# Silicon Valley Bank

> Silicon Valley Bank is a VC fund backing Software and Health Care. See 548 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Santa Clara, United States
- Total investments: 548
- Last investment: Jun 2026
- Lead investor: 40%
- Last fund: May 2016
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/silicon-valley-bank/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/SVB_Financial
- Website: https://www.svb.com/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SVBFinancialGroup/

Silicon Valley Bank is a VC fund in Santa Clara focused on Software and Health Care. Silicon Valley Bank works with technology, life science, cleantech, venture capital, private equity, and premium wine businesses. SVB provides industry knowledge and connections, financing, treasury management, corporate investment, and international banking services to its clients worldwide through 27 U.S. offices and seven internationaloperations. Banking innovative companies and exclusive wineries, Silicon Valley Bank’s diverse financial services, knowledge, global network, and world-class service increase its clients’ probability of success. Forbes Magazine ranks SVB among America’s Best Banks, and Fortune Magazine named SVB one of the Best Companies to Work For in 2012.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series A | $5M–$30M |
| Series B | $6M–$50M |
| Debt Financing | $3M–$130M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 123 | 22% |
| Health Care | 88 | 16% |
| Biotechnology | 74 | 14% |
| SaaS | 66 | 12% |
| Financial Services | 62 | 11% |

372 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Debt Financing | 211 | 39% |
| Series B | 63 | 11% |
| Series A | 55 | 10% |
| Post-IPO Debt | 54 | 10% |
| Funding Round | 39 | 7% |

18 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 381 | 70% |
| Canada | 31 | 6% |
| United Kingdom | 30 | 5% |
| Germany | 8 | 1% |
| Ireland | 6 | 1% |

