Picus Capital

We are excited to announce our participation in Landbase's USD 12.5 million Seed round as the company comes out of stealth. The round was co-led by A*, 8VC, and firstminute capital, with participation from Inovia Capital, and General Catalyst (La Famiglia). We are super excited about the vision to intelligently automate go-to-market-strategies with the first agentic AI model built for B2B growth. Sales is the backbone of every business, and providing optimization & efficiencies across lead generation & sales closing is a massive opportunity to tackle. Landbase automates, unifies, and optimizes go-to-market processes all in one place, powered by AI and backed by human expertise. Looking forward to what's to come and excited for the journey ahead with Daniel, Emily and the rest of the team. Make sure to have a look at the article below from VentureBeat for more. https://lnkd.in/eG8zzsG8

We are excited to announce our participation in Blitzy's $4.4M Seed round, alongside esteemed partners Link Ventures, Asymmetric, Bessemer Venture Partners, Flybridge, and NFX. Blitzy is revolutionizing custom software development by harnessing the power of AI co-pilots to streamline and optimize every step of the process. Their vision of making software creation faster and more efficient is truly game-changing. A big congratulations to Siddhant, Brian, and the entire Blitzy team on reaching this incredible milestone! We're thrilled to be on this journey with you and can't wait to see how AI will continue to shape the future of software development. Read more in the article by Business Insider below! https://lnkd.in/diXAfGg6

We are thrilled to see our portfolio company Arch lead the future of crypto lending! Arch just announced a USD 5M Seed round led by Castle Island Ventures and Morgan Creek Capital Management, LLC, with participation from Galaxy, BitGo Ventures, and others. Additionally, they were able to raise a scalable $70M loan financing facility led by Galaxy. On their path toward shaping the future of crypto lending Arch is building an exceptional foundation in asset security, client services, and innovative product design. We are excited to be part of this journey and believe in their potential to to scale and enable new industry benchmarks. Congratulations to Dhruv, Himanshu Sahay, and the entire team on this milestone! Read more in the article by Fortune. https://lnkd.in/dWszhZp2 you read more in the article by @ fortune?/arch-galaxy-seed-crypto-lending-castle-island/

We are thrilled to announce our continued partnership with Axle Energy. We led the pre-seed round in Axle Energy last year, and are now excited to participate and continue to invest in the 9 Mio USD Seed round led by Accel. Since our initial investment, we have been consistently impressed by Karl, Archy, and the entire Axle Energy team and their ability to connect more than 15k assets to energy markets and reduce end-consumers' energy bills while decarbonizing the grid. Congratulations to the entire Axle Energy team! We look forward to continuing our partnership. Learn more about why we continue to invest in axle energy, links to press in the comment section: https://lnkd.in/eXFHNwqa 

We are thrilled to share that our portfolio company Prima and its founders Juan Pablo, Daniel, and Patricio got recognized as Endeavor entrepreneurs! The initiative was brought to life to honor those who decide to enter underserved markets with high-impact business ideas. Prima is revolutionizing the supply chain and manufacturing sector in Mexico by tackling complex projects to simplify sourcing from Mexico for domestic and cross-border trade. Congratulations to Juan Pablo, Daniel, and Patricio on this great achievement. We are looking forward to continuing our partnership and are excited to see what is to come! Make sure to also have a look below! https://lnkd.in/ef9pAXDC https://lnkd.in/e-p3HHTr #VentureCapital #Endeavorentrepreneurs

After announcing our participation in Klarity’s landmark Series B only a few weeks ago, our Americas team Julian and Daniel are sharing some further thoughts on why they are so excited about the potential of Klarity’s gen-ai-enabled workflow automation platform, and its vision to enable any enterprise in becoming an exponential organization. Klarity’s current go-to-market via enterprise accounting functions provides for a strong and differentiated edge. CAOs are underserved by technology & software companies, have nevertheless meaningful financial budgets (currently spent on large internal teams as well as outsourced & offshored BPOs), and desire highly reliable and customizable workflow automation. Klarity 3.0 showcases the meaningful opportunity that generative AI enabled workflow automation can bring to functions currently dominated by labor-intensive professional services across document reviews, financial statement reconciliations, consistency checks & validations, etc. Instead of selling internal software toolings that still rely on human intervention and external connectivity on the document level (email, PDFs, etc.), Klarity’s highly reliable automation capabilities deliver quality at the level of human cognition and hyper scale a company's efficiency while also enhancing quality & reliability. This is a trend we don’t only observe in the BPO space, but also in other labor-intensive industries such B2B sales, customer software development, IT operations, among many others. We are excited to see many multi billion dollar companies emerge following this broader thesis. More in the article below! https://lnkd.in/e_uGE2u8 #VentureCapital #WorkflowAutomation

We are excited to announce Springboard Health Angels as a new Picus Venture Partner to further double down on our investment focus across biotechnology, life science innovation, and healthcare. With a combined 200 years of industry experience among the leading experts of Springboard Health Angels, we will collaborate by combining our expertise and capabilities to support founders in unparalleled ways. We, in particular, see great value in joining forces to bring together a unique network of relevant academic & industry experts, entrepreneurs, as well as decision-makers & thought leaders in large pharma players. Together with Picus Capital's extensive knowledge and proven investment track record across a range of software platform technologies, machine learning, and AI application use cases, we are set to help founders combine the power of cutting-edge data science & technology with life science, and healthcare innovation. We are looking forward to working with you Andreas, Yoni, and Troy, as well as the extensive network of experts & angel investors you bring to the table! If you are a founder/founding team motivated to revolutionize the biotechnology, life science, or healthcare space - we'd love to connect!

We are #electrified that four of our #EnergyTech portfolio companies entered the Top 30 Software Innovator list powered by Energize Capital. The annual report recognizes pioneers in the electrification sector that are paving the way toward a more sustainable and enduring global economy. Partnering up with Axle Energy, Conduit Tech, Solarize, and terralayr has been an exciting journey for us and we are committed to keep investing in this sector and see what the future holds. Congrats to all the inspiring founders and hard-working teams for this achievement! Read more here: https://lnkd.in/dv7KjqYV #VentureCapital #ElectrifyEverything #EnergizeTop30

We are excited to announce that we partnered up with Alvys in their +20M USD Series A round alongside Titanium Ventures, RTP Global, and Bonfire Ventures 🔥! Alvys is innovating logistics and supply chain management with their next-generation operating platform. They enable carriers, brokers, and shippers to streamline their operations with a strong focus on AI-enabled workflow automation. We see a tremendous opportunity for Alvys to build the new leader in the antiquated, non-digitized road transportation market, which has historically been dominated by legacy, on-premise, and low-innovation providers Congrats to Nick Darman, Leo Gorodinski, Patrick MacKenzie, and the entire Alvys team on this big milestone. We are looking forward to the years ahead! More on PR Newswire! https://lnkd.in/e_7SQY8i #VC #Logistics #SupplyChainManagement

We are excited to announce our participation in Niva's USD 3.3 million first round of funding as the company comes out of stealth. The round was led by Gradient Ventures (Google's AI-focused fund), and we invested alongside our friends from Canary, Gilgamesh Ventures as well as angels from Chime, Deel, Enigma, and Faire. Abhinav’s and Akhil’s vision to build the global KYB platform resonated deeply with us as a globally active investment firm - the team has identified a massive opportunity and is utilizing AI to support globally active businesses & their international operations at scale. We are incredibly proud of the founders Abhinav and Akhil and excited that we were able to see Niva grow from day one! To get more insights, make sure to have a look at the article below from Axios. https://lnkd.in/dM_JsEnd