Grit Ventures
VC Fund
Menlo Park, United States
Grit Ventures is a VC fund in Menlo Park focused on Artificial Intelligence and Robotics. Grit Ventures is leading pre-seed and seed stage investments and bringing a smart money model to Deep Technology early stage investing. Sourcing from the leading nationwide labs and leveraging over 3 decades of Go-To-Market experience in Hardware, Grit invests in and shepherds groundbreaking AI + Robotics + Clean Energy companies through the oftentumultuous journey from Labs to Launch.
- Total investments:
- 30
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 13%
- Last fund:
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Industries Grit Ventures invests in
Stages Grit Ventures invests in
Countries Grit Ventures invests in
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Investment Focus
Industry
- Artificial Intelligence 9 (30%)
- Robotics 6 (20%)
- Software 4 (13%)
- Industrial Automation 4 (13%)
- Construction 3 (10%)
Stage
- Seed 12 (40%)
- Series A 6 (20%)
- Funding Round 3 (10%)
- Pre-Seed 2 (7%)
- Angel 1 (3%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Jennifer Gill Roberts
Co-Founder, Managing Partner
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Co-Founder, Managing Partner | Total investments: 8 | Find email | |
Kelly Coyne
Co-Founder, Managing Partner
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Co-Founder, Managing Partner | Total investments: 2 | Find email | |
Mike Regan
Partner
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Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Trustwise is an AI safety startup on a mission to democratize AI that is safe, observable, and compliant. | $4M / Seed / Jun 18, 2024 | ||
| Secro is an early-stage startup developing a supply chain platform to eliminate fraud, inefficiencies, and exploitation from global trade. Its cloud-based platform offers organizations the ability to securely collaborate and efficiently perform all functions needed to negotiate, sign, finance, execute, and audit complex cross-border supply chaintransactions. It also utilizes advanced technology to vet customers, protect data, prevent fraud, detect suspicious behavior, and ensure confidentiality.Secro was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware. | $3.6M / Seed / Apr 27, 2023 | ||
| Better roofs, through brilliant robotics. Renovate Robotics is building robots that make roofing safer and more efficient for roofing contractors. | $3M / Pre-Seed / Mar 02, 2023 | ||
| Apptronik develops humanoid robots designed to operate alongside human workers and assist with physical tasks. The company focuses on creating general-purpose robotic systems that combine hardware, software, and AI to perform activities such as material handling, case picking, palletizing, and machine tending in industrial and logisticsenvironments. Its flagship product, the Apollo humanoid, is engineered to navigate spaces built for people and interact with existing tools and infrastructure. Apptronik also integrates robotic solutions through service and ownership models to support operational workflows. The company partners with technology and industrial firms to advance robot capabilities and real-world deployment. | $14.6M / Seed / Jun 23, 2022 | ||
| RIOS, founded in 2018, is a technology company helping global customers automate their factories, warehouses, and supply chain operations by deploying a new class of dexterous AI-powered robots. RIOS robots handle hard-to-automate tasks, typically requiring human-level dexterity, in unstructured environments. RIOS is headquartered in Palo Alto, CAand has a pilot facility in San Carlos, CA. More information is available at www.rios.ai. | $28M / Series A / Feb 22, 2022 | ||
| AI Restaurant Manager | $12M / Feb 11, 2022 | ||
| AI Restaurant Manager | $13.2M / Seed / Feb 11, 2022 | ||
| Agtonomy is a hybrid autonomy and tele-assist platform for agriculture vehicles. | $5M / Seed / Jan 18, 2022 | ||
| MonoLets is enabling a real-time item-level supply chain data platform for AI systems. | $6M / Seed / Jan 10, 2022 | ||
| Cognitive Space makes use of AI technology to automate multi-agent command and control. Through its CNTIENT-SC3(TM) platform, it can automate mission planning and commanding for constellation of Earth observing and telecommunication satellites. Leadership team has over 50 years of space systems experience and critical software development. | $4M / Seed / Nov 18, 2021 | ||
| See all 30 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Grit Ventures invest in?
Grit Ventures invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Software startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 30 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 Ventures?
The team at Grit Ventures includes Jennifer Gill Roberts (Co-Founder, Managing Partner), Kelly Coyne (Co-Founder, Managing Partner) and Mike Regan (Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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