• Beluga

  Participated · Seed · Oct 2023

  Beluga provides a trusted platform and suite of software tools that help new users discover, learn about, and use crypto products across DeFi, NFTs, web3 games, staking and other financial products. The platform helps users manage their crypto portfolio and cuts through noise to surface safer, recommended products. The company announced a $4M seed round from well-known crypto and FinTech investors to support product development and growth. Management and founders are Silicon Valley and crypto veterans from BitPay, Robinhood Crypto, dYdX, CoinDesk and Coupa Software; Sonny Singh is a co-founder. Beluga plans to launch additional onboarding tools in the coming months to further help new users find and use the best crypto products. The company is based in San Francisco.

• Pontoro

  Participated · Seed · Sep 2023

  Pontoro, founded in late 2018 and based in Mountain View, Calif., is creating a patented, structurally differentiated technology solution to unlock greater access to institutional-grade private market real assets. The company's initial focus is addressing the $15 trillion shortfall in infrastructure debt finance. The platform is intended to enable a new type of enhanced private investment product with liquidity generally not readily available in traditional private investments, and features intended to ease fund administration. Pontoro will use the $4.6 million Seed II funding to further develop its technology to provide enhanced customization, pricing, and liquidity to market participants. The company expects to announce an expanded leadership team of seasoned finance and technology executives and is continuing discussions with institutional participants for advancement and adoption of the solution. The recent round was oversubscribed and came at a significant increase in valuation from its previous seed round. Pontoro is a financial technology company building an institutional-grade digital asset securitization and liquidity platform to expand investor participation in infrastructure debt finance. The platform curates bank-originated infrastructure project loans into tokenized and securitized digital asset pools, built on Ethereum and interoperating with other chains. It aims to reduce transaction times and settlement risk, improve cost efficiencies, and enable secondary liquidity and enhanced price discovery for institutional investors. Pontoro plans to accelerate platform development, deepen strategic partnerships with global banks and institutional investors, and continue recruiting senior talent. The company announced a $6 million preferred seed round to fund scaling and product rollout. Its senior leadership and advisors collectively bring a reported $100 billion infrastructure finance track record and experience from firms including J.P. Morgan Asset Management, BitGo, GE Energy Financial Services, InterGen, NASDAQ Private Markets, and the SEC.

• Symmetry Systems

  Participated · Equity · Aug 2023

  Symmetry Systems offers a platform that maps an organization’s data across cloud stores, shows who has access, and surfaces misconfigurations and risky data flows. The product lets customers adjust account access on individual data objects and monitor future accesses while running in the customer’s cloud using a ‘‘software-as-a-service, but in customer’s cloud’’ deployment model. The company is developing an AI/large-language-model interface to let customers ask plain-English questions about data risk and mitigation steps. Symmetry says it is building a federal sales program but declined to disclose revenue or customer names. The startup employs around 40 people and expects to grow to 50–55 by year-end. Its most recent financing brought total capital raised to $36 million. Symmetry Systems delivers Data Store and Object Security (DSOS) via its DataGuard product, which the company says maintains authority over data when credentials are exploited, malicious applications act, or security tools generate false positives. Led by CEO Mohit Tiwari, the platform provides full visibility and unified access control over data assets regardless of where or how they are stored. The company originated from the Spark Lab at UT Austin and is based in San Francisco, CA. Symmetry Systems recently raised $15m in a Series A and plans to use the funds to drive rapid growth in revenue, customers, and employees. The company is also participating in Accenture Ventures’ Project Spotlight, an engagement program connecting emerging software startups with the Global 2000. Symmetry Systems offers DataGuard, a DSOS platform that provides unified visibility into data objects across all data stores and answers data security and compliance questions that traditional tools cannot. The system learns how data is used, accessed, and managed by an organization or a partner to deliver actionable visibility, least-privilege policies, and guided response. The company emerged from stealth and was born within the Spark Lab at UT Austin. It is led by CEO and co-founder Mohit Tiwari and is based in San Francisco, CA. Symmetry has active pilot deployments in healthcare, fintech, manufacturing and technology organizations. The company raised a $3M seed round to support product development and customer support tied to those pilots.

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