• Prevu

  Participated · Series A · Dec 2023

  Prevu operates a digital home-buying platform that lets buyers search for homes, schedule tours, draft offers and collaborate with a dedicated salaried agent, with an Amazon-like user experience. The company hires agents as salaried employees with benefits and pays them a small commission while offering buyers cash-back rebates drawn from the buyer-agent commission. Since launching its digital platform in June 2017, Prevu has helped over 1,200 buyers purchase homes totaling more than $1.5 billion and says it has saved consumers an average of $23,000 per purchase. Prevu currently operates in 12 major metropolitan markets and has 25 employees, most of whom are agents; its average agent completes about 40 deals per year. The startup generates revenue from net commission on each transaction (1% to 1.5% of transaction value, net of customer rebate) and reports annual revenue growth of nearly 10x since its 2019 seed round. It plans to expand into additional markets (including Texas and Florida), add mortgage, title and other buyer-related services—bolstered by its purchase of mortgage technology from Reali—and aims to become a nationwide brand. Prevu operates a Smart Buyer™ digital platform that lets consumers search, offer, schedule tours, and complete purchases with expert agent support during the final stages. The company emphasizes buyer control and transparency, passing two‑thirds of agent commission back to buyers and offering rebates of up to 2%. Customers who have purchased through Prevu have received average rebates of $23,000. Prevu launched its Smart Buyer™ platform in 2017 and currently operates in the New York Metropolitan Area and Connecticut. The product combines online tools with local agents who step in for negotiation and closing, aiming to reduce agent time spent on new‑client acquisition and increase service efficiency. The company plans to use new funding to grow its engineering team and strategically expand into new geographic markets.

• Terzo

  Participated · Series A · Nov 2022

  Terzo offers a suite of contract processing tools that use AI to extract financial and operational data from business contracts, supervised by a quality assurance team to ensure baseline accuracy. The platform integrates with enterprise resource systems such as SAP and Oracle to track contractual obligations, expirations and ESG-related metrics. Terzo’s AI was trained on real-world business contracts to surface insights like inventory and costs for finance and IT teams. The company has "over a dozen" customers, including a Fortune 50 retailer and the largest financial transaction processor in the world. Management plans to drive revenue to cover over 50% of overall expenses in the next year and aims to break even in 2024 and be profitable by 2025. New funding will be used for sales and marketing and to enhance the platform’s AI capabilities. Terzo provides a SaaS-based Vendor Relationship Management (VRM) platform for enterprises to gain insights to drive innovation, improve governance, increase collaboration and optimize performance. Led by CEO Brandon Card, the platform helps enterprises manage contracts, track goals and evaluate opportunities, increasing collaboration among the right stakeholders within and across organizations. The company is gaining traction with Fortune 500 enterprises. Terzo is based in Los Angeles, CA. The company raised $3.2M in seed funding and intends to use the funds to continue to expand operations and its business reach.

• Silent Eight

  Led · Series B · Mar 2022

  Silent Eight is a Singapore-based technology company that leverages AI to build compliance platforms enabling financial institutions to investigate suspicious transactions, beneficiaries, and customers in real time. Led by CEO and founder Martin Markiewicz, the platform is deployed in over 150 markets and the company maintains global hubs in New York, London, and Warsaw. It raised a $40M Series B funding round to support its growth. The company intends to use the proceeds to expand technology functions and support its customer base. Silent Eight expects to hire over 150 data scientists, developers and engineers in 2022 to accelerate product and engineering work. Kolya Miller from lead investor TYH Ventures is joining the board as part of the round. Silent Eight’s platform leverages AI to learn how to conduct investigations from past alerts, recognizing anomalous behavior by drawing on databases and watchlists and producing a decision with a summary of supporting evidence. The system can scan structured, semi-structured, and unstructured sources (news articles, screening engines, case management systems) and is capable of processing petabytes of data to identify potential relationships. The platform is in limited release with select customers, including Standard Chartered, which has used it since December 2018 across over 70 markets in the U.S., U.K., Singapore, and Hong Kong. Silent Eight says it plans to publicly launch the platform by the end of 2020 and has introduced an on-demand cloud-based AI solution for continuous real-time name, entity, and transaction screening. The company says it will charge customers only for fraud it helps solve rather than charging a license fee. The startup recently closed financing activity and has been expanding headcount and customer acquisition efforts to enter new geographies. Silent Eight provides an artificial intelligence-based solution that helps financial institutions combat money laundering and terrorism financing, including improving name-screening processes. Its system is designed to learn how people make decisions and can explain the reasoning behind every decision in plain English, allowing customers to adopt best practices and discard bad behaviors. The company says its transparent design suits high-stakes use cases where there is no room for mistakes. Silent Eight is Singapore-headquartered and has offices in Singapore, Warsaw, London, and New York. It raised USD 6.2 million in a Series A led by Wavemaker Partners and plans to use the capital to hire new employees and double headcount by the end of Q1 2020 to support a pipeline of large banks and insurance customers. Paul Santos of Wavemaker Partners joined the company's board following the round.

