Participated · Seed · Aug 2026

Intelligence.ai is developing DesignArena and is positioned as an AI company. The startup has a team of 10 people. It reported very rapid financial growth, increasing revenue from $5M to $60M ARR over a six-month period. The company also reported a global user base of 5.5 million users across more than 190 countries. To support its plans for DesignArena, Intelligence.ai completed a $7.9M seed raise led by Index Ventures with participation from Conviction, A_StarVC, and Combinator. The announcement did not disclose additional product details, a valuation, or prior funding rounds.

Participated · Seed · Aug 2026

DesignArena began days before its founders’ college graduation in 2025 and evolved from experiments to make AI-generated games more enjoyable into a broader human-evaluation platform. The product presents users with A-vs-B style comparisons across formats (websites, images and other visual media) so human preferences can be recorded and used by model developers. The platform has reached 5.3 million users and, per the report, is generating roughly $60 million in annual recurring revenue. Enterprise customers — including frontier AI labs — pay for access to the continuous human feedback that complements automated benchmarks. The company’s users are required to log in, enabling tracking of tastes over time and across regions, which the team says reveals stylistic differences by market. The article notes competitors and adjacent players in the human-evaluation space but highlights DesignArena’s early commercial traction and enterprise adoption.

Participated · Seed · Jan 2026

Crunched embeds an AI analyst directly inside Microsoft Excel, automating time-consuming tasks such as populating model templates, hunting circular-reference errors, and extracting data from PDFs or web research. The product targets highly trained associates and analysts, allowing them to shift focus from manual model building to higher-level strategic thinking. Since launching three months ago, firms on four continents have adopted the tool and report 50% or greater time savings on complex Excel work. The platform is designed with enterprise-grade security, including leading certifications and a strict policy of not training models on client data. Looking forward, the team plans to deepen the product’s capabilities by connecting to customers’ internal data sources and adapting to firm-specific modeling workflows. Revenue figures were not disclosed, but the company has secured seed financing to accelerate hiring and product development.