Led · Equity · Mar 2026

LPP Fusion is focused on research and development aimed at achieving practical fusion energy, which the team refers to as a “fusion future.” The company’s latest update emphasizes that continued fundraising is essential to keep its research moving forward. In its most recent financing effort, LPP Fusion brought in just over $1 million, providing an estimated $200,000 increase in cash compared with the start of its fundraising campaigns on March 1, 2025. The funds will serve as a financial cushion, supporting ongoing experimental work. A total of 566 investors participated via the Wefunder platform, underscoring broad retail interest in the venture. The company plans to inform supporters when additional funding rounds become available but has not provided timing details. No other operating metrics, revenue figures, or user statistics were disclosed in the article.

Participated · Seed · Feb 2026

Trace is a London-based startup that maps an enterprise’s tools and processes—such as email, Slack, and Airtable—into a centralized knowledge graph. This graph supplies rich contextual data so that when a user gives a high-level prompt like designing a microsite, Trace automatically generates a detailed, step-by-step workflow. The platform delegates specific sub-tasks to AI agents while assigning others to human employees, effectively acting as a ‘manager’ for both digital and human workers. By automating the historically cumbersome onboarding of AI agents, Trace aims to accelerate real-world enterprise adoption of agentic AI. The company’s leadership positions its approach as “context engineering,” viewing it as the next evolution after prompt engineering. Competition includes in-house agent features from productivity suites and offerings from major AI labs such as Anthropic, but Trace’s founders believe their knowledge-graph architecture differentiates them. Financially, the company has secured $3 million in seed funding to further develop its infrastructure platform.

Led · Equity · Apr 2024

Zette is a San Francisco AI startup developing a "Spotify for news" product and a core AI system to recommend, summarize, interact with, and contextualize news content. The company emphasizes fair compensation for newsrooms alongside easier access to paywalled journalism. It was founded by Harvard graduate and former Twitter product manager Yehong Zhu and includes team members from Harvard, MIT, and the Quebec AI Institute. Zette reports traction with 50,000 readers onboard and partnerships with 110 publishers, including Forbes and New Scientist. Financially, Zette has surpassed $750,000 in equity crowdfunding on Wefunder, exceeding its initial target. The company says the funds will support scaling its product and advancing its mission to revolutionize news consumption while ensuring a sustainable future for quality journalism. Zette, founded by former Forbes reporter Yehong Zhu in July 2020, provides pay-per-article access to paywalled online publications through a monthly subscription. The product charges $9.99 per month for subscribers to access up to thirty articles, and Zette negotiates custom revenue-share agreements with publishers, aiming to return roughly 50% of Zette revenue to partners. The company has landed major licensing deals with top-tier publications including Forbes and plans to expand publisher partnerships and licensing deals. Zette intends to roll out a three-tiered, usage-based pricing structure, explore one-off article credits, and consider charging more credits for in-depth content. The startup has seven team members and operates with footprints in Los Angeles and New York City. The $1.7M pre-seed raise closed in March 2021 and will fund growth marketing, publisher partnerships and licensing deals, operational and software development expenses, and headcount. Competitors cited include Apple News+, Blendle and Nicklpass.

Led · Seed · Feb 2024

Spoutible is a social media platform built to combat online harassment, hate speech, and misinformation while prioritizing diversity, inclusivity, and user safety. In its first year the platform has attracted millions of monthly visits and page views and maintains high app-store ratings. Core features include a fully customizable timeline, auto-threading, AI-generated thread summaries, cross-posting to Bluesky and Mastodon, and interactive audio chat rooms called Pods. The company emphasizes strict, transparent policies to foster meaningful, respectful interactions. Product roadmaps include an AI assistant to help users navigate the platform and interest-based connections to link users by shared topics. Financially, Spoutible recently closed a near-$600,000 seed raise via a Wefunder campaign backed by its community to support continued feature development and growth.

Led · Equity · Aug 2023

Jurny's AI-powered hospitality automation platform automates up to 90% of back-end operations and optimizes bookings, check-ins, communications, and dynamic pricing. Properties using Jurny's platform reduce management time from 12.5 hours to one hour per week per listing, and the company targets inefficiencies it estimates at $1 trillion annually. The product serves hotels, short-term rentals, travel agencies, and real estate ventures and aims to be the property management software of choice. Jurny is pursuing aggressive enterprise expansion, including a deployment across AD1-managed hotels and talks to reach much larger portfolios. The company is opening a new Miami office to partner with major developers and operators. Founded in 2019, Jurny is backed by VCs including Mucker Capital, Okapi Venture Capital, VITALIZE Venture Capital, Singularity Capital, and SaaS Venture Capital and has raised total funding exceeding $16 million. Jurny offers a vertically integrated, AI-driven property management platform that centralizes operations into a single dashboard to reduce integrations, onboarding time, and per-product costs. The product targets hotel operators, short-term rental property managers, and Airbnb hosts and claims breakthrough AI and deep infrastructure already in place. The company reports fivefold customer growth in the past nine months, 100% user growth in the past month, and $2.2 million in contracted ARR, and says it is nearing profitability. Jurny serves thousands of customers worldwide and highlights that many of its investors are also customers. The team is described as world-class, composed of seasoned founders and executives steering growth and product development. Jurny, Inc. is a Los Angeles, CA-based hospitality tech company serving independent hotel brands, vacation and short-term rental properties. Its core product offering, Jurny Virtual, automates and streamlines operations via a simplified, fully connected operator dashboard that integrates major channel management (CMS), point of sale (POS), room management (RMS), facility management (FMS), marketing and smart home technologies. Beyond the tech stack, Jurny provides services including 24/7 inquiry support and virtual concierge, access control, guest screening, review management, and accounting, all accessible in a single location for owners and property managers. The platform centralizes operations so owners can manage their entire operations from one interface. The company intends to use new funding to accelerate global expansion of Jurny Virtual. In April 2021 Jurny raised an additional $9.5M led by Mucker Capital.