DECEMBER 2025 NEWSLETTER
Highlights:
We’ve launched fundraising for Fund III. One of the best ways to connect is by emailing us at [email protected]
Olli Health, an investment in Fund II, announced its $10M Series A
Enterprise
Identity security automation across disconnected applications (Fund I | Co-investors: DTCP, Okta, Salesforce, Two Sigma, Ridge, Bowery)
Introduced automated lifecycle management and access governance for all disconnected and on-prem app
Trade financing for SMEs in developing markets (Opty | Co-investors: Accel, Wing, Sequoia)
CEO, Pushkar Mukewar, spoke with CNBC-TV18 about how digital finance is changing global trade
AI annotation and model development (Fund I | Co-investors: Kleiner, Softbank, a16z)
Launched Labelbox Applied Research, whose aim is to better understand powerful AI models and improve their real-world behavior
Automated material handling for industrials industry (Opty | Co-investors: Highland, Drive, Tiger)
Automated Warehouse spoke with CEO, Karl Iagnemma, to reflect on the past year at Vecna and what's next
Multi-model agentic AI for B2B marketers (Fund II | Co-investors: Aspenwood, Emergent)
Launched deep citations and verifiability of AI content - with every source cited, linked and visible
Healthcare
AI-enabled specialty care telemedicine (Opty | Co-investors: Greylock, F-Prime, Forerunner)
Included in The Healthcare Technology Report's Top 50 Healthcare Technology Companies of 2025
Specialty-specific healthcare voice AI agents (Fund II | Co-investors: Lightspeed, Felicis, First Round, Chemistry, Quiet, Liquid2)
Co-CEO, Jon Wang, wrote a piece in Becker's Hospital Review on how Assort is reinventing patient access
AI copilots to augment complex healthcare workflows, reducing administrative burden (Opty | Co-investors: Valtruis, The Cigna Group Ventures, ATX, Capital Factory)
Selected to join the Microsoft for Startups Pegasus Program
Launched healthcare agents marketplace and AI studio to let healthcare enterprises build/govern their own AI workflows
OS for mental health providers (Opty | Co-investors: Ensemble, Lightbank, Bonfire, Revolution)
Blueprint added the ability to easily utilize its OS through its new Chrome extension
Automated medical chart review for clinical trials (Fund II | Co-investors: Innospark, HealthX, Tech Square, Cleveland Clinic)
Selected as the winner of the 2025 Fierce Healthcare Award for the AI category
AI agents for clinical & administrative healthcare calls (Fund I | Co-investors: Kleiner, Coatue)
Unveiled agentic AI tool to support pharma in DTC strategies
Automated home health coding & OASIS Review (Fund II | Co-investors: Industry Ventures, Cannage, Equitage, Arkitekt)
Announced its $10M Series A led by Industry Ventures
Amit: spoke with The INDUStry Show podcast
Sanjay: spoke at the Accelerate Conference at George Mason University in Arlington, VA; attended the Cyber Innovation Data 2025 in Washington DC hosted by DataTribe, and the Translink Capital's AI event in Palo Alto
Sam: attended the Healthcare x AI Talks in Philadelphia, an event thrown by the Healthcare AI Guy
Sharon: along with Sanjay,spoke at an event hosted by HSBC at Shack15 in San Francisco
Behnam BastaniCEO & Co-Founder of OpenInferEnabling high-throughput AI inference on edge devices (Fund II | Co-investors: Brave, Cota Capital, Essence VC)
1. Tell us about your background and how you started the companyI have spent my career building complex compute orchestration systems at companies like Meta, Roblox, and Google. I saw firsthand the limitations of cloud-first AI systems, and was able to deliver and scale systems that used edge resources to reduce cost and improve performance. We started OpenInfer with those successes in mind, to bring enterprise intelligence to every surface. 2. What are the key problems you are addressing and how you are delivering value to customers?Enterprises today want AI that is powerful, but they cannot afford to compromise on data privacy, compliance, or cost. Our system of agents enables intelligence to run on local infrastructure, where it learns from real workflows and integrates deeply into enterprise systems. This gives customers the ability to reason over their data, automate complex tasks, and collaborate more effectively, without sending sensitive information to external clouds.3. What have you enjoyed or what do you look forward to about working with Tau Ventures? I value Tau’s focus on mission-driven founders and the strong network and community they have built. I look forward to collaborating with Tau Ventures and tapping into their community to exchange insights, explore opportunities, and bring local-first AI into regulated industries where control, compliance, and trust are critical.
Enterprise
OpenInfer:Senior On-Device AI Inference Engineer
Wizerr AI:Software Engineer
Healthcare
Alaffia: Sr. ML Ops Engineer, Sr. AI Ops Engineer, VP of Sales
Autonomize AI:Director of Client Success,
FidoCure: Chief of Staff (interested candidates should email Paula Suhelyo at [email protected])
Iterative Health: Staff Embedded Software Engineer, Director of Business Development
Olli Health: Senior ML/NLP Engineer
Siftwell Analytics: Head of Customer Success
Signos: Enterprise Account Exec
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