Grit Ventures

Grit Ventures is leading pre-seed and seed stage investments and bringing a smart money model to Deep Technology early stage investing. Sourcing from the leading nationwide labs and leveraging over 3 decades of Go-To-Market experience in Hardware, Grit invests in and shepherds groundbreaking AI + Robotics + Clean Energy companies through the often tumultuous journey from Labs to Launch.

Mike Regan

Partner

22 past transactions

Korea Proptech Forum

Seed Round in 2022
Korea Proptech Forum is a group of real estate companies and technology startups to create a domestic proptech ecosystem.

Apptronik

Seed Round in 2022
Apptronik specializes in developing humanoid robots designed for various real-world applications, providing innovative robotics solutions and manufacturing services tailored to enhance efficiency and productivity in diverse environments.

RIOS

Series A in 2022
RIOS, founded in 2018, is a technology company helping global customers automate their factories, warehouses, and supply chain operations by deploying a new class of dexterous AI-powered robots. RIOS robots handle hard-to-automate tasks, typically requiring human-level dexterity, in unstructured environments. RIOS is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA and has a pilot facility in San Carlos, CA. More information is available at www.rios.ai.

Agtonomy

Seed Round in 2022
Agtonomy is a hybrid autonomous and tele-assist platform that specializes in advanced autonomous and AI solutions for agriculture. It focuses on addressing the pressing challenges of labor scarcity, sustainability, and shrinking profit margins faced by farmers. It partners with established equipment developers to transform tractors and agriculture machines into autonomous and remote-controlled equipment that is accessible to local farmers.

Cognitive Space

Seed Round in 2021
Cognitive Space develops a generation machine intelligence platform for satellite constellation management. It applies the power of artificial intelligence to space constellation mission management, collections planning, and communications link coordination so that organizations can unlock the true revenue and operational potential of their satellite constellations.

Agtonomy

Seed Round in 2021
Agtonomy is a hybrid autonomous and tele-assist platform that specializes in advanced autonomous and AI solutions for agriculture. It focuses on addressing the pressing challenges of labor scarcity, sustainability, and shrinking profit margins faced by farmers. It partners with established equipment developers to transform tractors and agriculture machines into autonomous and remote-controlled equipment that is accessible to local farmers.

Agot

Convertible Note in 2021
Agot is an all-in-one computer vision platform, purpose-built for the QSR industry. The suite of solutions are designed to solve the biggest pain points by digitizing restaurants activities and translating those observations into real-time team interactions and impactful analytics.

ViaBot

Seed Round in 2021
ViaBot builds outdoor maintenance robots for commercial properties including sports arenas, shopping malls, shopping outlets, corporate buildings, and more. The company's RUNO robots offer vision-based security that features its ability to view and scan things such as license plates of cars on a property. ViaBot was founded in 2016 by Gregg Ratanaphanyarat and Andre Ding and is based in Sunnyvale, California, United States.

Canvas

Series B in 2021
Canvas is a construction robotics company that uses machine learning to install drywall at construction sites. It delivers unrivaled quality, speed, and predictability by putting robots in the hands of skilled workers. Through its novel approach, they have reinvented drywall finishing to give projects better outcomes.

Tortuga AgTech

Series A in 2021
Tortuga AgTech empowers growers by using robots that perform a variety of labor-intensive tasks on the farm, with an emphasis on the harvest. Tortuga AgTech's mission is to build a healthier society, and a thriving ecosystem, through smarter farming. To do this, they want to enable growers to sell better produce - unique, tasty, nutritious food. They're doing this by building Digital Horticulture systems, made up of powerful technology like robotics, automation, and precision data analytics and machine learning. These systems will enable advanced growing methods to compete with scale agriculture, which means growers will be able to grow better produce that's also better for the planet. The automation of picking, packing, and trimming will reduce significantly the manual labor hours needed to grow to produce. It will also increase yields through denser layouts and optimized grow conditions. And, they'll help create full-time local technical jobs as well. And they do all of that while providing fresher, healthier, and more sustainable products to the humans living near their grower customers' operations.

Canvas

Series A in 2020
Canvas is a construction robotics company that uses machine learning to install drywall at construction sites. It delivers unrivaled quality, speed, and predictability by putting robots in the hands of skilled workers. Through its novel approach, they have reinvented drywall finishing to give projects better outcomes.

RIOS

Venture Round in 2020
RIOS, founded in 2018, is a technology company helping global customers automate their factories, warehouses, and supply chain operations by deploying a new class of dexterous AI-powered robots. RIOS robots handle hard-to-automate tasks, typically requiring human-level dexterity, in unstructured environments. RIOS is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA and has a pilot facility in San Carlos, CA. More information is available at www.rios.ai.

