Shaper Capital

Today marks the two-year anniversary of launching Shaper. I’m extremely proud of our progress: in two years, we’ve co-founded 6 amazing companies -- and it's been fun to watch the milestones compound recently. I shared some reflections/learnings here: https://lnkd.in/eNbfjCr8 I'm especially grateful to Bobby Samuels, Brian M. Overstreet, Jeremy Baksht, Abigail Bertelson, Chris Taylor, and Kartik C. [and the 125 incredible Shapers across their teams] for building together! We're hiring aggressively across companies and functions if you want to join us for our third year!

The freight industry has long lacked a reliable data layer to connect brokers, insurers, shippers, and fintechs. Catena Clearing is changing that. We’re proud to celebrate their seed round - a milestone will fuel the team’s work to accelerate integrations and scale partnerships across the ecosystem.

We recently added two exceptional Venture Builders-in-Residence to the Shaper team - Welcome MJ Kievman and Julian B.! We're hiring across our portfolio - check out open roles here: https://lnkd.in/gbn8QgDr

I’m thrilled to announce Adelphi’s $7M Seed led by Timothy Young at Eniac Ventures, with participation from Shaper Capital, Flex Capital, Afore Capital, Essence Venture Capital, Armyn Capital, Octave and several Angels.   One of the biggest threats to American national security is a “needle in a haystack” problem: various desks, agencies, and allied nations have pieces of information that form a partial picture of a situation. As AI emerges, there is a flood of new data. At the same time, the ability to understand and protect against threats by synthesizing these pieces of information is stronger than ever. Despite this data explosion, the data is extremely siloed across the government. And rightfully so: controlling access is critical for national security as well. We believe there is a huge opportunity to apply cutting-edge confidential data sharing techniques for public sector use cases, and unleash the potential of this information while protecting its sensitivity. We are building a permission-based, distributed search capability to power the safe exchange of information: across desks, across branches, across agencies, and between allied nations. Thrilled to be partnered with Travis May for this journey. We’re actively hiring – more info here and please reach out to Rachel Rimsky Rubin if you’d like to join us! https://www.adelphi.ai/

I’m thrilled to announce Adelphi’s $7M Seed led by Timothy Young at Eniac Ventures, with participation from Shaper Capital, Flex Capital, Afore Capital, Essence Venture Capital, Armyn Capital, Octave and several Angels.   One of the biggest threats to American national security is a “needle in a haystack” problem: various desks, agencies, and allied nations have pieces of information that form a partial picture of a situation. As AI emerges, there is a flood of new data. At the same time, the ability to understand and protect against threats by synthesizing these pieces of information is stronger than ever. Despite this data explosion, the data is extremely siloed across the government. And rightfully so: controlling access is critical for national security as well. We believe there is a huge opportunity to apply cutting-edge confidential data sharing techniques for public sector use cases, and unleash the potential of this information while protecting its sensitivity. We are building a permission-based, distributed search capability to power the safe exchange of information: across desks, across branches, across agencies, and between allied nations. Thrilled to be partnered with Travis May for this journey. We’re actively hiring – more info here and please reach out to Rachel Rimsky Rubin if you’d like to join us! https://www.adelphi.ai/

We’re hiring at Protege! Join us in building the data layer for AI, ethically and at scale. We're growing across Operations, Engineering, GTM, Product Success, and Research, and we're looking for teammates who share our values: 🧭 Personal: integrity, inclusivity, and kindness ⚙️ Professional: we move fast, we value growth, and we take our work seriously but not ourselves. Join a team that’s fast-paced, kind, and laser-focused on solving one of AI’s biggest problems: sharing and accessing training data. Apply here: https://lnkd.in/ekC9nmdT

I’m thrilled to announce our $25M Series A led by Footwork, with participation from CRV, Bloomberg Beta, Flex Capital, Liquid 2 Ventures, Shaper Capital, and more. Access to the right training data remains the biggest bottleneck to AI’s progress. This raise will allow us to go deeper and move faster — expanding into new verticals, scaling our data exchange platform, and partnering even more closely with the developers and data holders shaping the future of AI. Grateful to our customers, partners, and team for making this milestone possible. The Information covered the announcement in detail here: https://lnkd.in/eemQQg7Y

Complex healthcare contracts shouldn't stand in the way of better patient outcomes. That's why we're excited to support Arbital Health as they innovate the platform that makes value-based care actually work at scale. Their approach to contract adjudication is exactly what the industry needs. Very excited to celebrate this milestone with Arbital! ✨

🚀 Big news: OpenAI is working with Fractional AI to accelerate private equity and enterprise adoption of generative AI! This collaboration brings together OpenAI’s industry-leading models and our team’s proven ability to build and deploy custom AI solutions that drive real business impact. Together, we’re offering our private equity and enterprise partners: 🔹 Early access to frontier models 🔹 Custom built AI solutions 🔹 End-to-end support from idea to production Our goal is simple: help companies rapidly create value with OpenAI’s technology. We’re 4xing the size of our team in 2025 - join us in shaping the future of applied AI!