GRA Venture Fund

The GRA Venture Fund, LLC is a private investment fund helping to finance promising companies emerging from Georgia's universities. The Fund makes seed, early-stage, and mid-stage investments in companies originating from GRA Ventures, the commercialization arm of the Georgia Research Alliance. Fund investors are the State of Georgia, private individuals, corporations and foundations.

J. Connor Seabrook

Director, Investments and Venture Acceleration

Past deals in Atlanta, GE

Codoxo

Series B in 2022
At Codoxo, formerly Fraudscope, we’re on a mission to make our healthcare system more affordable and effective. Our Forensic AI Platform uses a patented algorithm to identify problems and suspicious behavior earlier than traditional techniques which helps ensure our scarce healthcare dollars go to real patient care.

Antios Therapeutics

Series B in 2021
Antios Therapeutics is a biopharmaceutical company devoted to developing innovative therapies for viral diseases. With an experienced and proven leadership team, the company is focused on the development of its oral drug candidate for potentially curative treatment of HBV infections. Antios Therapeutics was founded by Abel De La Rosa, Douglas Mayers, and Idean Marvasty.

Lucid Scientific

Seed Round in 2020
Lucid Scientific is a biotechnology tools company working to accelerate drug discovery and basic biological research by providing systems for real-time cellular analysis. It has invented an innovative new system for monitoring cell culture experiments. The company’s flagship technology, called RESIPHER, provides continuous and non-invasive measurement of oxygen consumption in a cell culture plate, then streams this information to a convenient web app.

Codoxo

Series A in 2020
At Codoxo, formerly Fraudscope, we’re on a mission to make our healthcare system more affordable and effective. Our Forensic AI Platform uses a patented algorithm to identify problems and suspicious behavior earlier than traditional techniques which helps ensure our scarce healthcare dollars go to real patient care.

Apptega

Seed Round in 2020
Apptega is helping companies of all sizes organize and manage their Cybersecurity Programs. With the help of Apptega, our customers are gaining control over the chaos and systematically driving their organizations towards a hardened cybersecurity posture to meet today's modern threats.

Acivilate

Seed Round in 2017
Acivilate is a Majority woman-owned technology social enterprise – a dedicated team of experienced professionals who care and measure outcomes and interventions to ensure success.

Carbice Corporation

Seed Round in 2017
Carbice is a maker of Carbice Carbon, a product that lowers device temperatures and dissipates heat away from product packaging. It sets the standard for performance, reliability, and low-cost assembly within the world’s most important electronic, energy, and industrial products. Carbice Corporation was founded in January 2017 by Georgia Tech Professor Baratunde Cola, who first worked on thermal applications of advanced carbon materials in 2001 and later spent time as a test and development engineer at Intel; and co-founded by a team of leading Georgia Tech researchers in electronic device power management and product innovation. The company also has an office in London and one coming soon to Toulouse, France.

Codoxo

Seed Round in 2017
At Codoxo, formerly Fraudscope, we’re on a mission to make our healthcare system more affordable and effective. Our Forensic AI Platform uses a patented algorithm to identify problems and suspicious behavior earlier than traditional techniques which helps ensure our scarce healthcare dollars go to real patient care.

Axion BioSystems

Venture Round in 2016
Axion BioSystems develops multi-electrode array technology to provide access to cellular information analysis for research, clinical, and drug discovery markets. It offers single-well systems, stimulating and recording channels, channel systems, multi-well systems, and integrated circuits for elimination of stimulation artifacts. The company is based in Atlanta, Georgia.

StarMobile

Seed Round in 2015
StarMobile is a codeless, cloud-based enterprise mobility platform that allows companies to dynamically transform any application (on-premise or cloud-based applications, or custom systems based on the web, .NET, Win32, Java, Flash, or "green screen") for use on any endpoint with native user experience and native device integration, faster, simpler and at a lower cost than any solution on the planet. Founded in 2012, StarMobile has conceived in the Georgia Tech Networking and Mobile Computing (GNAN) Research Laboratory, under grants from the Georgia Research Alliance and the National Science Foundation. StarMobile employs a revolutionary remote computing protocol called “MORPH” (five patents pending) that was commercialized at VentureLab, the #2 University Business Incubator in the world, under grants from the Georgia Research Alliance and the National Science Foundation. MORPH intelligently derives the mobile app directly from the original application, then applies a series of transformations in real-time to render a native mobile experience to the end-user. StarMobile requires no changes to existing applications, no coding, no exotic skills, no re-building, simple configuration, and low maintenance, with infinite scalability, end-to-end security, and detailed analytics, for any application, any use case, and any endpoint, with native user experience and native device integration. StarMobile is based in Atlanta, Georgia, and its leadership team has 125+ years of experience in enterprise software, mobile computing, and networking at recognized companies, as well as successful startups.

Lumense

Series C in 2015
Lumense, located in Atlanta’s Advanced Technology Development Center (ATDC) next to the Georgia Tech campus, offers real-time, in situ, chemical and biological sensors derived from $20 million in funded research conducted at Georgia Tech. Lumense has exclusively licensed the technology from Georgia Tech, and has augmented this core intellectual property considerably since its founding in 2011. The company is launching standard products in a few focus areas, and is also developing custom sensors in concert with leading companies across several industries.

Celtaxsys

Series D in 2015
Celtaxsys, is a biopharmaceutical company, engages in developing and testing drug compounds for treating cancer, and inflammatory and autoimmune diseases. Its technology manipulates immune cell migration as a treatment for cancer, inflammation, and organ/tissue rejection. The company's drug compounds are designed to block the protective mechanisms created by certain tumors to prevent attack by immune system cells.

