affordable and accessible, a mission highlighted by participation from social impact investors. Financially, the company announced a Series C funding round of more than $25 million. Zipongo, launched in 2014 by CEO Jason Langheier, MD, MPH, provides a Food Benefits Management (FBM) platform that delivers sustained engagement through tools including Health (Digital Dietitian), Cooking (recipes, meal planning, grocery delivery, and discounts) and Restaurants (menus, restaurant ordering, and workplace cafes). The company uses those tools to help people assess and improve their nutrition and engage with food-related benefits. It raised $18M in Series B1 financing to expand the platform beyond wellness toward using food as a first-line therapy to treat chronic disease. Zipongo is developing a new solution called FoodScripts to enable health plans and providers to use food to treat conditions. FoodScripts adds prescriptive, personalized, evidence-based modules addressing hypertension, diabetes, obesity and more. The company plans to roll out an early version of FoodScripts to pilot customers in the early spring. Zipongo provides a software-as-a-service platform that enables digital nutrition coaching for large employers, health plans and health systems, and offers food utility tools for families to select and buy healthy food. Its product suite includes meal planning, recipes, grocery rewards, online grocery ordering, menu coaching and mobile meal ordering for cooking and eating prepared meals. The company serves over 150 companies and the majority of national health plans and wellness platforms. Founded by Jason Langheier, MD, MPH, Zipongo combines coaching and commerce to drive healthier food choices. It has raised $28M in total funding and intends to use the new proceeds to expand operations. The platform targets enterprise and consumer-facing partners to broaden adoption. Zipongo offers a web-based health community and an iPhone app that deliver personalized wellness plans, recipes, and grocery deals. The platform personalizes recommendations by allowing users to opt in and connect electronic medical records via a HIPAA‑secure portal. It integrates loyalty-card discounts at local retailers and is building a digital partner network so users can redeem discounts at their preferred grocery stores. The product focuses on transaction-level support to help families identify and afford healthy options at the point of purchase. Zipongo was in private beta and preparing for a full-scale launch while developing technology to sync shopping history and health data automatically. The team recruited grocery and health-industry veterans as advisers to facilitate integration with national chains.