Steve Fredrick
General Partner @ Grotech Ventures
Washington, United States
Steve Fredrick is a General Partner at Grotech Ventures and was a Co-founder at Martin Scott. He attended Virginia Tech.
- Total investments:
- 32
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 53%
Last updated:
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Industries Steve Fredrick invests in
Stages Steve Fredrick invests in
Countries Steve Fredrick invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 13 (41%)
- Information Technology 8 (25%)
- Enterprise Software 7 (22%)
- SaaS 4 (13%)
- Security 4 (13%)
Stage
- Series A 10 (31%)
- Series B 8 (25%)
- Seed 4 (13%)
- Funding Round 4 (13%)
- Series C 2 (6%)
Country
- United States 16 (50%)
- Canada 2 (6%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| pgEdge offers distributed PostgreSQL that is optimized for the network edge in order to reduce data latency and achieve ultra-high availability. | Series A / Aug 27, 2024 | ||
| pgEdge offers distributed PostgreSQL that is optimized for the network edge in order to reduce data latency and achieve ultra-high availability. | $10M / Seed / Aug 27, 2024 | ||
| Caju AI is an AI platform for enhancing customer engagement, workforce productivity, and business insights. | $3M / Seed / Jun 03, 2024 | ||
| Synapse helps companies around the world improve the productivity of their corporate learning and development teams. Our award-winning software streamlines training intake, project and capacity planning, and content design processes to make training teams more digital, agile, and efficient.This first-of-its-kind software allows our customers toget better visibility into the training needs of their businesses and consolidate the disparate tools they are using so they can access capacity data for better decision making and author course content with unprecedented speed.Collaboration with subject matter experts takes place directly within the platform ensuring knowledge is effectively captured and easy to update as required.The Synapse mission is to enable more people to learn and grow. Founded in 2015, Synapse has clients in multiple sectors and is based out of Toronto Canada with offices in San Diego and Merida, Mexico. For more information about Synapse software, visit www.getsynapse.com. | $4.5M / Series A / Sep 27, 2023 | ||
| Cognota is the first and only operations platform for learning and development teams. Our platform enables L&D teams to streamline training request management, improve project and capacity planning, rapidly design content and collaborate more effectively with SMEs. Clients across all industries are leveraging Cognota to improve theirproductivity by eliminating the need for multiple tools to manage learning operations.Looking to thrive in the L&D industry? Join the vibrant LearnOps® Community, a hub where L&D professionals gain insights, engage in thought-provoking discussions, access curated resources, and stay ahead of industry trends. Unlock the power of collective wisdom and experience in the #LearnOpsCommunityJoin for free at LearnOps.com | $4.5M / Series A / Sep 27, 2023 | ||
| Vali Cyber specializes in addressing Linux-specific security solutions. It secures workloads effectively, prevents attacks via hardening, and catches anything that gets through. It also minimizes the resource impact of security, saving costly computer resources for real work. | $15M / Seed / Sep 26, 2023 | ||
| pgEdge offers distributed PostgreSQL that is optimized for the network edge in order to reduce data latency and achieve ultra-high availability. | $9M / Seed / Mar 07, 2023 | ||
| Speedscale helps Kubernetes engineering teams validate how new code will perform under production-like workload conditions. Speedscale can collect and replay API traffic, introduce chaos, and measure the golden signals of latency, throughput, saturation and errors before the code is released. Speedscale Traffic Replay is an alternative to legacytesting approaches which take days or weeks to run and do not scale well for modern architectures. | $9M / Pre-Seed / Mar 07, 2023 | ||
| ShardSecure operates as a data protection company. The company's Microshard technology offers protection for storing and sharing sensitive data in the cloud and provides a key additional security layer in the age of the cloud, breaking down and distributing data to render it meaningless to cybercriminals. | $11M / Series A / May 25, 2022 | ||
| ChurnZero helps subscription businesses fight customer churn. Its software solutions allow businesses to understand how their customers use their product, assess their health and their likelihood to renew, and give businesses the means to personalize the customer experience through timely and relevant touchpoints. Headquartered in Arlington,Virginia, ChurnZero was founded by You Mon Tsang and Mark Heys in 2015. | $25M / Series B / Mar 04, 2021 | ||
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Co-Investors
About Grotech Ventures
As one of the established firms in the venture industry, Grotech Ventures has built a reputation for being a collaborative, long-term partner for CEOs and entrepreneurs by aligning their definition of success with that of their partners.They initially invest between $500,000 and $5 million in high-growth technology companies, reservingsignificant capital for subsequent investments to support companies through their early and growth stages.They look to partner with entrepreneurs who have fresh ideas, breakthrough innovations, and unconventional approaches that will yield explosive growth. They believe that their ability to meaningfully contribute to a business’s development is just as important as the capital they invest. As such, they seek investment opportunities that offer them the chance to leverage the experience, insight, and network they have built since their inception in 1984. Their approach is personal and long-term, not institutional.
Grotech Ventures Contacts
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Don Rainey
Venture Partner
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Steve Fredrick
General Partner
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Chuck Cullen
General Partner and CFO
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Darren Appanah
Vice President
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Frank Adams
Managing General Partner, Executive Chairman, and Founder
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What does Steve Fredrick invest in?
Steve Fredrick invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and Enterprise Software startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 32 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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The most recent investment recorded for Steve Fredrick closed in Aug 2024. Shizune tracks 32 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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