Union Grove Venture Partners
Institutional venture firm, based in Summit, New Jersey, reporting $471M of fund assets on its funds' Form ADV filings.
Composed from this organization's classification, location and filed figures.
6 additional investments, funds and LPs, 7 events, 1 verified contact (1 firm phone)
Every relationship, signal and contact on this record, with the source on each.
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Nothing material in the last 180 days.
People to know
View all people- Managing MemberWhy: Named with investment responsibilityNo route on file yet
Relationship network
14 connected entities2 observed rounds1 repeat counterpartyrounds 2014 to 2016
From financing rounds and every investor named in them, Form ADV and Form D filings, the firm's funds and team, and disclosed LP commitments in the venture capital graph. A round's amount is the size of the round, not money that moved between two investors.
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›How strength and recency are read
Co-investors are read from the rounds: three or more shared rounds is a strong observed relationship, two a repeat co-investor, one a single round. Funds and people are structural. Nothing is scored that a reader cannot check.
Darker lines were active in the last 24 months or are current; lighter lines are older or undated.
How am I connected?
Name your firm, a company or a person, and DFX finds the published routes to Union Grove Venture Partners: a shared portfolio company or board, a prior employer, a co-investor, a shared LP or service provider. Every step is a filed or published record with its source; none is a guess about who knows whom.
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Investing
1 company on record, 0 new in 12 months
Investments on record
What these amounts mean“This investor” is the amount disclosed for this investor alone; it is unknown unless a source said it. The round size is the whole round.Acquired, Public, Exited and Active are what the firm’s own portfolio card says, read on the date shown when you hover the chip; they are not deal dates. A company with no chip is one whose card states no outcome: DFX does not assume it is active.| Company | Round | Role | Partner | Round size | This investor | Date | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Illumitex, Inc. | Form D equity offering | unknown · board | Gregory Harper Bohlen (strongly supported) | $4.0M form d sold | unknown | Nov 10, 2016 | Inference Form D |
Stated thesis versus observed behaviour
- Sectors
- not stated or not yet read
- Stages
- not stated or not yet read
- Geography
- not stated
- Check size
- not stated; DFX does not estimate checks from round sizes
Team
2 current, 1 departed
Decision makers
Who else at this firm · 1 person, grouped by function
- Patrick Andrew Cairns · Managing Member And Chief Compliance OfficerWhy this person: Named with investment responsibility
Ranked by the role the firm or its filing states, a route on file and deals led. Every reason is read from the record, never inferred. Routes are published by the person or the firm (their bio, the team page or a filing) and are revealed on a plan; data bought from a provider is never shown, and a route printed at a firm the person has since left is held back.
Investment team
How the team is orderedPartners who lead rounds first (rounds led, then deals attributed, then seniority), then the rest of the investment team, then investor relations, finance and operations. A person named by two sources under two spellings is shown once.- Managing Member · 2 deals attributed
- Managing Member And Chief Compliance Officer
1 departed (kept with end dates)
- John Armistead Spilman · Managing Member · Mar 1, 2014 to Mar 26, 2024 Inference
Contacts
1 firm phone on record, each with its source. Values open with the complete profile.
Funds and LPs
8 vehicles, 0 LPs disclosed
Funds and vehicles
What these amounts meanGAV is the gross asset value the adviser reported on Form ADV for the vehicle, never the fund’s committed size and never dry powder. Form D sold is the amount sold as of the latest filing, never a final close.| Vehicle | Type | Vintage | Lifecycle | Reported GAV | Owners | Form D sold | Latest Form D |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Union Grove Holdings III, LLC | Fund | 2022 form d first sale | Active deployment | $0 Mar 31, 2026 | 4 | $4.1M of $4.1M | May 13, 2022 |
| Union Grove Partners 2021, LP | Fund | 2021 name year | Mature | $47.6M Mar 31, 2026 | 26 | $0 of $200M | Oct 7, 2021 |
| Union Grove Holdings II, LLC | Fund | 2021 form d first sale | Mature | $3.8M Mar 31, 2026 | 14 | $7.7M of $7.7M | May 3, 2021 |
Limited partners
Known LPs and allocators
What these amounts and dates areEach commitment is counted once across the pension tape and the allocator graph. A commitment date prints only when the source printed one; otherwise the row carries the report date. A foundation’s 990-PF line is a holding at fair value, never a commitment. Rows without a fund on the venture graph are commitments to this manager.Relationships across DFX
1 co-investors · on 1 other DFX graph
Co-investors
- 2014-03-111 shared deal · one time
Across DFX and the capital chainon 1 other DFX graph ShowHide
- The same institution is held on RIA and Wealth, matched by identifier. See which records
Union Grove Venture Partners is the same institution as 1 record in RIA and Wealth.
