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Ground Up Ventures
Venture capital · PA, United States · North America
Ground Up Ventures is a venture firm that invests in early-stage companies and works closely with its portfolio founders. The firm describes itself as hands-on, helping portfolio companies with problems and introductions.
Invests inAI & Machine Learning
In its own wordsseedearly-stagefounder-support
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Or find every investor that fitsGround Up Ventures lists 55 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 6 funding rounds, 2 of them as lead. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 80% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (26%), E-commerce & Marketplaces (12%) and Fintech (11%). 73% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside Y Combinator, MetaProp and Verissimo Ventures.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Ground Up Ventures, complete from mid-2025: earlier rounds appear only when they were reported later. Round amounts and full round histories are on Fundup AI.
Round figures show recent activity, not Ground Up Ventures' whole history. Rounds on record name 5 companies; its own site lists 55. Funding rounds are complete from mid-2025, so counts and the yearly trend undercount a firm that invested before then. The portfolio, themes and places come from its own site and are not affected.
Entry stage
share of companies by the stage of its first roundShow as a table
| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 0% |
| Seed | 80% |
| Series A | 20% |
| Series B | 0% |
| Growth | 0% |
Activity by year
rounds it joined, last 10 yearsShow as a table
| Total | Rounds it led | |
|---|---|---|
| '17 | 0 | 0 |
| '18 | 0 | 0 |
| '19 | 0 | 0 |
| '20 | 0 | 0 |
| '21 | 0 | 0 |
| '22 | 0 | 0 |
| '23 | 1 | 0 |
| '24 | 1 | 1 |
| '25 | 0 | 0 |
| '26 | 4 | 1 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 86th | 55 companies |
| Recent activity | 82th | 4 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 83th | 80% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 75th | 9% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 37th | 26% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 84th | 6 countries |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| AI & Machine Learning | 26% | 18% |
| E-commerce & Marketplaces | 12% | 6% |
| Fintech | 11% | 12% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 8% | 15% |
| Real Estate & Construction | 8% | 3% |
| Cybersecurity | 8% | 4% |
| Space & Defense | 5% | 3% |
| Enterprise Software | 4% | 8% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companies
Shopify Ventures
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| Share | |
|---|---|
| Y Combinator | 5 |
| MetaProp | 4 |
| Verissimo Ventures | 4 |
| 01A | 3 |
| Fika Ventures | 3 |
| Shopify Ventures | 3 |
| Soma Capital | 3 |
| Aloniq | 2 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers55100%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company00%
- Parked or sold domain00%
A site that stops answering three checks in a row is counted as no longer answering; that is not proof of closure. A site that points to another company is often an acquisition.
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherCompare Ground Up Ventures head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backvs Shopify Ventures3 shared companies→Three or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Recent portfolio activity
when companies last raised with Ground Up Ventures| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 20 Oct 2026 | Series A | |
| 2 Sept 2026 | Series A | |
| 29 Jul 2026 | Seed Led | |
| 25 Feb 2026 | Seed | |
| 29 May 2024 | Seed Led | |
| 14 Nov 2023 | Seed |
Round details for Ground Up Ventures
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Ground Up Ventures' rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
55 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ninja delivers various products to customers | E-commerce & MarketplacesFood & Agriculture | Portfolio page | ||
| Array provides a field app solution for data and intelligence | Enterprise SoftwareSpace & Defense | Portfolio page | ||
| BrightHire is the AI hiring platform built to raise hiring quality and efficiency, from application review and AI interviews to live interview intelligence and fraud detection that improves every hiring outcome. | AI & Machine LearningHuman Resources | Portfolio page | ||
| BuildOps provides commercial contractor management software | Real Estate & ConstructionEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| Accrue provides a platform for brands to embed financial products into the customer experience, allowing customers to fund, earn, and spend while driving engagement and loyalty. | FintechLegal & Compliance | Portfolio page | ||
| Baba helps individuals manage their healthcare by working with doctors, insurance companies, and suppliers to assist with appointments, prescriptions, insurance paperwork, and other healthcare-related tasks. | Healthcare & Biotech | Feb 2026Seed · 2 rounds | Page + round | |
| Covenant designs and builds a long-range, heavy-payload strike system | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Daily provides developers with realtime voice, video, and AI technology | AI & Machine LearningMedia & Entertainment | Portfolio page | ||
| Dandelion Energy provides residential geothermal heating and cooling systems | EducationIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Disco monetizes the full transaction for commerce media networks from checkout to post-purchase to inbox to app | E-commerce & MarketplacesMedia & Entertainment | Portfolio page | ||
| Draftboard maps a user's network to show who knows who and find potential warm introductions to target accounts | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| EliseAI provides AI solutions for property management and healthcare organizations to streamline communications and improve operational efficiency | Real Estate & ConstructionHealthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| G2 develops deep tech systems | AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| Fondue helps companies incentivize conversions without reducing their profit margins through its CashBack solution. | E-commerce & MarketplacesFintech | Portfolio page | ||
| Jones provides insurance compliance solutions for the built world, including general contractors, property managers, and owners and asset managers. | Real Estate & ConstructionFintech | Portfolio page | ||
| Reap provides an AI operating system to manage the back office for senior care, including tasks such as Medicaid applications and revenue cycle management. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Zealthy provides virtual healthcare services, including primary care, mental health, and metabolic health, among others. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Glass Imaging uses artificial intelligence to improve image quality from camera hardware on imaging devices | AI & Machine LearningMedia & Entertainment | Portfolio page | ||
| Tolstoy provides an ecommerce platform that utilizes AI to help brands create and sell products online | E-commerce & MarketplacesAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Harbinger Motors manufactures electric and hybrid vehicles, including chassis, work trucks, and power systems. | Industrial & ManufacturingMobility & Logistics | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- groundup.vc
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 5 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 14 Nov 2023
- Companies checked
- 55
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