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Traditional Investor Paradigm: Financial vs Strategic Capital In private markets, traditionally there have been two paradigms of investors: financial and strategic. A financial investor provides capital in exchange for returns on their investment, the traditional buy-low, sell-high strategy or the buy-and-hold strategy. The goal for financial investors is to focus
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2 weeks ago, we announced Amy to the world, the first AI Agent for private market investment teams. Over 800 investment firms joined the waitlist, ranging from early-stage venture firms to endowment funds managing $100b+. We've hand-picked a selection of these firms to join our closed beta, where
Executive Summary Company Name: Lava Payments URL: https://www.lavapayments.com/ Description: Lava Payments is a fintech company that provides a universal digital wallet for the AI-native web, enabling autonomous agents to transact seamlessly without repeated user approvals. Funding: Raised a $5.8 million seed round led by Lerer Hippeau,
Executive Summary * Company Name: IVIX Tech, Inc. * URL: https://www.ivix.ai * Description: IVIX provides an AI-powered platform for government and law enforcement agencies to identify financial crime and tax evasion. * Key Metrics: 62 employees, $85M total funding. * Value Proposition: To illuminate the "shadow economy" by making it
Executive Summary * Company Name: Sola Solutions Inc. * URL: https://www.sola.ai/ * One-Sentence Description: Sola is an AI-powered, agentic process automation platform that enables companies to automate repetitive back-office tasks without code. * Key Business Metrics: * Employee Count: 21 (as of July 2025) * Total Funding: $21 million * Latest Round: $17.5
Executive Summary * Company Name: Profound * URL: https://www.tryprofound.com/ * One-Sentence Description: Profound is an AI-powered "Answer Engine Optimization" (AEO) platform that helps enterprise brands gain visibility in AI-generated answers and optimize their presence in LLM-based answer engines. * Key Business Metrics: 33 employees, with rapid growth over the
Executive Summary * Company Name: OpenMind * URL: https://openmind.org * One-Sentence Description: OpenMind is building an open-source, AI-native operating system (OM1) and a decentralized network (FABRIC) to enable intelligent robots to think, learn, and collaborate. * Key Business Metrics: 11-50 employees with significant recent growth, backed by a recent $20M funding round
Amy is the AI Analyst for Private Market Investment Teams. Over 900 investment firms joined the waitlist, we've onboarded our first cohort of firms, and we're now opening up 5 more beta spots for September. Here's what we shipped last week Watchlists - Autonomous
