Grand Ventures | Activity

Exit

Portfolio company Payload, an open-source headless CMS, was acquired by Figma in 2025.

Payload

Payload Grand Ventures

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Investment

Invested in Scorbit alongside Detroit Venture Partners, Invest Detroit, Michigan Rise, and eBerg Capital; Scorbit connects retro pinball and arcade machines to the internet for live leaderboards and tournaments.

Scorbit

Scorbit Grand Ventures

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Investment

Invested in Qumis (Qumis.ai), an AI platform automating insurance policy interpretation for brokers and carriers, joining as a board observer.

Qumis

Qumis Grand Ventures

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Invested in Shelfmark, an AI-powered visual inspection platform for continuous-flow manufacturing quality control.

Shelfmark

Shelfmark Grand Ventures

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AUG 6, 2026

Investment

Backed Devplan's $2.5M seed round, led by AI2 Incubator alongside Acequia Capital, Mighty Capital, and eLab Ventures, building an AI-native product/engineering context graph.

Devplan

Devplan Grand Ventures

grandvcp.comJUN 24, 2026

JUN 24, 2026

Investment

Invested in BrokerBot, an AI-native compliance and operations platform for real estate brokerages.

BrokerBot

BrokerBot Grand Ventures

grandvcp.comJUN 4, 2026

JUN 4, 2026

Essay

GP Nathan Owen published an essay on Grand's commercial-open-source (COSS) investing thesis following three COSS-adjacent exits (Payload to Figma, Traceloop to ServiceNow, and personal portfolio company Bindplane to Dynatrace).

Three Exits, One Thesis

Astronomer Comp AI Traceloop Payload Grand Ventures

grandvcp.comMAY 18, 2026

MAY 18, 2026

Exit

Portfolio company Traceloop, an OpenTelemetry-based LLM observability startup, was acquired by ServiceNow to power its AI Control Tower platform.

Traceloop

Traceloop Grand Ventures

grandvcp.comMAR 2026

MAR 2026

Investment

Invested in Navidence, a clinical-trial and real-world-evidence data platform for life sciences companies serving Merck, AstraZeneca, and Novo Nordisk.

Navidence

Navidence Grand Ventures

grandvcp.comJAN 28, 2026

JAN 28, 2026

New Fund

Announced a $50M second fund, bringing the firm's total assets under management to more than $80M.

Grand Ventures Fund II ($50M)

Grand Ventures

crainsgrandrapids.comOCT 9, 2023 techcrunch.com

OCT 9, 2023

Grand Ventures Activity

Portfolio company Payload, an open-source headless CMS, was acquired by Figma in 2025.

Invested in Scorbit alongside Detroit Venture Partners, Invest Detroit, Michigan Rise, and eBerg Capital; Scorbit connects retro pinball and arcade machines to the internet for live leaderboards and tournaments.

Invested in Qumis (Qumis.ai), an AI platform automating insurance policy interpretation for brokers and carriers, joining as a board observer.

Invested in Shelfmark, an AI-powered visual inspection platform for continuous-flow manufacturing quality control.

Backed Devplan's $2.5M seed round, led by AI2 Incubator alongside Acequia Capital, Mighty Capital, and eLab Ventures, building an AI-native product/engineering context graph.

Invested in BrokerBot, an AI-native compliance and operations platform for real estate brokerages.

GP Nathan Owen published an essay on Grand's commercial-open-source (COSS) investing thesis following three COSS-adjacent exits (Payload to Figma, Traceloop to ServiceNow, and personal portfolio company Bindplane to Dynatrace).

Portfolio company Traceloop, an OpenTelemetry-based LLM observability startup, was acquired by ServiceNow to power its AI Control Tower platform.

Invested in Navidence, a clinical-trial and real-world-evidence data platform for life sciences companies serving Merck, AstraZeneca, and Novo Nordisk.

Announced a $50M second fund, bringing the firm's total assets under management to more than $80M.