Three Companies We Invested In Automating Industries Still Running Manually
Some of the largest industries in the world still rely on workflows that haven’t meaningfully evolved in years.
Analytics teams spend enormous time maintaining dashboards manually.
Commercial real estate lending still depends on fragmented underwriting and repetitive back-and-forth workflows.
Social platforms continue optimizing for scrolling instead of real-world connection.
Most people accept these systems as normal.
Founders don’t.
That’s why we’re excited to back ClarityAI, Antal Capital, and SHAKE-SOCIAL — three companies rebuilding analytics, lending infrastructure, and social discovery from the ground up using AI and automation.
📊 ClarityAI | Building Autonomous Analytics Infrastructure
Modern analytics stacks are incredibly resource-intensive.
Teams spend countless hours:
- building dashboards
- maintaining pipelines
- updating reporting logic
- monitoring data quality
- and answering repetitive business questions
ClarityAI is building autonomous analytics infrastructure where AI agents manage the analytics layer itself.
Instead of simply assisting analysts, the platform is designed to:
- generate dashboards automatically
- maintain reporting workflows
- monitor infrastructure health
- and continuously improve business intelligence systems over time
The company has already demonstrated impressive execution speed:
- shipped a production MVP in just 5 weeks
- built 85+ product features
- generates production-ready dashboards in 60 seconds
- targeting a $100B+ autonomous data infrastructure market
What stood out to us was not only the product vision, but the pace of execution.
As AI agents increasingly move from copilots to autonomous operators, analytics infrastructure feels like one of the clearest long-term applications.
🏦 Antal Capital | Automating Commercial Real Estate Lending
Commercial real estate lending remains one of the most operationally inefficient sectors in finance.
Borrowers, brokers, and lenders still navigate:
- manual qualification processes
- document-heavy underwriting
- fragmented communication
- and slow loan preparation workflows
Antal Capital is building the AI loan officer for commercial real estate lending.
The platform automates:
- borrower qualification
- underwriting preparation
- deal intake
- and lender workflow coordination for fix-and-flip loans
The traction already shows meaningful market validation:
- 100+ investors validated
- $4.4M in loans released
- 50% organic growth through lender, broker, and realtor partnerships
What interested us most was the company’s positioning around workflow execution rather than just analytics or lead generation.
The lending industry doesn’t simply need more software dashboards.
It needs automation that actually reduces operational friction.
🌍 SHAKE-SOCIAL | Rebuilding Social Around Real-World Connection
Most modern social platforms optimize for digital engagement.
SHAKE-SOCIAL is optimizing for something different:
real-world interaction.
The platform helps people:
- discover activities
- meet others through shared interests
- attend local events
- and build offline communities through activity-based social discovery
Rather than focusing purely on content feeds, the company is building infrastructure around in-person social connection.
Early traction already includes:
- launches across Lisbon and Medellín
- 1,000+ downloads pre-scale
- a growing international network of organizers, hosts, and activity leaders
What stood out to us was the shift in behavior the platform represents.
People increasingly want social products that create experiences outside the screen — not simply more time on it.
What These Companies Have in Common
Although these businesses operate in completely different industries, they share a common pattern:
They are rebuilding systems where operational inefficiency became normalized.
Not through incremental improvements.
Through automation, infrastructure, and workflow redesign.
Whether it’s:
- analytics infrastructure
- commercial lending
- or social connection
the opportunity often comes from removing friction people stopped expecting to disappear.
We’re excited to support ClarityAI, Antal Capital, and SHAKE-SOCIAL as they continue scaling toward their next milestones.
