# Lachy Groom

> Lachy Groom is a VC fund in West Hollywood backing Software and Artificial Intelligence. See 19 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: West Hollywood, United States
- Total investments: 19
- Last investment: Jul 2024
- Lead investor: 37%
- Last updated: Aug 2026

Lachy Groom is a VC fund in West Hollywood focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. Lachy Groom

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $2M–$11M |
| Series A | $5.5M–$27M |
| Series B | $35M–$63M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 8 | 42% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 5 | 26% |
| Financial Services | 3 | 16% |
| Banking | 2 | 11% |
| Payments | 2 | 11% |

49 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 7 | 37% |
| Seed | 6 | 32% |
| Series B | 2 | 11% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 5% |
| Series C | 1 | 5% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 11 | 58% |
| Brazil | 2 | 11% |
| Israel | 1 | 5% |
| Ireland | 1 | 5% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Standard Bots | Standard Bots develops industrial robotics systems that combine robotic hardware with AI-driven software to automate manufacturing and operational tasks. Its product portfolio includes collaborative robotic arms with different payload capacities, as well as software platforms that support robot programming, fleet management, and applicationdevelopment. The company’s technology enables users to teach robots through demonstration rather than relying solely on traditional coding methods, allowing robots to perform tasks such as machine tending, inspection, palletizing, welding, and material handling. Standard Bots also provides AI capabilities that allow robots to learn from observed actions, adapt to changes in their environment, and improve task execution over time. In addition to its robotic systems, the company offers operating software, development tools, and integration capabilities designed to support deployment across a range of industrial workflows. | $63M | Series B | Jul 12, 2024 |  |
| Luminate | Luminate is an oncology-focused healthtech and tech-enabled services company that partners with payers, providers, and people with cancer to reduce the cost of cancer care while improving quality of life and outcomes for patients. The company offers a portfolio of services and technologies that enable home-based cancer treatment, adverse eventmonitoring, and prevention of drug-induced side effects. | $15M | Series A | May 14, 2024 |  |
| Riverside | Riverside (formerly Riverside.fm) is the all-in-one platform for recording, live streaming, editing, repurposing, and publishing studio-quality videos and podcasts. Creators and businesses use it to produce broadcast-quality content without the production maze of multiple tools, expensive studios, or technical expertise. Record up to 4K video anduncompressed audio locally on every participant’s device, so quality holds up even on bad internet. Edit by editing the transcript. Turn long recordings into clips, captions, show notes, and translations with AI. Webinars scale to 10,000 attendees. Trusted by independent podcasters like Tim Ferriss, Mel Robbins, and Guy Raz, and by brands including Spotify, Marvel, HubSpot, Microsoft, and Intuit. | $35M | Series B | Apr 26, 2022 |  |
| Stark Bank | Stark Bank is a smart bank account that aids a technological advancement of a company. It is a financial technology that allows companies to expand their operations by allowing them to make extra transfers, payments, and charges. | $13.3M | Series A | Dec 08, 2021 |  |
| Stark Bank | Stark Bank is a corporate bank in Brazil | $13.3M | Series A | Dec 08, 2021 |  |
| Density | Density measures how people use space in real-time without invading privacy. Using proprietary depth sensors and deep learning algorithms, the platform accurately and anonymously counts people in real time. Organizations use Density to improve efficiency and enhance occupant experience in buildings, workplaces, and real estate. Unlike a camera,Density's platform doesn't capture personally identifiable information and is purpose-built for accurately measuring how people use physical space. | $125M | Series D | Nov 10, 2021 |  |
| Ethyca | Ethyca is an infrastructure platform that provides developers and product teams with the ability to ensure consumer data privacy throughout applications and services design. It also provides your product, engineering and privacy teams with unmatched ease of use and functionality to better care about your user's data. The company helpscompanies discover sensitive data, then provides a mechanism for customers to delete, see or edit their data from the system. Ethyca's mission is to increase trust in data-driven business by building automated data privacy infrastructure. | $7.5M | Series A | Nov 03, 2021 |  |
| Ethyca | Ethyca is an infrastructure platform that provides developers and product teams with the ability to ensure consumer data privacy throughout applications and services design. It also provides your product, engineering and privacy teams with unmatched ease of use and functionality to better care about your user's data. The company helpscompanies discover sensitive data, then provides a mechanism for customers to delete, see or edit their data from the system. Ethyca's mission is to increase trust in data-driven business by building automated data privacy infrastructure. | $7.5M |  | Nov 03, 2021 |  |
| Beacon AI | Beacon AI is building the future of flight safety for commercial and private fleets. | $5M | Seed | Oct 22, 2021 |  |
| ContainIQ | ContainIQ is a Kubernetes native monitoring and tracing platform ContainIQ helps teams to track and observe Kubernetes core metrics, events, and logs. It helps them monitor the health of the cluster with pre-built dashboards and easy-to-set monitors. | $2.5M | Seed | Oct 12, 2021 |  |

10 of 19 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [IA Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ia-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Altimeter Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/altimeter-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [BoxGroup](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/boxgroup) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Burst Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/burst-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Combine](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/combine-vc) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Designer Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/designer-fund) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Lachy Groom invest in?

Lachy Groom invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Financial Services startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 19 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 Lachy Groom's check size?

Lachy Groom typically joins rounds of $2M–$11M at Seed, $5.5M–$27M at Series A and $35M–$63M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Lachy Groom participates in.

### When did Lachy Groom last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Lachy Groom closed in Jul 2024. Shizune tracks 19 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### 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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