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Grok Ventures

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Total investments 45
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$45M
Portfolio companies 26
Lead investments 4
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.42
Exits 1
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Areas of investment

  • Renewable Energy
  • Software
  • Biotechnology
  • Solar
  • Internet
Summary

The main office of represented VC is situated in the Surry Hills. The company was established in Australia.

The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Cyber Security, Enterprise Software. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Zoox, Cog, August Robotics. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Grok Ventures, startups are often financed by Blackbird Ventures (Australia), Index Ventures, Felicis Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Skip Capital, AirTree Ventures, Sapphire Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Skip Capital, AirTree Ventures, TDM Growth Partners.

Considering the real fund results, this VC is 30 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. When the investment is from Grok Ventures the average startup value is more than 1 billion dollars. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 50 - 100 millions dollars. The top activity for fund was in 2018.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Antora Energy

Energy
$150M22 Feb 2024 -

Gridmo

Energy
Software
$365K05 Oct 2023 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Lydian

Chemical
Chemical Engineering
Manufacturing
$12M06 Sep 2023 Salem, Massachusetts, United States

Rhizocore Technologies

Agriculture
Biotechnology
$4M22 Jun 2023 -

Fleet Space Technologies

Internet of Things
Satellite Communication
Telecommunications
$36M24 May 2023 Australia, Western Australia, Australia

Soil Carbon Co

Biotechnology
$76M13 Feb 2023 Orange, New South Wales, Australia

WeaveGrid

Automotive
Electric Vehicle
Machine Learning
Renewable Energy
Software
Transportation
$35M15 Nov 2022 San Francisco, California, United States

Vow

Biotechnology
Food and Beverage
$53M14 Nov 2022 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Sundrive Solar

Renewable Energy
Solar
$15M12 Oct 2022 Wollongong City Council, New South Wales, Australia
News
Dovetail Raises $5 Million AUD to Empower Organizations to Innovate Faster With All Customer Research Housed in One Central Location

– Dovetail, a software company that enables teams to make better decisions through deep customer understanding, announced that it has raised $5m AUD to further scale the reach of its customer research platform.
– The round was led by Felicis Ventures, with participation from Blackbird Ventures, Grok Ventures and Didier Elzinga, CEO of Culture Amp.
– The company has created a collaborative, easily searchable repository for all of an organization’s customer research to fully inform and expedite product decisions; users can share data-backed insights across the broader business in real time.

WeaveGrid Raises $15M Series A to Enable Widescale Adoption of EVs on the Electric Grid

– WeaveGrid, a developer of software solutions for the scalable deployment of electric vehicles (EVs) on the electric grid, announced $15M in Series A fundraising to enable its next stage of growth.
– The round was led by Coatue with participation by Breakthrough Energy Ventures and existing investors The Westly Group, Grok Ventures, and several prominent angel investors including Ramez Naam and Josh Felser.
– Automaker and government commitments are driving a radical transformation that will soon see millions of new EVs charging across the United States. Electric utilities are in a leading position to benefit from accelerating EV adoption, but face risks as EV charging puts a tremendous new load on the grid.

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Total investments 45
Average round size 45M
Peak activity year 2021
Lead investments 4
Follow on index 0.42
Exits 1
Group Appearance index 0.93

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Antora Energy

Energy
$150M22 Feb 2024 -

Gridmo

Energy
Software
$365K05 Oct 2023 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Lydian

Chemical
Chemical Engineering
Manufacturing
$12M06 Sep 2023 Salem, Massachusetts, United States

Rhizocore Technologies

Agriculture
Biotechnology
$4M22 Jun 2023 -

Fleet Space Technologies

Internet of Things
Satellite Communication
Telecommunications
$36M24 May 2023 Australia, Western Australia, Australia

Soil Carbon Co

Biotechnology
$76M13 Feb 2023 Orange, New South Wales, Australia

WeaveGrid

Automotive
Electric Vehicle
Machine Learning
Renewable Energy
Software
Transportation
$35M15 Nov 2022 San Francisco, California, United States

Vow

Biotechnology
Food and Beverage
$53M14 Nov 2022 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Sundrive Solar

Renewable Energy
Solar
$15M12 Oct 2022 Wollongong City Council, New South Wales, Australia
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