Patrick Cairns
General Partner @ Union Grove Venture Partners
Burlington, United States
Patrick Cairns is a Series B investor at Union Grove Venture Partners in Burlington focused on SaaS and Mining. Patrick joined Morgan Creek in November 2012 and is a General Partner. Prior to joining Morgan Creek, Patrick co-founded Kidogo Capital Management in June, 2010. Prior to Kidogo, Patrick spent nearly two years with Greenspring Associates, focused on venture capital fund and direct investment opportunities. From 1999 until 2008, Patrick was withGrotech Ventures where he focused on early, expansion and later stage venture capital investments in technology, communications and media companies. He served as a Director or Observer to the Boards of several of Grotech's portfolio companies including Advertising.com (AOL), USinternetworking (AT&T), iBiquity Digital, Hatteras Networks, BroadSoft, Fieldglass Software and Ziptronix. Prior to joining Grotech, Mr. Cairns spent two years in the Media and Telecommunications Investment Banking Group at Alex. Brown and Sons and its successors, BT Alex. Brown and Deutsche Bank, advising clients on a variety of M&A and capital markets transactions. .Patrick graduated from Princeton University with a degree in Politics and a certificate in Economics. While at Princeton, Patrick was a member of the lacrosse team that won three NCAA Division I National Championships.
- Total investments:
- 1
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 100%
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Industries Patrick Cairns invests in
Stages Patrick Cairns invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- SaaS 1 (100%)
- Mining 1 (100%)
- Analytics 1 (100%)
- Geospatial 1 (100%)
- Government 1 (100%)
Investments
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| Descartes Labs is a technology company that automates the analysis of geospatial data to help organizations answer key questions about the physical. It enables the analysis of earth observation data at scale, providing services and solutions across commodity sourcing and forecasting, resource exploration, and climate resilience. | $20M / Series B / Oct 11, 2019 |
Co-Investors
Union Grove Venture Partners is a private equity firm that provides investments to venture funds. It was founded in 2014 by Patrick Cairns, John Spilman, and Greg Bohlen and is based in North Carolina.
Union Grove Venture Partners Contacts
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Patrick Cairns
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Greg Bohlen
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What does Patrick Cairns invest in?
Patrick Cairns invests primarily in SaaS, Mining and Analytics startups, most often at Series B stage. Most of the 1 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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