Grant AlleN

A venture capital investor for nearly two decades, Grant founded Keybridge Venture Partners in 2011 in Washington, DC to house his personal investments.  Since, Keybridge has expanded to include fund of funds and numerous SPVs, attracting high net worth investors from across the globe.

Listed on Global Corporate Venturing’s Power List 100, and a member of the World Economic Forum ‘Technology Pioneer’ selection committee, Grant has been an invited speaker welcomed in over a dozen countries and a featured writer for Bloomberg BusinessWeek. He holds degrees from Duke University’s Pratt School of Engineering and The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, as well as having completed executive education at IMD Business School in Lausanne, Switzerland.

Grant was a founding General Partner (2019 to 2024) of SE Ventures, a financially oriented VC fund backed by French conglomerate Schneider Electric and based in Silicon Valley with over $1B under management.  As a founding General Partner, he focused on emerging technologies and their role in the digital transformation of industries, transportation, the built environment and the increasingly distributed electrical ecosystem, helping grow the team from 4 people working out of a WeWork to 17 FTEs in Menlo Park, CA plus an additional global team covering Western Europe, Israel and India.  Investments at SEV include Higharc, Plotlogic, Banyan Infrastructure, Patch, Scandit, Station A, Fabric8Labs, Proterra, Kojo, and AutoGrid (acq by Schneider Electric).

As global head of venture capital (2010 to 2019) for Swiss automation giant ABB, Grant advised the CTO and sat on the Technology Leadership Committee, helping steer R&D strategy and overall technology investments.  He was instrumental in growing ABB’s investment budget, team size, scope and impact; creating a partnerships and portfolio catalyst function; doubling the fund of funds platform; and helping ABB become the most active CVC in the robotics/applied AI space behind Google.  Investments at ABB Ventures include Bonsai AI (acq by Microsoft), Industrial Defender (acq by Lockheed Martin), Enbala Power Systems (acq by Generac), Validus (acq by ABB), Persimmon Technologies (acq by Sumitomo), Trilliant (acq by management), Natron Energy, Soft Robotics, Everactive, MineSense and Vicarious in addition to two still private unicorns, Northvolt and CMR Surgical.

Grant’s experience also includes Core Capital Partners (2007 to 2010), a $400m fund focused on enterprise software where his leadership included writing the first investment memo for a Series A investment in NYSE listed OLO (the best performing investment in Core’s history with a market cap exceeding $5b at its peak); time driving partnership strategy within Microsoft’s Mobile & Embedded Devices division; and investing in Jingle Networks (a First Round Capital-backed search startup, acq for $63m), among several other start-ups. He is also a founding member of NextGen Venture Partners (acq by Brown Advisory) and an advisor to numerous startups, including Formic, Scalable Robotics and Liminal.

An east coast native who has lived in Australia, Switzerland and Greece, today Grant resides in Los Altos, CA with his partner and three children.