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What does Origin Ventures invest in?
Origin Ventures invests most often at Series A and Venture (56% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as Aggregator, Marketplaces and Platform.
Origin Ventures highlights
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9 cheques in the last 12 months
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Mostly Series A and Venture: 56% of its rounds
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Sole investor in 9 rounds, median $5.0M
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2 exits from the portfolio
What they do
Origin Ventures is an early stage venture capital firm investing in the infrastructure, software, applications, services and marketplaces transforming productivity and automation through artificial intelligence.From their own website
- Type
- VC firm (from a list, unverified)
- Cheque size
- $250K – $6.0M as they say
- Stages
- Pre-seedSeedSeries ASeries B
- Sectors
- AggregatorMarketplacesPlatform
- Based in
- Chicago, United States
- Cold pitches
- Not accepted
The record
Every round we can evidence, newest first93 appearances
- 2026
6 rounds
- Oct
- Aug
- May
- Apr
- Apr
- Mar
- 2025
11 rounds
- Dec
- Dec
- Nov
- Oct
- Oct
- Oct
- Sept
- Jun
- May
- Mar
- Feb
- 2024
6 rounds
- Nov
- Oct
- Sept
- Aug
- Jun
- Mar
- 2023
5 rounds
- Aug
- Aug
- Apr
- Jan
- Jan
- 2022
8 rounds
- Nov
- Nov
- Sept
- Aug
- Aug
- May
- Apr
- Mar
- 2021
2 rounds
- Sept
- Jun
- 2020
4 rounds
- Sept
- Aug
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 registration7 named
AMAlex MeyerManageriForm ADV
AMAlexander MeyerManaging Member of the General PartneriFiling they signed
BHBrent HillMember of the General Partner, Origin Ventures III Management, LLCiFiling they signed
BBBruce BarronMember of the General Partner, Origin Ventures III Management, LLCiFiling they signed
JHJason HeltzerManaging Member of the General PartneriFiling they signed
RTRichard ThomsOfficer of the Issuer's Administrative ManageriFiling they signed
SMSteven MillerMember of the General Partner, Origin Ventures III Management, LLCiFiling they signed
We also hold 14 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
$347Mgross assets of its fundsOct 2026
Exemptreporting adviserventure or small private funds
- Legal name
- Origin Ventures Group, LLC
- SEC number
- CRD 283371
What they claim to have backed
From their own portfolio page (on their website)
0 of 1 we have independently watched raise
Investor Portal
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.
Exits from the portfolio
Companies it backed that were later bought or listed2 in all
ShoutletBought by SpredfastUndisclosedAug 2015
iNest RealtyBought by IACUndisclosedOct 2004
An exit counts when it came after the firm's first round in the company. From historical deal records.