Sudhin Shahani

Madefire is a revolutionary new storytelling platform that is redefining the way stories are created, experienced and shared. Madefire has created a new category of entertainment, called Motion Books, designed specifically for the groundbreaking interactive capabilities of mobile devices and the web. As one of our first customers put it, using the Madefire App feels like "reading a movie"​. Madefire has garnered an amazing flurry of press and support from Apple and the community, has maintained a perfect 5-star rating since launch in June 2012, and was named a Best of Apple App Store for 2012. Our team consists of consumer technology veterans from companies such as Wordpress, Apple, and Flipboard, in addition to some of the brightest creative authors and artists. Madefire is where the Myths of the 21st Century are Created.

Panna, named one of the Best Apps of 2012 by Apple, is the first digital cooking magazine available on the iPad and iPhone. Panna uses video technology to connect home cooks to celebrity chefs, so that home cooks can cook along with the master in their own kitchens. Panna works with celebrity chefs including Jonathan Waxman (Barbuto); Rick Bayless (Frontera Grill and Top Chef Masters Winner); Sean Brock (Husk, McCrady’s); Melissa Clark (NY Times food writer and recipe developer); Melissa Hamilton and Christopher Hirscheimer (Canal House Cooking); Anita Lo (Annisa and Top Chef Masters); Seamus Mullen (Boqueria, Tertulia); Chad Sarno (Health Starts Here Senior Culinary Educator, R&D Chef); Nancy Silverton (Osteria Mozza); and Michael Tusk (Cotogna, Quince).

FutureCorp is an investment platform built to connect frontier economies with public-market investors. The firm expects to sponsor publicly listed vehicles giving public-market investors access to leading private companies in frontier economies, beginning with space. FutureCorp Space Acquisition 1 (NYSE: FTRA), the firms first listed vehicle, priced its initial public offering of 20,000,000 units at $10.00 per unit on June 4 2026, for gross proceeds of $200,000,000 before any exercise of the underwriters over-allotment option. Cantor Fitzgerald & Co. acted as sole book-running manager. As described in its prospectus, FutureCorp Space Acquisition 1 intends to concentrate on companies in the global industrial space economy, including space manufacturing and component supply chains, launch platforms, in-orbit services and habitats, in-orbit computing and manufacturing, space-based telecommunications and Earth observation, and defense-related activities.

Welcome to the next generation of flight. Surf Air Mobility is reinventing flying through the power of electrification, changing everything you've come to expect from aviation. Green flying is a new era of air travel expansion made possible with new technologies that reduce emissions and cost. There's a 910,000,000+ ton carbon problem waiting to be solved. By starting with electrifying smaller existing aircraft, we can take a significant step toward decarbonizing air travel. Green flying redefines our radius of local possibility. As aircraft become cheaper to operate with electrification, we can catalyze new routes that change the paradigm of how we move. A new kind of point-to-point air travel can replace busy highways and large crowded airports.

Madefire is a revolutionary new storytelling platform that is redefining the way stories are created, experienced and shared. Madefire has created a new category of entertainment, called Motion Books, designed specifically for the groundbreaking interactive capabilities of mobile devices and the web. As one of our first customers put it, using the Madefire App feels like "reading a movie"​. Madefire has garnered an amazing flurry of press and support from Apple and the community, has maintained a perfect 5-star rating since launch in June 2012, and was named a Best of Apple App Store for 2012. Our team consists of consumer technology veterans from companies such as Wordpress, Apple, and Flipboard, in addition to some of the brightest creative authors and artists. Madefire is where the Myths of the 21st Century are Created.

Panna, named one of the Best Apps of 2012 by Apple, is the first digital cooking magazine available on the iPad and iPhone. Panna uses video technology to connect home cooks to celebrity chefs, so that home cooks can cook along with the master in their own kitchens. Panna works with celebrity chefs including Jonathan Waxman (Barbuto); Rick Bayless (Frontera Grill and Top Chef Masters Winner); Sean Brock (Husk, McCrady’s); Melissa Clark (NY Times food writer and recipe developer); Melissa Hamilton and Christopher Hirscheimer (Canal House Cooking); Anita Lo (Annisa and Top Chef Masters); Seamus Mullen (Boqueria, Tertulia); Chad Sarno (Health Starts Here Senior Culinary Educator, R&D Chef); Nancy Silverton (Osteria Mozza); and Michael Tusk (Cotogna, Quince).

Our mission is to build world-class companies by providing early-stage investment and operational guidance to distinctive entrepreneurs. We like to get involved early. We are usually the first institutional investor in a company, and our typical initial investment is from $500,000 to $4,000,000. We prefer to take a lead or co-lead position where we can have influence on the Board of Directors as well as outside this formal channel through direct ties to the leadership team.