Inspired Capital — 2025 Investments

Kalepa provides underwriting intelligence tools for the commercial insurance industry, including a clearance platform for underwriters.

AI & Machine LearningFintechInsurTechSaaSNew York City, US

DHDaniel Hillman(Founder)inPMPaul Monasterio(Founder)in

Co-investorsIAIA VenturesAPApax Digital

Scythe builds the M.52, an autonomous, battery-powered commercial mower with onboard perception technology (Scythe Sight) for landscape maintenance crews.

AI & Machine LearningCleantechHardwareRoboticsLongmont, US

Isaac Roberts(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)inDFDavis Foster(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)inJohn Morrison(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)Brian Merkel(Executive Officer)in

BoardSRSameer Reddy(Director)in

Board seatLDLucy Deland· per SEC Form D

Co-investorsALAlumni VenturesARArcTern VenturesENEnergy Impact PartnersKOKokopelli CapitalZIZigg CapitalLELemnos VC

Arketa is a management platform for fitness and wellness businesses, offering scheduling, booking, payments, memberships, reporting, and marketing tools across single or multi-location studios.

Enterprise SoftwareSaaSSports TechWellness & FitnessNew York City, US

RLRachel Lea Fishman(Founder)inJAJosh Archer(Founder)inJoshua Archer(Founder)Katherine bateman(Marketing)Willa Zhou Berson(Head of Operations)Liz Wessel(Recruiting)

Co-investorsAMAmity VenturesFIFirst Round CapitalRERecall CapitalVEVelvet Sea VenturesY Y CombinatorALAllison Pickens Ventures+3 more

Basic Capital offers a 401(k) retirement plan platform for employers and their employees, providing an open investment menu of over 6,000 mutual funds and ETFs, an embedded brokerage window, recordkeeping, third-party administration, and plan advisory services.

FintechHR TechSaaS

Abdul Al-Asaad(Founder)inAnjan Karanam(Founder)

Co-investorsBOBoxGroupFOForerunner VenturesGAGaingelsHOHOF CapitalLULux CapitalSVSV Angel+1 more

Comprehensive provides AI-powered compensation analytics and benchmarking software for managing employee pay, equity, and pay equity analysis.

AI & Machine LearningHR TechSaaSSan Francisco, US

RLRoger Lee(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)inTSTeddy Sherrill(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)in

Co-investorsFLFloodgateJUJude GomilaSOSoma Capital8V8VCACAccess IndustriesCHChemistry+14 more

CredCore's Tusk Liquid is an MCP-based tool that indexes and analyzes public credit deals by sector, structure, and lender, letting users query clauses and terms from tools like Excel, Word, ChatGPT, Claude, and Copilot.

AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareFintechSaaS

KNKarthik Nandyal(Founder)inSaumil Annegiri(Founder)in

Co-investorsAVAvataar Venture PartnersTRTranspose Platform ManagementHEHearst Ventures

Duckbill provides an execution layer that connects AI agents to human labor pools, triaging, routing, executing, and quality-checking real-world tasks such as phone calls, form submissions, and in-person errands that require a human in the loop.

AI & Machine LearningConsumerEnterprise SoftwareFuture of WorkSaaS

MVMeghan Verena Joyce(Founder)inEmi Gonzalez(Founder)Meghan Joyce(Founder)

Co-investorsFOForerunner VenturesFUFuture Back VenturesGEGeneral CatalystHEHeavybitG9G9 VenturesGRGreycroft+2 more

Duckbill provides a financial control layer that AI-native companies use to negotiate, manage, and forecast their spend across cloud, model, neocloud, and inference providers.

AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingFintechSaaS

Co-investorsENEncoded VenturesHEHeavybitUNUncork CapitalFOForerunner VenturesFUFuture Back VenturesG9G9 Ventures+3 more

Frontera Health develops AI technology for Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) that helps BCBAs and clinics work more efficiently and treat more children diagnosed with autism.

AI & Machine LearningDigital HealthHealthtechDenver, US

ADAmol Deshpande(Executive Officer, Director)in

BoardGIGalym Imanbayev(Director)inBZBilal Zuberi(Director)in

Co-investorsBIBison VenturesLILightspeed Venture PartnersLULux CapitalRERed Glass Ventures

QA Wolf builds an AI-powered testing platform that autonomously explores applications, writes test code, and executes tests in parallel for web, mobile, and native apps.

AI & Machine LearningDeveloper Tools

Jon Perl(Founder)Laura Cressman(Founder)Scott Wilson(Founder)

Co-investorsBLBlue Trail PartnersGLGlynn Capital ManagementLILiam HorneNONotation CapitalSCScale Venture PartnersTHThreshold Ventures+2 more

New York City, US

Bing Wu(Founder)Namik Abdulzade(Founder)

Co-investorsCHCharge VCCOConnecticut InnovationsMEMercury FundRERed Swan Ventures

Remark provides AI-powered customer support and shopping assistance for e-commerce businesses, using AI personas to answer shopper questions and resolve support tickets while routing complex cases to human agents.

AI & Machine LearningE-commerceRetail TechSaaS

TSTheo Satloff(Co-founder & CEO)inCarl-Philip Majgaard(Co-founder & Tech Lead)IPIan Patterson(Co-founder & Sales)in

Co-investorsSHShine CapitalSPSpero VenturesVIVisible VenturesSTStripeSUSugar CapitalTWTwelve Below

Rho offers a business savings account that spreads idle cash across 400+ FDIC-insured banks (via American Deposit Management) for up to $75M in deposit coverage and yield.

Enterprise SoftwareFintechSaaSNew York, US

ECEverett Cook(Founder)inAlex Wheldon(Founder)

Co-investorsCLClaritas CapitalCLClocktower VenturesCOConsenSys MeshFLFlucas VenturesHEHelium-3 VenturesINInterplay Ventures Early Stage Management Llc+11 more

Spara builds AI for go-to-market (GTM) teams, automating and personalizing lead interactions such as instant responses and product demos across the sales funnel.

AI & Machine LearningMarketing TechSaaSSales Tech

DWDavid Walker(Founder)inZander Pease(Founder)

Co-investorsRARadical VenturesRERemarkable VenturesFJFJ Labs