About Grand Ventures
Grand Ventures is a venture capital firm founded in 2017. It is primarily based out of Grand Rapids, United States. As of Dec 2025, Grand Ventures is an active investor, having invested in 50 companies, with 4 new investments in the last 12 months. It primarily invests in Seed round in United States based startups. Its investments are spread across a wide range of sectors from Enterprise Applications to FinTech and High Tech. Most recently it participated in the $***** Seed round of Navidence Overall, Grand Ventures portfolio has seen 14 acquisitions including key companies like Postmates, Tealbook and Traceloop. A lot of funds co-invest with Grand Ventures, with names like Springtime Ventures sharing a substantial percentage of its portfolio. Grand Ventures has team of 15 people including 4 partners.Key Metrics
Team Members
Portfolio Count
Portfolio Sectors
Portfolio Locations
Rounds of Entry
Seed, Series A & 1 more
Portfolio Soonicorns
Grand Ventures' List of Top Investments
Grand Ventures has a portfolio of 50 companies. Their most notable investments are in Manatee and CRE OneSource.Their portfolio spans across United States, Canada and Israel. They have invested in Enterprise Applications, FinTech, High Tech and 20 other sectors, across stages such as Seed, Series A and 1 more. Here is the list of top investments by Grand Ventures:
1. Postmates
Provider of on-demand delivery services for food, drinks, and groceries. It facilitates the delivery of various items to customers. The business also provides options for users to order for pickup. It offers opportunities for individuals to sign up to deliver.
Key facts about Postmates
- Founded Year: 2011
- Location: San Francisco (United States)
- Last Known Valuation: $*****
- Stage: Acquired
- Total Funding till date: $903M
- Employee Count: 4,136 as on Mar 31, 2026
- Investors: Glynn Capital, Harmony Partners and 61 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series G, Sep 19, 2019, $*****
- Highlight: Acquired
Provider of industrial AI solutions for manufacturing process optimization and automation. The company offers tools to connect, structure, analyze, and operate plant data. It provides solutions for real-time data access, standardized data modeling, and AI-powered insights. The company also offers tools for operators to build tailored applications.
Key facts about Sight Machine
- Founded Year: 2011
- Location: San Francisco (United States)
- Stage: Series D
- Total Funding till date: $85.5M
- Employee Count: 66 as on Feb 28, 2026
- Investors: FCVC, Exposition Ventures and 24 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series D, Jan 04, 2024, $*****
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
3. Astronomer
Cloud-based platform for data pipelines. It is a hosted data pipeline service that can be used to connect various data sources like Oracle, MySQL, Salesforce, etc to destinations like cloud platform amazon redshift, bi tools, google analytics, and website analytics tools like kissmetrics. The company also provides implementation services to the companies with no data engineer.
Key facts about Astronomer
- Founded Year: 2015
- Location: Cincinnati (United States)
- Stage: Series D
- Total Funding till date: $376M
- Employee Count: 4,633 as on Mar 31, 2026
- Investors: Meritech, Bain Capital Ventures and 27 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series D, May 01, 2025, $*****
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
4. Tachyus
Developer of software for operational optimization and emissions management solutions. The company provides platforms that use data, physics, and machine learning to create models. These models are used to optimize reservoir management decisions and perform analysis. The company's software helps industries account for, monitor, forecast, and report emissions to regulatory agencies.
Key facts about Tachyus
- Founded Year: 2013
- Location: Palo Alto (United States)
- Stage: Series B
- Total Funding till date: $46.9M
- Employee Count: 46 as on Feb 28, 2026
- Investors: Cota Capital, Formation 8 and 16 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series B, Jun 17, 2019, $*****
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
5. Tealbook
Provider of supplier data platform offering data cleansing and enrichment. The platform resolves supplier legal entities and maps corporate hierarchies. It enriches supplier profiles with attributes, providing a data foundation. The platform integrates with existing systems and offers continuous data updates.
