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What does Ground Up Ventures invest in?
Ground Up Ventures invests most often at Seed and Series A (100% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as Clean Energy, CleanTech and Industry.
Ground Up Ventures highlights
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1 cheques in the last 12 months
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Mostly Seed and Series A: 100% of its rounds
What they do
We're a different type of venture firm.From their own website
- Type
- VC firm (from a list, unverified)
- Cheque size
- $250K – $500K as they say
- Stages
- Pre-seedSeedSeries A
- Sectors
- Clean EnergyCleanTechIndustry
- Based in
- New York, United States
- Cold pitches
- Accepted
The record
Every round we can evidence, newest first4 appearances
- 2026
1 round
- Oct
- 2019
3 rounds
- Nov
- Oct
- Sept
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 registration2 named
CMCory MoelisManager of the General Partner, Ground Up Ventures Fund GP, LLCiFiling they signed
DSDavid StarkManager of the General Partner, Ground Up Ventures Fund GP, LLCiFiling they signed
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 they claim to have backed
From their own portfolio page (on their website)
26 of 60 we have independently watched raise
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Weaker than a round we watched, stronger than a list somebody sold us. A firm is far less willing to put a company on its own site that it never funded.