StarMobile

Seed Round in 2015
StarMobile is a codeless, cloud-based enterprise mobility platform that allows companies to dynamically transform any application (on-premise or cloud-based applications, or custom systems based on the web, .NET, Win32, Java, Flash, or "green screen") for use on any endpoint with native user experience and native device integration, faster, simpler and at a lower cost than any solution on the planet. Founded in 2012, StarMobile has conceived in the Georgia Tech Networking and Mobile Computing (GNAN) Research Laboratory, under grants from the Georgia Research Alliance and the National Science Foundation. StarMobile employs a revolutionary remote computing protocol called “MORPH” (five patents pending) that was commercialized at VentureLab, the #2 University Business Incubator in the world, under grants from the Georgia Research Alliance and the National Science Foundation. MORPH intelligently derives the mobile app directly from the original application, then applies a series of transformations in real-time to render a native mobile experience to the end-user. StarMobile requires no changes to existing applications, no coding, no exotic skills, no re-building, simple configuration, and low maintenance, with infinite scalability, end-to-end security, and detailed analytics, for any application, any use case, and any endpoint, with native user experience and native device integration. StarMobile is based in Atlanta, Georgia, and its leadership team has 125+ years of experience in enterprise software, mobile computing, and networking at recognized companies, as well as successful startups.

Soneter

Venture Round in 2014
Soneter, LLC manufactures and provides water flow and leak sensors/ meters that deliver real-time monitoring and alerts to the multifamily housing industry. The meters offers protection against water damage caused by undetected leaks. It offers its products to building owners and tenants.

Lumense

Series B in 2013
Lumense, located in Atlanta’s Advanced Technology Development Center (ATDC) next to the Georgia Tech campus, offers real-time, in situ, chemical and biological sensors derived from $20 million in funded research conducted at Georgia Tech. Lumense has exclusively licensed the technology from Georgia Tech, and has augmented this core intellectual property considerably since its founding in 2011. The company is launching standard products in a few focus areas, and is also developing custom sensors in concert with leading companies across several industries.

StarMobile

Seed Round in 2013
StarMobile is a codeless, cloud-based enterprise mobility platform that allows companies to dynamically transform any application (on-premise or cloud-based applications, or custom systems based on the web, .NET, Win32, Java, Flash, or "green screen") for use on any endpoint with native user experience and native device integration, faster, simpler and at a lower cost than any solution on the planet. Founded in 2012, StarMobile has conceived in the Georgia Tech Networking and Mobile Computing (GNAN) Research Laboratory, under grants from the Georgia Research Alliance and the National Science Foundation. StarMobile employs a revolutionary remote computing protocol called “MORPH” (five patents pending) that was commercialized at VentureLab, the #2 University Business Incubator in the world, under grants from the Georgia Research Alliance and the National Science Foundation. MORPH intelligently derives the mobile app directly from the original application, then applies a series of transformations in real-time to render a native mobile experience to the end-user. StarMobile requires no changes to existing applications, no coding, no exotic skills, no re-building, simple configuration, and low maintenance, with infinite scalability, end-to-end security, and detailed analytics, for any application, any use case, and any endpoint, with native user experience and native device integration. StarMobile is based in Atlanta, Georgia, and its leadership team has 125+ years of experience in enterprise software, mobile computing, and networking at recognized companies, as well as successful startups.

Urjanet

Series B in 2012
Urjanet is the global source for utility data. The business is on a mission to build a platform for the world's utility data and make it useful. The Urjanet Utility Data Platform transforms organizations and their decisions across industries. Urjanet's data platform integrates directly to customer applications and tooling, empowering a wide range of uses and implementations for automated utility data. Founded by a team of veteran entrepreneurs, Urjanet is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.

Pindrop

Seed Round in 2012
Pindrop is propelling enterprises and consumers toward a voice-driven future by unlocking the value of every voice interaction. Interacting with a financial institution, a digital assistant, a video chat, or a smart device can provide access to our unique identity, and open new capabilities not possible without proper security or intelligence evoked solely from a voice.

Urjanet

Series A in 2011
Urjanet is the global source for utility data. The business is on a mission to build a platform for the world's utility data and make it useful. The Urjanet Utility Data Platform transforms organizations and their decisions across industries. Urjanet's data platform integrates directly to customer applications and tooling, empowering a wide range of uses and implementations for automated utility data. Founded by a team of veteran entrepreneurs, Urjanet is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.

Damballa

Series D in 2011
As the experts in advanced threat protection, Damballa discovers active threats that bypass all security prevention layers. Damballa automatically identifies successful infections and pinpoints devices that represent the highest risk to a business. Our patent-pending solutions combine principles of data science and machine learning to discover threats without prior knowledge of them and regardless of device type, OS and threat vector. Damballa protects nearly a billion endpoints globally at enterprises in every major market and for the world’s largest ISP and telecommunications providers. For more information, visit www.damballa.com, or follow us on Twitter @DamballaInc. Watch an analyst interview with Brian Foster, CTO until June, 2015 , here: https://vimeo.com/129326008

Damballa

Series C in 2010
As the experts in advanced threat protection, Damballa discovers active threats that bypass all security prevention layers. Damballa automatically identifies successful infections and pinpoints devices that represent the highest risk to a business. Our patent-pending solutions combine principles of data science and machine learning to discover threats without prior knowledge of them and regardless of device type, OS and threat vector. Damballa protects nearly a billion endpoints globally at enterprises in every major market and for the world’s largest ISP and telecommunications providers. For more information, visit www.damballa.com, or follow us on Twitter @DamballaInc. Watch an analyst interview with Brian Foster, CTO until June, 2015 , here: https://vimeo.com/129326008
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