GrandBanks Capital
VC Fund
Needham, United States
GrandBanks Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in wireless and mobile technologies, digital media, web-based commerce, cloud-based services, storage, and financial technologies.The GrandBanks team and its partners collectively have more than 100 years of venture capital investing and senior operating experience, a proofpoint to their insight and expertise that helps entrepreneurs build the next wave of premier companies in emerging markets. Comprised of recognized business builders within targeted investment sectors, the investment team possesses a sought after reputation within the venture capital community for actively building successful companies.Recognizing new technologies with the potential for significant impact, GrandBanks Capital team members and partners have been lead investors and senior executives for some of the most successful companies in their respective sectors, including Yahoo!, E*Trade, Art Technology Group, GEAC, GeoCities, Multex Systems, 1800Flowers.com, GSI Commerce, SOFTBANK, EMC Corporation, Thomson Financial, First Call, CCBN, Lycos, The Learning Company, and Phoenix Technologies LTD.Current portfolio companies include Where Inc., I Love Rewards, Glasshouse Technologies, KnowledgeVision, Vela Systems and Nexage.
- Total investments:
- 88
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 32%
- Fund size:
- $150M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries GrandBanks Capital invests in
Stages GrandBanks Capital invests in
Countries GrandBanks Capital invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Series A
- $1M–$12M
- Series B
- $3.5M–$15M
- Series C
- $3M–$20M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 15 (17%)
- Mobile 11 (13%)
- Advertising 7 (8%)
- Information Technology 7 (8%)
- SaaS 6 (7%)
Stage
- Series A 22 (25%)
- Series B 17 (19%)
- Series C 12 (14%)
- Funding Round 12 (14%)
- Seed 4 (5%)
Country
- United States 35 (40%)
- United Kingdom 3 (3%)
- India 1 (1%)
- Canada 1 (1%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Charles Lax
Co-Founder & Managing General Partner
|
Co-Founder & Managing General Partner | Total investments: 9 | Find email | |
Jeffrey Parker
Venture Partner
|
Venture Partner | Total investments: 7 | Find email | |
JJ Healy
Venture Partner
|
Venture Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Steve Kurylo
CFO
|
CFO | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Tim Wright
General Partner
|
General Partner | Total investments: 19 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beamable enables game makers to easily add social, commerce and content management features to their games with drag-and-drop prefabs inside Unity. Disruptor Beam brings together worldwide fan communities with games created surrounding iconic properties. It creates highly authentic, socially-driven games based around worlds that have spawnedcommunities of millions of passionate, dedicated fans.The company was founded in 2010 and headquartered in Framingham, Massachusetts. | $13.5M / Series A / Feb 04, 2025 | ||
| Beamable enables game makers to easily add social, commerce and content management features to their games with drag-and-drop prefabs inside Unity. Disruptor Beam brings together worldwide fan communities with games created surrounding iconic properties. It creates highly authentic, socially-driven games based around worlds that have spawnedcommunities of millions of passionate, dedicated fans.The company was founded in 2010 and headquartered in Framingham, Massachusetts. | $5M / Venture - Series Unknown / Nov 02, 2021 | ||
| Beamable enables game makers to easily add social, commerce and content management features to their games with drag-and-drop prefabs inside Unity. Disruptor Beam brings together worldwide fan communities with games created surrounding iconic properties. It creates highly authentic, socially-driven games based around worlds that have spawnedcommunities of millions of passionate, dedicated fans.The company was founded in 2010 and headquartered in Framingham, Massachusetts. | $5M / Venture - Series Unknown / Feb 23, 2021 | ||
| Mavrck is the leading all-in-one influencer marketing platform enabling enterprise brands such as P&G, Reebok, and Walgreens to harness the power of social proof that consumers trust today. Marketers use Mavrck to identify and activate influencers, employees, and consumer advocates to create authentic content at scale. Using its self-serviceproduct, marketers take an automated and data-driven approach to influencer marketing. Founded in 2014, Mavrck is headquartered in Boston, with offices in Denver, has 65 employees, and has raised $20M in venture capital. The platform has been recognized for its superior offering by the Shorty Awards and Retail Innovator Awards, honored as “Best Influencer Marketing Platform” by Digiday, and named to the 2020 Inc. 5000, awarded to America’s fastest-growing private companies. Mavrck was also named a “Leader” among the top emerging influencer marketing platforms in Forrester’s evaluation, The Forrester New Wave™: Influencer Marketing Solutions, 2020. Mavrck's culture of curious hustlers has also been recognized as "Top Company Cultures Among Small Companies" by Entrepreneur. | $5.8M / Series A / Oct 31, 2018 | ||
| Later is a social and influencer marketing service, as well as a link-in-bio tool. It develops high-performing social content and works with creators to reach new audiences, increase engagement, and achieve predictable ROI. | $5.8M / Series A / Oct 31, 2018 | ||
| Dispatch is the operating system that empowers modern service experiences for the world’s largest service brands. Our platform connects the enterprise, service provider, and customer together to create a world-class service experience that surpasses the rising expectations of the modern-day market. | Corporate Round / Sep 17, 2018 | ||
| Bison has two products in the market that represent the forward-looking mission and vision of the company. – Cobalt GP and Cobalt LP.Cobalt GP gives private fund managers democratized data, powerful analytics, and on-the-go access. Instant answers, all delivered in a branded experience. Cobalt LP helps institutional investors like Hamilton Laneunderstand capital flows in portfolios, diligence managers, and report on portfolio performance. | Jan 08, 2018 | ||
| Cobalt Software enables private equity and venture capital firms can collect, analyze, and report on fund and portfolio company metrics the way they want. Cobalt works with management, finance, valuations, investor relations, and deal teams at private equity and venture capital firms to build a suite of data and reporting solutions that suit theirfirm size and investment style.It was founded in 2011 and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. | Venture - Series Unknown / Jan 08, 2018 | ||
| Dispatch is the operating system that empowers modern service experiences for the world’s largest service brands. Our platform connects the enterprise, service provider, and customer together to create a world-class service experience that surpasses the rising expectations of the modern-day market. | $12M / Series A / Jun 14, 2017 | ||
| Beamable enables game makers to easily add social, commerce and content management features to their games with drag-and-drop prefabs inside Unity. Disruptor Beam brings together worldwide fan communities with games created surrounding iconic properties. It creates highly authentic, socially-driven games based around worlds that have spawnedcommunities of millions of passionate, dedicated fans.The company was founded in 2010 and headquartered in Framingham, Massachusetts. | $8.5M / Series B / Feb 02, 2017 | ||
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FAQ
What does GrandBanks Capital invest in?
GrandBanks Capital invests primarily in Software, Mobile and Advertising startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 88 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does GrandBanks Capital invest in?
GrandBanks Capital typically joins rounds of $1M–$12M at Series A, $3.5M–$15M at Series B and $3M–$20M at Series C. These are whole funding-round sizes, not GrandBanks Capital's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds GrandBanks Capital took part in.
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Who are the partners at GrandBanks Capital?
The team at GrandBanks Capital includes Charles Lax (Co-Founder & Managing General Partner), Jeffrey Parker (Venture Partner) and JJ Healy (Venture Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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