Led · Equity · Aug 2026

VibeIQ provides a live product decision layer that gives merchandising, design, planning, product development, and regional teams a single view of the product line, linking creative intent, commercial targets, margin, regional adoption, and downstream status. Its embedded AI surfaces gaps, duplication, trade-offs, and margin risk so teams can decide what moves forward before development and sourcing commit cost. VibeIQ serves customers including New Balance, Vera Bradley, Converse, and Kizik and reports outcomes such as reduced planned SKUs, earlier visibility, and elimination of thousands of hours of manual work. The platform integrates alongside PLM, planning, and enterprise systems to carry approved product decisions into execution while preserving decision context. VibeIQ plans to use its new financing to deepen product capabilities, expand integrations, grow the team, and extend into more product categories and teams. The company positioned itself as addressing decision-making gaps that have become more consequential as AI accelerates concept and asset creation.

Led · Equity · Mar 2026

Keynes builds an audience-first Connected TV (CTV) performance advertising platform that uses artificial intelligence to optimize ad spend across fragmented streaming services and deliver transparent reporting on campaign impact. Founded in 2018 and led by founder and CEO Dan Larkman, the company serves medium-sized and enterprise brands. Keynes focuses on measurable business outcomes and tracking how CTV campaigns affect overall brand growth and other paid marketing channels. The company recently raised a $40M minority investment from Volition Capital. Proceeds from the investment are earmarked to expand technology infrastructure, enhance data integrations, and strengthen measurement capabilities. No revenue or user metrics were disclosed in the article.

Led · Equity · Mar 2026

BusRight provides an all-in-one platform for K-12 student transportation, combining route building, driver navigation, live GPS tracking, parent communications, and student ridership visibility into a single system. The company says transportation leaders can build routes in 60 seconds, track buses in real time, and communicate with parents in one click. Founded by CEO Keith Corso and CPO Phillip Dunn, BusRight is headquartered in New York and serves customers across 36 states with nearly one million users including parents, drivers, dispatchers, and administrators. The company highlights operational impact, citing a district that saved $989,000 in its first year using the platform. BusRight plans to expand its product suite with features such as a 24/7 AI-powered transportation agent, hyper-local mapping intelligence, and NFC-based child safety capabilities to deepen its penetration in the K‑12 market.

Led · Series A · Feb 2026

Kombo offers a unified “people data” infrastructure that lets companies integrate, access, and manage employee information from hiring through retirement. Its platform acts as the connective tissue between disparate HR tools, giving customers a single API and, soon, browser agents that can link even to systems without APIs. The company currently supports 400+ customers, enabling more than 15,000 end-customers to leverage its technology, and it has surpassed eight-figure annual recurring revenue. Kombo’s go-to-market team numbers roughly 20 people within an overall headcount of 55+, and management aims to triple revenue over the next year. Looking ahead, the roadmap includes new vertical integrations such as learning-management systems (LMS) and payroll, as well as further enterprise-grade customization. The culture is described as highly ambitious and collaborative, contributing to rapid scaling. Kombo maintains teams in both Berlin and New York City and is actively hiring across functions.

Led · Series A · Jan 2026

Winter Park-based Statusphere provides an AI-driven platform that automates every stage of large-scale creator campaigns, from influencer sourcing and vetting to product fulfillment, compliance, performance tracking, and rights management. The software enables brands such as Parlux, Kendo Brands, Express, and LG H&H to activate thousands of micro-creators with less than an hour of setup while maintaining brand-safety and compliance standards. In the past year, the company powered more than 50,000 creator collaborations that generated over half a billion engagements and video views, demonstrating strong market traction. Statusphere’s technology also supports social SEO and generative engine optimization (GEO) to improve product discovery across emerging AI-driven search experiences. With the new capital, the team plans to expand its social SEO, GEO, and reporting capabilities and to build next-generation tools for creators. Total funding now stands at $27 million, providing resources to fuel continued platform development and customer growth.