Correlation Ventures

Porosity just closed a $2.9M funding round backed by Flybridge,?Bienville,?Correlation Ventures, and?Collaborative Fund—fueling the next generation of AI-powered LDAR, Maintenance, and Safety field workflow automation. Manual data entry. Delayed maintenance. Regulatory back and forth. Spreadsheet chaos. Porosity is changing that. With AI-assisted automation, real-time insights, and a platform designed for field teams—not just the back office—Porosity helps operators: ??? Cut manual data entry time in half ???? Reduce compliance errors by 30% Detect and address equipment issues before they become costly failures Learn more:?https://lnkd.in/g-sHTae9 #OilAndGas #AI #EnergyTech #FieldOperations #LDAR #fieldworkflowautomation

Today, we’re excited to introduce three state-of-the-art models that work together to transform human-AI interactions: ?? Phoenix-3: Our flagship replica model, now with full-face rendering, emotions, & micro expressions ??? Raven-0: A real-time perception system, giving AI human-like eyes to understand visual context and emotions ??? Sparrow-0: A transformer-based turn-taking model for natural dialogue and turn-taking You can now build even more realistic AI Agents with emotional intelligence. They not only look human, but can engage, perceive, listen, and understand in a deeply human way. This is an evolution of our Conversational Video Interface, into a complete operating system for human-AI interaction. AI isn’t just responding anymore. It’s thinking, perceiving, and evolving – it's a big step closer to feeling like true face-to-face communication. See the magic for yourself—talk to our live demo agent Charlie: www.tavus.io We can’t wait to see what conversational AI video experiences you build with CVI. ??

We are beyond excited to announce Tofu’s $12m Series A ?? led by SignalFire with participation from HubSpot Ventures, Tau Ventures, Correlation Ventures, Alumni Ventures, Index Ventures, Stage 2 Capital, Liquid 2 Ventures, Riverside Ventures, Eudemian Ventures, SH Fund, Han Bridge Capital and a small army of amazing angels. Marketing teams want fewer tools that help their teams do more with less. The AI wave has only made martech bloat and tool fragmentation worse driving marketing leaders to search for a unified platform that helps their teams?build cohesive, on-brand, omni-channel campaigns at scale while personalizing assets for every customer segment. Tofu is building THE single platform for B2B marketing teams to create, execute, and measure integrated, omnichannel campaigns at scale. Our small but might team has seen massive growth this past year increasing revenue by 12x, product usage by 36x and onboarding dozens of wonderful customers from public companies like Check Point and RingCentral to growth stage startups like Bluecore, Jellyfish, and CommerceIQ. Today we serve many teams within a marketing org: 1?? Demand generation & ABM: Tofu does research and data enrichment at scale and creates just-in-time 1:1 ABM campaigns at scale and across channels 2?? Content marketing: Create net new content or repurpose existing assets across channels to fuel demand and brand campaigns 3?? Outbound prospecting: Tofu ingests prospect lists and automates hyper-personalized email sequences, landing pages, calls scripts, and LinkedIn messages 4?? Lifecycle Marketing: We create repeatable nurture campaigns based off persona, industry, and behavior as well as personalized upsell/cross-sell campaigns 5?? Events & webinars: Tofu personalizes invites and registration pages, creates social promotion and ads and post-event turns recordings into blogs, social posts, and personalizes follow up for attendees 6?? Customer marketing: Provide call recordings or notes to instantly create case studies, testimonials, customer insights, or advocacy programs. You can read more here https://lnkd.in/ge98XtVU and if you're interested in learning more please reach out!

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 ??