Gray Matters Capital
VC Fund
Atlanta, United States
Gray Matters Capital is a VC fund in Atlanta focused on Education and E-Learning. The foundation prioritizes activities and opportunities according to market demand and social impact. With an overwhelming desire to increase the number of children that have access to quality education, we aim to be both collaborative and catalytic in the education sector.GMC also seeks to identify social enterprise opportunities forexplorative research and development. We employ our established understanding of the dynamics of emerging market environments to co-create programs and deploy early stage equity investments focused on improving the lives of underserved populations. We work closely with our investees and external partners to research and support new concepts and business models that will create positive social impact for these target communities.
- Total investments:
- 38
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 61%
Last updated:
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Industries Gray Matters Capital invests in
Stages Gray Matters Capital invests in
Countries Gray Matters Capital invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $50k–$2.3M
- Series A
- $1.5M–$7M
- Venture - Series Unknown
- $104k–$30M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Education 8 (21%)
- E-Learning 5 (13%)
- Health Care 5 (13%)
- FinTech 3 (8%)
- Internet 3 (8%)
Stage
- Seed 14 (37%)
- Series A 10 (26%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 6 (16%)
- Pre-Seed 2 (5%)
- Series B 2 (5%)
Country
- India 19 (50%)
- United States 7 (18%)
- Kenya 3 (8%)
- Ghana 1 (3%)
- Nigeria 1 (3%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Arun Gore
Managing Director & Partner
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Managing Director & Partner | Total investments: 3 | Find email | |
|
Jennifer Soltis
Manager
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Manager | Total investments: 4 | Find email | |
Pranay Adhvaryu
Head Of InvestmentsHead
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Head Of InvestmentsHead | Total investments: 2 | Find email | |
|
Robert Pattillo
Founder
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Founder | Total investments: 0 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| HerSpace operates as an end-to-end industrial housing partner that fabricates turnkey modular worker dormitories, women's housing, and family units in a controlled factory environment. Its value proposition centers on transforming workforce accommodation into a corporate operational advantage by assuming full accountability for sitedeployment, regulatory compliance, and 24/7 hospitality management to reduce worker absenteeism and accelerate project timelines. | $40M / Series A / Sep 07, 2026 | ||
| HerSpace operates as an end-to-end industrial housing partner that fabricates turnkey modular worker dormitories, women's housing, and family units in a controlled factory environment. Its value proposition centers on transforming workforce accommodation into a corporate operational advantage by assuming full accountability for sitedeployment, regulatory compliance, and 24/7 hospitality management to reduce worker absenteeism and accelerate project timelines. | Debt Financing / Sep 07, 2026 | ||
| Kreedo provides a complete preschool solution. | $4M / Series A / Aug 27, 2024 | ||
| PickMyWork is a gig platform that helps Fintech / Digital Companies acquire SMBs for their Products through a Pay-per-task Model using upskilled unemployed youth. | Seed / May 31, 2024 | ||
| FinAGG is a Fintech company that offers stock now pay later or invoice finance/credit line, allowing repayment flexibility within the loan tenure.The company uses AI-enabled analytics to gain insights into sales and operations, determines funds, and provides loans without collateral, allowing clients to apply for loans by providing thenecessary business information and documents. | Debt Financing / Jan 18, 2024 | ||
| ConveGenius is focused on nurturing and harnessing value by providing affordable educational solutions to create impact in large volumes. Their core competence lies in building mobile products/ apps/ games catered for global and local markets likewise. The company is focussed towards providing quality education to children at risk byintegrating technology with education and working with state governments to penetrate the rural and semi urban areas of India. It also aims to cater to the global urban market using retailing and e-tailing channels for its various world-class high-end educational solutions. ConveGenius is based out of India and Singapore. Their India office is headquartered in Noida. | $7M / Series A / Jan 11, 2024 | ||
| They are a bunch of over-optimistic chaps, who have been fascinated by how education touches and shapes lives. They call ourselves as "education innovators" and with ufaber we find ourselves standing at a junction where we can touch million lives, change lives, create opportunities in the most democratic and unbound manner. With the onsetof smart device revolution and high speed low cost internet penetration, the timing couldn't be better. It's imperative to mention what we envision with ufaber for it is also in some way the genesis of it. | $3M / Series A / May 24, 2023 | ||
| Kreedo provides a complete preschool solution. | $2.3M / Seed / Jul 04, 2022 | ||
| From Latin America to the world, we’re building a community to make emotional wellness part of everyday life. | $3.5M / Seed / May 17, 2022 | ||
| iDream Career is an education company that has developed a 3S framework program to help students plan their career. It is currently being used by over 100,000 students every year in India, Middle East, and East Africa. It has launched a tangible physical career planning product, iDC Career Planning Kit, through its platform.iDream Career’sCareer Guidance Program empower students to take informed career decisions via iDC Career Assessment tool, access to information, and one-on-one career mentoring. It has a board of quality mentors from various professions, colleges, and psychologists who have helped over 150,000 students in the last 2 years.iDream Career got selected as the top 14 fastest growing companies in India by CNBC TV 18 in its reality show “Masterpreneurs Award 2014”. It was selected as the Best Social Enterprise by IIM, Indore in 2012 and selected as one of the 6 enterprise in SEED Program at Villgro. It was founded in 2012 and is based in New Delhi, India. | $1.6M / Venture - Series Unknown / Apr 26, 2022 | ||
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FAQ
What does Gray Matters Capital invest in?
Gray Matters Capital invests primarily in Education, E-Learning and Health Care startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 38 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in India. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Gray Matters Capital's check size?
Gray Matters Capital typically joins rounds of $50k–$2.3M at Seed, $1.5M–$7M at Series A and $104k–$30M at Venture - Series Unknown. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Gray Matters Capital participates in.
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Who are the partners at Gray Matters Capital?
The team at Gray Matters Capital includes Arun Gore (Managing Director & Partner), Jennifer Soltis (Manager) and Pranay Adhvaryu (Head Of InvestmentsHead). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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