The Venture Codex

Led · Seed · Aug 2026

Noosphere Labs describes its focus as human-centered physical intelligence — AI designed to help people interact with and interpret the physical world. The company is operating in stealth and has disclosed limited public information about its product or roadmap. Kevin Carlberg, who led research at Meta across Reality Labs Research and Fundamental AI Research, founded and runs the Seattle-area company after leaving Meta at the end of 2024 and incorporating Noosphere earlier this year. Financially, Noosphere has completed a $10.25 million Seed raise led by Trilogy Equity Partners with Madrona taking a significant position, disclosed via a Form D filing. The article does not provide operating metrics, revenue, users, or specific go-to-market plans.

Led · Seed · Aug 2026

Wild Zebra, cofounded in 2024 by CEO Edan Shahar and AI technologist Erik Selberg, serves students in grades 2 through 9 with an AI tutoring platform. The product uses a Socratic method to guide students toward answers, personalizes lessons around students’ interests, and builds a “learning tree” tracking mastery, gaps, and next steps. The platform analyzes tutoring conversations to flag positive behaviors like persistence and curiosity for teachers and parents. Wild Zebra says it reaches tens of thousands of students, up from about 6,000 a year earlier, and has logged hundreds of thousands of tutoring conversations. It opened a consumer offering at $48 per month per child and works with schools through E3n (formerly ERB), which provided early support and data for student starting points. A 722-student pilot evaluation run by E3n measured gains of four to eight percentage points among fifth- and sixth-graders.

Led · Seed · Oct 2025

TestSprite is building the “testing backbone” for AI-native software development by embedding an autonomous testing agent inside developers’ AI IDEs and through its MCP server. The platform automatically generates front- and back-end tests, executes them, diagnoses failures, and proposes fixes via natural-language commands, enabling continuous, test-driven development without leaving the coding environment. Demand is accelerating: the user base surged 483% in one quarter, growing six-fold in three months to more than 35,000 developers from companies such as Google, Apple, Adobe, Salesforce, ByteDance, Microsoft, and Meta. Revenues were not disclosed, but the company has raised approximately $8.1 million to date, including the newly announced seed round. With fresh capital, TestSprite plans to expand its engineering team, deepen capabilities in AI-powered test generation and healing, and scale infrastructure to support teams deploying thousands of code changes daily. The company aims to become the industry-standard testing layer for AI-native development by mid-2026. Founded in Seattle, Washington, TestSprite positions itself as the autopilot for software quality in the era of AI-generated code.

Participated · Seed · May 2025

Row Zero is an enterprise spreadsheet built for big data and security that runs in the cloud and can open billion-row datasets. It connects directly to data warehouses including Snowflake, Databricks, Redshift, and BigQuery, automatically updates from connected warehouses, and enforces row-level security while allowing administrators to restrict data export. Because it runs in the cloud, Row Zero leverages larger compute and memory to perform analytical operations that would take minutes or hours in Excel and Tableau. Most of its usage comes from Fortune 500 companies seeking to eliminate the security risk of CSV exports from BI tools; Flexport is cited as a customer that shifted weekly reporting from Google Sheets. The company plans to use new funding to expand connector support to ERPs and CRMs, integrate AI into the spreadsheet, and enhance support for Python-based workflows. Row Zero is hiring for roles at its Seattle headquarters and a Pittsburgh satellite office and has raised a total of $13M to date, including the $10M seed announced in May 2025.

Led · Series A · Jan 2025

Canvas offers an end-to-end 3D measurement and modeling platform that lets architects, interior designers, and contractors scan interior spaces with an iPhone or iPad and receive instant digital twins. Its proprietary AI then transforms those scans into detailed, architectural-grade CAD or BIM files, eliminating hours of manual measuring and as-built modeling. The company reports more than 12,000 professional users and has processed over 110 million square feet of interior space. Backed by 15+ years of R&D and more than 20 patents in 3D sensing and computer vision, Canvas positions itself as the leader in bringing mobile LiDAR into everyday construction and remodeling workflows. Recent funding will be used to hire additional researchers and engineers to advance its spatial data processing technology. Canvas also plans to scale its go-to-market team to reach design and construction professionals worldwide, aiming to create a digital twin for every interior space. No revenue figures were disclosed in the article.