Participated · Seed · Apr 2026

Juno provides an AI-powered tax preparation automation platform built for tax professionals, designed to handle manual work behind return preparation. Key product features include real-time processing, source-to-return traceability with side-by-side comparisons and bounding boxes, extraction from 92+ document types, and deep integrations with major tax software and tools like TaxDome and K1x. The system also offers automatic error flagging to identify prior-year changes and source-to-return inconsistencies so reviewers can focus on exceptions. Juno is led by founder and CEO David Haase and is headquartered in San Diego, California. Following its $12M Seed raise, the company plans to expand operations and accelerate development of its platform.

Participated · Series A · Jan 2026

BoldVoice offers a mobile platform that pairs real-time, phoneme-level pronunciation feedback from proprietary speech models with video lessons from expert accent coaches. The service targets the more than one billion professionals who rely on English at work but face career limitations due to accent and clarity issues. Priced far below traditional $200-$300 per-hour coaching, the app gives users unlimited, on-demand practice. The company has surpassed five million downloads, serves professionals in over 150 countries, and recently exceeded $10 million in annual recurring revenue—all with a team of just seven employees. Founded by Anada Lakra and Ilya Usorov, BoldVoice plans to use new capital to accelerate global expansion and develop additional AI-powered coaching capabilities and proprietary speech models. The app is available on both the Apple App Store and Google Play Store, and the company is actively hiring across growth, product, and engineering roles.

Participated · Seed · Dec 2025

Buildcheck offers an AI-driven construction design review platform that analyzes architectural, structural, civil, mechanical, electrical, and plumbing drawings. The software flags errors, omissions, and coordination conflicts that often escape human reviewers, reducing costly rework for builders and developers. Its models improve continuously through collaborations with MILA, AMII, and expert advisors from OpenAI, ServiceNow, and Oxford University. The company counts more than 50 paying customers, including AvalonBay Communities and Novo Construction. Co-founders Andrei Molchynsky and Alex Gureev, together with CEO Alexander Michalatos, lead the business. Proceeds from its recent seed round will fund accelerated AI model development, growth of the engineering and operations teams, and expansion of the platform’s feature set.

Participated · Series B · Nov 2025

AirOps builds software that lets marketing teams analyze content performance, pinpoint opportunities, and automatically generate or refine high-quality, on-brand assets that surface in AI search results from assistants like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini. Customers such as Ramp, Chime, Wiz, Carta, Klaviyo, Webflow, and Kayak rely on the platform to feed large language models with brand-specific knowledge, voice, and tone while safeguarding accuracy and consistency. The company reports that Chime tripled its AI search citations within weeks of joining AirOps’ beta, illustrating the tool’s measurable impact. After starting the year with 20 employees, AirOps scaled to nearly 100 and plans to more than double headcount again while expanding into Europe. Revenue figures were not disclosed, but demand is described as “rapid” amid a shift away from traditional keyword SEO to authority-based AI discovery. The new capital will also accelerate product innovation and customer enablement efforts. Based in New York, AirOps positions itself as a core “system of action” for CMOs navigating AI-driven organic growth.

Participated · Series A · May 2025

Chalk builds a real-time data platform for AI inference, enabling low-latency machine learning and LLM pipelines. Its Compute Engine lets teams write features in pure Python that are automatically compiled into high-performance C++ and Rust pipelines, removing complex ETL. Chalk’s LLM Toolchain unifies structured and unstructured data with native vector storage, automated evaluations, and integrations with major LLM providers. Customers named in the article include Doppel, Sunrun, Whatnot, Socure, Found, Medely, Iwoca, and MoneyLion across fintech, identity, healthcare, and e-commerce. The platform is used for instant loans, fraud prevention, personalized recommendations, content moderation, and clean energy optimization, and the company touts 5-millisecond data pipelines at scale. Chalk plans to use new capital to accelerate product development, onboard customers, and grow engineering and go-to-market hubs in San Francisco and New York. Founded in 2022 and headquartered in San Francisco, Chalk has raised over $60M to date. Chalk builds a data platform designed for real-time machine learning and generative AI, offering a compute engine, LLM toolchain, feature store, integrated monitoring, and branches for data-science experimentation. Its Rust-based engine compiles Python feature definitions into parallel pipelines that serve both temporally-consistent training sets and live feature values, reducing pipeline drift between training and inference. Chalk emphasizes a best-in-class developer experience that enables teams to fetch fresh data from APIs, microservices, and transactional databases rather than relying on pre-computed warehouse extracts. The platform is already used by customers including Melio, Mission Lane, Pipe, Ramp, Vital, and Whatnot for mission-critical decisions like fraud detection and patient triage. Chalk plans to use new capital to accelerate product development, expand customer acquisition, and grow its engineering and go-to-market teams. The company highlights founder and executive experience across Palantir, Affirm, Credit Karma, Google Wallet, and Stripe acquisitions, which the team says informs its product and go-to-market strategy.