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WNDR

3811 Portola Dr, Santa Cruz, CA, 95062, USA

Overview

WndrCo is a holding company that acquires, operates, and develops businesses at the intersection of technology and media.

Total investments
3
Lead investments
0
Investments · 12mo
3
Active investors
8

Sector focus

  • Digital Media
  • Financial Services
  • Information Technology
  • Venture Capital
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Investment portfolio

  • Partly

    Participated · Series B · Jun 2026

    Partly develops frontier AI infrastructure for the automotive parts and repair industry, centered on its Interpreter foundation model. Interpreter was trained over five years using human feedback and synthetic data, incorporates continuous training on live data, and reflects more than fifty manufacturer agreements. Since 2020 the company has combined automotive expertise with AI engineering talent to build models tailored to complex parts systems, logistics, and workflows. Partly announced a U.S. launch and has anchored operations in Austin, Texas, relocating its executive team there. The company plans to use recent funding to expand its U.S. footprint and to recruit engineering, business development, and product management staff. Partly frames its model as the industry's AI infrastructure layer for collision repair.

  • Idilio

    Participated · Seed · Jun 2026

    Idilio produces vertical micronovelas with episodes of one to three minutes and seasons that can reach up to 80 chapters, aiming for strong hooks in the first three seconds. The company describes itself as data-first: it writes and produces initial chapters, publishes them in-app and on social, and uses rapid metrics to decide whether to rewrite or scale a story. Idilio reports roughly two million downloads in 120 countries and about 45 minutes of daily use per user, which the company says is double Netflix's mobile time by its metrics. Founder Gabriela Tafur, a Colombian lawyer, TV presenter and Stanford MBA, built the product after observing short-form dubbed dramas in mobile use. The company targets Latin American melodrama as a cultural differentiator versus Chinese-origin micro-series and aims to scale its audience internationally. The model emphasizes low-cost, fast production cycles but faces sector risks such as low retention and variable content quality.

  • Reactor

    Participated · Series A · May 2026

    Reactor provides a unified SDK and API that enables developers to build real-time interactive applications powered by world models. The company emphasizes making real-time generative video accessible at global scale and cites demand from media and entertainment partners as well as robotics customers. Reactor was co-founded by Alberto Taiuti (CEO) and Bryce Schmidtchen (CTO), both former technical leads on Apple Vision Pro, and the team includes engineers from Apple, Netflix, Meta, Google, Adobe, Replicate, and Microsoft. The platform is available now with usage-based pricing billed by model type, and Reactor has a strategic partnership with AWS as its preferred cloud provider. Financially, Reactor announced $59 million in funding led by Lightspeed Venture Partners to support scaling its infrastructure and product deployment.

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