Participated · Series A · Jul 2026

Throne Science makes a discreet sensor that attaches to standard toilets and, combined with an AI-powered companion app, passively tracks bathroom habits to surface patterns in digestive health, hydration status, and urinary function. The company was founded in 2023, is based in Austin, Texas, and launched to consumers in March 2026. In July it introduced a beta Gut Health AI coach that lets users ask questions about their gut health data and receive personalized feedback. Throne has hired leaders from consumer wearable and health tech companies and added medical advisors and a chief of science to its team. Financially, Throne announced a $10 million Series A to support personnel growth and R&D. Its stated long-term mission is to develop the technology into a home-based continuous screener for early signs of colorectal cancer and cancers of the urinary tract.

Participated · Seed · Sep 2023

StretchDollar provides a self-service platform that lets small businesses set up custom health benefits using Individual Coverage Health Reimbursement Arrangements (ICHRAs) in about 10 minutes. Employers set a fixed pre-tax monthly allowance that employees can apply toward insurance premiums, and employees receive guidance from licensed brokers to select marketplace plans. The company leverages the IRS rule enabling ICHRAs to remove the complexity of employer-sponsored benefits and focuses on covering the most burdensome expense: insurance premiums. StretchDollar says its platform is free for small businesses to use and emphasizes speed and simplicity compared with traditional group plans. The company is working with carriers including Oscar Health to expand affordable coverage access for underserved small employers. Founded in 2023, StretchDollar is headquartered in San Francisco and Pittsburgh and aims to expand its self-service platform and improve the small-business benefits experience. StretchDollar offers a platform that lets small employers set a fixed pre-tax monthly stipend that employees apply to their individual health insurance premiums. Employees manage the benefit via a dashboard and receive guidance on selecting a health plan from licensed brokers. The company is based in San Francisco, CA and Philadelphia, PA and was co-founded in March 2023 by Marshall Darr and Kaiza Molina. StretchDollar announced launches in Illinois, Pennsylvania, Delaware and Colorado and intends to expand into seven states by year-end 2023. The company raised $1.6M in Pre-Seed funding to support that expansion. The founders previously helped launch health insurance startup Decent and built the lifecycle team at Gusto.

Participated · Series A · Mar 2023

Zed is a code editor and collaboration platform designed to make editing and team interactions first-class, offering multiplayer editing, high performance, and a streamlined, minimalist interface. The product lets teammates join projects and edit as if code were local, call contacts from a built-in panel, jump to a collaborator’s location, and use an integrated screen-sharing tool. The team behind Zed includes ex-Atom contributors Nathan Sobo, Antonio Scandurra and Max Brunsfeld, and they launched Zed Industries in spring 2021. The company is currently pre-revenue, operating a beta with roughly 800 weekly active users from an alpha and a waiting list that reached about 12,000 people. Zed has seven employees and plans to monetize primarily via a service-based model. The founders aim for Zed to become a standard platform for open-source development and the go-to tool for software teams.

Participated · Seed · Sep 2022

Founded in March 2021 by Samuel Spitz and Kunal Rai (originally as Wearloom), Gently aggregates listings from resale marketplaces so users can search, filter and receive alerts across sites. The product partners with platforms including Poshmark, Depop, eBay, ThredUp, Vestiaire Collective, Rebag, Grailed, GOAT, StockX and TheLuxuryCloset and the company earns a percentage of sales it drives to those sites. Gently grew from a manual search service to a platform now serving tens of thousands of users every day and aims to reach 1 million daily users by 2024. The company announced a $2 million pre-seed capital infusion and plans to deploy the funds into product and technology development to improve search, launch SMS functionality and build a sizing feature. Gently is hiring to expand its six-person team and intends to broaden beyond fashion into other categories, including furniture. The founders are also eyeing a Series A in 2023.

Participated · Series A · Sep 2022

Sequel.io provides a no-code and low-code platform that lets brands create and embed live event and webinar experiences directly on their websites. The product includes a proprietary technology stack plus an open low-code API for teams that want deeper customization. Marketers can use the platform to drive high-value actions and increase website traffic, while developers can build more sophisticated virtual platforms in days. Sequel has powered over 20,000 embedded live events for customers including Comcast NBCUniversal, Ritual Motion, We&Goliath, and HP. The company offers both no-code tools for marketers and low-code options for developers, enabling a range of use cases from simple branded webinars to custom video solutions. Sequel plans to scale its go-to-market efforts and expand its product and team following the recent fundraise. Introvoke is a Techstars Accelerator graduate that provides embeddable virtual-event components such as virtual stages, chat rooms and networking hubs. Its components are customizable and can be embedded on websites built with WordPress, Squarespace, Wix, Splash and other platforms, as well as on internal intranets. Introvoke charges customers based on live event minutes, a pricing model it says is accessible to companies large and small. The product is designed for a hybrid future that includes virtual-only, in-person-only and mixed events and supports prolonged attendee engagement (chat over weeks or months). Customers have used the platform in private preview for conferences, career fairs and employee engagements, with Comcast, Wharton and Ritual Motion among early users. The company is based in San Francisco.