Correlation Ventures

We’re thrilled to announce that our SpecAI™ platform has been honored with the 2025 SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics Prism Award for Best Software (accepted by our CTO Simi George, PhD, MBA and Paolo Masini)! Being recognized by one of the international leaders in optics and photonics is a true testament to the impact of our technology. A heartfelt thank you to SPIE for this incredible recognition, and congratulations to BRELYON and PlanOpSim on their groundbreaking innovations as well. We’re excited to see how our transformative new technology can continue to shape the future.

We have raised $5M in seed funding to transform fleet management for government and enterprise organizations. This funding round was led by Autotech Ventures with support from Founder Collective, Correlation Ventures and new investor Connexa Capital. Rynse connects fleet management with payment systems, offering access to an expansive vendor network while streamlining procurement, saving time, and reducing fraud. The result? More efficient, profitable operations for our partners. Over the past year, we’ve gained incredible traction—securing contracts with government agencies in over 10 states, and this is just the beginning. In 2025, we’re expanding into the private sector, bringing our transformative technology to even more fleets nationwide. To read more: https://lnkd.in/dzM86f9G

Bridge is thrilled to announce our partnership with Choice Hotels International, one of the largest lodging franchisors in the U.S. with over 6,000 hotels—and growing! 🏨 Through this collaboration, both existing and prospective Choice developers can access to capital using Bridge’s innovative platform, empowering them to achieve their growth and development goals faster and more efficiently. This partnership reflects our mission to simplify and optimize the financing journey for hospitality developers across the industry. This wouldn't be possible without the partnership with Scott Oaksmith, David Pepper, Casey Gemunder, John Lancaster and others at Choice! We're ready to get started! https://lnkd.in/e2d7WCUB Choice Developers: https://lnkd.in/eKrbsAUx is now live!

We raised $20M in Series A funding led by Bessemer to build AI that accelerates B2B revenue. The B2B revenue tech stack has grown uncontrollably. Companies now have 27 different tools to perform different workflows and analyses on the same exact data. With the rise of LLMs, the tool sprawl is only getting worse, as every single revenue tech company is now focused on the app layer instead of the infrastructure behind it. What we built is simple. - We collect every piece of data we can, first party and third party, about your prospects and customers. - We create a clean timeline of activity for every customer and prospect your company interacts with. - You can ask Odin, our AI analyst, any business question, and it will search through your data and create reports to answer it. - You can use Nova, our AI sales agent to get a full view of current account status, next steps, likelihood to buy, do any account research, and launch automated sales workflows - Beyond Odin and Nova, you can do any customer-related analysis using our reporting module With our Series A, we are expanding our team to realize the vision of becoming the underlying system for every B2B revenue team. We are hiring smart and hungry folks of any role to work in person in our beautiful San Francisco HQ (relocation bonus if needed). Reach out to Rajalakshmi Venkatesh if you are in. Big thanks to each and every one of our team members, starting with my co-founders Arda Bulut and Emir Atli Big thanks to investors (cash), investors (emotional), and advisors. We are just getting started.

Today marks two full-circle moments in my journey as an investor and builder: 📘 Joining the Leadership Team at RRE Ventures Nearly 20 years ago I started my venture capital career at RRE learning the craft of investing. Today, I am honored to return as a General Partner, working alongside James, Raju, Stuart and Will — longtime friends and collaborators who have deeply influenced my approach to venture. Together we will serve founders from inception through growth and beyond. ⛏️ Announcing Originalis AI $5M Seed Round I am thrilled to be teaming up once again with Greg Bildson and Kwame Henderson cofounders of my last startup Kanvas Labs along with Rohan Sukhdeo to build Originalis AI - The Intelligent Composable Operating System for the Private Capital Markets. Our $5M seed round was led by RRE Ventures with support from incredible investors including AAF Management Ltd. Correlation Ventures, Flybridge, Next Wave NYC, Zelda Ventures along with a host of awesome operators and investors including Brett Gibson, Brett Martin, Frank Wooten, Lior Susan, Shafqat Islam, Trevor Zimmerman and Yusef Kassim Both full-circle moments are deeply personal - the culmination of years of tribal knowledge transformed into a platform that amplifies the art of the business - built alongside my previous cofounders and backed by the firm I am rejoining that gave a young scrappy engineer a shot at the business. Let us get after it 2025. History is written by the victors 🦾 here is the link to the announcement

