# Union Grove Venture Partners

> Union Grove Venture Partners is a VC fund backing Analytics. See 17 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Sep 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Chapel Hill, United States
- Total investments: 17
- Last investment: May 2023
- Lead investor: 29%
- Fund size: $4.1M
- Last fund: May 2022
- Last updated: Sep 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/union-grove-venture-partners/
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/uniongrovevp
- Website: https://ugvp.com/

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.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Analytics | 3 | 18% |
| Food Processing | 3 | 18% |
| Food and Beverage | 3 | 18% |
| Apps | 2 | 12% |
| Marketplace | 2 | 12% |

45 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series B | 5 | 29% |
| Series D | 4 | 24% |
| Series E | 2 | 12% |
| Seed | 1 | 6% |
| Series A | 1 | 6% |

7 stages tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Patrick Cairns | General Partner | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/patrick-cairns |
| Greg Bohlen | Managing General Partner | 1 | — |
| John A. Spilman V | General Partner | 0 | — |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Hero Bread | Hero Bread is a food product company that specializes in providing nutritious foods. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, USA. | $15M | Series B | May 02, 2023 | https://hero.co |
| Alation | Alation is the leader in enterprise data intelligence solutions including data search & discovery, data governance, data stewardship, analytics, and digital transformation. Alation’s initial offering dominates the data catalog market. Thanks to its powerful Behavioral Analysis Engine, inbuilt collaboration capabilities, and open interfaces,Alation combines machine learning with human insight to successfully tackle even the most demanding challenges in data and metadata management. More than 300 enterprises drive data culture, improve decision making, and realize business outcomes with Alation including AbbVie, American Family Insurance, Cisco, Exelon, Fifth Third Bank, Finnair, Munich Re, NASDAQ, New Balance, Parexel, Pfizer, US Foods and Vistaprint. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, Alation was named to Inc. Magazine’s Best Workplaces list and is backed by leading venture capitalists including Blackstone, Costanoa, Data Collective, Dell Technologies, Icon, ISAI Cap, Riverwood, Salesforce, Sanabil, Sapphire, and Snowflake Ventures. For more information, visit alation.com. | $123M | Series E | Nov 02, 2022 | http://alation.com |
| Oliver Space | Oliver Space is a home furnishing company that makes living spaces easy and affordable. The company offers a flexible payment structure where customers can try before they buy at 0% interest. | $36M | Series B | Aug 09, 2022 | https://www.oliver.space |
| Current Foods | Kuleana creates plant-based alternatives for people's seafood favorites, using plants and biotechnology without the environmental and ethical consequences. | $18M | Seed | Jun 23, 2022 | https://kuleana.co |
| Alation | Alation is the leader in enterprise data intelligence solutions including data search & discovery, data governance, data stewardship, analytics, and digital transformation. Alation’s initial offering dominates the data catalog market. Thanks to its powerful Behavioral Analysis Engine, inbuilt collaboration capabilities, and open interfaces,Alation combines machine learning with human insight to successfully tackle even the most demanding challenges in data and metadata management. More than 300 enterprises drive data culture, improve decision making, and realize business outcomes with Alation including AbbVie, American Family Insurance, Cisco, Exelon, Fifth Third Bank, Finnair, Munich Re, NASDAQ, New Balance, Parexel, Pfizer, US Foods and Vistaprint. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, Alation was named to Inc. Magazine’s Best Workplaces list and is backed by leading venture capitalists including Blackstone, Costanoa, Data Collective, Dell Technologies, Icon, ISAI Cap, Riverwood, Salesforce, Sanabil, Sapphire, and Snowflake Ventures. For more information, visit alation.com. | $110M | Series D | Jun 03, 2021 | http://alation.com |
| Forte | Forte is building economic technology for games that is secure, easy to use, and fully compliant. Its end-to-end blockchain platform enables the emergence of community economics, a system where the interests of game developers and players are aligned, leading to healthier, sustainable game communities. The team is composed of longtime industrymembers (Unity, ngmoco, Riot Games, Electronic Arts, Sony, and Rockstar Games, among others), and is currently working with over 25 acclaimed game developers from across the globe to reimagine the economics of games. | $185M | Series A | May 12, 2021 | https://forte.io |
| Descartes Labs | 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 | http://www.descarteslabs.com/ |
| SpotHero | SpotHero is the leading & only independent consumer marketplace for parking in North America. | $50M | Series D | Aug 22, 2019 | http://www.spothero.com |
| Poshmark | Poshmark is the social marketplace for fashion where anyone can buy, sell and share their style with others. Poshmark’s mission is to make shopping simple and fun by connecting people around a shared love of fashion, while empowering entrepreneurs to become the next generation of retailers. Recognized as the go-to shopping destination formillennials, Poshmark’s community of over two million Seller Stylists help shoppers discover the perfect look from over 25 million items and 5,000 brands. | $87.5M | Series D | Nov 14, 2017 | http://poshmark.com |
| Samba TV | Samba TV provides streaming services, connected devices, time-shifting, and multi-screen viewership, our data products solve real problems and create a meaningful competitive advantage for our clients given the dramatic growth in streaming services, connected devices, time-shifting, and multi-screen viewership. | $30M | Series B | Jun 19, 2017 | http://www.samba.tv |

10 of 17 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Union Grove Venture Partners invest in?

Union Grove Venture Partners invests primarily in Analytics, Food Processing and Food and Beverage startups, most often at Series B and Series D stage. Most of the 17 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 Union Grove Venture Partners?

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### Who are the partners at Union Grove Venture Partners?

The team at Union Grove Venture Partners includes Patrick Cairns (General Partner), Greg Bohlen (Managing General Partner) and John A. Spilman V (General Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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