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Grotech Ventures

Grotech Ventures portfolio

Grotech Ventures has 4 portfolio companies on record at Recent Funding.

Website: grotech.com.

Type: Venture capital.

Portfolio on Recent Funding: 4.

Deals, last 12 months: 0.

Rounds led: 1 of 1.

Capital in their rounds: $5.5M.

Latest deal: Cognota · Sep 27, 2023.

About this page

It is a venture capital firm based in Owings Mills, US, founded in 1984. Its most recent investment on record is Cognota's $5.5M Series A round in September 2023, which it led, alongside Jay Steinfeld, Neal Dempsey, Tyton Partners and 4 others. By category, its portfolio leans toward HR and recruiting (1) and Education (1).

About Grotech Ventures

Firm type: Venture capital.

Headquarters: Owings Mills, US.

Founded: 1984.

Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B, Growth.

Sectors: Data & Infrastructure, Enterprise Software, Fintech, Retail Tech, SaaS.

Check size: $500K to $5M.

Portfolio companies: 51.

Exits: 6.

Rounds led: 1.

Fund returns

Fund	Vintage	Size	Net IRR	TVPI	DPI	As of
Grotech Partners V	1998	—	-0.8%	1.00x	0.98x	Dec 31, 2024

What Grotech Ventures invests in

HR and recruiting · 1 · 25%
Education · 1 · 25%
Sales and marketing · 1 · 25%
Media and content · 1 · 25%
Data and analytics · 1 · 25%
Legal and compliance · 1 · 25%
Fintech · 1 · 25%
Developer tools and cloud · 1 · 25%

How Grotech Ventures invests

Stage	Deals	Capital in rounds
Series A	1 100%	$5.5M

Grotech Ventures portfolio companies

CCognota$5.5MSeries A · Sep 2023
CContactuallybacker
DDatasemblybacker
PPassportbacker

Company	Round with Grotech Ventures	Total raised	Latest raise
CCognota HR and recruiting	Sep 27, 2023 Series A · $5.5M · lead	$13.75M	Mar 12, 2026 Series B+
CContactually Sales and marketing	backer	undisclosed	—
DDatasembly Data and analytics	backer	undisclosed	—
PPassport Legal and compliance	backer	$54M	Jan 25, 2022 Series B+

Most frequent co-investors

Similar investors

Investors whose portfolios on Recent Funding center on the same category (HR and recruiting).

How this is counted

Net returns as reported by the public-pension and foundation LPs invested in each fund.

Firm profile and fund returns: Fundraising Fox Open Dataset v2026-09, CC BY 4.0. Track-record counts are theirs, not Recent Funding's.

Share is of the 1 round on Recent Funding that name Grotech Ventures. Rounds with no announced date are left out of the year split, and "round" is a round whose stage is not on file.

Portfolio companies are the companies on Recent Funding with a round that lists Grotech Ventures, which is a subset of its real portfolio. API: /api/v1/investors/grotech-ventures (get a free API key). More: the most active VC firms and new venture capital funds.