Stage Venture Partners

Balto is a real-time call guidance tool designed to assist agents by providing dynamic prompts, compliance checklists, and coaching alerts during customer interactions. It helps agents manage conversations effectively, ensuring they adhere to scripts and handle objections efficiently.

SoundCommerce provides Reactor, a low-code ETL platform that transforms raw data into business-ready data for AI, analytics, and data activation. It simplifies data integration from various sources into cloud data warehouses.

Candid Color Systems is a full-service photo lab that provides innovative photofinishing services and marketing tools to help photography businesses grow and succeed.

IRIS.TV is a data platform that enhances video data connectivity to improve viewer experiences and advertising outcomes, focusing on contextual video recommendations and real-time relevance.

First Resonance is a technology company focused on modern manufacturing software, specifically through its ION Factory Operating System, which enhances manufacturing processes with AI-driven solutions for traceability and compliance.

Slingshot Aerospace is focused on making space safe, sustainable, and secure by providing near-real-time insights, explainable AI, and interoperable tools for space operations.

TrackStreet offers an AI-powered platform for market intelligence, automated enforcement of resale policies, and eCommerce insights, helping brands regain control over their online presence and revenue.

Gray Matter Robotics empowers manufacturers with AI-powered robotic solutions designed to enhance productivity and alleviate the physical strain of repetitive tasks. Their technology enables easy deployment of smart robotic cells that improve efficiency and quality in high-mix manufacturing environments.

WhiteFox Defense Technologies is a global leader in counter-drone solutions, specializing in cutting-edge drone detection, tracking, and mitigation to safeguard critical airspace.

Epsilon3 is an AI-powered procedure execution software designed for complex operations in advanced engineering, manufacturing, and testing, particularly within the aerospace and space industries.

Abett’s industry-first Benefits Optimization (BenOps™) platform helps benefits and healthcare leaders drive true change by connecting and activating all parts of your employee health and benefits ecosystem.

Hyperplane Venture Capital was founded by former machine learning entrepreneurs who built and sold an AI startup, giving them first-hand experience commercializing hard AI products rather than coming from a purely financial background. The Boston-based fund leads early rounds for technically intense AI teams attacking physical-world problems like wastewater epidemiology, precision agriculture, and industrial robotics, often backing companies that aren't obvious 'hot deals' yet but become category-creators in AI infrastructure for complex, regulated systems.

Embedded with MIT and Harvard student and recent-grad founders via AI venture courses, lectureships and mentors; incubates companies using Cogo Labs data-driven engine to spin out ventures from demand signals.

Pre-seed specialist investing at the team and a dream stage in deep-tech applied AI and machine-centric businesses, using a proactive Frontier Curve framework organized around three vectors. Bee Partners is one of the earliest pre-seed specialists in deep tech, organized around three explicit "vectors"—Human-Machine Interaction, Machine-to-Machine Learning, and Biological Machines—and uses a proprietary "Frontier Curve of Innovation™" framework to proactively track emerging technological shifts rather than relying on reactive deal flow. The firm writes first checks of $500k–$1.5M at the "team and a dream" stage for technically elite but mission-driven teams.