• Hayden AI

  Led · Series A · Sep 2021

  Hayden AI Technologies provides a vision AI platform that leverages geospatial data-collection sensor systems to deliver actionable urban intelligence. The platform can be mounted on virtually any vehicle to detect and enforce parking and moving violations, monitor city assets, predict congestion, and optimize transportation networks. Hayden AI is used by major transit agencies including New York’s MTA, Washington DC’s Metro, Los Angeles Metro, and AC Transit. The company cites measurable impacts in New York City: 5% faster buses on enforced routes, 20% fewer vehicle collisions, and an estimated 5–10% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions tied to automated camera enforcement. Hayden AI plans to use new capital to accelerate R&D, develop its platform into a broader urban operating system, and expand into additional use cases and new cities domestically and internationally. The company has been recognized on the GovTech100 list for four consecutive years and named by TIME as one of America’s Top GreenTech Companies of 2024. Hayden AI Technologies deploys cameras on school buses and other vehicles to detect traffic violations via image analysis and immediately report violations with image data to relevant authorities. The core product targets enforcement of rules such as stopping for school buses and parking infringements, enabling more efficient enforcement and improved urban traffic safety. The company also offers a traffic volume forecasting solution that leverages accumulated image data. Hayden plans to develop that forecasting capability into an urban traffic optimization platform to pitch to major U.S. cities. Mitsubishi Electric’s ME Innovation Fund has invested in Hayden AI and the companies are collaborating on a digital twin initiative. The digital twin effort aims to collect real-time image data to run highly reproducible simulations and predict traffic accidents and changes in traffic conditions. Hayden AI builds an AI/ML-powered platform and proprietary vehicle-mounted hardware that delivers geospatial intelligence and analytics for governments and businesses. Its system is deployed on commercial, fleet, and passenger vehicles to capture data used for traffic enforcement and operational optimization. Current deployments enable enforcement of violations that obstruct transit buses and supply data to improve transit ridership, traffic efficiency, and road safety. Use cases highlighted include bus lane and bus stop enforcement as well as digital twin modeling. The company frames its mission as helping cities deliver safer, smarter, and more sustainable mobility and public services. Hayden AI is headquartered in San Francisco. Hayden AI provides an autonomous traffic-management platform that combines mobile sensors with artificial intelligence to help governments monitor and enforce traffic and curbside regulations. The company partners with government agencies and converts public and private vehicle fleets into spatially aware sensors via its digital platform. Its system fuses IoT sensor data to create a real-time digital twin of roads and curbsides, generating insights to improve traffic flow, parking, and curbside management. The company raised a $20M Series A, bringing total funding to over $30M. Hayden AI plans to expand nationally and internationally and to accelerate hiring across R&D, cybersecurity, and customer support. Looking ahead, the company is pursuing integration with autonomous vehicles by embedding traffic enforcement rules into HD maps. It intends to partner with mapping companies so semantically annotated policy layers help self-driving vehicles automatically comply with city traffic laws. Hayden AI Technologies develops AI-powered smart-city solutions that combine mobile sensors with artificial intelligence to support safer streets, equitable transportation, and efficient urban mobility. Led by co-founder and CEO Chris Carson, the company partners with public transportation and mobility providers to deploy automated traffic law enforcement systems. It recently partnered with Conduent Transportation to deliver an automated bus lane enforcement solution using a transit bus-mounted perception system integrated with video analytics and violation processing. The platform also leverages sensor data and digital twin technology to simulate scenarios and generate actionable insights on hazardous driving areas, parking management, traffic patterns, and curbside management. The company intends to use the new funds to accelerate development and delivery of its AI-powered solutions. Financially, Hayden AI closed a $4.5M round, bringing total funding to $9.5M including a $5M seed round raised the prior year.

• Truvian Sciences

  Led · Series C · Feb 2021

  Truvian Health offers an automated benchtop platform designed to perform comprehensive, routine blood tests with central-laboratory-equivalent accuracy at the point of care. The company has presented multiple independent clinical studies showing concordant results with central laboratories across a large panel of tests. Its integrated platform has been evaluated on more than 50,000 samples from roughly 5,000 donors and has achieved a platform run reliability rate above 98%. Truvian has scaled instrument and consumable manufacturing to initiate clinical trials and early partner access programs. The company is pursuing US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) clearance for its platform and is using recent capital to support that effort. Truvian positions its solution for deployment in clinics, doctors’ offices and pharmacies to increase access to routine testing and earlier medical intervention. Truvian Sciences is a healthcare company at the intersection of diagnostics and consumer technology, developing an automated benchtop system to produce lab-accurate results for a full suite of health tests from a small blood sample. The system is powered by patented technologies and intelligent integration to provide a convenient, affordable alternative to off-site labs and deliver immediate insights to inform healthcare decisions. The company plans to use the new capital to advance development of the device, prepare and submit it for U.S. FDA clearance, and scale its team for broad commercialization. Truvian closed a Series C of more than $105M, bringing total funding to over $150M to date. The financing was accompanied by a roster of executive and board appointments, including Jay Srinivasan as Chief Product Officer and new board members Glen Tullman, Greg Wasson, and Megh Gupta. Inventor Dean Kamen was named Senior Technology Advisor. Truvian develops an automated benchtop diagnostic system intended to deliver lab-accurate results for a full suite of health tests from a small blood sample in roughly 20 minutes. Its platform is powered by patented technologies and intelligent integration and delivers results electronically through a digital platform. The system uses dry reagent technology that allows consumables to be stored at room temperature, eliminating cold chain and refrigeration requirements. Truvian is working toward a CE Mark for the European Economic Area and plans a submission to the FDA for 510(k) clearance along with a CLIA waiver application to enable use in retail settings and doctors’ offices. The company added Katherine Atkinson as Chief Commercial Officer and appointed Paul Meister to its board; the board is chaired by co-founder Kim Kamdar, and co-founder Dena Marrinucci serves as SVP of Corporate Development and Business Operations. Truvian intends to use new funding to expand operations and advance development efforts.

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