# Groove Capital

> Groove Capital is a VC fund in Minneapolis backing Software and Health Care. See 143 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Minneapolis, United States
- Total investments: 143
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 8%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/groove-capital/
- Website: https://www.groovecap.com/

Groove Capital is a new investment firm targeting early-stage companies.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for Groove Capital. Shizune tracks 3 team members at Groove Capital. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/groove-capital?utm_source=investor_profile

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $500k–$3.3M |
| Pre-Seed | $100k–$1.7M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 26 | 18% |
| Health Care | 26 | 18% |
| Information Technology | 12 | 8% |
| Biotechnology | 11 | 8% |
| Medical | 10 | 7% |

133 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 70 | 49% |
| Pre-Seed | 35 | 24% |
| Series A | 7 | 5% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 4 | 3% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 1% |

8 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 88 | 62% |
| Hong Kong | 1 | 1% |
| Mauritius | 1 | 1% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Mark Capaldini | Limited Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mark-capaldini-f136 |
| Mickayla Zinsli Rosard | Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mickayla-zinsli-rosard |
| Reed Robinson | Founder & Partner | 5 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/reed-robinson-17ee |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Refr Sports | Refr Sports is developing a platform solution to fix inefficiencies and shortages in the United States referee marketplace by bringing new generation technologies and employees to the industry. Sports referees currently rely on antiquated third-party referee schedulers to provide them with games to work. Similarly, sports organizations rely on thesame referee schedulers to provide referees that are qualified to officiate their games. This approach has not been updated in decades as the referee industry continues to use outdated technologies and employment methods. The result has been a severe drop in the supply of referees while at the same time demand has increased.Our application, Refr Sports, will modernize the current system, providing referees and sports coordinators an efficient and effective tool for completing their respective duties. Refr Sports makes this a reality by offering a mobile application that supports both referees and sports organizers as end users. Our app delivers complete freedom to the users by allowing the sports organizations to post their game schedules along with officiating needs and offered compensation for each game. Referees can then see the ‘work order’, accept it, and be paid immediately after the game. The Refr platform makes money by taking a small service and processing fee on the payments we facilitate through the app. This business model is very similar to what has been successful in the food (DoorDash), transportation (Uber) and personal care (care.com) industries.Our Refr Team, made up of business, technical and sporting experience, has set out on a mission to create the platform that will turn the referee industry into a gig economy marketplace. The world has seen this successfully materialize in many industries already and the referee industry can be next, by making it easy to post opportunities, claim opportunities, and get paid. | $2M | Seed | Jul 14, 2026 |  |
| Ladder Health | Ladder Health offers virtual pediatric therapy and support for early childhood developmental delays, including speech and physical therapy. | $7M | Seed | Jun 23, 2026 |  |
| Q-rounds | Q-rounds is a real-time, virtual queue that patients, families, and providers can access while in the hospital to ensure that everyone is aware of when rounds are scheduled. Q-rounds has telehealth technology through which it takes the responsibility of caring. This relieves the patient's burden of sharing information by ensuring that othershear directly from the provider and can ask questions in real-time. | $1.8M | Seed | Mar 02, 2026 |  |
| 5X5 Aviation Insurance | 5X5 Aviation Insurance offers tailored aviation insurance and instant estimates for pilots and aircraft owners. |  | Seed | Mar 01, 2026 |  |
| Ladder Health | Ladder Health offers virtual pediatric therapy and support for early childhood developmental delays, including speech and physical therapy. |  | Seed | Jan 01, 2026 |  |
| Carba | Carba is a clean-energy firm that is creating a reactor that transforms carbon dioxide into charcoal. | $6M | Seed | Dec 03, 2025 |  |
| Pops | Pops is an AI-powered platform designed to simplify how people understand and choose health insurance. |  | Seed | Dec 01, 2025 |  |
| Refr Sports | Refr Sports is developing a platform solution to fix inefficiencies and shortages in the United States referee marketplace by bringing new generation technologies and employees to the industry. Sports referees currently rely on antiquated third-party referee schedulers to provide them with games to work. Similarly, sports organizations rely on thesame referee schedulers to provide referees that are qualified to officiate their games. This approach has not been updated in decades as the referee industry continues to use outdated technologies and employment methods. The result has been a severe drop in the supply of referees while at the same time demand has increased.Our application, Refr Sports, will modernize the current system, providing referees and sports coordinators an efficient and effective tool for completing their respective duties. Refr Sports makes this a reality by offering a mobile application that supports both referees and sports organizers as end users. Our app delivers complete freedom to the users by allowing the sports organizations to post their game schedules along with officiating needs and offered compensation for each game. Referees can then see the ‘work order’, accept it, and be paid immediately after the game. The Refr platform makes money by taking a small service and processing fee on the payments we facilitate through the app. This business model is very similar to what has been successful in the food (DoorDash), transportation (Uber) and personal care (care.com) industries.Our Refr Team, made up of business, technical and sporting experience, has set out on a mission to create the platform that will turn the referee industry into a gig economy marketplace. The world has seen this successfully materialize in many industries already and the referee industry can be next, by making it easy to post opportunities, claim opportunities, and get paid. | $255K | Seed | Nov 03, 2025 |  |
| Maxwell Labs | Maxwell Labs designs component cooling solutions based on solid-state using thermo-electric coolers controlled by machine learning algorithms. |  | Series A | Oct 29, 2025 |  |
| Backhouse | Backhouse is a Hospitality firm offering agent services for hospitality professionals. | $350K | Pre-Seed | Sep 08, 2025 |  |

10 of 143 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Groove Capital invest in?

Groove Capital invests primarily in Software, Health Care and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 143 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 Groove Capital's check size?

Groove Capital typically joins rounds of $500k–$3.3M at Seed and $100k–$1.7M 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 Groove Capital participates in.

### How do I contact Groove Capital?

Public channels for Groove Capital include LinkedIn and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at Groove Capital?

The team at Groove Capital includes Mark Capaldini (Limited Partner), Mickayla Zinsli Rosard (Partner) and Reed Robinson (Founder & Partner). 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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