Participated · Seed · Aug 2021

Castor provides a cloud-based or on-prem platform that analyzes CAD parts to determine technical and economic suitability for 3D printing. The platform suggests best-match materials and printing technologies, carries out geometric analyses, identifies redesign opportunities, compares additive versus traditional manufacturing costs and simulates failure risk. Using CASTOR, manufacturers can analyze thousands of CAD files, validate designs with stress-test simulation, and identify optimal production materials and technologies. The company was founded in November 2017 by Omer Blaier (CEO) and Elad Schiller (CTO) and is based in Israel. Financially, Castor closed a $3.5M seed+ funding round in August 2021. The product is positioned to help manufacturers scale additive manufacturing assessment and decision-making across large part inventories.

Participated · Series B · Jul 2021

LinkSquares builds an AI-driven contract lifecycle management platform that combines legal analysis with contract lifecycle capabilities to help in-house legal teams write, analyze, search, and collaborate on contracts. The platform offers post-signature analytics, a searchable contract repository, pretrained metadata extraction that runs without user training, and integrations with Salesforce, Adobe, DocuSign and HelloSign. LinkSquares has processed more than four million documents and over 100 million unique data points, and claims the system can return roughly 115 answers to contract metadata in 20 seconds. It serves 550 customers including DraftKings, Igloo and Wayfair and reported over $20 million in ARR in 2021, with plans to grow ARR 150% by the end of 2022. The company plans to expand internationally (Canada, the U.K. and Australia), launch an in-house e-signature product called LinkSquares Sign, and build a multi-product suite extending beyond CLM into areas such as intellectual property management, outside counsel and governance, risk and compliance. LinkSquares aims to increase out-of-the-box extraction values to more than 250 by year-end and to double its workforce to about 500 employees as it scales. LinkSquares provides an AI-powered contract lifecycle management and contract analysis platform that combines machine learning with legal expertise to accelerate legal analysis and contract management. The company says its product delivers fast legal analysis and centralizes contract data, with more than three million documents processed and over 40 million unique data points extracted to date. LinkSquares reports over 1,000% growth over the past two years and counts customers such as Fitbit, Twilio, TGI Fridays, Wayfair and Cogito. The company plans to use new funding to expand its team, advance LinkSquares technology, and develop strategic business partnerships, and it aims to double headcount by the end of 2021. LinkSquares has launched new Strategic Values and expanded its Smart Values bank to provide access to critical contract terms and tailored business insights. LinkSquares provides an AI-powered contract repository that automatically finds and extracts key terms and metadata from contracts using NLP, OCR and a proprietary QA process. It serves hundreds of customers and manages more than half a million contracts, having extracted over five million unique data points on parties, contract effectiveness dates and other legal terms. Customers named in the article include DraftKings, Fitbit, Twilio, Asurion, VMware and Pendo. The product emphasizes security (SOC 2 Type II), deep search, custom reporting, analytics and pretrained "Smart Values" for critical commercial terms. LinkSquares recently expanded its Smart Values dataset with 20 new premium items to reach a total of 30, and plans to expand its engineering, sales and product teams while building out its solution portfolio. Financially, the company announced a $14.5M Series A and has raised $21.4M to date. LinkSquares is a web application that helps legal and finance teams work smarter by automatically finding and extracting key terms and metadata from contracts and providing deep search, custom reporting, and analytics. Its AI-powered contract repository delivers real-time summaries and graphical views of key contract terms such as renewal dates, cancellation clauses, and confidentiality obligations. Founded in 2015 and based in Boston, the company lists customers including VMware, DraftKings, Kensho, Wish.com, Asurion, and Carbonite and came off a banner year in 2018. With the funding announced, LinkSquares plans to expand its team, invest in advancing AI capabilities, and focus on a customer-centric go-to-market strategy. The company positions its product as an alternative to manual contract review and the need for outside counsel on routine document analysis, claiming it saves high-growth companies hundreds of hours and thousands of dollars. LinkSquares has received venture backing totaling $6.9M to date. LinkSquares provides AI- and machine-learning–driven contract analytics that substitute manual contract review by extracting core information such as auto-renew dates, effective dates and counterpart names. Its software handles several contract types, including non-disclosure agreements, software subscription agreements and invoices, and bills customers based on document volume (in the thousands). The company serves more than 50 U.S. customers—including DraftKings, Carbonite and CloudHealth Technologies—with over 10 customers in greater Boston. LinkSquares has roughly 100,000 contracts uploaded to its platform and is "quickly approaching" $1 million in revenue. Co-founders Vishal Sunak and Chris Combs launched the business after meeting at Backupify and observing the legal work around acquisitions. The company plans to use the seed proceeds to grow sales, expand extraction capabilities and integrate contract data with CRMs, relational databases and business-intelligence tools, and expects to roughly double its Boston headcount to about 24 within a year.