Participated · Seed · Apr 2026

Soma Energy provides a platform that uses AI-driven real-time dispatch and control to optimize generation, battery storage, and load across sites or pools of data centers. The technology connects on-site generation, storage, and load into a single control layer to enable facilities to act as flexible grid assets and to help power producers lower cost per MWh and reduce price volatility. Today the company is optimizing two gigawatts of electricity for power-producing clients and is actively working with five data center customers. Soma intends to use its recent funding to grow engineering and commercial teams and to accelerate deployments across North America. The company is led by CEO Ath Caramanolis, CTO Mario Souto, Ph.D., and Chief AI Scientist Henrique Hoeltgebaum, Ph.D.

Participated · Series D · Nov 2025

San-Francisco-based The EVERY Company engineers highly functional egg proteins—such as OvoPro (ovalbumin) and OvoBoost—through precision fermentation instead of relying on chickens. Its shelf-stable, powder-format ingredients replicate or exceed the performance of traditional eggs, offering bakeries and other food producers a cage-free-compliant, 18-month-stable supply that sidesteps avian-flu and price-volatility risks. The firm is already selling metric tons of product each month at commercial scale and will see its proteins debut nationwide in Walmart-stocked products this month. Proceeds from its latest financing will expand manufacturing capacity and push the business toward profitability as it targets the $270 billion global egg market, with an initial focus on high-volume bakery customers. EVERY positions its biomanufacturing platform as a resilient, geographically flexible addition to the global protein supply chain. The company’s B2B model aims for mass-market adoption by supplying multinational food brands with drop-in egg alternatives. While revenue figures were not disclosed, management states that the business has moved from proof-of-concept to industrial-scale production.

Participated · Series A · Sep 2025

Founded in 2022, Telo Trucks operates from a 10,000-square-foot facility in San Carlos, California, where it is engineering the MT1—an ultra-compact electric pickup designed for city streets. The vehicle seats five, offers a full five-foot bed, and targets an estimated 350-mile range from a 106 kWh battery, with a starting price near $41,000. Telo has accumulated roughly 12,000 pre-orders and plans to build about 5,000 units a year via contract manufacturing, emphasizing early unit profitability over large-scale output. The company will keep headcount near 25 employees, supplementing with consultants and contractors linked to its co-founder network. Series A proceeds will finalize the production-intent design, complete U.S. safety homologation and crash testing, and move toward first deliveries by the end of 2026. Co-founders include designer Yves Béhar and Tesla co-founder Marc Tarpenning, whose reputations bolster investor and industry interest.

Participated · Equity · Nov 2024

EarthOptics leverages advances in soil-sensing technologies, genomics, and data science to deliver predictive insights into chemical, physical, and biological soil properties. It combines lab-based analysis with field-based sensors to give farmers and ranchers actionable recommendations to optimize spending and unlock sustainable farming opportunities. The company completed a strategic merger with Pattern Ag, combining EarthOptics’ proprietary field-based sensing technologies with Pattern Ag’s lab-based analysis to offer comprehensive soil data. Led by CEO Lars Dyrud, EarthOptics operates offices in Raleigh, North Carolina; Emeryville, California; Arlington and Blacksburg, Virginia; Minneapolis, Minnesota; and Fayetteville, Arkansas, and maintains two laboratories in Emeryville and Memphis, Tennessee. The company intends to use new funding to accelerate technological innovation, broaden its geographic reach, and consolidate its position as an authoritative source for soil insights. EarthOptics develops next-generation soil-sensing technologies that combine ground-based sensors, satellites, physical soil samples, machine learning models, and agronomic expertise to deliver detailed soil measurements. The company's platform provides insights to help farmers optimize fertilizer applications, inform tillage decisions, and quantify carbon sequestration. EarthOptics plans to use its latest funding to expand access to its tools and deliver hyper-accurate soil insights. Founded in 2018 and based in Arlington, VA, the company serves growers and ranchers seeking data-driven land-management decisions. The company is led by CEO Lars Dyrud. The article reports a recent financing that will support its growth and product expansion efforts. EarthOptics has developed an imaging suite that uses ground-penetrating radar and electromagnetic induction to produce deep maps of soil physical and chemical composition. Its commercial products, GroundOwl and C-Mapper (C for carbon), reconcile no-contact sensor data with traditional lab samples via machine learning trained on tens of thousands of ground-truth measurements. The hardware can be mounted on ordinary tractors or trucks and pulls readings every few feet, reducing physical sampling from hundreds of samples to dozens. The company’s outputs can be used to create meter-scale treatment maps or to feed variable-depth robotic field machinery such as smart tillers. Management positions the product as a cheaper, faster, and more precise alternative to traditional soil sampling and as foundational data for automated and robotic farming. Financially, EarthOptics raised a $10.3M A round to scale its two existing products and to develop a moisture-mapping product.

Led · Seed · Oct 2024

Universal Fuel Technologies (Unifuel) develops Flexiforming, a chemical process that converts ethanol, methanol, renewable naphtha, LPG and other renewable feedstocks into high-quality, drop-in sustainable aviation fuel. Flexiforming is designed to produce 100% synthetic SAF without blending and to create the aromatic molecules required for aircraft engines. The company says the process can cut SAF production costs by up to 50% and reduce related carbon emissions by up to 75%, and it can upgrade low-value byproducts (naphtha and LPG) from HEFA and other processes into high-value SAF. Unifuel has over a decade of research and more than 5,000 hours of testing on the technology. With the recent financing, the company plans to establish lab space in Texas for SAF sample production and to pursue entry into the ASTM clearinghouse for SAF certification. The company positions Flexiforming as complementary to existing SAF pathways and aims to improve monetization and feedstock flexibility for SAF producers.