We’re proud to see our 3 portfolio companies, Modal, MotherDuck, and Databricks earn top rankings on Wing Venture Capital’s Enterprise Tech 30 list for the 3rd year in a row! This recognition highlights the impact and innovation these companies are driving in enterprise technology.
Modal (#2 in Early Stage) – Modal is an IAS platform that allows users to deploy LLMs and run inferences in the cloud with only a few lines of code.
MotherDuck (#9 in Mid Stage) – Revolutionizing the data analytics landscape, MotherDuck combines the power of DuckDB with the cloud for lightning-fast, cost-efficient data processing.
Databricks (#1 in Giga Stage) – Databricks is the pioneer of the Data Intelligence Platform, empowering enterprises to unify, analyze, and leverage their data for transformative insights.
Congratulations to our portfolio companies for the three-peat! We’re proud to support their journeys and can’t wait to see what’s next.
Check out the full list here: Wing Venture Capital Enterprise Tech Top 30
At Eastlink Capital, we remain committed to supporting transformative startups across AI Infrastructure and application. As we step further into 2025, we’re excited to share some of our latest investment and portfolio updates from 2024, highlighting key funding rounds and acquisitions that mark significant milestones for our partners.
Genmo is a text-to-video generation platform with an open-source state-of-the-art model that has high-fidelity motion and strong prompt adherence. In 2024, Eastlink Capital invested in Genmo’s Series A round, fueling its mission to push the boundaries of AI video generation.
BenchFlow is a cloud-native AI agent benchmarking and evaluation platform that simplifies AI model evaluation workflows and creates a marketplace for benchmark and evaluators. In December 2024, Eastlink Capital Co-led BenchFlow’s pre-seed round, backing its vision to redefine enterprise efficiency with next-gen automation tools.
Seraphic is a complete enterprise browser security and governance solution designed to monitor and audit the browser by using a proxy or extension. In December 2024, Eastlink Capital doubled down on Seraphic’s Series A round, supporting the company’s rapid growth and strengthening the global enterprise browser security.
Sensely, a leader in AI-powered virtual health assistants, was acquired by Mediktor in 2024. Sensely’s technology, which enhances patient engagement through conversational AI, will now be integrated into Mediktor’s telehealth solutions, marking a strategic move in advancing AI-driven healthcare services.
As we continue to back pioneering startups, we’re thrilled to see our portfolio companies making strides in their respective industries. Stay tuned for more updates as we work alongside visionary entrepreneurs shaping the future of AI, cybersecurity, cloud automation, and digital health.
— Eastlink Capital Team
We were thrilled to host the Eastlink Capital 2024 Annual Meeting on January 17, 2025, marking a decade of innovation, partnerships, and growth. Celebrating our 10th anniversary, we gathered with our LPs, portfolio founders, and industry leaders who have been instrumental in shaping our journey.
Our partners Steven Xi and Eric Ye shared the exciting momentum of our fund, reaffirming our commitment to AI infrastructure and the next wave of technological breakthroughs.
The event featured thought-provoking discussions, including a fireside chat with Francisco Alvarez-Demalde from Riverwood Capital and an inspiring conversation between Ion Stoica, Co-Founder & Executive Chairman of Databricks, and Steven Xi. Our AI infrastructure panel brought together top minds—Kai Li (Princeton University), Yiran Chen (Duke University), and Jamin Ball (Altimeter Capital)—for deep insights into the evolving landscape.
We were also proud to showcase groundbreaking work from our portfolio companies:
– Jordan Tigani, CEO, MotherDuck
– Kamal Gupta, CEO, Omnistrate
– Erik Bernhardsson, CEO, Modal
– Suresh Batchu, COO, Seraphic Security
– Rajeev Shrivastava, CEO, TigerGraph
A heartfelt thank you to our LPs, founders, panelists, and advisors—your trust and support fuel our vision every day. Here’s to another decade of innovation and success!
Onwards and upwards!
At Eastlink Capital, we believe in backing bold founders tackling critical cybersecurity challenges—and Seraphic Security is leading the charge in enterprise browser security. We’re thrilled to double down on our investment in Seraphic by participating in their $29M Series A round, led by GreatPoint Ventures, alongside CrowdStrike Falcon Fund, Planven, Cota Capital, and Storm Ventures.
In today’s SaaS-first, hybrid work environment, securing the enterprise browser is more important than ever. Seraphic Security is redefining how organizations protect their most critical access points, delivering cutting-edge security without compromising user experience. With this new funding, Seraphic is poised to scale operations in North America and EMEA while continuing to push the boundaries of innovation.
We couldn’t be more excited to support Seraphic’s visionary founders and world-class team as they build the future of enterprise browser security.
We had an unforgettable celebration of 2023 with founders, LPs and friends at our annual meeting and dinner.
Our fireside chats featured insights from partners at Prosperity7 and Felicis on the ever-evolving AI world and strategies to build defensible moats; next up were awe-inspiring presentations and demos from MotherDuck, Modal Labs, TigerGraph and Vellum.
Happy holidays and look forward to seeing you in the next year. Onwards and upwards!
We are privileged to be a part of Modal’s Series A round to redefine the future of end-to-end cloud compute, providing serverless GPU to deploy AI models and run inference in the cloud with a few lines of code, without the complexities of setting up and maintaining your own cloud infra.
Modal Labs has launched its General Availability version. Everyone can try it out and run code in the cloud in a few minutes. Check it out today and you will be surprised how frictionless, scalable and cost-efficient it is!
Congrats to the Databricks team for the $500M Series I! We are so thrilled to double down our investment through its round, as an existing investor and faithful believer. We believe Databricks is incredibly positioned to be a generational company in the AI era, due to its robust tech/product, rapid pace of innovation, open-source root and vibrant ecosystem. Cannot wait to see what’s ahead for Databricks as it continues the journey of democratizing AI and Data through relentless innovation.
See more: press release on Forbes
Eastlink Capital and Future Builders held “The Future of AI Infra” event on July 23, 2023. We were lucky to have “Top Guns” in the AI infra space for our lineup of speakers and panelists including Bob van Luijt (Weaviate), Nikita Shamgunov (Neon), Mingxi Wu (TigerGraph), Li Shen (PingCap), Frank Liu (Zilliz) and Ofer Mendelevitch (Vectara).
Topics covered included: the modern AI infra stack; challenges, opportunities & landmines in AI; AI for databases; “grounded generation”; vector databases; and more. The presentations, demos, and conversations were truly educational and inspiring for our ~65 audience of AI founders, engineers, and builders, who spent an afternoon for an interactive and engaging discussion.
Huge thank you to our gracious co-hosts Morrison Foerster for sharing their beautiful Palo Alto office space and supporting us with their lovely events team! Thanks to Cooley for also sponsoring this event!
This is the first in a series of AI events that we plan to host in the future. Let’s continue to push the field.
Congrats to MotherDuck for being recognized on the 2023 Enterprise Tech 30 list. Quite an impressive lineup: https://axios.com/et30. MotherDuck was one of the five companies that was founded in the last 18 months.
Congrats to Vellum for being featured in Google I/O 2023 keynote as a DevTool partner.
LLM developers, sign up at vellum.ai to try it out!