Announcing: Gravity x Ansa

The world is entering a new era of sustainability — one that prioritizes pragmatism over politics, and business impact over marketing fluff. Companies are no longer doing sustainability programs for their own sake, or so they can talk about them publicly. In this new era, they're focused on optimizing energy consumption so they can improve their bottom line. To do so, they need to find efficient and accurate ways to calculate their full supply chain emissions.

The Multi-Billion Dollar Opportunity Hiding in Carbon Accounting

Turning raw emissions data into actionable insights and high-ROI projects is no small feat. … (continued on the Ansa Insights blog)

Conduktor x Ansa

At Ansa, we have built a thesis in the growing importance of data streaming, including publicly sharing initial views on the space over a year ago. The value of data streaming has grown significantly in recent years  - organizations are increasingly finding streaming data as critical to operational improvement (e.g., inventory management) and product delivery (e.g., ride-sharing driver location). That work has culminated in our investment in Conduktor, an enterprise data management platform, alongside RTP, Accel, and M12.

Recent Ansa Network Additions

Lea Engelhardt, Ansa Advisory Network

Lea Engelhardt currently serves as Founder and CEO at Paine Ventures, a full-suite talent agency helping venture firms build resilient, high-performing teams across their organizations and portfolios. She brings over a decade of PeopleOps experience from top VC firms and tech companies, from Series A through IPO. Lea began at Benchmark, before scaling Gusto from 25 to 2,000 employees as a leader in their people strategy & communications functions. In 2021, she left to build the HR infrastructure for fintech company Pagaya ahead of its IPO.

Ross Feinstein, Ansa Advisory Network

Ross Feinstein currently serves as Vice President of Product at AcuityMD where he assists MedTech companies improve patient outcomes by transforming how they bring products to market. Prior to Acuity, Ross was one of the first ten employees at Flatiron Health where he built some of the first data products and ultimately served as the general manager of Flatiron’s revenue cycle management business line prior to an acquisition by Roche.      

Sarah Branfman, Ansa Revenue Council

Sarah Branfman is a seasoned sales leader with a proven track record of building and scaling teams and driving revenue growth. As Global Vice President of ISV at Databricks, she is building strategic GTM strategies with software and data companies. Previously at MongoDB, she drove the first $1m ARR for a then-30 person startup. She is passionate about helping others achieve their potential — she advises companies and has a non profit targeted to driving growth and success for women.

Firm & Portfolio News

Ansa Annual General Meeting Highlights

Towards the end of last year we hosted our AGM.  Seeing our investors, founders, and partners come together to share insights was truly inspiring. A special thank you to our incredible team for making it all happen! [View here]

Bland AI announces $40M Series B led by Emergence Capital

By automating mundane and repetitive phone tasks, Bland AI agents free up human agents to focus on more complex and valuable interactions. The company announced the closing of their $40M Series B on January 29th led by Emergence Capital; Ansa participated in the Series A that closed in Q3 2024. Today, millions of people have interacted with the Company’s voice agents. [Read More]

Conduktor cements $30M in Series B, led by RTP Global, M12, Ansa and Accel

Frustrated with the limitations of Apache Kafka for handling real-time data streams, Nicolas Orban, Stéphane Derosiaux, and Stéphane Maarek created Conduktor—a platform for enterprises to securely manage their streaming data. In Q4 2024, we partnered with RTP Global, M12 (Microsoft) and Accel in the Company’s Series B financing. [Read More]

Defense Unicorns CEO discusses how they work with Ansa and the DoD

Rob Slaughter sat down with Ansa’s Marco DeMeireles to discuss the ways in which Defense Unicorns is working to enable reliable and rapid delivery of software capabilities across the Department of Defense and his partnership with Ansa. [Watch Here]

Gravity’s Jay Ruckelshaus on the 2024 election’s impact to corporate sustainability

Jay articulates his beliefs on how corporate sustainability disclosure requirements will continue to expand post the US presidential election, driving interest in cost and energy saving projects and demanding a closer collaboration between sustainability, finance, and legal teams. [Read More]

Milton Magazine explores how Allan Jean-Baptiste and his colleagues are shaking up the traditional realm of venture capital 

Allan’s alma mater explores his experiences, the launch of Ansa Capital and the ways in which our partnership differentiates itself and finds revolutionary companies in ‘undercovered’ markets. [Read More]

NetOps startup Selector AI wants to solve the network noise problem

CEO Kanaan Kothandaraman details how Selector AI feeds both operational and relationship data into a machine learning engine to help identify key network issues in unique ways. He shares his vision for how the Company will continue to scale, leveraging data-driven digital twins and expanded language models. [Read More]

Here’s to a great start to the year! 

Thank you for your partnership and reading the latest at Ansa.

Marco DeMeireles & Allan Jean-Baptiste