Craft Ventures
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Craft Ventures is an early-stage and growth fund with proven, repeated success building and scaling SaaS businesses.
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Vooma Scores Over $16 Million in Seed and Series A Funding Led by Index and Craft Ventures
Vooma, a powerful and fast-growing AI platform designed for freight brokers and carriers of all sizes, announced it secured $13 million in Series A funding led by Craft Ventures. The Series A adds to a previous $3.6 million seed round led by Index Ventures with participation from angel investors including founders and executives from major logistics and technology companies such as Motive, Project44, Ryder and Uber Freight. The investments in Vooma, driven by strong customer demand, underscore the company’s market potential and technology, and accelerate its trajectory for continuing growth.
Vooma’s AI platform empowers logistics companies to more rapidly and efficiently scale their operations by reducing time spent on tedious and manual work and creating space to solve real logistical challenges, while also investing in relationships that are critical to success. The company has built Vooma Agents, the first-of-its-kind multi-channel AI platform for logistics. Agents built on Vooma’s platform can operate across email, text and voice channels, allowing for automation in workflows that were previously unaddressable by existing systems.
Since its launch in 2023, Vooma has attracted many of the logistics industry’s top brokers and carriers as customers, including Echo, MODE, Arrive Logistics and NFI. Vooma has grown revenue by 12.5x, increased transaction volume by over 32x and built hundreds of thousands of loads. The company is also partnering with leading communication, pricing and transportation management systems including Front, Greenscreens.ai, McLeod and Turvo.
Endeavor Raises $7 Million to Revitalize American Manufacturing with AI
Endeavor, a startup revitalizing American manufacturing through cutting-edge AI, announced a $7 million seed round led by Craft Ventures, along with Heartland Ventures, Contrary Capital, and BoxGroup, along with former senior executives from Palantir, AWS, and Fortune 500 industrial firms. The company’s platform empowers manufacturers to unify siloed data sources and automate critical processes across sales, operations, and supply chains.
Endeavor partners with manufacturing enterprises to identify operational bottlenecks, apply its AI platform to unify siloed data systems, and automate key processes across multiple departments. The company’s AI platform connects to both structured and unstructured data sources—like ERP systems, spreadsheets, and PDFs to unlock capabilities previously unavailable to customers.
GreenLite Raises $28.5M to Privatize Permitting for Developers and Regulatory Authorities
GreenLite, a construction technology company making permitting faster and more predictable for builders, developers, and municipalities, announced its Series A raise of $28.5 million, led by Craft Ventures with participation from 53 Stations, Trust Ventures, and LiveOak Ventures. The new funding comes less than a year after GreenLite’s launch from stealth and will be used to enhance its technology platform and Private Plan Review offering, in addition to expanding into new markets and customer segments, and deepening its work with local government agencies.
GreenLite’s purpose-built technology and Private Plan Review service standardize and automate the entire permitting process - not just the permit application - across all jurisdictions, reducing the time and labor required for plan review by 75% per project. As the only software-first Private Provider in the market, this full-stack approach ensures that both developers and cities benefit from modern tools that facilitate faster, more organized, and more predictable construction permitting.
Announcing our $14m Series A
This funding will allow us to significantly grow our team and accelerate the development of the ION platform. More workflows to support complex manufacturing and assembly coordination. This includes managing and understanding equipment and tools used in operation as well as connecting parts with barcode scanning. Connect the supply chain – from parts planning, purchasing, inventory management, and traceability into operations. We will continue rolling out ION Autoplan to more manufacturers as a data-driven solution for supply chain planning. Empower engineers with APIs and SDKs. We believe that the future of the factory will be connected with automation and code, and we are going to empower developers to extend the factory to be more connected, automated, and data-powered.