What does Chicago Ventures invest in?
Chicago Ventures invests most often at Seed and Series A (66% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as Supply Chain, Logistics & Warehousing and Healthcare.

United States · Investor
Last cheque observed Oct 2026; 116 cheques on record.
Deploying nowNew fund $58M, Feb 2022VC firm
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8 cheques in the last 12 months
Mostly Seed and Series A: 66% of its rounds
Sole investor in 12 rounds, median $4.0M
6 exits from the portfolio
Chicago Ventures leads seed investments in overlooked teams.From their own website
Every round we can evidence, newest first116 appearances
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8 rounds
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8 rounds
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Named by the firm itself, on a filing, its Form ADV or its company registration4 named
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From the firm's own filings with the SEC, which it must file accurately by law
Companies it backed that were later bought or listed6 in all
An exit counts when it came after the firm's first round in the company. From historical deal records.
The investors most often in the same rounds as Chicago Ventures. A count of rooms they were both in, not a relationship either has claimed.
The latest companies Chicago Ventures put money into.
1 episode naming Chicago Ventures in the title, and 3 more that mention it.

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WithEzra Galston
MentionsChicago Ventures

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Chicago Ventures invests most often at Seed and Series A (66% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as Supply Chain, Logistics & Warehousing and Healthcare.
116 investments on record, 8 of them in the last 12 months, and it led 5. The most recent was in Oct 2026.
Its most recent investments on record: pubX (Series A, Oct 2026), BlueArc.ai (Pre-seed, Sept 2026) and Guthrie AI (Seed, Jul 2026).
The median round it joins is $5.8M. It says it writes cheques of $500K to $2.5M.
Sometimes: it led 5 of its 116 investments on record (4%).
Most of the companies it backs are in the United States (91%) and the United Kingdom (6%).
Yes: it is actively investing, with 8 investments in the last 12 months.
Most often Pritzker Group (15 rounds together), Lakewest Venture Partners (12 rounds together) and Corazon Capital (11 rounds together).
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