The joined record opens with the product, beside every other relationship on this page.
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Evidence and history
12 dated events, 61 observations from 4 sources
Timeline
- Mar 26, 2024John Armistead Spilman (Managing Member) no longer on Schedule A of Union Grove Venture Partners
- Mar 31, 2023Union Grove Holdings III, LLC first reported on Form ADV by Union Grove Venture Partners (Venture Capital Fund), GAV $2,600,675
- Oct 21, 2022Union Grove Holdings II, LLC first reported on Form ADV by Union Grove Venture Partners (Venture Capital Fund), GAV $10,405,354
- Mar 31, 2022Union Grove Partners 2021, LP first reported on Form ADV by Union Grove Venture Partners (Venture Capital Fund), GAV $2,394,150
- Mar 29, 2018Union Grove Pm Holdings LLC first reported on Form ADV by Union Grove Venture Partners (Venture Capital Fund), GAV $413,255
Identity and regulatory footprint
Address, phone, Form ADV filing and ownersForm ADV filed Mar 31, 2026 · 8 private fundsShowHide
- Headquarters
- Summit, NJadviserinfo.sec.gov
- Office address
- unknownadviserinfo.sec.gov
- Business phone
- unknownadviserinfo.sec.gov
- Website
- UNIONGROVEVP.COM
- SEC adviser type
- Registered investment adviseradviserinfo.sec.gov
- SEC exemption claimed
- unknown
- Latest Form ADV
- Mar 31, 2026
- Private funds reported
- 8 (8 venture capital funds)adviserinfo.sec.gov
- Private fund gross assets, adviser total
- $471Madviserinfo.sec.govreported GAV of the funds, the adviser's own number; not fund size, not dry powder
- Regulatory AUM
- $635Mthe adviser's RAUM, a regulatory measure, never a fund size
- Employees
- 2
Classification history
Classification history
Every classification this record has carried2 on recordShowHide
- Sep 23, 2026Institutional venture firm (probable, 80%)Venture manager, reported GAV $471M across 8 vehicles
- Sep 12, 2026Institutional venture firm (probable, 80%)Venture manager, reported GAV $499M across 8 vehicles
Evidence
Every observation behind this profile, with its source, date and class
| Fact | Value | Effective | Class | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Why admitted | VC funds reported | Mar 31, 2026 | Fact | Form ADV |
| SEC adviser type | Registered investment adviser | Mar 31, 2026 | Fact | Form ADV |
| SEC adviser type | Registered investment adviser | Mar 31, 2026 | Fact | Form ADV |
| SEC adviser type | Registered investment adviser | Mar 26, 2024 | Fact | Form ADV |
| First Form ADV filing | 2014-03-19 | Mar 31, 2026 | Fact | Form ADV |
| First Form ADV filing | 2014-03-19 | Mar 26, 2024 | Fact | Form ADV |
| Adv history loaded | adv-hist-1+panel:2026-09-30 | Oct 1, 2026 | Fact | Form ADV |
| Adv history loaded | adv-hist-1+panel:2026-09-29 | Sep 30, 2026 | Fact | Form ADV |
| Adv history loaded | adv-hist-1+panel:2026-09-25 | Sep 26, 2026 | Fact | Form ADV |
| Adv history loaded | adv-hist-1+panel:2026-09-23 | Sep 24, 2026 | Fact | Form ADV |
| Adv history loaded | adv-hist-1+panel:2026-09-21 | Sep 23, 2026 | Fact | Form ADV |
| Adv history loaded | adv-hist-1+panel:2026-09-22 | Sep 23, 2026 | Fact | Form ADV |
