Converge is pleased to back founders Aman Gour and Sashank Gondola in their mission to leverage the power of AI to build AI teammates Further AI website
Converge portfolio company Excarta was featured in the Washington Post for its use of AI in weather forecasting, and in particular for its solar eclipse tracker providing cloud forecasts along the path of the eclipse. You can read the full story here.
The Routing Company (“TRC”), a global on-demand vehicle routing and management platform partnering with cities to power the future of public transit, today announced it surpassed more than one million passengers moved. The milestone was powered by TRC’s award-winning Pingo suite of products, including the Drive Pingo™ and Ride Pingo™ apps and the Pingo Dashboard™... Read More
Fora, led by entrepreneur and seasoned C-suite leader Joe Essenfeld, is set to redefine executive leadership with its AI-powered ERM platform. With $3.8 million in pre-seed financing from Converge, GTM Fund, Zelkova Venture Partners, Acadian Ventures, 14Peaks, and other institutional investors and individual executives, Fora is committed to enhancing the strategic capabilities of executive leaders... Read More
Converge is pleased to back Aaron Painter, Ross Kinder, and team in their mission to transform authentication and online identity verification. IT and security teams use Nametag to reduce their helpdesk costs while stopping the social engineering and AI deepfake attacks that lead to account takeovers, data breaches and ransomware events. Nametag website
Converge GP Anshu Agarwal wrote a blog post entitled My First 90 Days as a VC. Read on here to hear about Anshu’s key realizations in the transition from experienced founder and operator to venture investor.
Converge is pleased to announce its investment in Lumber, a purpose-built workforce management solution for the complex needs of the construction industry. Lumber’s modern, purpose-built payroll and time-tracking solution is powered by a construction-specific LLM trained on the large sets of regulatory and compliance data for the construction industry, bring much-needed automation to a labor-constrained... Read More
Anshu Agarwal was interviewed on the Sand Hill Road Podcast. Take a listen to hear about Anshu’s journey as a researcher, operator, and investor, and to test yourself with a riddle. https://art19.com/shows/sand-hill-road/episodes/bb344817-d5c4-4d99-b191-6f0c2a5de64f
MarketWatch’s Jon Swartz interviewed Anshu Agarwal about joining Converge. You can read the story here: Longtime tech entrepreneur Anshu Agarwal joins venture firm to ‘let founders do their magic’.
Cambridge, MA and San Jose, CA – July 20, 2023 – Converge, led by Nilanjana Bhowmik and Maia Heymann — two of the region’s most highly-regarded venture capitalists — today announced the addition of Anshu Agarwal as a General Partner, to launch the firm’s Silicon Valley presence. In the premier technology market of the world,... Read More
