GreycoreVentures

Where technologybecomes capability.

Greycore Ventures backs the companies, infrastructure and operators that turn technology into fielded capability for national security and government.

Greycore Ventures is the personal investment firm of Mehul Sanghani.

See the next film first Meet Mehul Sanghani
The Greycore mark: a chrome G inside an ember octagon

The octagon is for Octo.

Mehul Sanghani

Founder and Managing Partner

He sold Cokes at Lane Stadium as a kid and grew up in the office of his parents’ motel in Blacksburg. He built Octo and sold it to IBM. Now he backs what comes next.

Mehul graduated from Virginia Tech in 1998, founded Octo in 2006, and built an AI and digital transformation company serving defense, intelligence and civilian agencies. IBM acquired Octo in 2022.

Today he leads Greycore and is an Innovation Partner at Arlington Capital Partners. He serves on the Virginia Tech Board of Visitors, and with his wife, Hema, founded the Sanghani Center for Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics and The Market at Virginia Tech.

Octo, 2006 to 2022

2006Founded
1,700People at sale
$1.3BAcquired by IBM, 2022

“We back technology that goes to work for the country.”

Mehul Sanghani

The Intersection of Main Street & AI

Three films about Mehul Sanghani, beginning in Blacksburg, Virginia.

The first film

Home Field

Blacksburg: the motel, the university and a game day.

Premieres Thanksgiving week 2026

  1. Thanksgiving week 2026

    Home Field

    Blacksburg, Virginia.

  2. December 2026

    School, Food, Door

    The Sanghani Center and The Market at Virginia Tech.

  3. January 2027

    What’s Next

    The launch of Greycore Ventures.

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