Participated · Series A · Jul 2026

Founded by Carnegie Mellon–trained roboticists Puneet Puri (CEO) and Vishal Dugar (CTO), Gritt develops an intelligent software layer that controls off-the-shelf skidders and robotic arms to perform dextrous construction tasks. Its initial deployed application unloads, carries, and positions large glass solar panels with sub-millimeter accuracy; Gritt reports that an eight-person crew with its systems can install 3,000–4,000 panels per day versus roughly 800 panels without them. The company has two systems in the field, three top-10 U.S. power construction companies as customers, and contracts covering 2.8 GW of panel installs over the next 18 months. Gritt plans to scale to about 48 systems in the next six months and expand its task set to include fastening panels, drilling posts, building racks, and other labor-intensive construction tasks like rebar tying. Management positions the product as a generalizable physical-AI layer that can also provide site monitoring and decision-support via its sensor suite.

Participated · Seed · Jun 2026

Nebex builds market infrastructure for the global space economy, operating as an exchange layer that links space companies with sovereign buyers and the capital that moves deals. Founded in late 2025 by Tejpaul Bhatia, Anand Subramanian, and Manlio Di Stefano, the company aims to reduce revenue and cash-flow frictions that space founders face when engaging in government contracting. Nebex has secured a $30M seed investment led by GV and a banking relationship with J.P. Morgan to scale its platform and expand international commercial collaboration. The founder and CEO, Tejpaul Bhatia, previously led Axiom Space and is credited with over $1B in commercial space deals. Nebex's stated mission is to ensure international spend is reinvested in nations' own economies by enabling market mechanisms similar to other industries. The company is backed by a syndicate of venture funds including Eniac Ventures, 2048 Ventures, Better Tomorrow Ventures, Oceans Ventures, AIN Ventures, Also Capital, Anagram, Armory Square Ventures, Multiball Capital, Trajectory Capital, and VSC Ventures.

Participated · Series A · Feb 2026

Multitude Insights is a public-safety technology company focused on fixing fragmented intelligence workflows within law enforcement. Its core product, BLTN (pronounced “bulletin”), is a secure, AI-driven platform that lets agencies publish crime bulletins, surface case connections and distribute critical information nationally in real time. By automating what is now a manual, email-centric process, the software reduces paperwork and speeds cross-jurisdictional collaboration, allowing officers to spend more time in the community. The company is deepening product functionality through a new integration with Mark43’s RMS and by expanding its footprint with a second office in the Pacific Northwest. Multitude Insights was founded by two MIT alumni and is staffed by military veterans and law-enforcement professionals, operating from Boston, MA and Portland, OR. The newly raised $10 million Series A will be used to scale BLTN’s network effect, expand integrations and grow agency adoption across the United States.

Participated · Equity · Nov 2025

OptimHire offers an end-to-end AI hiring platform featuring an AI Recruiter applicant-tracking system, outcome-based pricing in which businesses pay only for successful interviews, and Job Copilot, an AI assistant that autonomously searches and applies to jobs for candidates. The company claims its system enables clients to hire in an average of 12 days while cutting recruitment costs by up to 80%. In 2024, OptimHire filled more than 8,000 positions for companies such as Amazon, Google and Dropbox and expanded its candidate database to over 220 million professionals. Its risk-free pricing includes either a 6% flat recruitment fee or about $300 per month for a full-time AI recruiter. Recent partnerships with Monster, CareerBuilder and Nexxt extend the service across multiple industry verticals. Looking ahead, OptimHire plans to launch self-service hiring for SMBs and further automate its AI-to-AI hiring model to create a near-autonomous recruiting ecosystem. The company is funding this growth with a recently closed $6 million investment round.

Participated · Series A · Apr 2025

Glacier develops low-cost robotic arms guided by computer vision to identify over 30 material types and automate sorting at materials recovery facilities (MRFs). Its robots have been deployed in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, Detroit, Phoenix and Seattle. The company offers robots as outright purchases or via lease-to-own, and provides training, spare parts and maintenance packages to customers. Glacier also sells a data product that gives MRFs, consumer-products companies, and government agencies insights into the waste stream and recycling performance. The startup, described in the article as six years old, plans to expand its robot fleet to more municipalities to address labor shortages and improve recycling rates. Financially, Glacier recently closed a $16 million Series A to support that expansion. Glacier is a Bay Area recycling robotics startup whose core products are a sorting robot deployed in recycling facilities and an AI scanner that tracks materials and packaging fate. Amazon is piloting the AI scanner to understand what happens to packaging after it reaches consumers. The company says it works with customers in 10 states and is forming partnerships with brands, Fortune 500 companies, and government agencies. Glacier has collaborated with the City of Phoenix and received a grant from the Michigan Department of Environment to support further deployments. Co-founders include CEO Rebecca Hu and Areeb Malik. The startup recently closed a new $7.7M funding round co-led by Amazon and NEA. Glacier builds compact, low-cost recycling robotics and automation systems designed for space-constrained sorting facilities. The company emphasizes three advantages—low cost, small size and easy install—and has conducted pilots and deployed its first commercial system at a facility in Los Angeles. Founded in 2019 and operating in stealth until the announcement, Glacier’s team combines AI and robotics engineers with founders Areeb Malik (formerly a software engineer at Facebook) and Rebecca Hu (formerly at Bain & Company). The team’s experience includes self-driving excavators and forklifts, extraterrestrial mining robots, humanoid disaster-response robots and AI models for medical detection. Glacier has opened preorders for its first commercial system and plans to use new funding to increase headcount and accelerate commercial deployment. The company positions its product as an alternative to larger, more expensive systems in the recycling space.