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Chicago Ventures stages, portfolio and investment profile
Chicago seed-stage venture firm (Merchandise Mart) that leads early rounds for technology companies and partners hands-on through the first institutional years. Thesis spans supply chain and logistics, fintech, healthcare, enterprise tools, proptech, mobility, and related software — with a bias that enduring companies can be built outside coastal hubs. HQ: 222 W. Merchandise Mart Plaza, Chicago, IL.
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Stage-based planning range
$250K–$3M
This is a planning range inferred from stage coverage, not a firm-disclosed check size.
Methodology: Stage bucket inferred from the rounds a fund leads or invests in.
No firm-specific check-size disclosure is recorded.
Investment stages
Leads: Pre-Seed, Seed
Participates: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A, Series B+
Sector focus
enterprise-saas · fintech · healthtech · marketplace · proptech · generalist-tech
Geography
Chicago, IL
Founded 2011
Fund size / AUM
Not recorded
A separate fund-size evidence record is not yet available.
Portfolio in our directory
1
Linked startup profiles
Latest fund vehicle
Not recorded
Vehicle name, size, and vintage are not yet structured.
Recent tracked investment
Not recorded
No dated round explicitly links this fund.
Rounds they lead
Rounds they invest
Last verified: Not recorded. Check-size evidence is labeled by basis so planning estimates are not presented as firm disclosures.
Portfolio companies we track
Startups in our directory that list Chicago Ventures as an investor (1 total).
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