Participated · Equity · Jul 2026

Speakeasy offers a unified operations and data platform for live experiences and the IRL economy, consolidating ticketing, on-premise payments, reservation management, premium booking flows, POS integrations, CRM and marketing into a single command center. Founded in 2023 by Paul Stacek, Tamas An, and Alex Manavi and announced from New York, the company has grown rapidly—reporting 500% year-over-year growth—and had nearly bootstrapped to profitability prior to its first institutional raise. Its customer roster includes enterprise clients such as TAO Group Hospitality, Fontainebleau Development, E11EVEN, Barstool, Cipriani, and Breakaway Music Festival. Speakeasy plans to use new capital to expand into new markets and adjacent verticals, enhance its solutions, and accelerate predictive intelligence and patron connectivity across its partner base.

Participated · Equity · Nov 2025

Sortera Technologies is referenced in the article as a technology company, but no information is given about its core product, target customers, or industry segment. The Reuters piece only notes that the firm has completed a new financing round and does not elaborate on its operational model or future roadmap. Key operating metrics such as revenue, customer count, or profitability were not disclosed. Similarly, no information on the company’s founding date, leadership team, or geographic headquarters is provided. The announcement strictly centers on the fundraising event, leaving other aspects of the business unaddressed.

Participated · Equity · Oct 2025

Ridepanda operates an e-bikes-as-an-employee-benefit platform that enables companies to subsidize electric bike and scooter subscriptions for their workforce. Founded in 2020 by Chinmay Malaviya and Charlie Depman, the company targets enterprise customers seeking to boost wellness, retention, and ESG performance. Employees access a curated fleet of e-bikes and scooters through monthly subscriptions, while employers track impact metrics such as reduced single-occupancy car trips. Ridepanda more than doubled its business in 2025 and now serves high-profile organizations including Amazon, Google, Goodwin Law, and the County of San Mateo. The platform positions the firm as a U.S. leader in micromobility benefits. With fresh capital, management plans to expand its enterprise sales team, speed product development, and further scale the service. No specific revenue or user figures were disclosed, but the rapid growth and marquee client list highlight strong commercial traction.

Led · Series A · Sep 2025

Founded in 2021, Amplio develops AI agents that parse manufacturers’ massive surplus inventories, automatically flagging items that can be redeployed across facilities and valuing the rest for resale on the company’s curated private marketplace. The platform targets categories such as capital equipment, MRO parts, rolling stock, raw materials and finished goods, returning up to five times the industry-standard value to clients like Georgia-Pacific, NCR Voyix and Holland America. To date Amplio has diverted thousands of tons of equipment from landfills while returning millions of dollars in recovered value to customers. Headquartered in San Francisco and Atlanta, the company positions itself at the intersection of artificial intelligence, industrial resilience and the circular economy. With the new funding, Amplio plans to expand go-to-market operations and deepen its agentic system development, broadening coverage to additional surplus categories. The company believes intelligent, AI-native surplus management can unlock significant economic and environmental benefits across global manufacturing, a market it estimates generates $350 billion in U.S. waste annually and over $2 trillion worldwide.

Participated · Equity · May 2025

Foundation Alloy commercializes a solid-state alloying technique that repeatedly smashes metal powders together to create homogeneous alloys that traditional melting processes cannot achieve. The process reportedly uses around an order of magnitude less energy than conventional melting-based alloying and enables combinations of elements with very different melting points. The company has been selling bespoke metals in small batches and is running pilots with customers in automotive, aerospace, semiconductor, defense, luxury watches, and cutlery. Early commercial products include tooling parts for automakers and parts targeted at drone supply chains within defense. Foundation Alloy says it is currently constrained by production capacity rather than demand and plans to scale to several tons per week by 2027 using proceeds from its Series A. Its technology builds on about 20 years of research led by Tim Rupert and Chris Schuh, and the company is led by CEO and co-founder Jake Guglin.