# Griffon Ventures

> Griffon Ventures is a VC fund in Southfield backing Mobile and Fashion. See 8 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Southfield, United States
- Total investments: 8
- Last investment: Mar 2026
- Lead investor: 13%
- Last fund: Dec 2014
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/GriffonVentures
- Website: http://www.griffonvc.com
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/griffonvc

Griffon Ventures is a dynamic venture capital firm dedicated to investing in early-stage startups with high-growth potential. With a keen focus on innovation, Griffon Ventures partners with visionary entrepreneurs across technology, fintech, healthcare, and sustainability sectors. The firm provides not only capital but also strategic guidance,leveraging its deep industry expertise and extensive network to accelerate portfolio companies' growth. Griffon Ventures is committed to fostering groundbreaking ideas, driving scalable business models, and supporting founders in building market-leading companies.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $200k–$2.2M |
| Pre-Seed | $500k–$3M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Mobile | 1 | 13% |
| Fashion | 1 | 13% |
| Software | 1 | 13% |
| Analytics | 1 | 13% |
| Education | 1 | 13% |

16 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Pre-Seed | 4 | 50% |
| Seed | 2 | 25% |
| Series A | 1 | 13% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Georgia | 3 | 38% |
| United States | 2 | 25% |
| Israel | 1 | 13% |
| Estonia | 1 | 13% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Marcia Andrade | Founder, Managing Director | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ethan-goodman |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| JewelMusic | JewelMusic is your intelligent copilot that helps artists craft perfect lyrics that match their music's rhythm and emotion. Work alongside AI to enhance your creative process while maintaining complete artistic control. | $3M | Pre-Seed | Mar 18, 2026 |  |
| JEWELGROWTH | JEWELGROWTH is an advanced AI-driven platform designed exclusively for jewelry manufacturers and brands. Our cutting-edge technology enhances customer retention, maximizes revenue per customer, and automates marketing strategies, allowing businesses to thrive in the highly competitive jewelry market. |  | Pre-Seed | Feb 10, 2025 |  |
| FASHIONGROWTH | FASHIONGROWTH is a next-generation AI-powered platform tailored specifically for fashion brands. By leveraging advanced technology, we help brands build lasting customer relationships, boost lifetime value, and streamline marketing efforts with intelligent automation. Designed for the fast-paced and ever-evolving fashion industry, FASHIONGROWTHempowers brands to stay ahead of trends, scale effortlessly, and maximize their market impact.Company address: Georgia, Tbilisi, Krtsanisi District, Nino and Ilia Nakashidze Street, №1, (form. Avlevi), Building №3, Apartment №3 | $2M | Pre-Seed | Feb 10, 2025 |  |
| LeadExplorer | The e-commerce marketing platform for growing direct-to-consumer brands. Only AdRoll gives you the power to connect, automate, and measure the whole customer journey, across the web. | $200K | Seed | Jul 20, 2024 |  |
| AutomatedRules | AutomatedRules is an ad management automation tool that helps businesses and marketers automate their advertising campaigns on Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, TikTok, Snapchat, and Twitter. This tool can help save time and improve ad performance by allowing users to focus on strategic decisions rather than manual, repetitive tasks. WithAutomatedRules, users can easily create rules that automate routine tasks, such as adjusting bids, pausing ads, and updating budgets, based on specific performance metrics.AutomatedRules is an essential tool for anyone looking to streamline their advertising campaigns and maximize their return on investment. | $500K | Pre-Seed | Oct 04, 2023 |  |
| Ditto Labs | Ditto Labs was first-to-market with a dashboard tool to help top brand marketers derive insights, prospect audiences, and measure campaigns from what appears in social media photos. Ditto’s patented machine learning and computer vision capability is integrate with a majority of enterprise social listening platforms. Now brands can holisticallyanalyze campaign performance and consumer sentiment by incorporating text with visual signals of affinity.Ditto's "vision-as-a-service” products also help travel and hospitality sites improve click through rates by surfacing the most persuasive user-generated photos. Ditto's APIs also enable housing and car sites to better organize, screen and rate user photos to improve site performance.Independently verified, Ditto’s computer vision has higher accuracy and a broader catalog of relevant classifiers than competitors. Ditto is the only company enabling clients to train bespoke classifiers to recognize what is most important to their business needs. | $2.2M | Seed | May 14, 2014 |  |
| Ditto Labs | Ditto Labs was first-to-market with a dashboard tool to help top brand marketers derive insights, prospect audiences, and measure campaigns from what appears in social media photos. Ditto’s patented machine learning and computer vision capability is integrate with a majority of enterprise social listening platforms. Now brands can holisticallyanalyze campaign performance and consumer sentiment by incorporating text with visual signals of affinity.Ditto's "vision-as-a-service” products also help travel and hospitality sites improve click through rates by surfacing the most persuasive user-generated photos. Ditto's APIs also enable housing and car sites to better organize, screen and rate user photos to improve site performance.Independently verified, Ditto’s computer vision has higher accuracy and a broader catalog of relevant classifiers than competitors. Ditto is the only company enabling clients to train bespoke classifiers to recognize what is most important to their business needs. | $1.1M | Seed | Jul 31, 2013 |  |
| Chalkfly | Chalkfly is reinventing the experience of buying office and school supplies online. With over 50,000 products, 24/7 customer service, a 365 return policy and a mission to change the world - Chalkfly is bringing excitement and purpose to the office supply world.Chalkfly customers can choose a teacher to receive five percent of theirpurchase. We believe that doing good is good business and we're committed to supporting the communities in which we serve.Founded in late 2012, Chalkfly is ranked as one of the fastest growing e-commerce companies in country (we’re the youngest member of the Internet Retailer’s Second 500 for 2013). Chalkfly is also proud to be ranked as one of Turnstone’s 2013 Best Young Companies To Work For.We’re proudly based in Detroit and through our amazing team and commitment to education, we hope to change the way supplies are bought online.Chalkfly is currently fundraising. We'd welcome the chance to explore partnership opportunities. Please reach out to smile@chalkfly.com if interested. Thank you! | $750K | Series A | Mar 19, 2013 |  |

8 of 8 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Griffon Ventures invest in?

Griffon Ventures invests primarily in Mobile, Fashion and Software startups, most often at Pre-Seed and Seed stage. Most of the 8 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Georgia. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

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

Griffon Ventures typically joins rounds of $200k–$2.2M at Seed and $500k–$3M at Pre-Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Griffon Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact Griffon Ventures?

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### Who are the partners at Griffon Ventures?

The team at Griffon Ventures includes Marcia Andrade (Founder, Managing Director). 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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