Led · Series B · Mar 2025

Founded in 2018, San Francisco-based Ditto offers an embeddable SDK that turns smartphones, tablets, and other edge devices into ad-hoc mesh networks, enabling applications to read and write data locally while remaining synchronized with other devices and the cloud. The platform replaces expensive on-premise edge servers by using built-in Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, or LAN to keep data consistent even when connectivity is patchy—an approach already adopted by customers such as Delta, Japan Airlines, Lufthansa, and the U.S. Air Force (which signed a $950 million contract in 2022). Over the past year the company’s customer count has doubled to 30-plus and annual recurring revenue has grown 250%, though absolute figures were not disclosed. Ditto recently partnered with MongoDB to launch a native connector that syncs edge data with MongoDB databases, and it plans to deepen integrations with additional cloud database providers. With fresh capital, the company will expand headcount and accelerate product development aimed at AI-driven, real-time use cases where privacy, resiliency, and low latency are critical. Ultimately, Ditto positions itself as the default platform for edge computing and data synchronization as AI workloads proliferate.

Led · Series B · Oct 2024

Concentric offers an AI-powered data inventory and protection platform that catalogs critical information across databases, storage buckets, email, messaging apps and even generative AI chatbots like Microsoft Copilot. Customers link Concentric to their data sources, after which the product finds sensitive items (passwords, private files, audio/video), traces data lineage, and provides recommendations to secure data and meet compliance standards. Concentric creates semantic representations of data rather than storing raw sensitive data, and surfaces anomalous activity for remediation. The company serves customers in industrial manufacturing, insurance and higher education, including Hagerty and DeVry University. Client base growth has been strong, with the company reporting a 300% increase from a year earlier. Management says the product roadmap and partner program will be expanded using new funding, and Concentric plans to grow headcount to 125 by 2025. Concentric AI offers an autonomous data security solution that helps organizations discover, evaluate, and remediate security issues across structured and unstructured content without large analyst teams or end-user involvement. The company targets the $19 billion market for data security, access governance, and loss prevention. Its technology leverages emerging deep learning methods, per the co-founders, to protect content across cloud and on-premises environments. Concentric’s co-founders are Karthik Krishnan (CEO), Madhu Shashanka (Chief Data Scientist), and Shankar Subramaniam (CTO and VP, Engineering). With the new funding, Concentric plans to grow its roster of corporate customers through expanded sales and marketing and to extend its solution to protect an expanding menu of content, locations, and use cases. The company positions itself as an autonomous alternative to labor-intensive data protection approaches.

Led · Series C · Dec 2023

Center develops a card-first, integrated platform for corporate card, travel booking, and employee expense management. Its card and connected software gives businesses real-time visibility into employee spending and automates traditional expensing and accounting tasks. The platform simplifies travel booking and provides finance teams with controls and data for decision making. Center operates a usage-based business model that requires no upfront investment and combines self-service configurability with deployment to ensure customer success. Led by CEO Naveen Singh, the company plans to use new funding to accelerate innovation, broaden distribution, and drive to profitability. The company is based in Bellevue, WA and has raised over $140M in total funding. Center offers Center Expense, an integrated corporate card and expense solution used by small and medium-sized enterprises to save time, improve operations and compliance, and deliver real-time insights to finance teams. The product targets established SMEs across verticals including professional services, construction, consumer services, and nonprofits. The company is led by CEO Naveen Singh with Steve Singh serving as Executive Chairman and Co-Founder. Center recently appointed travel industry innovator Ken Cornick to its board of directors. The company says it will use new funding to scale the business and expand its product offerings. No revenue or user metrics were disclosed in the article. Center is a Bellevue, Wash.-based startup that builds expense management software for businesses. The company launched its expense management solution in February 2020 after initially developing a next-generation corporate credit card with a built-in touchscreen and battery. Center targets companies with 50 to 1,000 employees and small finance teams burdened by manual, inefficient expense-processing tasks. CEO Naveen Singh says the company aims to make spend management solutions accessible to companies of all sizes and, over time, across all geographies. Center now has more than 75 employees and is growing in Bellevue, Minneapolis and increasingly across the country. The startup recently raised $50 million in new funding and will use the cash to continue growing the business; prior financing includes an undisclosed seed round and a $7.5 million Series A.

Led · Series B · Sep 2023

Trellis Research, Inc., based in Los Angeles, provides an AI-powered legal intelligence platform that gives litigators access to state trial court data. Its platform lets users search millions of court dockets and documents to uncover parties’ litigation history and opposing counsel’s past strategy. The product analyzes millions of state trial court cases to surface powerful analysis for users’ matters. Trellis also enables litigators to track legal issues as they are being decided in real time. The company currently serves some of the largest law firms and legal departments. Trellis was founded by Nicole Clark and Alon Shwartz. Trellis Research is a Los Angeles-based startup developing decision-making tools for litigators. The company maintains a database of California court records. According to the startup, it has created a legal intelligence decision engine. On March 27, 2019, Trellis raised $2M in a seed funding round. The source of the funding was not disclosed. The article containing further details was available only to paid members of socalTECH.

Led · Series B · Sep 2023

Trellis provides litigators with an AI-powered legal intelligence platform that gives professionals access to state trial court data. Users can search through millions of court dockets and documents to uncover intelligence about parties’ litigation history and opposing counsel’s past strategy. The platform analyzes millions of state trial court cases to surface the most powerful analysis for a given case. Litigators can also track legal issues as they are being decided in real time. Trellis currently serves some of the largest law firms and legal departments. The company is co‑founded by CEO Nicole Clark and CPO Alon Shwartz. Trellis Research is a searchable database of state trial court data that offers an AI-driven analytics platform for legal practitioners. Its two main products, Smart Search and Judge Analytics, let users find past rulings, search opposing counsel dockets, review influential court documents such as motions, and analyze judges' ruling tendencies and biographical information. The company aggregates data from 362 trial courts across twelve states, with additional county-level coverage in New Jersey, Ohio, and Connecticut planned by year-end. Co-founded by Nicole Clark and Alon Shwartz and based in Los Angeles, Trellis intends to accelerate product expansion and hiring and to broaden its use cases beyond the legal vertical. Management plans to introduce the platform into adjacent industries that need access to its data, including real estate and property management, financial services, and insurance. Financially, Trellis completed a $14.1M Series A that brought its total fundraising to $20M. Trellis Research builds a search and analytics tool for state court data and judicial analytics. The company operates the largest database of California Superior Court records and offers a freemium service where trial decisions and filings are accessible via organic search, while power users pay for full access, downloads, printing, and analysis. Individual subscriptions cost $100 and enterprise contracts are negotiable. Founder Nicole Clark began collecting the underlying data in 2016 and founded Trellis in 2018 after using the product as a litigator. Trellis graduated from Techstars and claims attorneys can double their win rate using its software. The company plans to expand into New York, Texas, Florida, and Delaware over the next year. Trellis Research offers a decision engine and smart search built on the largest database of California state trial court records, with more than 5.1 million records. The platform uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to produce judge biographies, decision history analysis, strategy reports, and predictions of settlement ranges and class member payouts. Trellis is already in use at several AM100 firms in California and positions itself as a must-have research tool for litigators. The company publicly launched its decision engine and plans to expand to New York in late 2019. Trellis was founded and is led by CEO and co-founder Nicole Clark and is a graduate of Techstars LA 2018. The product targets a large legal services market and aims to fill a gap left by incumbent research providers that focus on appellate rather than state trial court data.