Yellow Rocks
3060 Olsen Dr, San Jose, CA, United States
Overview
Yellow Rocks! invests in fast-growing early-stage companies with a clear global expansion strategy. The fund is focused on companies that are leveraging disruptive technologies and that are ready to reach $1B. Yellow Rocks! is based in San Francisco & Lisbon and we consider ourselves geo-agnostic. We truly believe that brilliant founders can be found anywhere irrespective of geographical location. That being said right now we are focused on startups from the US and Europe. Yellow Rocks! is formed by successful serial entrepreneurs and investors with a deep understanding of fundraising and company’s development. GPs have a 10+ years of track record in well known organizations (World Bank, IFC, Google, EPAM), universities (MIT, Harvard, Stanford) and startup ecosystems (Y Combinator, TheEngine, TechStars, MassChallenge, 500 startups). Our team is distributed around different countries including the USA, Portugal and Armenia.
- Total investments
- 15
- Lead investments
- 5
- Investments · 12mo
- 5
- Active investors
- 4
Sector focus
- EdTech
- FinTech
- Gaming
- Productivity Tools
Investment portfolio
- CopySight
Participated · Seed · Jul 2026
CopySight offers CopyScore™, a risk-scoring platform that assesses AI-generated assets for copyright, likeness, trademark, character, brand design, and style exposure and records each assessment in an immutable chain-of-creation log. The company recently launched CopyScore™ V2 to extend frame-by-frame analysis into generative video, identifying transient risks like brief logos or split-second celebrity likeness matches and offering multi-pass Deep Thinking Mode and customizable sensitivity thresholds for high-stakes workflows. CopySight analyzes content against a large dedicated IP dataset and uses a patented IP segmentation process to support clearance, rights-holder detection, and chain-of-creation documentation. The platform has processed more than 87,000 IP risk checks since January 2026, a 25x increase in usage over that period, and counts customers and partners including AGBO, ArentFox Schiff, and OpenArt. Founded by teams from Snap, Apple, and Meta, the company is working with major Hollywood studios and advisors from media and research backgrounds to establish industry benchmarks for IP clearance and content validation.
- Elly Analytics, Inc.
Participated · Seed · Mar 2026
Plurio is a San Francisco–based MarTech startup developing an AI-driven "autonomous agent" that automates and optimizes marketers’ digital ad campaigns across a variety of channels. The platform is designed to handle campaign setup, budget allocation, and performance optimization without continuous human oversight. By leveraging machine-learning algorithms, Plurio aims to improve return on ad spend and reduce the manual workload for marketing teams. The company, led by CEO Seva Ustinov, recently rebranded from Elly Analytics as it sharpens its focus on full-funnel campaign automation. Fresh capital will be directed toward expanding product development and scaling operations. No specific user, revenue, or other operating metrics were disclosed in the funding announcement.
- Global Work
Participated · Equity · Nov 2025
Global Work AI offers a job-search platform built entirely around artificial intelligence to streamline every major step of a candidate’s hunt for remote work. The service ingests and cleans more than one million verified remote roles each month, stripping out scams and duplicates before matching them to users. Core features include AI-generated CVs and cover letters, automated CV tailoring, Auto-Apply, real-time job alerts, and an Auto-Fill browser plug-in. The company is preparing to launch Mia AI, an intelligent career assistant that will further personalize guidance and recommendations. Newly secured capital will deepen its AI search relevance and personalization engines while expanding the feature set around automated application workflows. Founded by Alex Chepovoi and Alex Dyadischev and headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware, the startup targets time-pressed job seekers looking to optimize their remote job applications. To date, Global Work AI has raised a cumulative $3.7 million across three rounds.
- Social Links
Led · Equity · Nov 2025
Founded in 2015 by Andrey Kulikov and Ivan Shkvarun, Social Links turns a decade of open-source intelligence (OSINT) expertise into AI agents that protect enterprises and government bodies from AI-driven fraud, disinformation, and other digital threats. Its flagship "AI Defender Autopilot" concept scans social media, messaging apps, and wider online data to surface actionable insights that safeguard brands, assets, and employees. The company reports an average annual growth rate of 80% over the past six years and now serves more than 450 customers in over 90 countries, including 170 government entities and 280 corporate clients. Approximately 70% of its business comes from EMEA and the United States, with the remaining 30% split between APAC and LATAM. Management plans to accelerate growth by launching new AI-based products that anticipate emerging attack surfaces created by generative AI. The latest capital injection will fund continued R&D on next-generation defense tools and expand market coverage, aiming to cement Social Links as a global standard for AI-driven digital-risk protection.
- Chatfuel
Participated · Seed · Oct 2025
Chatfuel develops a customer communication platform that automates conversations on Facebook Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp. An official Meta partner, the system is trained on years of funnel data and business interaction insights, enabling businesses to handle more than one billion conversations every month. The service is already used by 7 million business clients, positioning the company as a leading automation layer for social messaging. A graduate of Y Combinator, Chatfuel plans to extend its reach by launching a dedicated app version of its solution next year. Management will also drive international expansion and deeper product development with the newly raised capital. The company’s partnership with Meta underpins its data advantage and scalability, supporting its ambition to become the default customer-chat operating system for enterprises.