# Groundswell Ventures

> Groundswell Ventures is a VC fund in Denver backing Software and CleanTech. See 9 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Denver, United States
- Total investments: 9
- Last investment: Feb 2025
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/company/groundswellventures
- Website: https://www.groundswell-ventures.com/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groundswellventures

Groundswell Ventures is a VC fund in Denver focused on Software and CleanTech. Groundswell invests in innovative, growing companies that generate a social or environmental benefit through their business model.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.3M–$6.4M |
| Series A | $9.6M–$19M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 2 | 22% |
| CleanTech | 2 | 22% |
| GreenTech | 2 | 22% |
| Smart Cities | 2 | 22% |
| SaaS | 1 | 11% |

40 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 5 | 56% |
| Seed | 3 | 33% |
| Series B | 1 | 11% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 7 | 78% |
| Argentina | 1 | 11% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Kathryn Moos | Managing Partner | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kathryn-moos |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Cambium | Cambium Carbon is an early stage social enterprise start up focused on implementing systems-level natural climate solutions centered on reforestation and urban wood reuse. | $18.5M | Series A | Feb 24, 2025 |  |
| Claros Technologies | Claros Technologies is an environmental technology company that develops solutions for the detection, analysis, and destruction of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). The company provides PFAS testing and analytical laboratory services, proprietary PFAS destruction technology, and regulatory compliance solutions for industrial, municipal,and government organizations. Its technologies are designed to help identify, manage, and permanently eliminate PFAS contamination from water, wastewater, and other materials through science-based environmental remediation solutions. | $22M | Series B | May 28, 2024 |  |
| Camus Energy | Camus’ grid orchestration platform empowers electric utilities with real-time grid awareness, day-ahead forecasting, coordinated control of distributed energy resources, and long-term planning insights. Utilities use Camus’ platform to predict and proactively manage local network capacity, right-size infrastructure investments, and reliably servenew loads. Leveraging world-class technology expertise, Camus is helping utilities navigate the transition to a fully electrified, zero-carbon future. | $10M | Series A | Feb 13, 2024 |  |
| Michroma | Michroma is a biotech platform that produces natural ingredients in a sustainable, scalable, and cost-effective way. It uses synthetic biology to unleash the potential of filamentous fungi and develop proprietary strains capable of producing high-performance ingredients in bioreactors.Our first products are extremely pH and thermal stable foodcolorants which we are prototyping with some of the top food & beverage and cosmetic companies in the world. We are also producing mycoprotein and many more ingredients to come. It accelerated by Indiebio (Batch 9) and we are part of Mista. Michroma is based in Rosario, Argentina and San Francisco, USA. | $6.4M | Seed | Feb 01, 2023 |  |
| Circuit | Circuit is a turn-key provider of micro-transit, ev fleet and on-demand technology services. The company's services uses electric vehicles which can be booked through application which are provided with responsible and efficient drivers, enabling users to access their shuttle service at their convenience. | $11M | Series A | Sep 07, 2022 |  |
| Great Wrap | The only Australian made and owned compostable cling wrap | $11M | Series A | Jul 25, 2022 |  |
| Clarity Movement | Clarity Movement transforms how governments, communities, and businesses understand and respond to air pollution with IoT-based air quality monitoring technology. Our turn-key air quality monitoring solution supplements existing regulatory monitors with networks of hundreds to thousands of continuously-calibrated air quality sensors, making airquality management more accessible, cost-effective, and actionable than ever before. Founded in 2014, we have now deployed our next-generation, highly-accurate indicative air quality monitoring networks in more than 60 countries around the world — empowering our customers to build healthier communities with better data. | $9.6M | Series A | Jul 24, 2022 |  |
| Natilus | Natilus is a large scale drone manufacturing company. The company specializes in the manufacturing of Boeing 747 sized drones which provides inter-continental cargo delivery services and helps in reducing air freight costs. Natilus was founded by LZ Zhang, Anatoly Starikov and Aleksey Matyushev in 2016.First flight of their 2200 lbs / 30 ftdrone is scheduled for Summer 2018. At the end of 2018, Natilus completed a flight test of their 2200 lbs prototype.The first production vehicle scheduled for 2020 customer delivery underwent wind tunnel testing in April, 2019. Natilus currently holds an aircraft order book rumored to be in excess of $1B+. |  | Seed | May 18, 2021 |  |
| Sheets & Giggles | Good Housekeeping's "Best Overall" sheet winner, March 2021. Sheets & Giggles is a sustainable direct-to-consumer bedding brand based in Denver, Colorado. S&G is famous for their naturally cooling eucalyptus lyocell sheets and comforters. The company was founded in 2017 by Colin McIntosh, and S&G has since gone on tobecome an award-winning company, has planted tens of thousands of trees (one for each customer), and has popularized eucalyptus lyocell sheets in the United States. | $1.3M | Seed | Aug 06, 2019 |  |

9 of 9 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Groundswell Ventures invest in?

Groundswell Ventures invests primarily in Software, CleanTech and GreenTech startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 9 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 Groundswell Ventures's check size?

Groundswell Ventures typically joins rounds of $1.3M–$6.4M at Seed and $9.6M–$19M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Groundswell Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact Groundswell Ventures?

Public channels for Groundswell Ventures include LinkedIn, the website linked on this profile and Facebook. 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 Groundswell Ventures?

The team at Groundswell Ventures includes Kathryn Moos (Managing 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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