Dishcraft Robotics

Series A in 2020
Dishcraft is revolutionizing commercial kitchens with robotics, computer vision, machine learning, and innovative mechanical design. It provides a dishwashing delivery service that uses robotics and AI to increase productivity and reduce waste in commercial food service operations. Dishcraft Robotics was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in San Carlos, California.

ViaBot

Pre Seed Round in 2019
ViaBot builds outdoor maintenance robots for commercial properties including sports arenas, shopping malls, shopping outlets, corporate buildings, and more. The company's RUNO robots offer vision-based security that features its ability to view and scan things such as license plates of cars on a property. ViaBot was founded in 2016 by Gregg Ratanaphanyarat and Andre Ding and is based in Sunnyvale, California, United States.

Tortuga AgTech

Venture Round in 2019
Tortuga AgTech empowers growers by using robots that perform a variety of labor-intensive tasks on the farm, with an emphasis on the harvest. Tortuga AgTech's mission is to build a healthier society, and a thriving ecosystem, through smarter farming. To do this, they want to enable growers to sell better produce - unique, tasty, nutritious food. They're doing this by building Digital Horticulture systems, made up of powerful technology like robotics, automation, and precision data analytics and machine learning. These systems will enable advanced growing methods to compete with scale agriculture, which means growers will be able to grow better produce that's also better for the planet. The automation of picking, packing, and trimming will reduce significantly the manual labor hours needed to grow to produce. It will also increase yields through denser layouts and optimized grow conditions. And, they'll help create full-time local technical jobs as well. And they do all of that while providing fresher, healthier, and more sustainable products to the humans living near their grower customers' operations.

Rhumbix

Series A in 2017
Rhumbix develops a mobile platform designed for the construction craft workforce. It modernizes construction field operations, helping builders go paperless in the field, and improving how they measure and manage labor productivity to be more profitable. Rhumbix was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Tortuga AgTech

Seed Round in 2017
Tortuga AgTech empowers growers by using robots that perform a variety of labor-intensive tasks on the farm, with an emphasis on the harvest. Tortuga AgTech's mission is to build a healthier society, and a thriving ecosystem, through smarter farming. To do this, they want to enable growers to sell better produce - unique, tasty, nutritious food. They're doing this by building Digital Horticulture systems, made up of powerful technology like robotics, automation, and precision data analytics and machine learning. These systems will enable advanced growing methods to compete with scale agriculture, which means growers will be able to grow better produce that's also better for the planet. The automation of picking, packing, and trimming will reduce significantly the manual labor hours needed to grow to produce. It will also increase yields through denser layouts and optimized grow conditions. And, they'll help create full-time local technical jobs as well. And they do all of that while providing fresher, healthier, and more sustainable products to the humans living near their grower customers' operations.

LumosTech

Angel Round in 2016
Lumos has developed the first smart sleep mask so people have a natural way to control their sleep cycle and wake up rested, restored, and ready to take on the day. Based on scientific research coming out of Stanford University, our mask uses low intensity light flashes to adjust the body’s internal clock and restore your sleep cycle naturally. It’s designed to shift the body clock of jet lagged business travelers, elite pro and college athletes, shift-workers, and teenagers so they can perform at their peak, focus, and work effectively throughout the day. Unlike pharmaceutical solutions, light therapy is a natural, validated remedy for sleep problems with no side effects.

Camp Six Labs

Seed Round in 2016
Bringing unprecedented material efficiency, speed and design freedom to the construction space.

Rhumbix

Series A in 2015
Rhumbix develops a mobile platform designed for the construction craft workforce. It modernizes construction field operations, helping builders go paperless in the field, and improving how they measure and manage labor productivity to be more profitable. Rhumbix was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Dor

Venture Round in 2015
Dor specializes in providing retail traffic counting solution. It democratizes the power of big data for every retailer with an affordable and accurate foot traffic counting system. Dor provides the tools needed to make better staffing and marketing decisions, increasing revenue while saving time. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Moxxly

Seed Round in 2015
Moxxly takes the guesswork out of modern motherhood through beautiful, connected devices. Moxxly’s first product is a smart, stylish, and high performing breast pump system that enables today’s mobile mom to pump wherever she is, with her shirt on, while receiving real-time data about her breastmilk supply. Moxxly is female-founded, San Francisco-based, and a proud alum of PCH International's Highway 1 hardware incubator as well as a current participant in Stanford's StartX accelerator.
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