Participated · Series B · Jul 2026

Founded in late 2022 and headquartered in Singapore, Rize operates a rice supply-chain platform that provides agronomic support, technology tools, and market access to smallholder farmers. The company works with nearly 17,000 farmers across more than 50,000 hectares in Indonesia and Vietnam and has expanded operations more than tenfold over the past two years. Rize has exported 1,500 metric tonnes of low-emission rice to buyers in Europe, Canada, Australia, and Singapore and is pursuing further regional expansion. It is building a carbon business around sustainable rice cultivation; its projects have an A.pre ex-ante rating from BeZero Carbon and are undergoing Gold Standard certification, with the potential to generate over one million carbon credits in the next five years. Rize promotes the Alternate Wetting and Drying irrigation method to cut methane emissions, reduce water use, and increase farmer incomes while maintaining yields.

Participated · Series A · Mar 2025

Lorien Finance bridges global capital markets with students from emerging economies via an AI-driven lending platform and a global lender network. The company connects students to a $3+ billion lending pool from 17+ international lenders, including Sallie Mae, enabling interest rates as low as 3.49%. Since inception, over 1,000 Indian students have applied for funding through Lorien Finance. The startup positions itself to make education financing more accessible, faster, and smarter by combining digital-first lending with data-driven underwriting. With global education financing expected to surpass $500 billion by 2029, Lorien targets affordability barriers in emerging markets. Planned uses of recent funding include expanding reach to Tier 2 and Tier 3 cities in India and strengthening its AI-driven risk assessment to enable faster underwriting and more personalized financing solutions for students and lenders.

Participated · Grant · Jan 2022

BlueMark provides independent impact verification and intelligence to investors and other market participants, assessing impact management practices and the completeness and reliability of impact reporting. Its verification methodologies draw on industry standards and frameworks including the Impact Management Project, the Operating Principles for Impact Management, PRI, SDG Impact, and the EU's SFDR. The company was founded in January 2020 as a spinoff from Tideline and is led by CEO Christina Leijonhufvud. BlueMark has completed 125 verifications to date for investors with a combined $206 billion in impact AUM. The firm sells verification and intelligence services to the impact and sustainable investing market and intends to use new funds to expand operations and broaden its business reach. BlueMark provides independent impact verification services that assess both Impact Management Practice (systems and processes) and Impact Performance (reporting approaches) for investors and companies. The firm has completed more than 60 impact verifications across a broad range of asset managers and asset owners. Its services also cover impact labeling and classification (including alignment with SFDR and the UN SDGs) and ESG practices and performance reporting by portfolio companies and fund managers. BlueMark is an independent subsidiary of Tideline and is led by CEO Christina Leijonhufvud. The company plans to use the new funding to expand its verification services across different industries and geographies. BlueMark’s mission is to strengthen trust in impact investing and increase accountability for impact.

Led · Series A · Mar 2021

Founders First Capital Partners is a San Diego-based revenue-based finance and advisory support investment platform serving underserved small businesses. The company combines an accelerator model — including educational curriculum and expert coaching — with direct funding through proprietary accelerator programs and a learning platform. Its growth methodologies aim to transition service-based businesses into $5M to $50M recurring revenue, tech-enabled companies while offering high-yield investments for fund LPs that perform like bonds but generate returns on par with equity. Founders First runs multiple cohort programs (three through the Founders Business Growth Bootcamp and four through the FastPath Funding Growth Experience) and works with hundreds of entrepreneurs each year. Over the past five years it has supported more than 400 companies and reports an average of 25% year-over-year growth among those businesses. The company is led by Founder and CEO Kim Folsom.

Participated · Series A · Apr 2020

Atlas AI delivers high-resolution datasets on agricultural productivity, infrastructure, markets, and economic well-being across sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. The platform integrates satellite imagery and artificial intelligence to predict plot-level crop yields, household wealth and consumption, and other metrics. Its customers include financial service providers, agribusinesses, governments and organizations operating in emerging markets. The public benefit corporation serves clients such as the World Bank, DARPA, McKinsey, AGRA and Econet Wireless. Led by CEO Victoria Coleman, the company aims to expand product development and outreach to private and public sector customers. Atlas AI intends to use recent funding to accelerate those efforts.