Participated · Seed · Aug 2025

Raise Robotics is a San Francisco, CA-based startup that builds robots to automate hazardous tasks on vertical construction sites. Led by Conley Oster and Gary Chen, the company provides contractors across multiple trades with versatile automated tools that perform high-risk activities such as layout, drilling, fastening, and inspection. Its robots adapt to specific site requirements and integrate into existing workflows. On August 5, 2025, Raise raised $7.8M in seed funding led by MaC Ventures, with participation from Undivided Ventures, Cybernetix Ventures, Zacua Ventures and Union Labs. The company intends to use the funds to expand operations and its development efforts.

Led · Series A · Apr 2025

Adaptavate develops and industrialises low-carbon and carbon-negative construction materials, notably Breathaboard, a plasterboard alternative that can reduce up to 4kg of CO₂ per m². The company operates a pioneering pilot line for Breathaboard production and is preparing for industrial scale-up through its Project Crystal demonstrator facility. Project Crystal is intended to accelerate global adoption and includes a strategic partnership with SigmaRoc to create a resilient supply chain for calcium carbonate-based wallboards. Breathaboard meets international wallboard standards and is being trialled on major UK commercial sites with partners including British Land, Royal London Asset Management Property, and Overbury. Adaptavate has previously secured nearly £9 million through investment and public grants, and will use the new funding to advance Project Crystal and scale manufacturing. The company positions its technology as enabling circular, healthier building materials and supporting decarbonisation of the construction sector.

Participated · Seed · Aug 2023

Solar AI uses a rent-to-own model for rooftop solar, offering three plans (a five-year plan with 50% down, a 10-year plan with zero upfront costs, and a traditional purchase) and covers maintenance and warranty during the contract period. Monthly fees for the rent-to-own plans are about $200, compared with average electricity bills of $250, allowing customers to start saving roughly $50 per month. Excess solar energy is exported to the grid and customers are paid by the grid operator (SP Group in Singapore). The company has served more than 100 customers and has surpassed $3 million SGD in signed rooftop solar contracts. Solar AI drives most sales through digital channels and organic search—about 80% of customer segments come from organic search and the rest from referrals—and claims top search rankings and higher web traffic versus local competitors. The startup was launched three years ago, was incubated through Engie Factory, and plans expansion into Malaysia and the Philippines (with Philippines expansion planned within the next 12 months).

Participated · Seed · Nov 2022

Audette offers an end-to-end AI platform that captures, monitors and analyzes building and geospatial data to digitize the process of identifying emissions‑reduction opportunities. The product layers private and public data with rooftop and asset feature detection, then applies a library of thousands of digital twins across vintages, use types, and HVAC topologies to model decarbonization pathways. Building-level interactions retrain the models, creating a flywheel that improves macro-scale accuracy over time. Customers include real estate asset managers who use the platform to visualize portfolios, prioritize retrofits, track progress, and source financing or incentives. Audette plans to deploy its technology across 150 North American cities over the next 24 months and aims to scale globally toward creating a carbon-transition plan for every building. The company has participated in Google Cloud Accelerator Canada and Google’s UN SDG advisory program, and earlier received an investment from Active Impact in 2021. Financially, Audette has just closed a US$9.5M seed financing to fund data acquisition and market expansion. Audette offers a software platform that digitizes assessment of energy conservation potential and creates low-carbon transition plans for large commercial real estate portfolios, ingesting data from utilities, maintenance requests, building reports, and sensors. The company launched its core product in 2020 and has partnered with enterprise clients representing more than C$120 billion in assets across Canada. Audette charges subscriptions per building per year and plans to add transaction-based revenue via a financing marketplace currently being beta-tested with two large funds. The startup has used its latest funding to grow headcount (adding two employees to an eight-person team) and plans to hire three more over the next two quarters. Audette plans to scale across British Columbia, Ontario, New York, and California and to develop a municipality-focused module for community-level decarbonization. The company was accepted into Google Canada’s Cloud accelerator and intends to use the capital to scale technology and operations.

Participated · Series A · Aug 2022

CleanRobotics develops TrashBot, an automated waste-sorting system that identifies and sorts items into corresponding internal bins at the point of disposal. The system combines robotics, computer vision, and machine learning to eliminate human error in on-site sorting decisions. CleanRobotics reports that TrashBot can recover circular materials at a 95% accuracy rate. TrashBot has been piloted in high-traffic facilities including Dallas Fort Worth International Airport, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, and The National Aviary. The company was selected as one of eight small businesses nationwide to receive EPA SBIR Phase II funding and was awarded $400,000 to further develop and commercialize the product. The Phase II award is intended to support continued development and commercialization of TrashBot Zero. CleanRobotics, founded in 2015 in Colorado, develops the TrashBot — an on-board machine-learning and robotic system that sorts materials at a single disposal point. The company’s devices claim roughly 90% sorting accuracy and are deployed in high-traffic locations such as shopping malls and airports. TrashBot systems provide cloud connectivity, generate data for waste audits, trigger fullness alerts, and include a large display for video content. CleanRobotics says its fleet improves material diversion from landfills by reducing contamination in recyclables. The firm plans to scale manufacturing to produce “hundreds” of systems and is targeting partnerships in China, Australia and Singapore. Funding will also support additional hires, improved manufacturing, and ramped-up research and development.