Grit Capital Partners
VC Fund
New York, United States
Grit Capital Partners is a VC fund in New York focused on Software and FinTech. Grit Capital Partners invests in high potential entrepreneurs who seek to disrupt industries with technology and data, and are on a path to change the world. The combination of a powerful idea, an addressable market, and a world class team provides significant advantage when combined with their powerful network of entrepreneurs, executives, andtechnology veterans at the top of their game.
- Total investments:
- 31
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 29%
- Fund size:
- $9.7M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Grit Capital Partners invests in
Stages Grit Capital Partners invests in
Countries Grit Capital Partners invests in
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 6 (19%)
- FinTech 4 (13%)
- Internet 4 (13%)
- Financial Services 4 (13%)
- Artificial Intelligence 4 (13%)
Stage
- Seed 12 (39%)
- Pre-Seed 5 (16%)
- Series A 4 (13%)
- Series B 3 (10%)
- Funding Round 2 (6%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Paul Palmieri
Managing General Partner / Founder
|
Managing General Partner / Founder | Total investments: 17 | Find email | |
Jesse Leikin
Entrepreneur In Residence
|
Entrepreneur In Residence | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Matthew Bellows
General Partner
|
General Partner | Total investments: 2 | Find email | |
Mike Flannery
General Partner
|
General Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| BRANDRANK.AI help Brands continuously monitor and strengthen positioning using generative AI. | $3M / Seed / Jul 28, 2026 | ||
| Monark Markets is an institutional-grade technology infrastructure, legal framework, and network connecting brokerages, advisors and custodians to private market securities. Monark owns and operates a broker dealer subsidiary and exempt reporting advisor subsidiary. | $8.1M / Venture - Series Unknown / Feb 18, 2026 | ||
| Kira is a unified API platform for organizations to execute payrolls, remittances, wallets, and cross-border payments. | $6.7M / Seed / Aug 25, 2025 | ||
| Averi is an AI-powered marketing management platform that combines proprietary AI models for marketing strategy and content creation.Design modern strategy, analyze massive amounts of data, create endless content from ads and social posts to blogs and whitepapers, build perfect-fit teams of marketing experts, and manage your entire growthoperation in one seamless experience. | $3M / Seed / May 27, 2025 | ||
| Monark Markets is an institutional-grade technology infrastructure, legal framework, and network connecting brokerages, advisors and custodians to private market securities. Monark owns and operates a broker dealer subsidiary and exempt reporting advisor subsidiary. | $2.2M / Seed / Oct 22, 2024 | ||
| Speechlab is building the category defining platform for speech-to-speech translation for professional creators, over the top media, and online education. The company was incubated at Andrew Ng's AI Fund. Its team have deep experience at building and commercializing new speech technologies. | $2.9M / Pre-Seed / Jun 19, 2024 | ||
| Chptr is a mobile-first platform for memorialization that collects, shares, and preserves memories of a loved one's life for future generations. is a collection of recollections brought together to describe a loved one's entire life narrative. | $1.5M / Seed / Nov 09, 2023 | ||
| Porter is a big data and analytics company for health care and consumer products. The company was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in Miami, Florida, | $5.4M / Seed / Jan 04, 2023 | ||
| TechRow's immersive media platform distributes an outstanding library of educational content across it's e-learning, VR and streaming channels. Partnered with some of the most brilliant creators in the sector, the company is paving the silk road for next generation learning into households and school districts around the world. | $670K / Pre-Seed / Jan 01, 2023 | ||
| lockr is the first consumer-focused platform for identity, consent and data. The value exchange of the Internet – trading user data for subsidized access to digital content – was originally negotiated without consumers at the table. the impending deaths of the cookie and the device ID present a unique opportunity to redefine this model andincorporate consumer choice and consent into the equation.lockr is building the means for this revolution: a universal digital identity solution for tomorrow’s consumer that is congruent with the Internet economy. | $2.5M / Pre-Seed / Dec 25, 2022 | ||
| See all 31 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Grit Capital Partners invest in?
Grit Capital Partners invests primarily in Software, FinTech and Internet startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 31 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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Who are the partners at Grit Capital Partners?
The team at Grit Capital Partners includes Paul Palmieri (Managing General Partner / Founder), Jesse Leikin (Entrepreneur In Residence) and Matthew Bellows (General Partner). 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 Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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