The Venture Codex

Participated · Series A · Apr 2026

Zócalo Health organizes care around community health workers (promotoras de salud) embedded in communities and integrates those teams with primary care providers, behavioral health clinicians, and care coordinators to drive sustained engagement for high-need members. Its model emphasizes proactive outreach, frequent touchpoints, and trust-based relationships to improve retention, reduce avoidable utilization, and address medical, behavioral, and social needs together. The company pairs its community workforce with a technology platform that leverages AI to extend frontline capacity, help members navigate coverage and eligibility, and support care coordination. Zócalo partners with Medicaid managed care organizations, including Anthem Blue Cross and Health Net, and aligns with state initiatives such as CalAIM in California. Operationally, the company reported roughly 4x year-over-year revenue growth and expanded from two health plan partnerships in 2024 to more than a dozen in 2025, while maintaining high member retention and patient satisfaction that exceed industry benchmarks. Zócalo plans to use new capital to scale geographically and grow its community-based teams. The company is based in Kenmore, Wash.

Led · Seed · Aug 2025

Kira offers an all-in-one payments infrastructure stack that combines stablecoins, AI-driven agents, and enterprise APIs to let enterprises and startups launch embedded fintech products (payments, remittances, savings, payroll, treasury). The platform includes AI-driven payments, treasury automation, compliance workflows, and global payouts to remove technical friction for clients. Kira operated in stealth for over a year while building its stack and is led by founders with prior fintech experience, including a founder of Arcus (acquired by Mastercard). The company reports $3 million in revenue in its first year. Kira plans to accelerate technical hiring and develop new fintech products while forming strategic partnerships with regional banks and payment processors. The funding announcement emphasizes an initial expansion focus across Latin America, starting in South America.

Participated · Series B · Aug 2025

Aalo Atomics is a U.S. scaleup developing next-generation nuclear reactors. The company is described in the coverage as pursuing innovative engineering and an unusually fast execution pace within the nuclear sector. The fundraise drew institutional backers including Ontario Teachers and participation from retail-access fintech Akka. Public reporting about the company in this article did not include founding year, revenue, deployment timelines, or detailed technical specifics. Akka and its CEO emphasized the broader energy challenge and positioned Aalo as a rapid player addressing that market opportunity.

Participated · Series A · Jun 2025

Handspring Health operates a virtual mental health clinic focused on youth and young adults, employing clinicians trained in evidence-based modalities such as CBT, DBT and exposure therapy and providing mandatory ongoing clinical supervision and training. The company treats patients across a spectrum of acuity, including a complex care program for high-risk youth, and has treated more than 4,000 patients across nine states. Handspring reports revenue growth of more than 10x over the past two years and clinical outcomes including 93% of families reporting improvement at discharge, 81% of patients treated for anxiety showing clinically meaningful improvement, and 78% for depression. Over 95% of sessions are covered by insurance and the business is in-network with major commercial insurers like BlueCross BlueShield, Aetna, Cigna, UnitedHealthcare, Oscar and Optum. Handspring acquired Joon Care to expand services and in-network coverage in Washington State and plans to scale geographically, deepen payer partnerships, expand parent coaching and continue investing in its AI-enabled technology platform.

Participated · Seed · Jun 2025

Trustible provides an AI governance platform that enables enterprises to identify, measure, and mitigate AI risk and accelerate safe, compliant AI adoption. The platform offers centralized oversight and control across internal and third‑party systems, integrated AI risk and compliance management with continuous monitoring and embedded workflows, and actionable intelligence and guided governance including taxonomies, recommendation models, and in‑app guidance. Trustible reports that 38% of its customers are from the Fortune 500, 62% are publicly traded companies, and over 87% have global operations; one Fortune 500 CPG customer doubled the number of AI use cases after adopting the platform. The company says it will scale its team and deepen product capabilities to support broader enterprise adoption. Headquartered in the Washington D.C. area, Trustible will use new capital to fuel its next stage of growth. Financially, the company announced a $4.6 million Series Seed financing to support these efforts. Trustible provides software to help organizations accelerate Responsible AI governance, aiming to maximize trust and manage risk as AI adoption grows. Founded by Gerald Kierce and Andrew Gamino-Cheong, the company empowers organizations to confidently adopt AI technologies amid evolving regulation. It is collaborating with a select group of pilot customers across the technology, financial services, and healthcare sectors. Trustible raised $1.6M in a First funding round to support its growth. The company intends to use the funds to scale its team, accelerate growth, and further develop its product.