13 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Dennis Grunt | Director | 3 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dennis-grunt |
| Keith Cox | Head of Sponsor and Leveraged Finance | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/keith-cox-4 |
| Laura Scott | Managing Director | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/laura-scott-b21d |
| Nicole Hawkey | Director | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nicole-hawkey |
| Alex McCracken | Managing Director | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alex-mccracken |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Critical Energy | Critical Energy is an energy based firm that generate electricity with the help of heat through modular and geothermal power plant. | $3M | Debt Financing | Jun 17, 2026 |  |
| Parafin | Parafin is a financial infrastructure company that provides platforms with embedded financial products for their small businesses by abstracting the complexity of capital markets, underwriting, servicing, compliance, and customer support. Small businesses can run and grow themselves despite uncertain economic conditions by powering the financialservices of marketplaces and payment processors. In less than three years, Parafin has launched on Amazon, Walmart, DoorDash, TikTok, and more platforms to serve hundreds of thousands of businesses and extended over $8 billion in offers. |  | Debt Financing | May 05, 2026 |  |
| Hermeus | Hermeus is an aerospace and defense company that develops hypersonic aircraft capable of reaching speeds around Mach 5. The company’s core mission is to drastically reduce global travel times by creating next-generation aircraft that can fly significantly faster than traditional commercial jets. Its flagship programs include the Quarterhorse seriesof high-speed test aircraft and the development of the Chimera engine, a turbine-based combined cycle propulsion system designed for hypersonic flight. Hermeus follows a rapid, iterative development approach, building and testing multiple prototypes to accelerate innovation and reduce engineering timelines. The company collaborates with organizations such as the U.S. Air Force and NASA, positioning its technology for both commercial aviation and defense applications. | $150M | Debt Financing | Apr 07, 2026 |  |
| Realta Fusion | Realta Fusion develops fusion energy technology for the production of industrial heat and power. It applies advances in super-conducting materials, plasma physics, and computing power to a simple linear fusion reactor configuration. It utilizes abundant fuel sources to provide a zero-carbon source of heat and power. | $9.5M | Debt Financing | Feb 17, 2026 |  |
| Float Financial | Float offers modern financial services, powerful software and industry-leading support designed for every company and stage of growth. Our product suite includes corporate cards, bill pay, expense management and high-yield accounts, giving finance teams everything they need to manage spending and cash flow efficiently. | $73.1M | Debt Financing | Jan 26, 2026 |  |
| Positive Development | Positive Development is improving lives by helping develop the skills to connect with one’s self, family, and community. The company also provides mental and physical health services to children with developmental challenges and their families. They focus on the relationships between parents, caregivers, therapists, and children. Their researchvalidated model is grounded in a deep understanding of the natural and joyful ways that children acquire and strengthen social-emotional skills. Positive Development was founded in 2019 and is based in Washington, DC, USA. | $45M | Debt Financing | Jan 13, 2026 |  |
| Orca Bio | Orca Bio is a clinical-stage cell therapy company dedicated to delivering curative medicine to patients. Orca Bio has developed a pipeline of proprietary technologies that have the potential to impact over 100 malignant and auto-immune diseases. Orca has assembled a team of world-leading experts and technologists to execute this vision. | $100M | Debt Financing | Jan 09, 2026 |  |
| HawkEye 360 | HawkEye 360 is a data analytics company that develops space-based radio frequency mapping. The company operates a commercial satellite constellation to identify, process, and geolocate a broad set of RF signals. Its products include maritime domain awareness and spectrum mapping and monitoring; our customers include a wide range of commercial,government, and international entities.It was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Herndon, Virginia. |  | Debt Financing | Dec 18, 2025 |  |
| HEN Technologies | HEN Nozzles use fundamentals of fluid dynamics and thermal management to create firefighting nozzles. They are designed to allow the firefighter to alter the solid stream while minimizing the disruption of the thermal balance. | $2M | Debt Financing | Dec 17, 2025 |  |
| Grindr | Grindr is an all-male location-based network that allows gay, bi, or curious men to connect and hang out with one another.Since launching in March 2009, Grindr has become a global sensation and surpassed 7 million users in 192 countries. On a daily basis, Grindr counts some 1.2 million users who log on approximately eight times per day and spendan average of two hours each day using the app. Grindr also offers a fully loaded, premium subscription-based service called Grindr Xtra. Grindr is currently available on the iPhone, iPod touch, iPad, Android and BlackBerry models. For more information about Grindr, visit www.Grindr.com.In 2011, Grindr launched Grindr for Equality, its social action division. Grindr for Equality works diligently to engage the Grindr network in a variety of ways to help bring about a more equal tomorrow. Initiatives include helping to promote a documentary on the conditions of the Jamaican LGBT community and driving donations and signatures for petitions to denounce anti-homosexuality policies in Turkey, Uganda, Ukraine and Russia. | $250M | Post-IPO Debt | Dec 16, 2025 |  |

10 of 548 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Oxford Finance LLC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/oxford-finance-corporation) — VC Fund, 26 deals together
- [Hercules Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/herculescapital) — VC Fund, 13 deals together
- [Bessemer Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bessemer-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 12 deals together
- [New Enterprise Associates](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/new-enterprise-associates) — VC Fund, 12 deals together
- [Sequoia Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sequoia-capital) — VC Fund, 12 deals together
- [Trinity Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/trinity-capital-investment) — VC Fund, 12 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Silicon Valley Bank invest in?

Silicon Valley Bank invests primarily in Software, Health Care and Biotechnology startups, most often at Debt Financing and Series B stage. Most of the 548 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 Silicon Valley Bank's check size?

Silicon Valley Bank typically joins rounds of $5M–$30M at Series A, $6M–$50M at Series B and $3M–$130M at Debt Financing. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Silicon Valley Bank participates in.

### How do I contact Silicon Valley Bank?

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### Who are the partners at Silicon Valley Bank?

The team at Silicon Valley Bank includes Dennis Grunt (Director), Keith Cox (Head of Sponsor and Leveraged Finance) and Laura Scott (Managing Director), among 40 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### 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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