Jeff Grammer
Partner @ Rho Canada Ventures
Boston, United States
Jeff Grammer is a Series A investor at Rho Canada Ventures in Boston focused on Software and Analytics. Jeff has a 23-year background in technology as both an entrepreneur and investor. Most recently he was an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Sigma Capital in Boston. Previously, he was the CEO and President of Ember Corporation for three years, a venture-backed leader in 802.15.4 (Zigbee) wireless communication. Prior to joining Ember in 2002, he was aManaging Director of Techfarm Ventures, a venture capital firm, where he was responsible for east coast investments. Prior to rejoining Techfarm in 2000 (after a six year operating sabbatical), he was founder and CEO of N*Able Technologies, a company focused on cryptography for secure electronic transactions, which was sold to Wave Systems in 1999, generating over a 6x return for Techfarm. Prior to starting N*Able Technologies in 1997, he was the CEO of Databook Inc. for three years, where he successfully sold the business to SMC in 1996. Prior to joining Databook in 1994, Jeff co-founded Techfarm, Inc., one of the first technology incubators. Several successful companies were incubated at Techfarm including: Resonate, Cobalt Networks, and Portal Player. Jeff played a particularly prominent role at Portal Player as seed investor and CEO mentor. The Company developed the MP3 chip which today powers Apple's iPod. Portal Player went public in 2004 with a market cap in excess of $600mm. Jeff's first technology start-up was Chips and Technologies, Inc. in 1984, the first fab-less semi-conductor company known for helping to create the IBM "compatible" industry. He spent over seven years at CHIPS in both marketing and general management roles. While at CHIPS he was responsible for creating Summit Systems, a successful US/USSR joint venture for personal computer development and distribution in the USSR and eventually Russia. He began his technology career at GTE Corporation, followed by several assignments at Intel Corporation. Jeff has both a BA and MA in International Economics from Boston University.
- Total investments:
- 12
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 42%
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Industries Jeff Grammer invests in
Stages Jeff Grammer invests in
Countries Jeff Grammer invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 4 (33%)
- Analytics 3 (25%)
- Big Data 2 (17%)
- Internet 2 (17%)
- Machine Learning 2 (17%)
Stage
- Series A 6 (50%)
- Series B 2 (17%)
- Seed 1 (8%)
- Series C 1 (8%)
- Post-IPO Debt 1 (8%)
Country
- Canada 7 (58%)
- United States 2 (17%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Resson Aerospace is a bioinformatics and data analytics company, delivering customized agriculture solutions for large corporate clients. Utilizing recent advances in large-scale cloud-based data processing, swarm robotics, and advanced data analytics, its proprietary Resson Agricultural Management and Analytics System gives the agriculturaloperator analytical insight and dynamic control over the farm area.Resson Aerospace’s Resson Agricultural Management and Analytics System, data-driven agriculture solution, analyzes crop metrics to assess crop status and health, providing operators with the information required to optimize agricultural operations, improve efficiency, boost yields, and maximize profitability. It is headquartered in Fredericton, N.B. | $14M / Series C / May 09, 2018 | ||
| Resson Aerospace is a bioinformatics and data analytics company, delivering customized agriculture solutions for large corporate clients. Utilizing recent advances in large-scale cloud-based data processing, swarm robotics, and advanced data analytics, its proprietary Resson Agricultural Management and Analytics System gives the agriculturaloperator analytical insight and dynamic control over the farm area.Resson Aerospace’s Resson Agricultural Management and Analytics System, data-driven agriculture solution, analyzes crop metrics to assess crop status and health, providing operators with the information required to optimize agricultural operations, improve efficiency, boost yields, and maximize profitability. It is headquartered in Fredericton, N.B. | $11M / Series B / Jun 22, 2016 | ||
| Resson Aerospace is a bioinformatics and data analytics company, delivering customized agriculture solutions for large corporate clients. Utilizing recent advances in large-scale cloud-based data processing, swarm robotics, and advanced data analytics, its proprietary Resson Agricultural Management and Analytics System gives the agriculturaloperator analytical insight and dynamic control over the farm area.Resson Aerospace’s Resson Agricultural Management and Analytics System, data-driven agriculture solution, analyzes crop metrics to assess crop status and health, providing operators with the information required to optimize agricultural operations, improve efficiency, boost yields, and maximize profitability. It is headquartered in Fredericton, N.B. | $2.2M / Series A / Nov 13, 2014 | ||
| Shadow Networks is a privately-held company that provides wireless internet service, cybersecurity, web designing, and hosting services. The company led by an experienced management team comprising former executives from networking and security leaders like Cisco, McAfee, Symantec, as well as top government research labs. They building a newgeneration of Active Threat Deception™ security solutions designed to combat today’s most dangerous and pervasive threats on Enterprises, Service Providers, and Government networks.Shadow Networks’ solutions will detect and mitigate a large number of new sophisticated attacks on enterprise and government networks; in particular, they targeting Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) that have proven extremely vexing for existing security solutions–many of them are not caught today despite organizations spending over $9B on overall network security.With a proven foundation based on over 5 years of Government-funded research, and with technologies already deployed and proven at the US Department of Defense and other government agencies, the Shadow Networks platform aims to change the economics for APT attacks and turn the tables on attackers. | $6.5M / Series A / Mar 24, 2014 | ||
| Smart Skin Technologies is commercializing a unique touch sensitive material that has applications in many verticals. The company is currently focused on developing patent pending pressure sensing technology for use industrial and applications in sports. | $3.9M / Series A / Jan 17, 2014 | ||
| Founded in 2013, our vision is to revolutionize and modernize the way that reinsurers analyze their data. We do this by offering a high-performance-computing framework which takes care of the common data processing needs that reinsurers have. | $1M / Series A / Nov 05, 2013 | ||
| Based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, Karma’s team delivers over 30 years of gaming industry expertise, a proven entrepreneurial track record and a deep understanding of online casual and social gaming. | $731K / Series A / Sep 11, 2013 | ||
| Plotly is a data science and AI company focused on taking data science out of the lab and into the business. Plotly makes it easy to create, deploy, and share interactive web apps, graphs, and visualizations in any programming language. | $1.1M / Seed / Aug 26, 2013 | ||
| Based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, Karma’s team delivers over 30 years of gaming industry expertise, a proven entrepreneurial track record and a deep understanding of online casual and social gaming. | $2.9M / Series A / Jun 04, 2013 | ||
| Mobio Technologies develops and manages mobile commerce and mobile marketing applications for individuals and organizations. | $2.2M / Post-IPO Debt / Mar 26, 2012 | ||
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Co-Investors
About Rho Canada Ventures
Rho Canada Ventures is a division of Rho Capital Partners focusing on early-stage investing in Canada’s most innovative technology companies.The Rho Canada Ventures team comprises a unique combination of entrepreneurial, operational, and venture investment experience in the United States and Canada. With a combined 80 years of experience, RhoCanada Ventures offers entrepreneurs the expertise to turn Canadian innovators into global leaders. Rho Canada Ventures' portfolio companies are a diverse group of investments that span new media, mobile applications, wireless infrastructure, semiconductors and materials, and software.
Rho Canada Ventures Contacts
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Jeff Grammer
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Jeff Martin
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What does Jeff Grammer invest in?
Jeff Grammer invests primarily in Software, Analytics and Big Data startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 12 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Canada. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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