Participated · Seed · Jan 2024

TextQL builds agentic analytics software that lets enterprises query messy, fragmented data environments without requiring large-scale migrations, operating across on-prem systems and cloud data warehouses while respecting existing permissions. The company has focused engineering efforts on reinventing role-based access control across heterogeneous systems and creating runtime concepts to scale to complex Fortune 50 data ecosystems. Since its most recent financing, TextQL reports 9x year-over-year revenue growth and has booked consecutive six-figure contracts for six weeks running. Deployments include Blackstone, Scale, Dropbox, and a growing list of G2000 enterprises. The company positions itself as the interface between executives and enterprise data and plans to use the funding to further develop its agentic analytics capabilities and scale deployments.

Participated · Seed · Jan 2024

Alinea operates a mobile wealth-management app that combines AI-driven insights, expert-built portfolios and chat-based financial education to onboard new investors. Targeting the Gen Z demographic often ignored by traditional Wall Street firms, the SEC-registered platform positions itself as both a wealth-building tool and an entry point for financial literacy. Since launching nearly five years ago, the app has been downloaded more than two million times, demonstrating significant traction among its target audience. Users can create values-aligned portfolios while receiving personalized guidance from the platform’s AI. The company graduated from Y Combinator and is already backed by Goodwater, Harvard, and Play Ventures, indicating early institutional support. With its newest financing, Alinea plans to ramp up marketing spend to accelerate user growth and broaden distribution of its product.

Led · Seed · Jan 2024

Shimmer provides adults with ADHD personalized, 1:1 video coaching combined with productivity tools and science-backed learning modules. Users complete intake questions, are matched with one of Shimmer’s 30+ ADHD coaches, and receive weekly sessions plus ongoing exercises and resources. Pricing tiers start at $140/month for weekly 15-minute sessions, $230/month for 30-minute weekly sessions, and $345/month for 45-minute weekly sessions. Since launching in October 2022, Shimmer coaches have held more than 15,000 coaching sessions and the platform is available on iOS, Android and the web. The founders plan to partner with providers, payors, and employers to reduce out-of-pocket costs and to leverage AI to make coaches more efficient without sacrificing authenticity. Shimmer has begun expanding beyond ADHD to support other neurotypes, including autism, and plans corporate training, community support, and broader personal-development offerings. Shimmer is a consumer app that provides coaching for adults with ADHD via a technology-enabled platform. Its core product pairs users with expert ADHD coaches and delivers "bite-sized" weekly 15-minute live video coaching sessions combined with an accountability system in the app. The program and methodology were developed with ADHD experts from NYU and UCSF. Led by CEO Chris Wang, the platform focuses on integrative, mini coaching sessions and progress tracking through the tech platform. In October 2022 Shimmer raised $1.3M in Seed funding and plans to use the proceeds to accelerate growth, expand operations and broaden its business reach. Backers included Y Combinator, Honeystone Ventures, Koa Labs, Megan Hall and Gaingels.

Participated · Seed · Nov 2023

Cromatic operates a full-stack digital platform that matches biotech companies with vetted CROs in less than 24 hours. The platform includes software tools for communication, collaboration, project management and a fully integrated payment solution. Since launching, Cromatic has over $15 million in R&D budget under management and has partnerships with biotech accelerators including Nucleate, SOSV, and ValleyDAO. The company was spotlighted as one of the top 40 TechBio companies in Decoding Bio Snapshot 2023. Cromatic's stated mission is to reduce administrative burden and improve access to outsourced expertise so biotechs can be more capital-efficient. The company plans to use new funding to advance its product roadmap and expand teams across product, engineering, sales, and customer success.

Participated · Seed · Aug 2023

Highlight offers a publicly launched, open-source monitoring platform that stitches together full-stack error monitoring, front-end session replay, and logging to give engineers a single view across the application stack. The product is built on the OpenTelemetry (OTel) observability framework and supports integration via Highlight’s SDKs or by sending OTel directly. Before the public launch the codebase attracted significant traction—more than 5,000 GitHub stars and over 5,000 developers—and early customers including Beeper, Aurora, Focal, FlowClub and others. The company says its tooling speeds root-cause analysis by combining alerts, session replays, and logs so teams avoid manual data collation. Highlight plans to expand SDK support across more environments and languages, introduce tracing and metrics products, and invest in community engagement to maintain its open-source roots. The company recently raised an $8M seed to fund product development, compatibility work, and community initiatives.