# Chartered Group

> Chartered Group is a VC fund in Fremont backing Hardware, Cloud Storage and Cloud Computing. See 3 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Fremont, United States
- Total investments: 3
- Last investment: Feb 2022
- Lead investor: 67%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/chartered-group/

Chartered Group is a investment banking firm.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Hardware | 1 | 33% |
| Cloud Storage | 1 | 33% |
| Cloud Computing | 1 | 33% |
| Machine Learning | 1 | 33% |
| Internet of Things | 1 | 33% |

10 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 2 | 67% |
| Seed | 1 | 33% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Israel | 1 | 33% |
| United States | 1 | 33% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| CogniFiber | CogniFiber designs and builds stand-alone photonic AI accelerators for IoT analytics based on proprietary photonic deep learning processors. | $6M | Series A | Feb 09, 2022 |  |
| Ridge | Ridge, the world’s most distributed cloud, unlocks the full potential of cloud computing. Its massive network of points of presence closes public cloud coverage gaps and empowers businesses to deploy applications on existing infrastructure anywhere — with no latency or data residency obstacles. Ridge’s cloud-native services, including itsCNCF-certified managed Kubernetes, are simple for DevOps and cloud architects to operate. They enable them to easily deploy cloud-native applications as part of any multi-cloud or hybrid cloud architectures. With Ridge, developers enjoy public cloud agility together with the superior performance, high throughput, and data control of private servers. | $22M | Series A | Jan 25, 2022 |  |
| CogniFiber | CogniFiber designs and builds stand-alone photonic AI accelerators for IoT analytics based on proprietary photonic deep learning processors. | $2.5M | Seed | Jan 31, 2019 |  |

3 of 3 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Chartered Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/the-chartered-group-51d6) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Mayfield Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mayfield-fund) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [NFX](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nfxcapital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Slow Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/slow-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Viola Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/violaventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Chartered Group invest in?

Chartered Group invests primarily in Hardware, Cloud Storage and Cloud Computing startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 3 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Israel. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Chartered Group last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Chartered Group closed in Feb 2022. Shizune tracks 3 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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