• FanBasis

  Participated · Series A · May 2025

  FanBasis provides a unified platform that combines payments processing, fulfillment, course and community hosting, CRM, customer engagement, and business operations into a single tool for creators and internet-first businesses. The company targets knowledge-based creators—educators, consultants, course creators and service providers—enabling them to monetize, deliver and scale digital products, subscriptions, and services. FanBasis is already trusted by thousands of digital operators who generate tens of millions monthly on the platform, and its GMV has tripled in recent quarters. The product roadmap includes new revenue tools, analytics to surface high-impact touchpoints, expanded fulfillment features, and global infrastructure improvements. FanBasis plans to use the new funding to accelerate product innovation, grow the team, and expand its international footprint. The platform emphasizes ownership of audience and brand while providing operational clarity for creators building full-scale digital businesses.

• POCKLA

  Participated · Seed · Apr 2025

  POCKLA offers a proprietary AI-powered content strategy and creation platform that blends human-led strategy with LLM-driven insights rather than keyword-based listening. The platform identifies topics and conversations audiences care about and drives a content engine that takes brands from strategy to delivery of authentic, community-focused content. POCKLA emphasizes helping brands simulate customer emotions and experiences to create short-form video and social content that resonates. The company was founded in 2022 and is based in London. It plans to use new funding to accelerate product development and expand its team. The business has positioned itself as a bridge between brands and creator-style authenticity in modern social media.

• Ceartas DMCA

  Participated · Seed · Apr 2024

  Ceartas is an AI-driven brand protection and anti-piracy startup founded in 2021 by Dan Purcell and Jonny Smyth that focuses on helping content creators and brands remove unauthorized and deepfake content. Its proprietary AI platform scans digital platforms, using OCR and face recognition to identify unauthorized content, automates DMCA takedown notices, and claims to reduce problematic content visibility on Google by 98%. The company reports delisting about 90%–100% of URLs it has tackled on Google Web and routes lower-confidence cases (under 90% match) to copyright specialists for manual review; legal notices are written with law firm Morrison Cooper in Los Angeles. Ceartas currently targets YouTubers and Instagram users, has partnerships with OnlyFans and Fanfix, and works with influencers like Sidemen and physical-goods brands. Based in Dublin and Berlin, the startup plans to open an office in Los Angeles and intends to expand into the enterprise space to address counterfeit physical goods. The company holds a provisional patent on its AI model and says it does not rely on third-party technology.

• CommonStock

  Participated · Series A · Oct 2021

  Commonstock is a San Francisco–based, broker-agnostic social platform that amplifies the best investing knowledge. Led by founder and CEO David McDonough, the network verifies top investors by actual track records to surface signal over noise. Members can link existing brokerage accounts to share real-time portfolio percentages, performance, and trades (percent-only; dollar amounts are never shared). The product sends real-time alerts when friends buy or sell so users can copy trades and participate in discussions about investment theses and industry takedowns. The company raised $25M in a Series A and intends to use the funds to continue building out its platform. Commonstock is a social investing platform founded in 2017 by David McDonough and based in San Francisco. The product lets users link any brokerage to share holdings by percentage, receive real-time alerts when friends buy or sell, copy each other’s trades, invest together, and compete. It is available for free on the web and via an iPhone app, with an Android app forthcoming; the platform matches users with experts and provides live feeds including memos, market news, and full-feature chat. The company currently operates a free model but plans to introduce a subscription offering for creators and users. Commonstock has a team of 15 employees and expects to double headcount by year-end; more than 10,000 investors use the platform and over $300 million was traded through the platform in beta. The company is focused on building out its Android app, scaling the platform, and adding functionality and support for creators and users.

No current team members are available.