# The Roda Group

> The Roda Group is a VC fund backing Software and Information Technology. See 33 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Berkeley, United States
- Total investments: 33
- Last investment: Apr 2021
- Lead investor: 18%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-roda-group/
- Website: http://www.rodagroup.com

The Roda Group is a VC fund in Berkeley focused on Software and Information Technology. Roda Group is a venture development company that invests in technology companies.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 5 | 15% |
| Information Technology | 5 | 15% |
| Renewable Energy | 4 | 12% |
| CleanTech | 3 | 9% |
| Enterprise Software | 3 | 9% |

43 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series B | 8 | 24% |
| Series D | 5 | 15% |
| Funding Round | 5 | 15% |
| Series A | 4 | 12% |
| Series C | 4 | 12% |

9 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 12 | 36% |
| Canada | 3 | 9% |
| India | 1 | 3% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Dan Miller | Managing Director and Co-founder | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dan-miller |
| Roger Strauch | Chairman | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/roger-strauch |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Gridtential Energy | Gridtential Energy develops an Absorbent Glass Mat battery that offers a lower-cost, safer, greener alternative to traditional lithium-ion.The company's bipolar battery technology, Silicon Joule, transforms the familiar lead battery into a powerful, fast-charging, long-lasting source of energy for electric vehicles, homes, and offices. Itincorporates solar wafer processing techniques into novel bipolar battery architectures while integrating seamlessly into existing battery manufacturing and recycling infrastructures. The result is a high-performance, low-cost, quickly scalable technology platform that also eliminates failure mechanisms, extends cycle life, and improves power performance at a fundamental level.The Santa Clara, California-headquartered company was established by Peter Borden and Michele Klein in 2010. | $12M | Convertible Note | Apr 27, 2021 |  |
| Svante | Svante offers companies in emissions-intensive industries a commercially viable way to capture large-scale CO2 emissions from existing infrastructure, either for safe storage or to be recycled for further industrial use in a closed loop. With the ability to capture CO2 directly from industrial sources at less than half the capital cost of existingsolutions, Svante makes industrial-scale carbon capture a reality. Svante’s Board of Directors includes Nobel Laureate and former Secretary of Energy, Steven Chu; former Airbus Group’s Chief Technical Officer Jean Botti; and Steven Berkenfeld, former Head of Industrial & Cleantech Practice at Barclays Capital. | $100M | Series D | Feb 02, 2021 |  |
| Svante | Svante is a leading carbon capture and removal solutions provider specializing in the development and manufacturing of novel solid sorbents, structured adsorbent filters, and rotary contactor machines for post-combustion industrial carbon capture and direct air capture. The company’s leading-edge solid sorbent-based technology is environmentallyresponsible, and scalable, and can be applied to heavy industries with hard-to-avoid emissions, including cement, hydrogen, oil & gas, steel, and more. Svante has developed partnerships across the global CCUS value chain to scale the industry and make it easy for customers to execute source-to-sink carbon capture and removal projects. | $75M | Series D | Feb 02, 2021 |  |
| Svante | Svante is a leading carbon capture and removal solutions provider specializing in the development and manufacturing of novel solid sorbents, structured adsorbent filters, and rotary contactor machines for post-combustion industrial carbon capture and direct air capture. The company’s leading-edge solid sorbent-based technology is environmentallyresponsible, and scalable, and can be applied to heavy industries with hard-to-avoid emissions, including cement, hydrogen, oil & gas, steel, and more. Svante has developed partnerships across the global CCUS value chain to scale the industry and make it easy for customers to execute source-to-sink carbon capture and removal projects. | $9.5M | Series C | Jun 25, 2019 |  |
| Svante | Svante offers companies in emissions-intensive industries a commercially viable way to capture large-scale CO2 emissions from existing infrastructure, either for safe storage or to be recycled for further industrial use in a closed loop. With the ability to capture CO2 directly from industrial sources at less than half the capital cost of existingsolutions, Svante makes industrial-scale carbon capture a reality. Svante’s Board of Directors includes Nobel Laureate and former Secretary of Energy, Steven Chu; former Airbus Group’s Chief Technical Officer Jean Botti; and Steven Berkenfeld, former Head of Industrial & Cleantech Practice at Barclays Capital. | $11M | Series C | Jul 16, 2018 |  |
