A Grand 2024: Year in Review
This has been a great year for the Grand Ventures team. Here are a few highlights.
In 2024, we added 5 companies to our portfolio including:
- Digit
- Iron Sheepdog
- Palm
- Scorbit
- and one more to be announced soon…
Our portfolio companies raised over $64.8M in 14 funding rounds, from Seed to Series B.
We love seeing our portfolio companies be recognized for their hard work and growth. Below are a few highlights including:
- Astronomer
- Chain.io
- Carputty
- Drop Mobility
- iink Payments
- InvestNext
- medZERO
- Paccurate
- Payload
- Tealbook
- Tembo
As a firm, we are always humbled by recognitions that we receive. This year, we were honored to win the MVCA Award “Capital Event of the Year | Venture Capital Fund”. Our team also received several individual accolades including:
- Camila Noordeloos: Graduated Kauffman Fellows, Named 50 Most Influential Women in West Michigan, Venture Forward: 11 Latinos to Watch, and Venture Capital Journal: Rising Star 2024
- Tim Streit: Grand Rapids 200 Most Influential Leaders in Capital Sources, Crain’s Grand Rapids Business Newsmaker of the Year for Finance
- Kelly Wiarda: promoted to Head of Marketing at Grand Ventures
Our team loves the chance to connect with founders, investors and the broader startup community through events. This year, we hosted several events including:
- Our Annual General Meeting for Investors
- VC & Startup Happy Hours in Denver and Grand Rapids
- Female Founders & Funders breakfasts in Grand Rapids and Detroit
We also hit the road to attend and speak at numerous industry-related and VC conferences and events including:
- All Raise
- Beyond Silicon Valley Summit
- Collision
- Finnovate Spring & Fall
- HLTH
- Invest 2024
- Kubecon
- Manifest
- M25 Summit
- NY Fintech Week
- Tech Weeks: Chicago, Grand Rapids, Michigan
- Upfront Summit
- ViVE
Through our marketing efforts, we worked hard to continue establishing ourselves as thought leaders in early stage B2B technology companies in fintech, supply chain, devops and digital health. This included:
- 10 blogs
- 13 speaking engagements
- 12 panel dicussions
- 2 podcast interviews
Well… that’s a wrap on 2024 highlights.
And wow, what a year it has been! Thank you to our Grand community, founders, investors, team, partners and co-investors. We couldn’t do it without you. See you soon as we’re ready to kickoff 2025 with plenty of more great news.
