# Greyrock Investments

> Greyrock Investments is a VC fund in Sydney backing Education, E-Learning and Higher Education. See 18 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sydney, Australia
- Total investments: 18
- Last investment: Feb 2022
- Lead investor: 11%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/greyrock-investments
- Website: http://www.greyrock.com.au/

Greyrock Investments is a VC fund in Sydney focused on Education and E-Learning. Greyrock is a private investment company focused on education and technology.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series D | $23M–$200M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Education | 4 | 22% |
| E-Learning | 2 | 11% |
| Higher Education | 2 | 11% |
| Enterprise Software | 2 | 11% |
| Information Technology | 2 | 11% |

35 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 5 | 28% |
| Series D | 3 | 17% |
| Series A | 2 | 11% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 11% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 6% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Australia | 5 | 28% |
| United States | 4 | 22% |
| Bermuda | 1 | 6% |
| New Zealand | 1 | 6% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 6% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Academia.edu | Academia.edu is the largest and fastest-growing platform in the world for sharing academic research. Its mission is to accelerate and democratize academic research. Over 150 million academics have signed up to Academia.edu, adding 25 million papers. Over 100,000 people join Academia.edu each day. Academia.edu attracts over 52 million uniquevisitors a month. 40% of the world's faculty log in to Academia.edu every month. The company was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. | $23M | Series D | Feb 23, 2022 |  |
| Academia.edu | Academia.edu is the largest and fastest-growing platform in the world for sharing academic research. Its mission is to accelerate and democratize academic research. Over 150 million academics have signed up to Academia.edu, adding 25 million papers. Over 100,000 people join Academia.edu each day. Academia.edu attracts over 52 million uniquevisitors a month. 40% of the world's faculty log in to Academia.edu every month. The company was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. | $23M | Series D | Feb 23, 2022 |  |
| Go1 | GO1 provides a platform that allows companies to upscale their workforce with on-demand training and a dynamic content-driven platform for companies that are Open to Learn. The funding follows an integration with Microsoft Teams, which enables organizations using Teams to learn directly within their workplace ecosystem. Individuals can now find,consume, share, and discuss learning resources from its library of online learning resources. | $200M | Series D | Jul 19, 2021 |  |
| Expensify | Expensify is a financial services startup that provides an online expense management service for businesses. It is a great solution for solopreneurs, startups, SMBs, mid-market companies, and enterprises. The company's expense management service does expense reports by importing expenses and receipts from credit cards and emails in conjunctionwith the Expensify mobile app to take pictures of receipts. Expense reimbursement can be done in-product through ACH Direct Deposit or by exporting reports to a payroll solution. Expensify's patented SmartScan technology reads receipts and automatically creates expenses or matches them to transactions imported from a credit card. |  | Secondary Market | Apr 14, 2021 |  |
| Vurbl | Vurbl is a creator-first, free streaming audio platform for all audio types, including user-generated audio, across 40 categories. Vurbl is revolutionizing the way people distribute and listen to audio-centric information across the web. |  |  | Feb 19, 2021 |  |
| Vurbl | Vurbl is a creator-first, free streaming audio platform for all audio types, including user-generated audio, across 40 categories. Vurbl is revolutionizing the way people distribute and listen to audio-centric information across the web. |  | Seed | Feb 19, 2021 |  |
| Vurbl | Vurbl is a creator-first, free streaming audio platform for all audio types, including user-generated audio, across 40 categories. Vurbl is revolutionizing the way people distribute and listen to audio-centric information across the web. | $1.3M | Pre-Seed | Sep 21, 2020 |  |
| Vurbl | Vurbl is a creator-first, free streaming audio platform for all audio types, including user-generated audio, across 40 categories. Vurbl is revolutionizing the way people distribute and listen to audio-centric information across the web. |  | Pre-Seed | Sep 14, 2020 |  |
| Chatterize | Chatterize builds conversational chatbots that help young Chinese kids speak English with confidence. | $656.9K | Seed | Jul 09, 2020 |  |
| Practera | Practera closes the skills gap between University and Workplace by enabling experiential learning at massive scale. Employers are constantly demanding graduates with more work-ready skills, but Universities struggle to deliver high quality work integrated learning to large numbers of students. Practera helps Universities and corporates deliverexcellent experiential programs, cost effectively, at scales of hundreds to thousands of students. Our business model is supported by proprietary technology which we have developed specifically for work integrated learning.Work integrated learning is a rapidly growing $50bn industry within the $1.5T global higher education market. There is opportunity for disruption because existing solutions, such as internships, have high overheads and are hard to scale for both Corporate and University participants. We believe that our smart technology, combined with the right business model, can also help change the economics and outcomes of work integrated learning, creating dramatic growth opportunities for the industry. We are leveraging the same technology capabilities and trends that are driving the adoption of MOOCs, learning analytics and adaptive learning. |  | Series A | Apr 10, 2020 |  |

10 of 18 investments shown.

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- [Tencent](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tencent) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
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## FAQ

### What does Greyrock Investments invest in?

Greyrock Investments invests primarily in Education, E-Learning and Higher Education startups, most often at Seed and Series D stage. Most of the 18 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Australia. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Greyrock Investments's check size?

Greyrock Investments typically joins rounds of $23M–$200M at Series D. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Greyrock Investments participates in.

### When did Greyrock Investments last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Greyrock Investments closed in Feb 2022. Shizune tracks 18 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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