Participated · Equity · Jan 2025

Openvibe is an app launched in 2024 that integrates open social networks including Mastodon, Bluesky, Nostr, and Instagram Threads into a single, user-friendly timeline and supports cross-posting. The product aims to simplify access to networks that use different protocols (ActivityPub, AT Protocol, Nostr) so newcomers don’t need to switch apps. Openvibe is available for free on iOS and Android and plans to introduce a subscription plan to generate revenue. With new capital, the company intends to accelerate product development, expand its user base, add integrations with additional social platforms, and refine the user interface. The app’s approach targets users who want a single gateway to the open social web and tooling for multi-network posting. Automattic’s participation was noted as significant given its history of backing open-source projects that compete with Big Tech.

Participated · Seed · Dec 2023

Liquid AI, co-founded by robotics luminary Daniela Rus, is building general-purpose AI systems powered by liquid neural networks. Liquid neural networks use neurons governed by equations that predict each neuron's behavior over time, giving the architecture flexibility inspired by roundworm brains. Because of that design, these models are much smaller than traditional AI models and require far less computing power to run. Liquid AI plans to develop tailored liquid neural networks for applications in e-commerce, consumer electronics, and biotech. The company recently raised $250 million and is reportedly valued at over $2 billion. As part of the investment, Liquid AI will work with AMD to optimize its models for AMD GPUs, CPUs, and AI accelerators. Liquid AI develops models built on liquid neural network architecture, which the team says are much smaller, more compute-efficient, interpretable and able to adapt over time compared with typical large generative models. The company has demonstrated the architecture on tasks such as drone navigation, where liquid models generalized to unseen scenarios and outperformed other algorithms. Liquid AI plans to commercialize the architecture by building liquid foundation models beyond GPTs and by offering on-premises and private AI infrastructure plus a platform for customers to build domain-specific models. The team includes co-founder Daniela Rus and founding members Ramin Hasani (CEO), Mathias Lechner (CTO) and Alexander Amini (chief scientific officer). The company currently has a 12-person team and expects to grow to about 20 by early next year. Liquid AI targets applications ranging from drone search-and-rescue, wildlife monitoring and delivery to sequential-data domains such as power grids, medical readouts, financial transactions and severe weather prediction.

Led · Seed · Apr 2020

Frontity develops an open-source JavaScript framework that connects React and WordPress with built-in queries to simplify building themes and decoupled sites. The framework is aimed at letting developers focus on site features instead of tooling and configuration. Frontity was founded in 2015 by Pablo Postigo and Luis Herranz and began as a mobile app builder for WordPress blogs under the name Worona. The company participated in Madrid’s SeedRocket accelerator in 2018, open-sourced the framework in 2019, and joined the Google for Startups Residency program in Spain. Frontity plans to use its fresh seed funding to continue developing the framework, add new features, and build its developer community. The company’s investors suggest future support for integration with other platforms beyond WordPress.