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September 25' Dealflow

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HealthTech

AI-Driven Benefits Navigation for the $800B “Shoppable” Care Market

Navigating health benefits is confusing, costly, and outdated, leading to $238B in annual waste for self-funded employers and health plans. Identical medical services can vary 10x in cost.

Without steerage, employers absorb this inefficiency directly in their P&L. Incumbents throw call center headcount at the problem.

Outfox Health is an agentic OS for healthcare navigation that automates benefits answers, personalizes care recommendations, and makes cost-quality tradeoffs transparent—at scale.

  • In less than a year since launch, we closed enterprise deals with Univision, Manhattan Beer Distributors, and Blackwell Captive Solutions.
  • Founder Beth Ann Lopez (Harvard MPH) is a 2x healthcare entrepreneur who previously scaled a venture-backed health platform to 5M+ users.
  • Backed by Everywhere Ventures & Forum VC

Beth Ann Lopez
Founder & CEO
Tuan Le Pham
CTO
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Data & Analytics

AI Agent for the $200B Robotic Future

In an increasingly robotics-powered world, programming hardware remains painfully slow and complex. Every system relies on hardware components with their own protocols and nuances, forcing engineers to manually parse datasheets, debug in silos, and navigate fragmented tools. 78% of hardware companies fail to deliver on time, and 70% of prototypes never achieve commercialization.

Root Access is accelerating the shift to automation with Seb, an AI agent that helps engineers program hardware systems faster. Seb provides deep contextual reasoning, enabling faster builds and fewer errors. Since launching in April, over 100 engineers, including from Tesla, Lockheed Martin, and Boeing, have joined the private beta.

  • Led by Ryan (ex-Oracle Big Data, longtime robotics contributor at Maker Faire) and Samarpita (M.S. in Electrical Engineering, 7 patents, ex-NYU Robotics Lab)
  • 100+ engineers signed up for the beta, including from Mitsubishi, East West Manufacturing, Qualcomm, and HP
  • Built on a Model Context Protocol (MCP) for high-context Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) performance

Ryan Eppley
CEO
Samarpita Chowdhury
CTO
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FinTech

Legix: The Command Center for Modern Accounting Firms

Accounting firms lose hours each week to bloated, click-heavy software. Legix gives bookkeepers a Superhuman-style, keyboard-first interface that accelerates bank-feed clearing, auto-categorizes transactions, and reclaims time for high-margin advisory work. In a market increasingly shifting from compliance to client services, we offer a clear productivity unlock — with early customers processing 800+ transactions 20% faster than legacy tools.

Legix is scaling fast: 60% MoM customer growth, $20K in contracted revenue, and expanding via a high-trust, embedded network of 150+ CAS leaders. Backed by Forum Ventures and PHX Ventures, we’re positioned as the next-gen system of record for a $10B+ accounting tech market.

  • 60% MoM growth; $20K contracted revenue; 8 paying firms and growing
  • Proven time savings: 800+ transactions cleared 20% faster in live customer workflows
  • Embedded go-to-market via 150-member CAS community and veteran firm advisors
  • Backed by Forum Ventures & PHX Ventures; presenting at Forum Demo Day and A/F Showcase
  • Joshua Hsu
    Founder
    Ananay Arora
    Co-Founder
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    AI Security for the Deepfake Era

    As deepfakes and AI-powered social engineering attacks surge, human error remains the #1 cause of cybersecurity breaches, accounting for 90% of incidents and $12.5B in losses last year. Yet today’s security awareness training tools are outdated, compliance-focused, and fail to change behavior.

    Herd Security is built for the new era of fraud.

    With a proprietary AI agent that simulates phishing attempts (including phone, SMS, and deepfakes) and trains employees inside Slack or Teams, Herd transforms awareness into action. The platform increases employee security engagement by 90%, reduces click-rate by 30%, and tracks user behavior to analyze real security impact outside of pure simulations.

    • Founded by security leaders from Duo Security and Panther Labs
    • $22k in ARR and $250k in LOIs from early customers, including a Fortune 100 company
    • Backed by Forum Ventures, Epsilon Systems Solutions, and ZeroLabs

    Brandon Min
    CEO
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    HealthTech

    AI Medical Interpreter for Efficient Healthcare

    Language remains one of the most overlooked barriers in healthcare. Over 45 million patients in the U.S. have limited English proficiency. Poor communication contributes to 80% of serious medical errors, resulting in up to 400,000 deaths and tens of billions of losses and overruns annually.

