DFX Intelligence
Venture Capital Intelligence
Firms, funds, partners, companies and rounds from sworn filings, firm sites and announcements, kept as a graph with a date and a source on every edge. Facts, inferences and estimates are labelled as such. A fund target is never a close, GAV is never dry powder, and a round size is never an investor’s check.
Firms / Powerplant Ventures
Powerplant Ventures
venture manager, reported GAV $0.0M across 1 vehicles
Importance
12
low
Active deployment
4
low
Emerging
0
low
Completeness
63
high
Freshness
100
high
Research priority
3
low
Identity and regulatory footprint
- Headquarters
- Manhattan Beach, CAadviserinfo.sec.gov
- Office address
- 1600 ROSECRANS AVENUE,, MEDIA CENTER, 4TH FLOOR, Manhattan Beach, CA, 90266adviserinfo.sec.gov
- Business phone
- 310.923.0951adviserinfo.sec.gov
- Website
- HTTP://POWERPLANTVC.COM
- SEC adviser type
- exempt reporting adviseradviserinfo.sec.gov
- SEC exemption claimed
- unknown
- Latest Form ADV
- Feb 12, 2019
- Private funds reported
- 1 (1 venture capital funds)adviserinfo.sec.gov
- Private fund gross assets
- $41.8Madviserinfo.sec.govreported GAV of the funds, the adviser's own number; not fund size, not dry powder
- business phone
- 310.923.0951adviserinfo.sec.govpublished by the subject
Stated thesis versus observed behaviour
2 observed deals
Stated (the firm’s website)
- 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
Observed (from deals on record)
Stage at participation: no observed deals yet
Stage at first entry: no observed deals yet
Sectors
Other 50%Manufacturing 50%
lead rate n/afollow-on rate n/anew logos, 12 months 1
Funds and vehicles
1 reported
| Vehicle | Type | Vintage | Lifecycle | Reported GAV | Owners | Form D sold | Latest Form D |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Groundforce Capital Management, LLC | Fund | 2015 form d first sale | Harvest | unknown | unknown | $40.2M of $40.2M | Sep 22, 2016 |
GAV 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.
Investment team
3 current, 0 departed
Kevin Gerard Boylan
PartnerManaging Director · since Jun 1, 2015
Mark Rampolla
PartnerManaging Director · since Jun 1, 2015
T.K. Pillan
PartnerManaging Director · since Jun 1, 2015
Investments on record
2 edges, 2 companies, 2 partner-attributed
| Company | Round | Role | Partner | Round size | This investor | Date | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kinderfarms LLC | board seat | unknown · board | Mark Rampolla (strongly supported) | unknown | unknown | Apr 7, 2026 | Inference SEC EDGAR Form D data sets (quarterly) |
| Systm Foods Inc. | board seat | unknown · board | Mark Rampolla (strongly supported) | unknown | unknown | Jan 2, 2024 | Inference SEC EDGAR Form D data sets (quarterly) |
“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.
Co-investors
2 relationships from shared deals, counted for the whole firm
Limited partners
0 disclosed
No LP commitment on record. An LP edge needs a public disclosure with a quote: a pension report (see Limited partners for the plans read), a fund announcement naming the LP, or a Form ADV owner. The fund page carries the LP’s reported performance.
Timeline
3 dated events
- Sep 15, 2026Powerplant Ventures: INSTITUTIONAL_VC -> MICRO_VC (venture manager, reported GAV $0.0M across 1 vehicles)Classification changedClassificationInferenceno URL
- Jan 3, 2017Powerplant Ventures first filed Form ADV (ERA, venture capital fund adviser exemption)First SEC adviser filingOrganizationFactSEC Form ADV filing data 2011 to 2024 (every filing, Schedule D 7.B.(1) private funds, Schedules A/B)
- Jan 3, 2017Powerplant Ventures, L.P. first reported on Form ADV by Powerplant Ventures (Venture Capital Fund), GAV $41,775,000Fund first reported on Form ADVFundsFactPowerplant Ventures, L.P.SEC Form ADV filing data 2011 to 2024 (every filing, Schedule D 7.B.(1) private funds, Schedules A/B)
Classification history
- Sep 15, 2026Micro VC (probable, 80%, cls-1)venture manager, reported GAV $0.0M across 1 vehicles
- Sep 12, 2026Institutional venture firm (probable, 70%, cls-1)venture manager with no reported fund assets yet (scale unknown)
Evidence
18 observations from 2 sources