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What does Starting Line invest in?
Starting Line invests most often at Series B (100% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as B2b2c, B2C and Consumer.
Starting Line highlights
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2 cheques in the last 12 months
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Mostly Series B: 100% of its rounds
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Led 1 rounds
What they do
Starting Line is an early stage Chicago based Venture Capital fund investing in premier consumer startups & brandsFrom their own website
- Type
- VC firm (from a list, unverified)
- Cheque size
- $100K – $2.0M as they say
- Stages
- Pre-seedSeedSeries ASeries B
- Sectors
- B2b2cB2CConsumer
- Based in
- Chicago, United States
- Cold pitches
- Not stated
The record
Every round we can evidence, newest first5 appearances
- 2025
2 rounds
- Nov
- Nov
- 2023
1 round
- Mar
- 2022
1 round
- Nov
- 2018
1 round
- 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
EGEzra GalstonManaging Member of the General PartneriFiling they signed
We also hold 3 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
$122Mgross assets of its fundsOct 2026
Exemptreporting adviserventure or small private funds
- Legal name
- The Starting LINE Management, LLC
- SEC number
- CRD 318174
Who backs their funds
6 LPs on record in Starting Line's funds
- Funds
- 2
The institutions that put money into its funds, which the firm then invests in companies.Source: fund news.
- Wicklow Capital2 funds
Fund Vintage Committed Starting Line Fund II - - Starting Line Starting Line Fund I - - 
Foundry Group1 fundFund Vintage Committed Starting Line Fund II - - 
50 South Capital1 fundFund Vintage Committed Starting Line Fund II - - 
Bracket Capital1 fundFund Vintage Committed Starting Line Fund II - - 
Bloomberg Beta1 fundFund Vintage Committed Starting Line Starting Line Fund I - - - Dan Levitan1 fund
Fund Vintage Committed Starting Line Starting Line Fund I - -