# Graphene Ventures: portfolio, investments and team

> Graphene Ventures is a vc firm based in United States. 7 investments on record, latest Oct 2025. Portfolio, stages, co-investors and team.

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# Graphene Ventures

Last cheque observed Oct 2025. Silence since then is not evidence of inactivity: our sources miss unannounced rounds.

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VC firm Quiet

Pre-seed Seed Series A Ag-tech Productivity Tools Privacy

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Cheques on record

**0%** of best year **0** **cheques in 12 months**, 7 on record

Since the last cheque **387** days **00** hrs **00** min **00** sec

Median round **$6.0M** Cheque size, as they say **$500K – $2.0M** Rounds led **0 of 7** Mostly in **United States, 50%**

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## Graphene Ventures highlights

- 01 7 rounds on record
- 02 Mostly Series A and Seed: 80% of its rounds

## What they do

> Venture capital firm focused on early-stage tech companies in enterprise software and consumer technology. From their own website

- **Type:** VC firm (from a list, unverified)
- **Cheque size:** $500K – $2.0M as they say
- **Stages:** Pre-seed Seed Series A Series B Growth
- **Sectors:** Ag-tech Productivity Tools Privacy
- **Based in:** Palo Alto, United States
- **Cold pitches:** Not stated

## The record

Every round we can evidence, newest first **7 appearances**

- **2025** 2 rounds
- **Oct** **[Smartlens](https://millionrounds.com/company/smartlens)** US · TechStartups **$5.2M** With 5 others
- **May** **[WakeCap](https://millionrounds.com/company/wakecap)** Series A · SA · TechStartups **$28M** With 2 others
- **2019** 2 rounds
- **Sept** **[Everledger](https://millionrounds.com/company/everledger)** Series A · GB · VentureBeat **$20M** With 5 others
- **Apr** **[Simudyne](https://millionrounds.com/company/simudyne)** Series A · GB · FinSMEs **$6.0M** With 2 others
- **2018** 2 rounds
- **Nov** **[WakeCap](https://millionrounds.com/company/wakecap)** Seed · Wakecap **$1.6M** With 6 others
- **Jun** **[b8ta](https://millionrounds.com/company/b8ta)** Series B · US · TechCrunch **$19M** With 5 others
- **2017** 1 round
- **Jan** **[Jiobit](https://millionrounds.com/company/jiobit)** US · FinSMEs **$3.0M** With 9 others

An announcement gives the size of the round, not the size of this investor's cheque: the only rounds that imply a cheque are those where they were the sole named investor.

## The team

Named by the firm itself, on a filing, its Form ADV or its company registration **1 named**

NA **Nabil Alnoor Borhanu** Managing Director of Graphene Ventures LLC i Form ADV

We also hold **8** people at this firm from the lists this database was built from: a weaker source than the filings, since a list does not say when a title ended. Login to see them.

## What the register says

From the firm's own filings with the SEC, which it must file accurately by law

**$194M** gross assets of its funds Oct 2026

**Exempt** reporting adviser venture or small private funds

- **Legal name:** Graphene Ventures LLC
- **SEC number:** CRD 281412

## The cheque

Pre-seed Seed Series A

Median round joined **$6.0M** the round, not its cheque

Led 0 of 7 rounds **0%**

- **Said size:** $500K – $2.0M
- **Sole investor:** Never alone
- **Last cheque:** Oct 2025

Rounds by stage said on their site

- Series A said *3*
- Seed said *1*
- Series B said *1*
- Pre-seed said *-*
- Growth said *-*

Cheques by month Led Joined

Dec 2023 Nov 2026

Often in the room with

- [SOSV](https://millionrounds.com/fund/sosv) 2

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## Who they invest alongside

The investors most often in the same rounds as Graphene Ventures. A count of rooms they were both in, not a relationship either has claimed.

[**SOSV** VC firm **2** rounds together](https://millionrounds.com/fund/sosv)

## Recently backed

The latest companies Graphene Ventures put money into.

[**Smartlens** $5.2M · Oct 2025](https://millionrounds.com/company/smartlens)[**WakeCap** $28M · May 2025](https://millionrounds.com/company/wakecap)[**Everledger** $20M · Sept 2019](https://millionrounds.com/company/everledger)[**Simudyne** $6.0M · Apr 2019](https://millionrounds.com/company/simudyne)[**b8ta** $19M · Jun 2018](https://millionrounds.com/company/b8ta)[**Jiobit** $3.0M · Jan 2017](https://millionrounds.com/company/jiobit)

## Quick answers about Graphene Ventures

### What does Graphene Ventures invest in?

Graphene Ventures invests most often at Series A and Seed (80% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as Ag-tech, Productivity Tools and Privacy.

### How active is Graphene Ventures?

7 investments on record, 0 of them in the last 12 months. The most recent was in Oct 2025.

### What has Graphene Ventures invested in recently?

Its most recent investments on record: Smartlens (Undisclosed round, Oct 2025), WakeCap (Series A, May 2025) and Everledger (Series A, Sept 2019).

### How big are Graphene Ventures's cheques?

The median round it joins is $6.0M. It says it writes cheques of $500K to $2.0M.

### Does Graphene Ventures lead rounds?

Rarely, if at all: none of its 7 investments on record names it as the lead.

### Where does Graphene Ventures invest?

Most of the companies it backs are in the United States (50%), the United Kingdom (33%) and Saudi Arabia (17%).

### Is Graphene Ventures investing now?

No investments in the last 12 months; the latest was in Oct 2025.

### Who does Graphene Ventures invest alongside?

Most often SOSV (2 rounds together).

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