Participated · Equity · Oct 2025

Deta is a Berlin- and New York-based startup founded in 2019 that is developing Surf, an AI browser blended with a research notebook akin to Google’s NotebookLM. The beta-stage app allows users to open URLs, PDFs, and YouTube videos, then employ an integrated chatbot to summarize, extract insights, or generate code that can be saved into topic-based notebooks. Surf keeps data local so it can operate offline, and users can reference multiple open tabs as context when querying the AI. The product is currently free, and the team is experimenting with image generation while planning a future premium tier that could add cloud backup, collaboration, and multi-device sync. Deta originally aimed to build a new operating system on an infinite white canvas but sunset that effort in 2023 to focus on an AI browser opportunity. Financially, the company raised a $3.6 million seed round in 2023 and later secured an additional $500,000, bringing total funding to roughly $4.1 million. No revenue or user metrics have been disclosed.

Participated · Series B · Mar 2025

Buynomics offers AI-embedded software that simulates real-world shoppers to help enterprises optimise pricing, promotions, and product portfolios. Its platform enables organisations to improve revenue, profitability, and market positioning in real time across channels, product portfolios, and geographies. The company reports its Virtual Shoppers AI drives 2–4% gross profit increases while cutting analysis time by up to 80%. Buynomics is operational in over 25 companies with customers including Danone, Unilever, L'Oréal and Vodafone. Founded in 2018, the company has raised over $46 million to date following a $30 million Series B. The latest funding will be used to support global expansion, particularly into North America, and to further enhance its Virtual Shoppers AI technology. Buynomics provides a SaaS platform that helps enterprise customers make commercial and revenue-management decisions by predicting consumer behavior. The company leverages machine learning and behavioral-economics insights and has developed a Virtual Customer technology that models preferences and buying decisions of large groups. Its technology integrates transaction and survey data to improve precision across pricing, promotions, and product-innovation decisions. Buynomics plans to use new funding to widen its lead in predicting consumer behavior, grow its product and commercial teams, and expand into the US market. The startup has a diverse team of over 50 people representing 17 nationalities and intends to open a US office in Q1 2023. Founded in 2018, the company is headquartered in Cologne, Germany. buynomics has developed a DeepTech, AI-powered SaaS platform that simulates purchase processes to predict how customers will react to price and product-portfolio changes. The software helps companies determine optimal pricing and forecast resulting revenue and profit effects. The startup counts mobile-network operators, insurers and consumer-goods manufacturers among its early customers. buynomics was founded in 2018 by Ingo Reinhardt and Sebastian Baier and is based in Cologne. At the time of the report the team comprised around 10 employees. The company recently attracted external capital in the form of a six-figure investment.

Participated · Seed · Dec 2022

Daylight offers an API that aggregates all Web3 perks a user qualifies for by analyzing their wallet address, enabling actions like minting derivative NFTs, claiming airdrops, and accessing token-gated experiences. Wallet apps and NFT marketplaces use the API to surface user entitlements, boosting acquisition, retention, and engagement, while community tools use it to distribute allow-listed mints, claims, or unlocks. The API aggregates abilities by indexing on-chain data, integrating community tools such as POAP, Snapshot, and Guild, and accepting submissions from Daylight Scouts, a community that hunts for abilities across the Web3 ecosystem. The company demonstrated its API with a consumer web app launched in October, attracting around 14,000 closed beta users and a waitlist of 15,000. Led by CEO Kyle McCollom, Daylight plans to use the new funding to further customize its API for wallet app customers and to grow the Scout community. Daylight was founded in April 2022.

Participated · Seed · Nov 2022

Founded in 2020, Plend is an FCA-authorised consumer lender that uses Open Banking data and its proprietary PLEND Score® to assess affordability based on customers’ real financial circumstances rather than traditional credit scores. The company focuses on serving near-prime borrowers overlooked by mainstream lenders, helping them consolidate multiple expensive commitments into a single, structured repayment plan. Plend describes its underwriting as technology-led and positions itself around responsible, transparent lending and financial inclusion. The business is a Certified B Corporation and plans to scale its lending platform, supported by the new committed facility to refinance existing lines and fund new originations. No revenue or user metrics were disclosed in the articles.

Participated · Seed · Jul 2022

grape is a Swiss insurtech founded in November 2021 by Gregory Inauen and Fabian Mächler. Its software enables customers to automate administrative insurance tasks such as claiming, reporting, and payroll adjustments and has built over 20 integrations into HR tools that sync in seconds. The product also reinvests into prevention services, coaching and online therapy sessions to support employees' physical and mental health as part of benefits. grape positions itself as the first employee insurer built around a full-stack technology platform with a focus on integrating into customers' underwriting and claims processes. The company plans to use new funding to continue expanding the product and to grow the team to bring its vision to more enterprises and markets. Financially, the startup has just raised a €1.7 million pre-seed round to support those plans.