| Svante | Svante is a leading carbon capture and removal solutions provider specializing in the development and manufacturing of novel solid sorbents, structured adsorbent filters, and rotary contactor machines for post-combustion industrial carbon capture and direct air capture. The company’s leading-edge solid sorbent-based technology is environmentallyresponsible, and scalable, and can be applied to heavy industries with hard-to-avoid emissions, including cement, hydrogen, oil & gas, steel, and more. Svante has developed partnerships across the global CCUS value chain to scale the industry and make it easy for customers to execute source-to-sink carbon capture and removal projects. |  | Series C | Jul 16, 2018 |  |
| Gridtential Energy | Gridtential Energy develops an Absorbent Glass Mat battery that offers a lower-cost, safer, greener alternative to traditional lithium-ion.The company's bipolar battery technology, Silicon Joule, transforms the familiar lead battery into a powerful, fast-charging, long-lasting source of energy for electric vehicles, homes, and offices. Itincorporates solar wafer processing techniques into novel bipolar battery architectures while integrating seamlessly into existing battery manufacturing and recycling infrastructures. The result is a high-performance, low-cost, quickly scalable technology platform that also eliminates failure mechanisms, extends cycle life, and improves power performance at a fundamental level.The Santa Clara, California-headquartered company was established by Peter Borden and Michele Klein in 2010. | $11M | Series B | Sep 07, 2017 |  |
| Svante | Svante is a leading carbon capture and removal solutions provider specializing in the development and manufacturing of novel solid sorbents, structured adsorbent filters, and rotary contactor machines for post-combustion industrial carbon capture and direct air capture. The company’s leading-edge solid sorbent-based technology is environmentallyresponsible, and scalable, and can be applied to heavy industries with hard-to-avoid emissions, including cement, hydrogen, oil & gas, steel, and more. Svante has developed partnerships across the global CCUS value chain to scale the industry and make it easy for customers to execute source-to-sink carbon capture and removal projects. | $7.3M | Series B | Jul 11, 2017 |  |
| Axine Water Technologies | Axine Water Technologies is a Vancouver-based developer of wastewater treatment technologies and solutions established by founder and Chief Engineer, Colleen Legzdins.They’re specifically focused on overcoming the complex, expensive, and often ineffective nature of today’s incumbent wastewater systems by developing low-cost, energy-efficientsolutions for treating dissolved organic pollutants such as phenols, aromatics, acids, dyes, PHPs, dioxins, and pharmaceuticals that enable industrial and municipal customers to reduce costs and improve performance of their wastewater treatment.Their solutions are based on a proprietary electrolytic oxidation technology that treats high concentrations (up to 5000 mg/L COD) of toxic organics, biodegradable organics, ammonia, pathogens, and some inorganics in a single step without chemicals and without producing sludge. | $8M | Series B | Sep 14, 2016 |  |
| PRIME Coalition | PRIME Coalition is a 501(c)(3) public charity |  |  | Aug 20, 2015 |  |

10 of 33 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Chrysalix Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chrysalix-energy) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Chevron Technology Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chevron-technology-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Climate Investment](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ogci-climate-investments) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Alloy Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alloy-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Carbon Direct Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/carbon-direct) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Chart Industries](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chart-industries) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does The Roda Group invest in?

The Roda Group invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and Renewable Energy startups, most often at Series B and Series D stage. Most of the 33 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact The Roda Group?

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### Who are the partners at The Roda Group?

The team at The Roda Group includes Dan Miller (Managing Director and Co-founder) and Roger Strauch (Chairman). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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