    Calliope is building the first AI-powered medical interpreter that delivers real-time, speech-to-speech translation in 100+ languages and dialects, specialized in medical terminology, built-in hallucination safeguards, and EHR integration.

    By replacing inadequate human interpreter coverage, Calliope ensures faster, safer, and more equitable care at a fraction of the cost.

    • Founded by a MD with deep AI expertise (200+ published papers in AI healthcare) and a former Apple engineer (Berkeley EECS, led core AI dev for macOS)
    • $100k in annualized revenue, with $400k in final stages of pipeline
    • Deployed in 10+ states, used daily by providers across diverse care settings

    Cathleen Kuo
    CEO
    Alex Mehregan
    CTO
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    DevOps

    Reliable Debugging Agents

    As AI generates up to 80% of new code, software development is accelerating, but so is the risk of bugs.

    Colimit combines AI with Formal Verification to automatically detect and fix bugs in CI.

    When a build fails, Colimit Agents identify the error's origin, synthesize a fix, and use formal methods to verify the change, all before you even open a pull request.

    • Founded by PhDs in Formal Verification, the team previously built a distributed ledger that ensures correctness of financial transactions at Vanguard and State Street.
    • Colimit now brings this mathematical rigor to everyday software delivery, providing reliable bug fixes in an AI-accelerated world.
    • Current customers include leading innovators like Trigger.dev and Anchor.dev, who move fast with Colimit's debugging assistance.

    Larry Diehl
    CEO
    Stevan Andjelkovic
    CTO
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    AI

    AI-Powered Integration Engine

    As the $300B+ B2B software becomes increasingly fragmented, integration has become a revenue-critical challenge. Half of all enterprise deals now fail due to integration gaps, costing vendors billions in missed targets and stalled growth.

    Jump is the AI-native integration platform built specifically for sales and business development teams. By enabling on-demand, custom integrations without engineering support, Jump unlocks stalled deals, increases sales velocity, and expands TAM. With a 10x lift in integration capacity for customers, Jump transforms integrations from a blocker into a closing tool.

    • Led by a repeat founding team with deep experience in integrations, GTM, and scaling enterprise products
    • $420K in ARR, addressing a wedge in an $8B market that’s part of a $300B+ opportunity
    • Backed by NEC-X and Forum Ventures

    Tela Andrews
    CEO
    Kareena Macasaet
    Head of GTM
    Anthony DiMarco
    CTO
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    Conversational AI for Brick-and-Mortar Retail

    85% of retail sales still happen in physical stores, but brands have limited visibility into what’s actually said between associates and customers.

    Vera AI unlocks this black box. Vera's proprietary platform captures and analyzes in-store sales conversations to deliver behavioral data, performance scoring, and real-time coaching, automatically and at scale. Associates get personalsied feedback froms AI agents and HQ gets deep insights to drive decisions and improve conversion.

    Live with enterprises like Kavak, Grupo Haber, and Ben & Frank, Vera AI has hit $100K+ ARR, 0% churn, and built a $45M pipeline in Mexico alone.

    • Founders Agustín and Emiliano are repeat entrepreneurs with backgrounds in ecommerce, AI, and retail (Devolut, OLX, PedidosYa, Andreani, etc)
    • $400K+ expansion potential from current accounts and a $45M+ pipeline in Mexico
    • Initial wedge targeting 18M+ retail sales associates in LatAm, targeting US launch in 2025

    Agustin Shutte
    CEO
    Emiliano Monge
    CTO
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    eCommerce

    Unlocking 2-Day Shipping for Ecomm Brands Without the 3PL Bloat

    Middle Mile is the anti-3PL fulfillment network enabling ecommerce brands ($2M–$500M GMV) to offer nationwide 2-day shipping — without the cost or complexity of legacy infrastructure. While Amazon made fast shipping table stakes, it remains inaccessible for most brands due to prohibitive costs.

    We solve this by converting underutilized residential space — starting with stay-at-home parents — into hyperlocal fulfillment nodes, guided by our AI-driven ops playbook. Brands improve CAC by 20–40%, while our distributed hosts earn flexible income and we scale profitably from day one.

    We’re rearchitecting fulfillment for a $20B+ market — with two signed customers, 20 more in the pipeline, and a fast, capital-efficient go-to-market engine already in motion.

    • Clear low competition beachhead, ICP, market position, and early growth channel
    • Day 1 gross profitable in $32b segment
    • Two signed customers and 20 prospect pipeline
    • Growth ready 4 week sales cycle with low implementation costs
    • Uniquely positioned to take advantage of Customs Crisis

    Willis F. Jackson III
    CEO
    John Krudy
    COO
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    FinTech

    AI-Powered IR for the $37T Retail Investor Market

    Retail investors now control over $37 trillion in equities and drive nearly a quarter of daily trading volume. Yet most public companies lack modern tools to engage and convert this fast-growing segment.Orbiton is the AI-powered investor relations platform built specifically for the retail market.

