GRIL Ventures
VC Fund
Douglas, Isle of Man
GRIL Ventures is a private investment firm focusing on backing high growth and high impact technology companies. It is on a mission to align disruptive technologies and game-changing entrepreneurs to advance dignity. It has a portfolio of 45 investments across energy, transportation, health and mental wellness, education, food and agriculture,consumer, internet, and big data for enterprise.
- Total investments:
- 18
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 17%
Last updated:
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Industries GRIL Ventures invests in
Stages GRIL Ventures invests in
Countries GRIL Ventures invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $1M–$6.2M
- Series A
- $1M–$8.2M
- Venture - Series Unknown
- $3.5M–$53M
Investment Focus
Industry
- SaaS 3 (17%)
- FinTech 3 (17%)
- Software 3 (17%)
- E-Commerce 3 (17%)
- Information Technology 3 (17%)
Stage
- Seed 7 (39%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 5 (28%)
- Series A 2 (11%)
- Series B 1 (6%)
- Funding Round 1 (6%)
Country
- United States 12 (67%)
- United Kingdom 3 (17%)
- Isle of Man 1 (6%)
- United Arab Emirates 1 (6%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Avi Sarma
Managing Partner
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Managing Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Benjamin Lu
Managing Partner
|
Managing Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Colin Rushmere
Managing Director
|
Managing Director | Total investments: 0 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
Seafood Souq
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Seafood Souq is an impact-focused digital ecosystem for the global seafood market, providing trade and industry leading full supply chain traceability technology with Data/Insights. Seafood Souq operates across the globe through regional headquarters that support sourcing and sales as well as SFS Trace implementation for some of theworld's leading fisheries and retail brands.Seafood Souq’s focus on a transparent and traceable seafood industry was recognized by the United Nations and the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission | Seed / Aug 01, 2020 | |
Cogni
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Cogni is a next-gen platform that bringing a banking, digital assets, commerce and lifestyle on a single application. | $6.2M / Seed / Oct 23, 2019 | |
Upgraded
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Upgraded operates an online platform that helps users to upgrade their phones, tablets, computers, and accessories.Pick from any number of phones, tablets, computers and accessories from your favorite brands. Time upgrades on your own terms—like every year for your phone, or every three years for your laptop and pay just one low monthly price. Nomore keeping track of old devices, or selling them on craigslist. Upgrades and exchanges happen automatically according to your plan. | $2M / Seed / Dec 11, 2018 | |
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Cogni
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Cogni is a next-gen platform that bringing a banking, digital assets, commerce and lifestyle on a single application. | $1.7M / Seed / Nov 05, 2018 | |
Begin Legacy
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Begin Legacy helps employees, bank & credit union customers, and individuals take control of their charitable giving and amplify their impact through its platform that combines and automates the best features of donor-advised funds (DAF) and crowdfunding tools into a Charitable Account. | $3.5M / Venture - Series Unknown / Oct 09, 2018 | |
RoboSig
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RoboSig is a software developer that specializes in issuing systematic and market-neutral currency trading strategies coupled with automated risk management as well as trade execution tools.Their experienced specialists in Foreign Exchange, Technology, Capital Markets, Banking, Law and Economics combine a wealth of knowledge with decades ofexperience. By adding sophisticated software specialists to their team, they have created a competent foundation for prolonged success in the financial markets. | Seed / May 30, 2018 | |
ChangeUp
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The world’s biggest companies use ChangeUp’s donation APIs to increase their e-commerce conversions, promote brand values, and inspire customers to join them in changing the world. | $1.2M / Convertible Note / May 10, 2018 | |
Holberton School
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Holberton School is a project-based alternative to college for the next generation of software engineers. It offers a two-year higher-education program to become a full-stack software engineer. Through project-based and peer learning, Holberton students unleash their creativity and naturally learn how to work as a team to solve practicalchallenges. Its curriculum is 100% hands-on, challenging, and exciting. Holberton students create many programs and systems; they work on industry-level projects and build their own applications.Holberton School was founded in 2016 by Sylvain Kalache and Julien Barbier with its first campus in San Francisco. Today, it operates 3 other campuses namely in New Haven, Bogotá, and Medellín. | $8.2M / Series A / Apr 04, 2018 | |
Sentieo
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Sentieo is a financial and corporate research platform for executives, investment analysts, and researchers that offers them the insights, speed, and confidence they need to make informed strategic decisions so they can outperform the market and gain a competitive edge. Sentieo is the only research platform that brings together the previouslydisparate tools of financial document search, market and alternative data, and modeling and analytics, with a research management system.Sentieo's solutions include financial document search, research management, financial data terminal, Mosaic – alternative datasets, and mobile apps. It serves hedge funds, Fortune 500 corporations, family offices, mutual funds, investment banks, RIAs, private equity firms, consultancies, and individual investors. Alap and Naman Shah founded Sentieo in 2012. It has its headquarters in San Francisco, with offices in New York City, London, and Delhi. | $6M / Venture - Series Unknown / Mar 27, 2018 | |
ScoreData Corporation
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ScoreData helps businesses leverage their data to dramatically improve the quality of their engagement with their customers. ScoreData's ScoreFast™platform allows business managers and data scientists to work together to deploy the most robust predictive applications. The applications have a unique self-learning capability, which obviatesthe need to rebuild the predictive applications as new data becomes available. Not only do the predictive applications learn over time, but they are also shown to be robust, and thus you have the lowest cost of ownership for predictive applications in the industry. Applications built with ScoreFast can be deployed across multiple touch-points such as in-store, mobile, web, kiosk, chatbots, or cloud-contact centers. ScoreData solutions have been used by some of the largest companies in the world. | Seed / Oct 05, 2017 | |
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FAQ
What does GRIL Ventures invest in?
GRIL Ventures invests primarily in SaaS, FinTech and Software startups, most often at Seed and Venture - Series Unknown stage. Most of the 18 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 GRIL Ventures's check size?
GRIL Ventures typically joins rounds of $1M–$6.2M at Seed, $1M–$8.2M at Series A and $3.5M–$53M 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 GRIL Ventures participates in.
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Who are the partners at GRIL Ventures?
The team at GRIL Ventures includes Avi Sarma (Managing Partner), Benjamin Lu (Managing Partner) and Colin Rushmere (Managing Director). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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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 Sep 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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