# Ryan Graves

> Ryan Graves is a Series A investor at Saltwater Capital backing Robotics and Logistics. See 14 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Saltwater Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/saltwater-capital-mill-valley-california)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 14
- Last investment: Jun 2025
- Lead investor: 7%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/ragraves
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/ryangraves
- Website: https://x.com/ryangraves
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ryanagraves

Ryan Graves is a Series A investor at Saltwater Capital in San Francisco focused on Robotics and Logistics. Ryan Graves is the Founder and CEO at Saltwater. He attended Miami University.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Robotics | 2 | 14% |
| Logistics | 2 | 14% |
| E-Commerce | 2 | 14% |
| Marketplace | 2 | 14% |
| Transportation | 2 | 14% |

33 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 6 | 43% |
| Seed | 3 | 21% |
| Series B | 3 | 21% |
| Secondary Market | 1 | 7% |
| Post-IPO Secondary | 1 | 7% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Coco | Coco is a last-mile delivery service that deploys human-operated sidewalk robots to transport goods from merchants to their customers. Its robot fleet serves thousands of customers per week in Santa Monica, Los Angeles, Austin, and Houston, paving the way for a more optimistic future of delivery that benefits local communities.Launched inFebruary 2020, the company has partnered with national restaurant brands like SBE (Umami Burger) and is actively scaling across many locations. It serves a wide range of family-operated restaurants like Bangkok West Thai in Santa Monica and San Pedro Brewing Company in Los Angeles. | $80M | Series B | Jun 11, 2025 |  |
| Holey Grail Donuts | Holey Grail Donuts is a producer of taro donuts fried in coconut oil, hand-harvested, and crafted. Its services also include catering, orders for groups or parties, outdoor seating, takeaway, and walk-in services. |  | Seed | Jul 26, 2022 |  |
| Holey Grail Donuts | Holey Grail Donuts is a producer of taro donuts fried in coconut oil, hand-harvested, and crafted. Its services also include catering, orders for groups or parties, outdoor seating, takeaway, and walk-in services. | $9M | Series A | Jul 26, 2022 |  |
| Pachama | Pachama harnesses AI and satellite data to empower companies to confidently invest in nature. Using the latest technological advances, Pachama delivers continuous insight into how forests sequester carbon, protect wildlife and benefit local communities. These insights enable leading companies to find the world’s best projects and track their impactover time while also helping land stewards earn an income with tools to develop carbon projects and secure funds. | $55M | Series B | May 05, 2022 |  |
| Airhouse | Airhouse is an end-to-end fulfillment solution for ecommerce companies. With a software platform that automates the heavy lifting of getting products in the hands of customers, Airhouse lets entrepreneurs focus on what they’re best at. Onboarding takes minutes and there’s no need for a team with operational or engineering expertise. Through asynced Shopify account, Airhouse’s software evaluates store data to create a holistic view of the business and where its customers are. Brands are then matched with warehouses in Airhouse’s partner network that make the most sense for the business, with their inventory shipped to the partner facility as fast as the same day. Airhouse then creates a custom technical configuration for each business tailored directly to their needs and growth strategy. From there, as new orders come in, the entire fulfillment process—from factory to front door—is efficiently and affordably managed by Airhouse. From a single dashboard, brands have complete visibility on inventory, so they know what products are where and which are running low in real time.It’s like having an all-in-one, cloud-based warehouse that maintains itself—an Airhouse. | $11M | Series A | Mar 29, 2022 |  |
| Pachama | Pachama harnesses AI and satellite data to empower companies to confidently invest in nature. Using the latest technological advances, Pachama delivers continuous insight into how forests sequester carbon, protect wildlife and benefit local communities. These insights enable leading companies to find the world’s best projects and track their impactover time while also helping land stewards earn an income with tools to develop carbon projects and secure funds. | $15M | Series A | Apr 30, 2021 |  |
| Neighbor | Neighbor is an internet company that specializes in the fields of public storage, economic empowerment, sharing economy, and peer-to-peer marketplace. It connects people who have unused space in their homes, garages, or apartments to renters who are looking for affordable storage. | $53M | Series B | Mar 24, 2021 |  |
| Metromile | Metromile is a digital insurance platform in the United States. With data science as its foundation, Metromile offers real-time, personalized auto insurance policies by the mile, instead of the industry-standard approximations and estimates that have historically made prices unfair. Metromile’s digitally native offering is built around the moderndriver’s needs, featuring automated claims, complimentary smart driving features and annual average savings of 47% over what they were paying their previous auto insurer. In addition, through Metromile Enterprise, it licenses its technology platform to insurance companies around the world. This cloud-based software as a service enables carriers to operate with greater efficiency, automate claims to expedite resolution, reduce losses associated with fraud, and unlock the productivity of employees. | $50M | Post-IPO Secondary | Feb 01, 2021 |  |
| Metromile | Metromile is a digital insurance platform in the United States. With data science as its foundation, Metromile offers real-time, personalized auto insurance policies by the mile, instead of the industry-standard approximations and estimates that have historically made prices unfair. Metromile’s digitally native offering is built around the moderndriver’s needs, featuring automated claims, complimentary smart driving features and annual average savings of 47% over what they were paying their previous auto insurer. In addition, through Metromile Enterprise, it licenses its technology platform to insurance companies around the world. This cloud-based software as a service enables carriers to operate with greater efficiency, automate claims to expedite resolution, reduce losses associated with fraud, and unlock the productivity of employees. | $50M | Secondary Market | Feb 01, 2021 |  |
| Darwin Homes | Darwin Homes is the property management platform that elevates the rental experience for property owners and residents. It offering a comprehensive set of services to Owners and Residents. Darwin is committed to bringing transparency and integrity to Property Management - elevating the experience once and for all. | $15M | Series A | Jan 25, 2021 |  |

10 of 14 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [AirAngels](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/airangels) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Andreessen Horowitz](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andreessen-horowitz) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Breakthrough Energy Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/breakthrough-energy-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Climate Pledge Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/climate-pledge-fund) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Lowercarbon Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lowercarbon-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [MCJ](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mcj) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Saltwater Capital

VC Fund · Mill Valley, United States

Saltwater Capital provide experience-backed strategic and operational support. We partner for the long-term. We scale founders along with their business. It focuses on growth-oriented businesses and partnering with founders of companies. Ryan Graves founded Saltwater Capital in 2017. Its headquarters is in Mill Valley in California.

1 contacts available at Saltwater Capital.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Ryan Graves | Founder and Chief Executive Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ryan-graves |

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## FAQ

### What does Ryan Graves invest in?

Ryan Graves invests primarily in Robotics, Logistics and E-Commerce startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 14 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Ryan Graves last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Ryan Graves closed in Jun 2025. Shizune tracks 14 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

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