| Adv history loaded | adv-hist-1 | Sep 12, 2026 | Fact | Form ADV |
| Latest Form ADV filing | 2026-03-31 | Mar 31, 2026 | Fact | Form ADV |
| Latest Form ADV filing | 2026-03-31 | Mar 31, 2026 | Fact | Form ADV |
| Latest Form ADV filing | 2024-03-26 | Mar 26, 2024 | Fact | Form ADV |
| SEC status | Approved | Mar 31, 2026 | Fact | Form ADV |
| SEC status effective | 2014-06-19 | Mar 31, 2026 | Fact | Form ADV |
| Venture share of reported funds | 1 | Mar 31, 2026 | Fact | Form ADV |
| Venture share of reported funds | 1 | Mar 26, 2024 | Fact | Form ADV |
| Business phone | Mar 31, 2026 | Fact | Form ADV | |
| Business phone | Mar 26, 2024 | Fact | Form ADV | |
| Employees | 2 | Mar 31, 2026 | Fact | Form ADV |
| Employees | 2 | Mar 26, 2024 | Fact | Form ADV |
| Headquarters | Summit, NJ | Mar 31, 2026 | Fact | Form ADV |
| Headquarters | Summit, NJ | Mar 26, 2024 | Fact | Form ADV |
| Office address | Mar 31, 2026 | Fact | Form ADV | |
| Office address | Mar 26, 2024 | Fact | Form ADV | |
| Legal form | Limited Liability Company | Mar 31, 2026 | Fact | Form ADV |
| Private funds reported | 8 | Mar 31, 2026 | Fact | Form ADV |
| Private funds reported | 8 | Mar 31, 2026 | Fact | Form ADV |
| Private funds reported | 8 | Mar 26, 2024 | Fact | Form ADV |
| Private fund gross assets (reported) | $471M | Mar 31, 2026 | Fact | Form ADV |
| Private fund gross assets (reported) | $471M | Mar 31, 2026 | Fact | Form ADV |
| Private fund gross assets (reported) | $499M | Mar 26, 2024 | Fact | Form ADV |
| Regulatory AUM (adviser, not fund size) | $635M | Mar 31, 2026 | Fact | Form ADV |
| Regulatory AUM (adviser, not fund size) | $622M | Mar 26, 2024 | Fact | Form ADV |
| Schedule a diff | sadiff-1 | Sep 29, 2026 | Fact | Form ADV |
| Venture funds reported | 8 | Mar 31, 2026 | Fact | Form ADV |
| Venture funds reported | 8 | Mar 31, 2026 | Fact | Form ADV |
| Venture funds reported | 8 | Mar 26, 2024 | Fact | Form ADV |
| Website | Sep 12, 2026 | Fact | Form ADV | |
| Website | Mar 31, 2026 | Fact | Form ADV | |
| Website | Mar 26, 2024 | Fact | Form ADV | |
| Website status | unreachable “home page did not answer with HTML” | Sep 22, 2026 | Fact |
How this is scored
Scores, classification basis and filing advisersInstitutional venture firm, probableShowHide
Venture manager, reported GAV $471M across 8 vehicles
- importance
- gav: 0.51 · funds: 0.75 · people: 0.08 · investments: 0.11 · co investors: 0
- active deployment
- investments 12m: 0 · fund raising 18m: 0 · people joined 12m: 0 · vintage within 3y: 0 · latest investment at: not scored
- emerging manager
- fund count: 9 · reported gav: $471M · first adv filing: 2014-03-19 · years since first filing: 12.5
Fits, record history and connections
scored matches for this investor, every identity change, every edge
Record history
- Adviser's first ADV filing2014-03-19source on record
The ledger records every merge, rename and reclassification this record went through and the dated filings observed on it, so the identity on this page can be traced to the records it was built from. The ledger's own sentences name other records, so they show with the names.