Participated · Series A · Oct 2021

Loop is building an equitable auto-insurance platform that replaces traditional demographic factors like credit score and education level with real-time roadway conditions and driver behavior. Operating as a managing general agent (and certified B-corp), the company vertically integrates with carriers while owning customer acquisition, underwriting, and servicing. Its proprietary dataset of more than 100 million crashes across 27 states, combined with traffic, infrastructure, and weather inputs, powers AI models that generate personalized quotes via a smartphone app. Telematics continuously tracks driving to refine pricing and reward safe habits, targeting millennial and Gen Z drivers comfortable with data sharing. Loop earns a gross commission on every policy it sells. The service is slated to launch—pending regulatory approval—in Ohio, Illinois, Pennsylvania, and New York. Seed capital is being directed toward hiring and expanding its data-science infrastructure ahead of market entry.

Participated · Seed · Jun 2020

Braintrust operates a blockchain-powered talent marketplace that lets vetted knowledge workers find gigs with enterprises while participating in ownership and governance via its native BTRST token. Its model incentivizes community contributions and claims talent keep 100% of their earnings while clients are charged a 10% fee. BTRST launched on the Ethereum mainnet in September 2021 and is tradable on Coinbase. The network reports more than 700,000 community members and says hundreds of Fortune 1000 companies, including Deloitte, NASA, Intel, Nike, IBM, Nestlé, and Under Armour, have used the platform. After emerging from stealth in June 2020, Braintrust reports gross services volume grew from $1.2M to $28.2M in the first 18 months, clients rose from 63 to 474, and Talent grew from about 2,194 to over 36,000. The company plans to deploy new resources to grow the network and fund community grant programs and development initiatives to further decentralize and scale the protocol. Braintrust is a San Francisco-based network connecting freelance technical and design talent with enterprise clients. It operates a marketplace that charges only hiring companies — freelancers join and bid without fees and Braintrust does not take a cut of project payments. The platform uses a cryptocurrency token called Btrust to reward users who grow and govern the network, giving participants a stake in its evolution. Its client roster includes Nestlé, Pacific Life, Deloitte, Porsche, Blue Cross Blue Shield and TaskRabbit. The company became profitable after a $6 million seed round, and the new funding will be used to build the core team and bring in more work. Co-founder and CEO Adam Jackson frames the product as an alternative to traditional freelance marketplaces, emphasizing ownership and fairer treatment of contractors. Braintrust is a freelance marketplace that aims to cut traditional middlemen in hiring (think ZipRecruiter, Indeed) by connecting candidates and employers directly. The platform integrates a governance token, built as an ERC‑20 fork of Compound’s governance model, to set platform rules and reward actions such as referrals. Braintrust says the token is for governance and not intended as a financial token to be monetized. The company launched out of stealth and has sourced hires for firms including Porsche, Nestle, Blue Cross Blue Shield, TaskRabbit and NASA. Adam Jackson is co‑founder and CEO; he previously co‑founded Doctor On Demand. The launch was backed by a $6 million seed round that financed the initial public reveal and product rollout.

Participated · Series A · Jun 2019

SV Academy operates a fully virtual, tuition-free 12-week curriculum focused on preparing candidates for SaaS sales roles, followed by a year of ongoing coaching and mentorship. The program serves about 100 people every 30 days (roughly 1,200 per year) and reaches applicants across the U.S. via its virtual model. Candidates pay nothing; employers pay SV Academy between $12,000 and $15,000 per hire. The company reports that 100% of program completers receive median job offers of $79,000 plus benefits and many receive equity, and that 70% of graduates receive promotions within their first year. Despite strong demand (about 1,000 applications a week), SV Academy has been cautious about scaling to preserve outcomes. SVAcademy runs a 15-month virtual program that trains and places nontraditional candidates into entry-level business development and sales roles at SaaS companies. The program includes an initial three-month, 250-hour skills phase followed by employer placement and 12 months of on-the-job coaching and mentorship. Employers pay SVAcademy to pre-train and qualify candidates so they on-ramp faster and reduce churn. The outfit reports about 1,000 students have been qualified, has admitted roughly 5% of those (≈50), and its first cohort of 10 graduates are working in roles that pay between $70,000 and $90,000. SVAcademy has placed students at companies including Salesforce, Box and Zuora and leverages mentors from Oracle, Google, LinkedIn and Salesforce. The company says its long-term goal is to place one million women, minorities and under-resourced Americans into high-paying biz-dev jobs, and it recently raised $2 million in funding to support growth.