Participated · Seed · Nov 2025

Teacher's Buddy provides educators with automated tools that generate customised lesson plans, student assessments and report-writing drafts, aiming to cut workload and reduce burnout. Founded by Auckland advertising veteran Matt Abraham and Melbourne-based Ben Sze, the service is offered as a free basic product with a Pro tier priced at $155 per year and bespoke packages for schools. In its first 18 months, the platform has attracted 12,000 teachers across 130 countries, demonstrating early global traction. The startup currently employs 10 staff out of Melbourne and is finalising an upgraded version of its platform that the founders say will significantly extend functionality for teachers, schools and students. Although still in a very early commercial phase, the company recently secured new funding at a $12.7 million valuation, underscoring investor confidence. Teacher's Buddy differentiates itself from generic AI tools like ChatGPT by offering domain-specific, pre-tested prompts and templates tailored to educational tasks. Management emphasises that the forthcoming product enhancements will “amplify” the existing feature set and drive broader adoption.

Participated · Series A · Nov 2025

Stuut Technologies has built an AI "coworker" that replaces manual accounts-receivable tasks—collections, payments, cash application, deductions and more—with autonomous software that learns from every customer interaction. The platform integrates with major ERP systems such as SAP, Oracle, NetSuite and Dynamics and can be fully implemented in three to four days, far faster than the 6–18 months typical for legacy solutions. Early customers including ZoomInfo, Bishop Lifting, Honeywell and PerkinElmer report a 40% reduction in overdue balances, a 70% cut in manual workload and 37% faster days-sales-outstanding, translating into up to 5% EBITDA recovery. Stuut also claims its system helps companies collect 40% more revenue on time by executing outreach across SMS, email and voice channels and by autonomously matching payments and resolving disputes. Upcoming product extensions will add autonomous handling of credits and disputes, expanding the platform’s six-function coverage of the cash cycle. Founded by Tarek Alaruri, Miraj Mohsin and Ben Winter and headquartered in New York City, the company positions itself as the first AR solution that “actually does the work” rather than merely assisting human teams. The newly raised capital will accelerate product development and broaden enterprise adoption.

Participated · Equity · Feb 2024

NayaOne operates a sandbox-as-a-service platform and a marketplace of vetted fintechs to help organisations navigate the complex financial technology ecosystem. Led by CEO Karan Jain, the company focuses on accelerating adoption of emerging technologies and streamlining vendor collaboration. Its platform is designed to help institutions foster strategic partnerships and deliver enhanced customer experiences. NayaOne raised $4.7M in funding to support expansion of operations and business reach. The company intends to use the proceeds to grow its commercial footprint and scale its services. The product and marketplace remain central to its plans for market expansion.

Participated · Seed · Nov 2023

Refine Intelligence raised $13M in Seed funding to scale its AI-driven financial crime greenflagging platform. The company is based in New York City and Tel Aviv and is led by CEO Uri Rivner. It plans to use the proceeds to accelerate expansion within North America, Europe and Latin America and to advance development of its technology. Refine's proprietary AI scans anti-money-laundering alerts from transaction-monitoring systems to "greenflag" legitimate customer activity and reduce investigation time. The platform can also be applied to protect against check fraud, scams and money mules and provides critical real-time context to explain customer actions. Product capabilities include user-facing digital inquiries to collect source-of-funds and activity context, and AI trained on a proprietary dataset to automatically recognize customer life stories.

Participated · Series D · Feb 2011

HTG, Inc. is a Tucson, Arizona-based provider of molecular technology solutions led by CEO TJ Johnson. Its core product is the qNPA™ molecular technology platform and a multi-plex gene expression testing platform for miRNA and mRNA measurement, translational medicine and diagnostic applications. The qNPA platform is in use at major academic and cancer research centers as well as by big pharma. The company closed the first tranche of a $15.7M Series D financing to support its growth. HTG intends to use the funding to drive adoption of its testing platform for validation and clinical applications across different therapeutic areas and to expand into new high-growth molecular diagnostic opportunities. The company also plans to hire additional personnel in 2011, including sales and marketing, operations and development scientists with diagnostics experience.