# GE Ventures

> GE Ventures is a VC fund in Menlo Park backing Health Care and Software. See 138 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Menlo Park, United States
- Total investments: 138
- Last investment: Sep 2021
- Lead investor: 25%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ge_ventures
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/GE_Ventures
- Website: https://www.ge.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/GE-Ventures/130682603784735

GE Ventures is a VC fund in Menlo Park focused on Health Care and Software. GE Ventures combines capital, technical, and commercial services. They invest in the healthcare and life sciences, energy and mobility, manufacturing and supply chain, enterprise productivity applications, digital infrastructure, and frontier technologies sectors.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series A | $6M–$21M |
| Series B | $5.5M–$34M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Health Care | 29 | 21% |
| Software | 28 | 20% |
| Enterprise Software | 16 | 12% |
| Analytics | 12 | 9% |
| Medical | 11 | 8% |

138 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series B | 34 | 25% |
| Series A | 28 | 20% |
| Funding Round | 21 | 15% |
| Series C | 20 | 14% |
| Series D | 13 | 9% |

13 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 75 | 54% |
| Israel | 6 | 4% |
| Canada | 3 | 2% |
| Germany | 2 | 1% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 1% |

6 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Geoff Smith | Manager | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/geoff-smith-6 |
| Jessica Zeaske | Director of Healthcare Investments | 8 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jessica-zeaske |
| Kennath H. Stewart | Entrepreneur In Residence | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kennath-h-stewart |
| Pat Patnode | President of Licensing | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pat-patnode |
| Ralph Taylor-Smith | Managing Director | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ralph-taylor-smith |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| The Plate | The Plate is aiming to tap into the creator economy trend and preserve those fine culinary skills have amassed, and push them even further forward. | $1.3M | Pre-Seed | Sep 23, 2021 |  |
| FogHorn | FogHorn is a developer of “edge intelligence” software for industrial and commercial IoT application solutions. FogHorn’s software platform brings the power of advanced analytics and machine learning to the on-premises edge environment enabling a new class of applications for advanced monitoring and diagnostics, machine performance optimization,proactive maintenance and operational intelligence use cases. FogHorn’s technology is ideally suited for OEMs, systems integrators and end customers in manufacturing, power and water, oil and gas, renewable energy, mining, transportation, healthcare, retail, as well as smart grid, smart city, smart building and connected vehicle applications. | $25M | Series C | Feb 25, 2020 |  |
| Catalant | Catalant is a software company that provides global enterprises with software solutions to access business expertise on demand. The company helps more than 30% of the Fortune 100 get from strategy to execution faster, with software that helps businesses accelerate mission-critical work and more than 65,000 experts and 1,000 firms who help themdeliver it.Catalant platform is designed to enable the process of strategy execution, starting with entering in a business’ most important strategic objectives, aligning work and breaking it down into distinct elements, accessing and deploying needed internal and external resources, collaborating to execute it, measuring the work’s value, and providing insights to keep improving how it all gets done. It has built a global network of more than 27,000 boutique firms, custom teams, and independent experts, as well as best-in-class software tools for engaging and managing this market.Catalant is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, and serves customers around the world. | $35M | Series E | Jan 22, 2020 |  |
| Upskill | Upskill provides wearable technology to connect hands-on workers from the factory to the warehouse to the jobsite. Its robust platform, Skylight, connects the industrial workforce with the people, processes, information, and equipment they need to do their jobs with greater efficiency and fewer errors, leaving them hands free to focus on theirtasks at hand, and their tools. For organizations in the competitive global market looking to increase productivity, improve quality, reduce costs, train new workers, retain tribal knowledge, and provide a strong foundation for further investments, the future starts with Upskill. | $7.6M |  | Oct 30, 2019 |  |
| Balena | Balena is a complete set of tools for building, deploying, and managing fleets of connected IoT devices. It provides infrastructure and tools for fleet owners so they can focus on developing their applications and growing their fleets with as little friction as possible.Balena enables devices and their running services to be managed, monitored,and updated through the web dashboard or through its API, via the CLI and SDK.Balena was established in 2013. | $14.4M | Series B | Jul 24, 2019 |  |
| Drawbridge Health | Founded in 2015 by GE Ventures and GE Healthcare, Drawbridge Health is a privately held healthcare technology company that is focused on reinventing the blood sampling paradigm, enabling comfortable and convenient blood sample collection anytime and anywhere. Drawbridge has both internally generated IP and the exclusive license to GE’s substantialblood stabilization chemistry IP portfolio. |  | Debt Financing | Jul 24, 2019 |  |
| Nuvolo | Nuvolo is an EAM platform that delivers a simple, intuitive, and user-friendly online and offline mobile experience. It is revolutionizing enterprise asset management by innovating on ServiceNow, an enterprise cloud platform. The company’s vision is to be the global leader in cloud-based EAM, powered by a culture of innovation and a relentlesscommitment to customer service. Fully optimized for growing, mobile workforces worldwide, Nuvolo delivers a simple, intuitive, and user-friendly online and offline mobile experience. It was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Paramus, New Jersey with offices throughout the U.S. and internationally in London and Pune, India. | $12M | Series B | Jul 18, 2019 |  |
| Acutus Medical | Acutus Medical develops medical technologies to treat complex cardiac arrhythmia. The company's platform displays the heart’s true activation pattern, turning the chaos of a complex arrhythmia into a clear vision for electrophysiologists.Acutus Medical is a privately funded company founded in 2011 and based in Carlsbad, California. Itsproducts are co-developed in the U.S. and Europe with an exceptional team of medical scientists, biomedical engineers, and other professionals.It was founded in 2011 and headquartered in Carlsbad, California. | $100M | Series D | Jun 20, 2019 |  |
| Equalum | Equalum develops and markets a platform for real-time data ingestion and processing focused on Big Data for enterprises. It is the first Data Beaming platform, capable of instantly teleporting operational data from any source to real-time analytics environments. Built for scalability and ease of use, Equalum harnesses the power of Spark in anenterprise-grade environment – helping organizations accelerate past traditional ETL or open-source implementations. Nir Livneh founded it in June 2015, with its headquarters in Tel Aviv in Israel. | $18M | Series B | May 29, 2019 |  |
| Xometry | Xometry is a AI-enabled marketplace for on-demand manufacturing, transforming one of the largest industries in the world. Xometry uses its proprietary technology to create a marketplace that enables buyers to efficiently source on-demand manufactured parts and assemblies, and empowers sellers of manufacturing services to grow their businesses. | $50M | Series D | May 13, 2019 |  |

10 of 138 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [New Enterprise Associates](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/new-enterprise-associates) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [Flare Capital Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/flare-capitalpartners) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [March Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/march-capital-partners) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
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- [Almaz Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/almaz-capital) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [BMW i Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bmw-ventures) — VC Fund, 5 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does GE Ventures invest in?

GE Ventures invests primarily in Health Care, Software and Enterprise Software startups, most often at Series B and Series A stage. Most of the 138 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is GE Ventures's check size?

GE Ventures typically joins rounds of $6M–$21M at Series A and $5.5M–$34M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds GE Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact GE Ventures?

Public channels for GE Ventures include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at GE Ventures?

The team at GE Ventures includes Geoff Smith (Manager), Jessica Zeaske (Director of Healthcare Investments) and Kennath H. Stewart (Entrepreneur In Residence), among 7 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### 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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