Key facts about Tealbook
- Founded Year: 2014
- Location: Thornhill (Canada)
- Stage: Acquired
- Total Funding till date: $78M
- Employee Count: 45 as on Mar 31, 2026
- Investors: Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, Workday Ventures and 15 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Conventional Debt, Dec 14, 2021, $*****
- Highlight: Acquired
Grand Ventures' Year-on-Year Investment Trends
Grand Ventures has invested in 50 companies over the last 9 years, with an average of 4 new investments annually in the last 5 years. In 2025, it made 5 investments. Its most recent first time investment was in Navidence and most recent follow-on round was in Paccurate.Year | No. of Investments | ||
|---|---|---|---|
1st Round | Follow-on | Total | |
2026 (YTD) | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2025 | 5 | 0 | 5 |
2024 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
2023 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
2022 | 6 | 1 | 7 |
2021 | 4 | 2 | 6 |
2020 | 4 | 1 | 5 |
2019 | 2 | 4 | 6 |
2018 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
2017 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
Grand Ventures' Investments by Stage
Grand Ventures has made 18 investments in Seed stage with an average round size of $3.56M, 11 investments in Series A stage with an average round size of $6.49M and 2 investments in Series B stage with an average round size of $18M.Stage of entry | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
Seed | 18 |
Series A | 11 |
Series B | 2 |
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
Grand Ventures' Investments by Sector
Grand Ventures has a diverse portfolio, with companies operating in the Enterprise Applications, FinTech, Vertical SaaS, Consumer and High Tech. Notably, it has invested in 44 Tech companies, 37 Enterprise (B2B) companies, 32 Software companies and at least 24 companies focusing on Saas.Sector | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
Enterprise Applications | 26 |
FinTech | 11 |
Vertical SaaS | 7 |
Consumer | 6 |
High Tech | 5 |
Others | 24 |
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
Grand Ventures' Investments by Geography
Grand Ventures has made most investments in United States (27), followed by Canada where it has made 2 investments.Country | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
United States | 27 |
Canada | 2 |
Israel | 1 |
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
Grand Ventures' recent investments
Grand Ventures has not made any investment in 2026 so far.Here are the most recent investments by Grand Ventures:
Filter this listDate | Company | Location | Round Details | Round Amount | Co-Investors |
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Dec 15, 2025 | United States | Seed | 9992 | ||
Nov 13, 2025 | - | Seed | 4962 | ||
Aug 01, 2025 | United States | Seed | 4805 | [+2] | |
May 27, 2025 | Israel | Seed | 1021 | [+3] | |
Feb 18, 2025 | United States | Seed | 8149 | [+1] |
Acquired companies in Grand Ventures' Portfolio
14 companies from Grand Ventures' portfolio have been acquired. The most recent acquisition was Tealbook in Apr 2026 by supplier.io for $*****.Here are Grand Ventures' portfolio companies that got acquired most recently:
Company | Acquisition Date | First Invested on | First Round of Investment | Round Size |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Apr 03, 2026 | Jan 22, 2020 | Series A | 9533 | |
Mar 03, 2026 | May 27, 2025 | Seed | 5669 | |
Jul 18, 2025 | Aug 25, 2022 | Series B | 4103 | |
Jun 24, 2025 | Nov 15, 2022 | Seed | 2367 | |
Jun 29, 2023 | Apr 30, 2021 | Seed | 2422 |
Team profile of Grand Ventures
Grand Ventures has a team of 15 members including 4 Partners located in United States. Grand Ventures' team sits on the board of 1 company.Here is a list of top team members in Grand Ventures:
Name | Designation | Location | Board Memberships | Contact Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Partner | Grand Rapids | |||
Partner | Grand Rapids | - | ||
Partner | Tampa | - | - | |
Partner | Chicago | - |
Co-investors of Grand Ventures
Over the past 9 years, 194 investors have co-invested in Grand Ventures's portfolio companies. This includes funds and angels.
- Invested before Grand Ventures: Y Combinator, CincyTech and 45 others have invested in rounds before Grand Ventures. There are 3 companies where Y Combinator has invested before Grand Ventures and 2 companies where CincyTech has invested before Grand Ventures.
- Top Co-investors of Grand Ventures: 88 investors entered a company along with Grand Ventures. These include investors like Springtime Ventures (3 companies).
- Invested after Grand Ventures: A total of 59 investors have invested in Grand Ventures's portfolio after their investments. Top Investors include SVB (4 companies), High Alpha (3 companies) and Insight Partners (1 company).
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