We’re happy to announce that our family angel program (back 80+ entrepreneurs over eight years and donate all gains to charity; details here) has invested in Poka Labs. It’s our 32nd investment (#31 is in stealth mode; portfolio here), and we’re really excited to be part of what Malay Shah and Andrew Bass are doing.

I was fortunate to have Malay as a student in my VCPE class. He also was part of “Special K,” a very high-energy and dynamic Section. For some reason, I had quite a few students last year from Section K and was part of a mini-reunion dinner they did. You can read more about Poka Labs here. A summary is below:

Poka Labs is developing an AI platform to automate operations tasks in chemical manufacturing, beginning with production scheduling. Traditionally, these tasks are performed manually using spreadsheets. Our software seamlessly integrates with existing data sources such as data historians, emails, and PDFs to automate analytics, scheduling, changes, and communication within a single platform.

Thank you, Malay and Andrew, for letting us invest!