Today, Otter Health comes out of stealth and announces its $8M Seed round, co-led by Fika Ventures and Evidenced, with participation from Slow Ventures, Metrodora, Layout Ventures, Patient Capital, and Semper Virens. We're proud to be Otter’s first institutional investor. In March 2025, we met Keith Florance and Dr.

Today, we’re excited to announce our investment in Destro’s $8M Seed round alongside our friends at Bonfire Ventures, Unshackled, and Base10. Late on a Friday afternoon, we met Manthan Pawar, Founder of Destro. After a decade of building and deploying industrial robots at companies like Dexterity, HAI, and Levata, he told us he wanted to build the largest robotics software company.

Following a great week in Pittsburgh with Instinct Robotics and the CMU community, we’re gearing up for tech weeks in Seattle, SF, and LA. With early stage valuations at historic highs, fundraising is now too often an exercise in mimetic desire. The challenge for large seed startups is that there is a very limited number of top-quartile Series A slots.

CoFound is proud to lead the inception round for Coverwatch, an AI-native specialty insurance brokerage.

The world is generating more signals than ever before, but the process of designing the circuitry that interprets those signals remains rather manual. As demand for connected devices, robotics, autonomous systems, and edge AI accelerates, analog design complexity is increasing exponentially faster than human engineering productivity. This gap is the opportunity.

We're excited to announce that Libby Fidel has joined CoFound! She joins us from Roadrunner, a deep tech venture studio and fund focused on advanced manufacturing, compute, energy, and quantum, where she worked at the intersection of investing and company building.