Overview
Pathlight Ventures is a New York early-stage venture fund co-founded by Mahdi Raza and Charley Ma that backs a small number of mission-driven companies a year in fintech, healthcare, security and AI infrastructure.[1]
Investments
Uniti AI
An agentic AI platform that manages sales, leasing, and operational workflows for real estate operators
Petra Labs
New York-based enterprise answer-engine-optimization company building AI search attribution, LLM simulation and citation tracking for marketers.
Volca
NYC company cofounded and led by Brendan Kazanjian, running an AI platform that automates growth for home services businesses through an SMS-based referral system that communicates with homeowners and integrates with CRMs such as ServiceTitan.
In the news
- Adaptive Raises $30M to Expand Its AI Workforce Across the $2T Construction MarketMatt Calvano's investors describe Adaptive as one of the most important tools their portfolio companies keep in their stack, a rare compliment in construction software. The company just closed a $30M Series B, bringing total funding to $57M, to keep building out the AI agents that do construction accounting work instead of just tracking it. More than 750 construction companies already run their bo
AlleyWatch · Sep 23, 2026
- The Weekly Notable Startup Funding Report: 9/21/26The notable startup funding rounds for the week ending 9/12/26 featuring funding details for Comp AI, Factory, MIND, and twenty-eight other deals representing $2.8B in new funding that you need to know about.
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