Grant Allen leads ABB Technology Ventures (ATV), the venture capital arm of ABB (NYSE: ABB), a pioneering technology leader in power grids, electrification products, industrial automa-tion and robotics and motion. Based out of ABB’s Silicon Valley headquarters, Grant oversees ABB’s direct and fund investment activities globally and serves on ABB’s Technology Leadership Team, reporting to the Group CTO.
With over a decade of experience driving venture investments and corporate innovation pro-grams, his investments include Bonsai AI (acq. by Microsoft), Industrial Defender (acq. by Lock-heed Martin), Validus (acq. by ABB), Persimmon Technologies (acq. by Sumitomo), Automata, CMR Surgical, Element Analytics, Enbala, Kespry, Soft Robotics, Trilliant and Vicarious.
Prior to ABB, Grant was with Core Capital Partners, a $400M venture fund focused on enter-prise software; Microsoft in their Mobile & Embedded Devices division; Jingle Networks (First Round Capital-backed search startup acq. by Marchex for $63M); and several other start-ups. He is also an active angel investor (30+ personal investments including AltSpace VR, Catawiki, Dish-craft Robotics, DrillingInfo, Earnest, LivingSocial, Skillshare, Uber, Visually, Zume Pizza) and a founding member of NextGen Venture Partners.
Listed on Global Corporate Venturing’s Powerlist 100 and a member of the World Economic Forum’s Technology Pioneer selection committee, Grant has been an invited speaker 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 of the University of Pennsyl-vania. He has also completed executive education at IMD Business School in Lausanne, Switzer-land.