Ali Mackani

PLANA’s mission is to solve what we call the “Missing Middle” of mobility: sub-500-mile journeys that remain fundamentally broken: too slow, congested, and unreliable on the ground, yet inefficient and costly by air. This long-standing and widening gap represents a unique opportunity to create an entirely new category of regional transportation, one that is cleaner, quieter, and dramatically more efficient. That’s why PLANA exists.

AI-powered automation for every decision. At Palantir, our software powers AI-driven decisions in critical government and commercial enterprises in the West, from the factory floors to the front lines. Our platforms feature advanced tools for data protection, governance, responsible use of AI, and civilian protection capabilities for defense applications. Dominate your most complex problems with Palantir.

Redactables web-based application helps companies permanently redact their confidential documents. Think of us as a DocuSign for redaction. Our AI redaction workflow auto-detects confidential information in your document and redacts it quickly.

CREE8 is a revolutionary new cloud SaaS platform that puts creatives at the heart of everything we do. CREE8’s mission is to deliver the world’s fastest, most powerful, and most reliable platform for remote and virtual workflows for all production activities. Today’s creative teams are global. With CREE8, global teams have access to all the cloud CPU/GPU and storage you need to deliver today’s most demanding creative projects, in real time. On-board new team members in minutes. No IT admin needed. No shipping hardware. CREE8 provides creatives with everything you need to do their best work: your tools, your content, and each other. All the applications, community, compute power, storage and security you need... All in one place.

Our fund invests in high potential early-stage software startups (SaaS). We’re a collective startup investment and social group, like a VC, but a non-profit, managed by the members. We are an exclusive membership club consists of like-valued people, all optimistic and curious. We use a collaborative fund model to learn together, share ideas and build friendships. Meet others, grow your investing skills, and have fun through the shared activity of collectively investing in innovative, early stage, B2B software startups.

Pitch Protocol is agent-native venture-capital infrastructure, built by GFV Studio. Founders and their AI agents submit one structured application — via UI, API, or their own agent over an MCP server — and get matched to thesis-aligned funds, with a decision in about 48 hours, replacing 30 identical fund forms and cold outreach with structured, verifiable signal. Pitch Protocol is fund-neutral: every participating fund, including Growth Factory Ventures own fund, is matched by the same thesis-based rules, with no preferential routing. It is not the Pitch presentation app (pitch.com) and not a crypto/DeFi protocol.

We back early-stage founders who turn bold ideas into breakout companies. Over the past three years, Fund I has supported over 70 startups — not just with capital, but with the grit, clarity, and commitment it takes to engineer real wins across Big Data, Cloud, B2B SaaS, AI, and more. Now we’re gearing up for Fund II, launching in Q4 2025. Alongside direct investments in exceptional founders, Fund II will introduce a new layer of value: our in-house venture studio — designed to build from zero and co-create the next wave of transformational startups. More to come. But the mission remains the same: to help ambitious founders go faster, further — and win. Let’s build what’s next.

PLANA’s mission is to solve what we call the “Missing Middle” of mobility: sub-500-mile journeys that remain fundamentally broken: too slow, congested, and unreliable on the ground, yet inefficient and costly by air. This long-standing and widening gap represents a unique opportunity to create an entirely new category of regional transportation, one that is cleaner, quieter, and dramatically more efficient. That’s why PLANA exists.

AI-powered automation for every decision. At Palantir, our software powers AI-driven decisions in critical government and commercial enterprises in the West, from the factory floors to the front lines. Our platforms feature advanced tools for data protection, governance, responsible use of AI, and civilian protection capabilities for defense applications. Dominate your most complex problems with Palantir.

Redactables web-based application helps companies permanently redact their confidential documents. Think of us as a DocuSign for redaction. Our AI redaction workflow auto-detects confidential information in your document and redacts it quickly.