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What does Cleveland Avenue invest in?
Cleveland Avenue invests most often at Venture and Series A (60% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as Consumer Brands, Technology and Food & Beverage.
Cleveland Avenue highlights
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4 cheques in the last 12 months
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Mostly Venture and Series A: 60% of its rounds
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Sole investor in 18 rounds, median $3.2M
What they do
Cleveland Avenue is a global venture capital firm that invests in lifestyle consumer brands and technology companiesFrom their own website
- Type
- VC firm
- Cheque size
- Not stated
- Stages
- GrowthPre-seedSeedSeries A
- Sectors
- Consumer BrandsTechnologyFood & Beverage
- Based in
- Chicago, United States
- Cold pitches
- Accepted
The record
Every round we can evidence, newest first54 appearances
- 2026
4 rounds
- Sept
- Jul
- Jul
- Mar
- 2025
7 rounds
- Oct
- Oct
- Aug
- May
- May
- May
- Jan
- 2024
9 rounds
- Aug
- Aug
- Jul
- Jun
- Jun
- Mar
- MarNeuRealitySeries A · IL$20MWith 2 others
- Jan
- Jan
- 2023
15 rounds
- Dec
- Oct
- Sept
- Sept
- Aug
- Aug
- Jul
- Jul
- Jun
- May
- Mar
- Feb
- Jan
- Jan
- JanEvigence SensorsSeries B · IL$18MSole investor
- 2022
13 rounds
- Dec
- Dec
- Dec
- Nov
- Nov
An announcement gives the size of the round, not the size of this investor's cheque: the only rounds that imply a cheque are those where they were the sole named investor.
The team
Named by the firm itself, on a filing, its Form ADV or its company registration1 named
DTDonald ThompsonExecutive OfficeriFiling they signed
We also hold 4 people at this firm from the lists this database was built from: a weaker source than the filings, since a list does not say when a title ended. Login to see them.
What the register says
From the firm's own filings with the SEC, which it must file accurately by law
$1.4Bgross assets of its fundsOct 2026
Exemptreporting adviserventure or small private funds
- Legal name
- Cleveland Avenue Advisers, LLC
- SEC number
- CRD 318250
What they claim to have backed
From their own portfolio page (on their website)
34 of 60 we have independently watched raise
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Weaker than a round we watched, stronger than a list somebody sold us. A firm is far less willing to put a company on its own site that it never funded.