We are transforming lab innovations into tech titans
AI marks a watershed moment and the innovation race has started. Breakthrough applications like robotics and advanced materials are transforming industries to solve the global challenges of our age. Grit will fund these emerging tech titans in their infancy, driving the modernization of industrial infrastructure over the next decade.
Our Strategy is Deep Tech: Labs to Launch — sourcing innovation from the nation's top labs, de-risking by leading early-stage rounds and focusing on compelling go-to-market strategies.
Universities are the bedrock of innovation
Almost every major innovation from silicon to the internet to Generative AI today have come from university labs. Grit is harnessing this incredible engine of innovation and talent.
Breakthrough Technologies to Rebuild and Reinvent 21st Century Infrastructure
We are investing in trillion dollar opportunities in real assets and infrastructure in industrial automation, supply chain and logistics, energy and compute, space tech and sustainability based on scientific breakthroughs in the labs.
The first wave of industrial automation was constrained by rigid, scripted machines that were brittle and prone to failure. The next generation of Generative AI enabled machines is resilient and adaptive. We need physical AI, modular hardware components, sustainable materials and advanced manufacturing technology to scale automation.
The chip shortage during the pandemic cost the US Economy $240B in 2021. We have a massive market opportunity to transform supply chain management with multi-layer visibility for end-to-end insights, rapid response and recovery for supply chain resilience, and circular economy solutions.
Climate change is the challenge of our lifetime. We live in a GPU consumption bubble which is driving an enormous need for clean energy. We need renewable energy sources, a modernized grid, decarbonization solutions, advanced materials, intelligent compute at the edge, disaggregated network fabrics, chip cooling solutions and more.
Satellite launches have grown 50% annually, while rocket launch costs fell 10 fold in 20 years. Looking ahead, as more satellite constellations populate space, the increasing reusability and modularity of both software and hardware systems will further expand access and boost the efficiency of the space economy.
Geography matters.
We bridge the mature activity centers of Silicon Valley and Boston — Stanford and MIT — to the growing and under capitalized hubs of emerging innovation across America like Austin, Denver, Atlanta and Pittsburgh.
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We invest in founders with GRIT.
We look for game changing companies that tackle massive market opportunities with differentiated deep technology and the hustle to get early traction.
Deep tech is hard. Typically it takes longer for Deep Tech companies to go from Pre-Seed to Series-A. We are focused on shortening this chasm. The Grit Engine brings methodology and purpose built industry partner connections to accelerate Go-to-Market.
We lead pre-seed and seed rounds and Series-A rounds on an exception basis. We invest from $100K - $1M in Labs, Pre-Seed and Seed Stage companies.
We are connected to the broader industrial base, across Fortune 500 corporates and later stage pools of capital. We connect early-stage technologies and startups to strategic partners.
We work closely with government innovation labs and departments. We fund startups with technology and business development via non-dilutive government funding from national programs.
We believe all investing is impact investing. If you invest with negative impact, you assume outsized risk. We look for companies solving big problems with a positive world impact and diverse teams.
The deep technology revolution is a unique and timely opportunity to root the future in a diverse perspective.
We at Grit believe a diverse perspective is a more complete perspective, and thus, more valuable.
And therein lies the opportunity...
We are on a mission, to elevate humanity, drive economic growth, and diversify wealth. We are taking a systematic, scalable approach and focusing at the points of maximum impact. Grit is the passion and perseverance to build a better way. Onward and upward.
A sustainable lifestyle is a precondition to humanity’s happy existence, today and tomorrow. The entire system needs to evolve. This is the economic opportunity of a lifetime. We take an elevated approach to sourcing solutions that are both economic and clean. We look for clever answers that create a more circular and efficient economy, across industry.
Economic growth is rooted in technology and entrepreneurship. New businesses create virtually all new jobs. Deep technological advancements drive outsized economic growth, while improving our quality of life. This drives prosperity.
Quality decisions are enabled by a broad perspective. The broader the perspective, the better. Diversity is in our best interest, despite disconnected networks and unconscious bias. Growth in both population and advanced education is increasingly diverse. Diversity is the future, but it will take GRIT. We know you have it. So do we.
Massive upcoming waves of R&D funding, huge real asset exit markets and decades of underivestment have created a hole in deep tech, particularly in the early stages. This is where we focus. We source from the nation's top labs, and de-risk by leading early-stage rounds and focusing on talent, funding, and go-to-market strategy.
Grit Ventures is an early-stage deep technology infrastructure fund focused on AI, Robotics and Advanced Energy.
We organize around marquee research universities and the innovation ecosystems that they anchor.
We bridge the mature activity centers of Silicon Valley and Boston — Stanford and MIT — to the growing hubs of emerging innovation across America like Los Angeles, Austin, Denver, Atlanta, and Pittsburgh.
The Clean Machine Revolution is here, rooted in core technologies of AI, Robotics and Advanced Energy. We have real problems in labor, supply chain, and sustainability. We require new solutions: new technologies, new cities, and new diverse talent.
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