Investor profile for Chicago Ventures: stage-based planning range, investment stages, sector focus, portfolio companies, sources, and verification status. Part of the Venture Capital Tracker directory.

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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.

Source link not recorded Confidence: 25% Verified: Not recorded View methodology

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

Recent tracked investment

Not recorded

No dated round explicitly links this fund.

Rounds they lead

Pre-Seed Seed

Rounds they invest

Pre-Seed Seed Series A Series B+

Last verified: Not recorded. Check-size evidence is labeled by basis so planning estimates are not presented as firm disclosures.

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Portfolio companies we track

Startups in our directory that list Chicago Ventures as an investor (1 total).

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