Over a decade ago, I was reading an up-and-coming newsletter at my desk in NYC. Today, I'm thrilled to announce Twill's pre-seed round, exclusively shared by Adam DeRose in HR Brew ☕ Our mission: Help people access opportunities through their networks and earn what they deserve for making great connections. We think your relationships are valuable - and we mean that literally. Proud to have thought leaders in the future of work Bloomberg Beta leading our round, with Purpose Built, VITALIZE Venture Capital, Correlation Ventures, and angels from Meta, Netflix + Snap Inc. backing our vision. Full circle moments hit different. 💫 The growing Twill community proves there is a movement of talented people who want tangible ways to support their network to have better access to jobs. The most significant testament to Twill is that every hire on the platform has been made in less than 30 days 🚀 To our early investors who believe in this vision Miles Lasater, Roy E. Bahat, Lori Berenberg, Karin Klein, Gale Wilkinson, Wesley Barrow and many more, our incredible members making it happen, our growing team, and to our visionary early partners - thank you. Our all-in-one Twill Platform has already launched in private beta and will be available to the entire community in Q1'25. Read the full story here: https://lnkd.in/eW_ruP-9

“Our diamond technology will be able to hyper-accelerate Moore’s Law.” Felix Ejeckam Felix Ejeckam and Ty Mitchell join as guests on the No Priors Podcast, hosted by Sarah Guo and Elad Gil. In their conversation, they dive into the heat problem every piece of technology is facing and why Akash Systems's Diamond Cooling is the answer. Here’s what you’ll hear: 💎 How diamonds are rewriting the rules of thermal management 🚀 How Akash is hyper-accelerating Moore’s Law  🙌 The game-changing impact our diamonds have on AI, data centers, and beyond Akash is building innovation at the atomic level and shaping the future of AI. Want to learn more? Listen to our conversation with Sarah 👇

Akash Systems x NxtGen Datacenter & Cloud Technologies Vinod Khosla and Peter Theil backed Akash Systems has signed a $27 million agreement with NxtGen, India’s largest AI compute solutions provider. Akash will deliver its revolutionary Diamond-Cooled 💎 AI servers, powered by AMD and NVIDIA GPUs, to NxtGen’s state-of-the-art data centers across India. The servers will support NxtGen’s mission to provide energy-efficient and cost-effective AI compute services to enterprises of all sizes across India. We are excited to transform the AI landscape together. Learn more 👉 https://shorturl.at/jJA44

Today I am tremendously excited to begin sharing the Cake story in public. Cake makes cutting-edge AI available to everyone by solving hard infrastructure problems that unlock production-readiness in the vibrant open source AI ecosystem. Reach out if you are following the deluge of breakthrough research, but struggling to apply those new capabilities in your business environment. I am amazed by the tireless effort of our team over the last two years and proud of our customers who are in production today. So much gratitude to the entire Cake circle, and much much more to come. Introducing Cake https://lnkd.in/dic8RypR TechCrunch https://lnkd.in/deYzSq7f A huge thank you to Cake's investors: Gradient, Primary Venture Partners, Alumni Ventures, Friends & Family Capital, Correlation Ventures, Firestreak Ventures, and more.

We are excited to launch Valora Therapeutics with a $30 million financing to redefine immunotherapy through our proprietary AbLec platform, a novel approach to immunotherapy founded on groundbreaking research from Dr. Carolyn Bertozzi, Nobel Laureate and world-renowned glycobiologist, and Dr. Jessica Stark, now a faculty member at MIT. The AbLec platform uniquely targets specific sugar molecules on cells to modulate glyco-immune checkpoints—a critical control point in the body’s immune response. This innovative approach has the potential to deliver first-in-class and best-in-class therapies for oncology, autoimmune diseases, and other therapeutic areas. A big thank you to our investors Avalon BioVentures, Bregua Corporation, and TigerGene LLC, who co-led the financing, with additional support from Alexandria Venture Investments and Correlation Ventures. Read the full press release for more: https://lnkd.in/g4saySFi #Immunotherapy #AbLec #Glycoimmunology #Glycobiology #Biotech #Financing #SanDiego