# Grotech Ventures

> Grotech Ventures is a VC fund in Vienna backing Software and SaaS. See 190 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Vienna, United States
- Total investments: 190
- Last investment: Apr 2025
- Lead investor: 41%
- Last fund: Jun 2015
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/grotech-capital-group
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/GrotechVenture
- Website: http://www.grotech.com

Grotech Ventures is a VC fund in Vienna focused on Software and SaaS. As one of the established firms in the venture industry, Grotech Ventures has built a reputation for being a collaborative, long-term partner for CEOs and entrepreneurs by aligning their definition of success with that of their partners.They initially invest between $500,000 and $5 million in high-growth technology companies, reservingsignificant capital for subsequent investments to support companies through their early and growth stages.They look to partner with entrepreneurs who have fresh ideas, breakthrough innovations, and unconventional approaches that will yield explosive growth. They believe that their ability to meaningfully contribute to a business’s development is just as important as the capital they invest. As such, they seek investment opportunities that offer them the chance to leverage the experience, insight, and network they have built since their inception in 1984. Their approach is personal and long-term, not institutional.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series A | $3M–$11M |
| Series B | $5.5M–$25M |
| Series C | $9.2M–$43M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 63 | 33% |
| SaaS | 23 | 12% |
| Information Technology | 20 | 11% |
| Enterprise Software | 18 | 9% |
| Analytics | 14 | 7% |

181 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 65 | 34% |
| Series B | 41 | 22% |
| Series C | 22 | 12% |
| Seed | 18 | 9% |
| Funding Round | 15 | 8% |

10 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 109 | 57% |
| Canada | 2 | 1% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Don Rainey | Venture Partner | 39 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/don-rainey |
| Steve Fredrick | General Partner | 27 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/steve-fredrick |
| Chuck Cullen | General Partner and CFO | 4 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chuck-cullen |
| Darren Appanah | Vice President | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/darren-appanah |
| Frank Adams | Managing General Partner, Executive Chairman, and Founder | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/frank-adams |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Sturdy | Founded in 2020, Sturdy is an AI-forward autonomous Customer Intelligence platform that proactively identifies churn risks across all customer-facing silos. Sturdy analyzes unstructured customer interactions—emails, calls, support tickets, chats, and more—discovering revenue threats, pinpointing root causes, and delivering cross-functional insightsin real time. Sturdy has analyzed billions of customer interactions, giving it one of the largest proprietary datasets in the category and enabling its models to surface insights faster and more accurately than competitors. At a time when customer retention is a top priority for every business, Sturdy turns the noise of customer conversations into a strategic advantage. | $6M | Seed | Apr 01, 2025 |  |
| Notable Systems | Notable Systems provides a health data platform intended to transform healthcare IT by humanizing health data input and access. The company's platform offers intuitive, natural data entry and passive data collection, easy access to data across systems, time, and organizations, and easy inclusion of different products using open API, enablinghealthcare organizations to capture and access health data in a more easy and efficient way. | $18.1M | Series B | Apr 01, 2025 |  |
| Krista Software | Krista is a nothing-like-code platform to automate business outcomes, build ML from scratch, and leverage the world’s collective AI more simply than you might think possible. | $6.6M | Series A | Dec 31, 2024 |  |
| pgEdge | pgEdge offers distributed PostgreSQL that is optimized for the network edge in order to reduce data latency and achieve ultra-high availability. |  | Series A | Aug 27, 2024 |  |
| pgEdge | pgEdge offers distributed PostgreSQL that is optimized for the network edge in order to reduce data latency and achieve ultra-high availability. | $10M | Seed | Aug 27, 2024 |  |
| Caju AI | Caju AI is an AI platform for enhancing customer engagement, workforce productivity, and business insights. | $3M | Seed | Jun 03, 2024 |  |
| Base Operations | Base Operations is the creator of a threat intelligence platform that aggregates, visualizes, and interprets threat data to assist organizations minimize risk and protect people and assets. The platform provides a granular threat database with AI-powered predictive analytics to quickly uncover actionable insights, improving response time andaccuracy for enterprise security tasks, and includes a dashboard for security personnel, allowing clients to connect with their employees in the field, manage their trips, and improve their safety. | $9.1M | Series A | Dec 21, 2023 |  |
| Yardstik | Yardstik is a background screening platform designed to help you run fewer background checks. Our mix of screening, fraud, and compliance products helps organizations properly vet candidates to accelerate their business. We're changing the game to help thousands of companies save time, money, and their sanity. Yardstik: Measurably better. | $12M |  | Oct 17, 2023 |  |
| Yardstik | Yardstik is a background screening platform designed to help you run fewer background checks. Our mix of screening, fraud, and compliance products helps organizations properly vet candidates to accelerate their business. We're changing the game to help thousands of companies save time, money, and their sanity. Yardstik: Measurably better. | $12M | Series A | Oct 17, 2023 |  |
| Cognota | Synapse helps companies around the world improve the productivity of their corporate learning and development teams. Our award-winning software streamlines training intake, project and capacity planning, and content design processes to make training teams more digital, agile, and efficient.This first-of-its-kind software allows our customers toget better visibility into the training needs of their businesses and consolidate the disparate tools they are using so they can access capacity data for better decision making and author course content with unprecedented speed.Collaboration with subject matter experts takes place directly within the platform ensuring knowledge is effectively captured and easy to update as required.The Synapse mission is to enable more people to learn and grow. Founded in 2015, Synapse has clients in multiple sectors and is based out of Toronto Canada with offices in San Diego and Merida, Mexico. For more information about Synapse software, visit www.getsynapse.com. | $4.5M | Series A | Sep 27, 2023 |  |

10 of 190 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Grotech Ventures invest in?

Grotech Ventures invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Information Technology startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 190 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 Grotech Ventures's check size?

Grotech Ventures typically joins rounds of $3M–$11M at Series A, $5.5M–$25M at Series B and $9.2M–$43M at Series C. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Grotech Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact Grotech Ventures?

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### Who are the partners at Grotech Ventures?

The team at Grotech Ventures includes Don Rainey (Venture Partner), Steve Fredrick (General Partner) and Chuck Cullen (General Partner and CFO), among 10 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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