Every Startup is Different

Our partners have worked with dozens of companies over two decades. There are parallels, common obstacles, and shared solutions, but ultimately your journey is unique to you.

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Lyric

Lyric

Smarter supply chain decisions with AI.

Freehand

Freehand

Raised $75M Series B for agentic invoice audit and procurement.

Drumkit

Drumkit

AI superpowers for logistics operations.

Cognichip

Cognichip

Solving complex chip design problems with physics-informed AI.

Current Investments

Early-stage portfolio of supply chain software companies

Elyrian is an energy supply chain company that is unlocking stranded grid power to deliver reliable, cost-efficient AI infrastructure.

Investor(s):
Rohini Chakravarthy
Exited
Woman Co-founder
2026
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Dodge AI is building AI agents for ERP maintenance to replace the $100B traditionally spent on ERP consultants to maintain legacy systems

Investor(s):
Rohini Chakravarthy
Exited
Woman Co-founder
2026
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Agentic decision layer for supply chain spend. Freehand maps the connection between your commercial agreements and what happened in the real world to capture lost margins.

Investor(s):
Rohini Chakravarthy
Exited
Woman Co-founder
2025
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The Workflow Intelligence Layer for enterprise AI. Based on academic research from UT Austin, CanyonCode observes, optimizes and governs your multi-agentic applications at scale.

Investor(s):
Rohini Chakravarthy
Exited
Woman Co-founder
2026
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Pull Logic is an Atlanta-based leader in Availability Intelligence for inventory management. Based on IP from Georgia Tech, the company uses agentic methods to incorporate demand forecasts into inventory planning.

Investor(s):
Rohini Chakravarthy
Exited
Woman Co-founder
2025
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Cognichip is pioneering Artificial Chip Intelligence (ACI®), a type of AI that understands and solves chip design problems. The company uses a first-of-its-kind physics-informed foundational model for semiconductors.

Investor(s):
Rohini Chakravarthy
Exited
Woman Co-founder
2024
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Lyric is building an AI-driven decision intelligence platform to improve enterprise supply chain decision-making. The Lyric Studio enables organizations to quickly build custom-tailored solutions to solve their specific needs related to their supply chains.

Investor(s):
Rohini Chakravarthy
Exited
Woman Co-founder
2022
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Drumkit is changing the rhythm of supply chain operations with modern AI and data tools. Drumkit Beacon is a co-pilot for logistics professionals, automating back office tasks like scheduling, tracking, quoting and load building.

Investor(s):
Chad Bailey
Exited
Woman Co-founder
2023
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Precursory is building performance insurance for AI agents, helping enterprises deploy autonomous systems with greater confidence. By underwriting AI agent performance, Precursory reduces operational risk and enables organizations to move AI from pilot programs into production.

Investor(s):
Chad Bailey
Exited
Woman Co-founder
2026
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With weav.ai, enterprises can access AI as easily as a spreadsheet. weav.ai's no/low-code approach makes it easy and fast for business users to incorporate generative AI into their application workflows.

Investor(s):
Rohini Chakravarthy
Exited
Woman Co-founder
2022
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OnRamp enables the future of freight through payments and financial technology. Their mission is to automate payments, optimize price, and increase efficiency and security for all parties in the freight ecosystem.

Investor(s):
Chad Bailey
Exited
Woman Co-founder
2022
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Manifold Frieght is a "single pane of glass" solution for carrier freight, allowing dispatchers to easily find and bid on spot freight opportunities from various Shippers and 3PL.

Investor(s):
Chad Bailey
Exited
Woman Co-founder
2024
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Pillar is an AI-based hedging platform for small and medium size manufacturers. Pillar uses supply chain data to estimate customers' currency and commodity exposures, and helps bring back predictability.

Investor(s):
Rohini Chakravarthy, Chad Bailey
Exited
Woman Co-founder
2023
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MachineFi provides IOT infrastructure software to monetize location data and create the coming machine network economy.

Investor(s):
Rohini Chakravarthy
Exited
Woman Co-founder
2022
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Rockfish Data is the industry's first outcome-centric synthetic data generation platform, unlocking the true value of operational data.

Investor(s):
Rohini Chakravarthy
Exited
Woman Co-founder
2024
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Previous Investments

Before starting NewBuild Venture Capital, we were investors in category leading enterprise, supply chain, logistics and transportation companies personally or as part of prior firms.

Valtix

Theme

Cloud Infrastructure, Enterprise Security

Investor(s)

Rohini Chakravarthy

Investment Year

N/A

Status

Exited

Immuta

Theme

Data, Enterprise Security

Investor(s)

Rohini Chakravarthy

Investment Year

N/A

Status

Active

Springpath

Theme

Cloud Infrastructure, Converged Server - Storage

Investor(s)

Rohini Chakravarthy

Investment Year

N/A

Status

Exited

Helium

Theme

Edge Infrastructure, Blockchain

Investor(s)

Rohini Chakravarthy, Chad Bailey

Investment Year

N/A

Status

Active

Lime

Theme

Logistics & Transportation

Investor(s)

Chad Bailey

Investment Year

N/A

Status

Active

Innovium

Theme

Datacenter semiconductors

Investor(s)

Rohini Chakravarthy

Investment Year

N/A

Status

Exited

Fusion-IO

Theme

Cloud Infrastructure, Enterprise Storage

Investor(s)

Rohini Chakravarthy

Investment Year

N/A

Status

Exited

Aquantia

Theme

Datacenter semiconductors

Investor(s)

Rohini Chakravarthy

Investment Year

N/A

Status

Exited

Aerospike

Theme

Data, Cloud Infrastructure

Investor(s)

Rohini Chakravarthy

Investment Year

N/A

Status

Exited

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