    With tools like an AI-powered IR Support Agent and an embedded investing platform, Orbiton helps public companies communicate, serve, and transact with retail investors beautifully, instantly, and at scale.

    Orbiton’s founder previously built a six-figure IR firm and helped scale a public company from $30M to $1B+ in market cap and is now turning that playbook into software that scales.

    • AI-powered IR platform built for the $37T (2023) retail market 
    • Grew from $0 to $30K MRR in under four months 
    • Key investors are CEOs of public companies and Frank Giustra 
    • Founder previously built six figure IR firm 
    • Our two flagship products right now are our IR Support Agent and embedded investing platform.

    Daniel Baraghoush
    CEO
    ‍Ali Jelveh
    CRO
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    AI

    Synthetic Data Engine for the AI Era

    AI’s biggest bottleneck isn’t compute—it’s data. Lemon AI creates high-fidelity synthetic data that mirrors real-world complexity, enabling the $600B AI market to curate high-integrity datasets and build winning AI applications.

    Starting with conversational data, Lemon’s synthetic engine allows companies to generate realistic, context-rich records on demand and curate optimal training sets for production-grade AI models.

    Founded by second-time entrepreneurs with deep roots in data infrastructure and AI, Lemon AI is already in use at top AI-native companies and growing fast.

    • Founded by repeat entrepreneurs with backgrounds at Deutsche Bank, Sensat, Siemens and Global Founders Capital.
    • $260k in signed LOIs across companies, like The London Stock Exchange and Dosu.
    • Raised $600K from some of the best in the field, including Karl Tuyls (Director AI Research at FAIR, Co-Founder H, ex-DeepMind), Julien Launay (Co-Founder Adaptive ML, trained Falcon-180B), Stijn Christiaens (Co-Founder Collibra), Bertie Vidgen (Head of Data at Contextual AI), Mark Bennett (VP AI Data Partnerships at Google), among others

    Clemens Schröer
    Co-Founder & CEO
    Felix Brockmeier
    Co-Founder & CTO
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    HealthTech

    Modernizing Staffing for the $89B Home Healthcare Market

    By 2050, the 65+ population will double, and 80% will suffer from at least two chronic conditions requiring at-home care. Yet today, home healthcare agencies are forced to turn away 70% of new patient referrals due to staffing shortages, costing them over $6,500 per patient in lost revenue and leaving millions without care.

    The Care Connexion is a digital staffing marketplace that connects home healthcare agencies with a growing network of qualified, freelance physical and occupational therapists.

    By replacing expensive, slow-moving staffing middlemen with an AI-powered platform, agencies can reduce administrative overhead, improve margins, and capture lost patient volume, improving outcomes for both patients and providers.

    • Founded by two home healthcare providers who built a million dollar healthcare staffing company and a 3x founder/CTO with a recent exit
    • 28 therapists and 6 agencies signed up and on-boarded, representing $215k in potential annualized revenue
    • 12 therapists and 3 agencies in the process of signing, representing an additional $110k
    Andy Barth
    Founder/CEO
    Bradley Evsich
    Founder
    David Menard
    Founder/CTO
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    AI

    AI-Powered Creative Intelligence

    $1T+ is expected to be spent globally on advertising and branding in 2025, yet 50% of that spend will be wasted on suboptimal creative.

    Aiphrodite AI is an AI-powered creative intelligence platform that predicts how real audiences will respond to visual assets, like ads, product images, packaging, and media, before launch.

    By leveraging explainable synthetic audiences (AI personas) that simulate the decision-making of audiences to predict responses, aiphrodite enables brands to optimize content instantly, increasing ROI while saving 20–30% of their budgets and 2–3 weeks of production time. aiphrodite has helped partners achieve 6x better campaign performance and reduce testing cycles by 75%.

    • Founding team has deep expertise in computer vision, AI, synthetic audience simulation, and sales personalization
    • $2.3M in qualified enterprise pipeline, including P&G, Nestlé, and NBC.
    • Positioned well to tackle the $ 500 B+ annual waste in global advertising with AI-driven precision.
    • AI personas will be able to simulate all of society's decisions in the future.

    Abhi Ahuja
    Co-Founder & CEO
    Will Song
    Co-Founder & CTO