# Growth Factory Ventures

> Growth Factory Ventures is a VC fund backing Software and Automotive. See 13 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Rocklin, United States
- Total investments: 13
- Last investment: Sep 2025
- Lead investor: 31%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/growthfactoryhq
- Website: https://growthfactory.us/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GrowthFactoryHQ

Growth Factory Ventures is a VC fund in Rocklin focused on Software and Automotive. Growth Factory provides funding and consultation services to business startups. It offers resources and mentorship on business development to company founders. Growth Factory is based in California, USA.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 4 | 31% |
| Automotive | 2 | 15% |
| CRM | 1 | 8% |
| SaaS | 1 | 8% |
| Solar | 1 | 8% |

21 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 8 | 62% |
| Pre-Seed | 5 | 38% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 11 | 85% |
| Germany | 1 | 8% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Marcus Grindstaff | Mentor/Advisor | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/marcus-grindstaff |
| Scott Drummond | Mentor / Advisor / Limited Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/scott-drummond-7eba |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Kora | Kora is rebuilding the energy system from the ground up—starting with the home. Today’s grid is centralized, rigid, and reactive; Kora flips that model on its head. We’re creating a fully integrated home energy platform that connects solar, batteries, EVs, and major appliances into one intelligent network. Every home becomes self-optimizing,balancing its own generation and consumption in real time, and capable of selling excess power back to the grid or directly to neighbors. It’s autonomy, economics, and resilience—all built into the home.This isn’t a smarter breaker box. It’s a new operating system for distributed energy. By combining precision hardware, real-time software intelligence, and seamless connectivity, Kora turns the chaos of decentralized power into coordinated strength. Millions of connected homes form a virtual power plant that can respond to demand surges faster and cheaper than any centralized utility.Founded by Greg Connolly, the entrepreneur behind Trifecta, Kora brings Silicon Valley speed to one of the world’s slowest-moving sectors. Our vision is to make clean energy self-orchestrating—where every home thinks for itself, every neighborhood acts as a mini-grid, and together they create the most scalable, flexible, and resilient energy network ever built. | $2.6M | Seed | Sep 08, 2025 |  |
| CREE8 | CREE8 is a pioneering provider of SaaS solutions that redefine collaboration and creative workflows for a diverse range of industries. The platform democratizes access to enterprise-grade cloud computing, content storage, and tools, empowering everything from individual freelancers to global teams to create, share, and excel. |  | Seed | Feb 12, 2025 |  |
| Volektra | Volektra is a hard-tech firm with a definite and singular vision to transform the world of micro-mobility into a 100% electric realm. |  | Seed | Jul 12, 2024 |  |
| TrackLight | TrackLight is modernizing fraud prevention. We’re on a mission to help government and commercial organizations fight back against fraud actors. What sets us apart is our team of fraud experts with over 150 combined years of experience in the fraud-fighting trenches. We've taken that hard-won expertise and built it directly intoTrackLight's intelligent and automated solutions. Fraud is a sophisticated problem that requires modern tools and solutions. We’ve flipped the game board on fraud prevention by: Getting proactive – identifying potential fraud before payments are issued, not after.Incorporating unstructured data – our game-changing ability to analyze open-source intelligence exponentially increases fraud detected.Leveraging AI – accelerating analysis, synthesizing data into summaries of fraud risk, and providing tailored recommendations to users.With Ray, your AI Co-Pilot, fraud prevention becomes effortless. Ray shines a light on potential fraud, allowing you to navigate complex data with ease. No longer do you have to choose between doing your job efficiently and preventing fraud. TrackLight seamlessly integrates into your existing workflows, providing fraud guidance while you focus on your core operations. | $3M | Seed | Jun 24, 2024 |  |
| HuLoop Automation, Inc. | According to Gartner, the market for hyperautomation reached almost $600B in 2022, and it is expected to continue to experience double digit growth. Companies are turning to hyperautomation solutions to support their business transformation initiatives as they seek to find new, simpler ways of doing business. They are looking for solutions thatwork across disparate technology platforms, data sources, documents, and organizational silos.HuLoop Automation has built a first of its kind unified hyperautomation platform that’s designed to efficiently deliver on the business transformation outcomes that companies seek. HuLoop helps clients to manage profitable revenue growth, drive cost savings, and achieve productivity gains by automating mundane, repetitive activities, freeing up valuable human capacity to focus on more strategically important things such as delighting customers. This AI-powered, no-code platform is extremely easy to learn and use, even for non-technical businesspeople, and it can be live in 90 days. | $5M | Seed | Feb 27, 2024 |  |
| EV Life | EV Life helps drivers with rebates, incentives, and financing of an electric car that saves them money and the planet. |  | Pre-Seed | Oct 06, 2023 |  |
| OnSight | Onsight is an AI-powered computer vision robotic platform for solar farms. It was developed for big remote sites, providing important data and analysis for expansion without the need for extra labor. Onsight is capable of discovering and forecasting hundreds of problems. |  | Seed | Sep 19, 2023 |  |
| MDisrupt | MDisrupt is health industry expert platform for the digital health industry. We believe the most impactful health products should make it to market faster. | $3M | Seed | May 20, 2023 |  |
| AdZen | Shared Vision is at the forefront of online commerce technology, providing creators with a cutting-edge platform to optimize and automate affiliate revenue streams. Its SaaS solution features a centralized management platform for creators, enabling them to easily manage their affiliate links and maximize their revenue potential. Meanwhile, itsunique consumer-based shopping cart experience drives increased sales and generates revenue for creators, brands, and itself. |  | Seed | Apr 01, 2023 |  |
| AdZen | Shared Vision is at the forefront of online commerce technology, providing creators with a cutting-edge platform to optimize and automate affiliate revenue streams. Its SaaS solution features a centralized management platform for creators, enabling them to easily manage their affiliate links and maximize their revenue potential. Meanwhile, itsunique consumer-based shopping cart experience drives increased sales and generates revenue for creators, brands, and itself. |  | Pre-Seed | Apr 01, 2023 |  |

10 of 13 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Moneta Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/moneta-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [37 Angels](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/37-angels) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
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## FAQ

### What does Growth Factory Ventures invest in?

Growth Factory Ventures invests primarily in Software, Automotive and CRM startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 13 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Growth Factory Ventures?

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### Who are the partners at Growth Factory Ventures?

The team at Growth Factory Ventures includes Marcus Grindstaff (Mentor/Advisor) and Scott Drummond (Mentor / Advisor / Limited Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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