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Aerolane is pioneering a new era in aviation by developing advanced aerotowing technologies that enhance air cargo economics and capabilities. Their flagship product, the AG-1, is an engineless cargo glider designed to be towed by existing turboprop aircraft, significantly improving fuel efficiency and cargo capacity.

Atypical.ai is a powerful anomaly detection platform that helps you find patterns and outliers in your data. It leverages machine learning techniques to analyze data across multiple modalities, providing interactive visuals, dashboards, and alerts.

Avante is an AI-native benefits intelligence platform that provides personalized guidance for employees and strategic intelligence for HR teams, helping organizations optimize their employee benefits programs.

Bean Box is a coffee subscription service that curates a selection of the world's best artisan coffee from top local roasters, delivering fresh, high-quality coffee directly to customers' homes.

Bytewax is a powerful stream processing framework designed for data scientists and engineers to build real-time data pipelines quickly and efficiently. Leveraging a Python library built on a high-performance Rust backend, Bytewax simplifies the development of scalable stream processing applications without the need for complex infrastructure.

Clarify is an autonomous CRM designed for founder-led startups, integrating customer data from various platforms to streamline sales processes and enhance customer relationships.

Crowd Cow connects consumers with high-quality, ethically sourced meat and seafood from around the world, emphasizing transparency and sustainability in food production.

Fabric is a smart trading platform for investing with confidence. It offers privacy-related information on its website.

Finpilot is a financial platform accessible via finpilotai.com. It offers login and sign-up options.

Early-stage investor combining AI-driven software, sustainability tech, and consumer brands as co-equal focus areas, offering a dedicated internal team plus a ~500-founder portfolio network with high-visibility exits. Founded by legendary VC Alan Patricof as his return to early-stage investing and uniquely combines three major practice areas—AI-driven software, sustainability technologies, and consumer brands—making it one of the few mainstream US VCs that treats consumer brands and deep AI infrastructure as co-equal focus areas under one roof. The firm operates a dedicated internal team and ~500-founder portfolio network as an explicit value-add engine while maintaining a distinctive pattern of backing culturally defining consumer and media brands.

Invests in pre-product, pre-revenue early-stage B2B AI-stack startups, using a curated CIO/enterprise-buyer network as a systematic market-validation machine and prior seed wins like Snowflake and Gong.