Welcome back to the latest from Ansa. In this edition, we're sharing our newest investment, Coram AI, and highlights from SPRINT: The Scaling Playbook, where founders, operators, and investors came together for candid conversations about what it really takes to scale a company. We also cover recent portfolio developments and a few themes we're watching closely.

Coram AI Raises $35 Million Series B to Bring AI to Physical Security

Coram AI, the AI-native physical security platform, has raised $35 million in Series B funding, bringing its total capital raised to $66 million. The round was co-led by Ansa Capital and Battery Ventures, with participation from UP.Partners, 8VC, and Mosaic Ventures.

Coram AI was co-founded by Ashesh Jain, former head of autonomy for Lyft’s self-driving division and an engineering leader at Zoox, and Peter Ondruska, head of AI research at Lyft and then Toyota’s Woven division after Toyota acquired Lyft’s self-driving technology in 2021. After years building systems that help vehicles understand and navigate the physical world, they recognized a similar opportunity in physical security—an industry that still relies heavily on legacy software, fragmented workflows, and reactive monitoring.

Today, Coram helps organizations transform security cameras into intelligent systems that can identify risks in real time, accelerate investigations, and improve operational awareness across campuses, warehouses, hospitals, and other critical environments.

As Allan Jean-Baptiste, Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Ansa and Coram board member, put it:

"Physical security is one of the largest industries yet to be transformed by modern AI. Coram's founders bring a rare combination of frontier AI expertise and deep conviction about where the market is headed. Their rapid growth demonstrates that organizations are looking for more than cameras and monitoring tools. They want intelligence that helps them operate more safely, efficiently, and proactively."

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SPRINT: The Scaling Playbook

This May, Ansa hosted SPRINT, a tactical half-day experience at the Crosby Street Hotel, in partnership with Benchstrength and 645 Ventures. More than 100 founders, operators, and investors came together to discuss what it actually takes to build enduring companies.

The day was built for founders navigating growth, hiring, and the road to their next raise. AI came up in every conversation, from upskilling your team, to building faster without losing quality.

Ankur Jain (Bilt) set the tone early, sharing the importance of committing fully to a direction while remaining adaptable enough to pivot when the facts change. Conviction first, flexibility second.

Later, Neil Blumenthal (Warby Parker) joined a fireside conversation on what scaling a category-defining company looks like from the inside. Additional sessions featured Julie Blanc (Rentana), Matt Garippa (Order.co), Ben Sun (Primary Venture Partners), Jessica Lin (Work-Bench), Rebecca Kaden (Union Square Ventures), and Ansa portfolio founder Saleh ElHattab (Gravity), who shared his perspective on recognizing when a company has outgrown its current operating model.

Events like SPRINT reflect a core belief at Ansa: the strength of a founder's community can be as important as the strength of their product. The right network of peers, operators, and supporters often becomes a company's most durable competitive advantage.

Upcoming Events

On June 16, we're hosting an intimate founder breakfast in San Francisco focused on one of the most important early GTM decisions: when and how to make your first marketing hire.

The discussion will be led by Justin Dunham, Founder of Ercule, and Meghan Gill, MongoDB's first GTM hire, who will share practical lessons on building demand generation, establishing a marketing function, and avoiding common hiring mistakes as companies build this function.

Attendance is limited to keep the conversation candid and peer-driven.

Register to attend (approval-based): Apply Here

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Marco & Allan