Chicago Ventures — Seed VC Firm ($250K–$2.0M Checks)
Chicago Ventures is a Seed venture capital firm based in Chicago, IL investing in SaaS, Marketplace, Other. The firm typically writes $250K–$2.0M checks and has 15 portfolio companies in our records.
- Check size
- $250K–$2.0M
- Portfolio
- 15 companies on record
- Partners
- 6 listed
- AUM
- $386M
- Stage
- Seed
- Sectors
- SaaS, Marketplace, Other, Enterprise, Fintech, Consumer, AI / ML, Developer Tools
- HQ
- Chicago, IL
Last verified: 2026-07-18
Seed
$250K – $2.0M
$386M
15+ companies
6 partners
Investment Thesis
Seed-stage fund investing in early B2B SaaS and marketplaces, primarily in the Midwest with broader reach.
How Chicago Ventures invests
Chicago Ventures is a vc firm based in Chicago, IL. The firm invests at the Seed stage, with a focus on SaaS, Marketplace, Other, Enterprise, Fintech.
Chicago Ventures typically writes checks of $250K–$2.0M per investment, backed by approximately $386M in assets under management.
Investing since at least 2014, Chicago Ventures has backed 15 companies in our records, including Compliant, Entegrata, BuildForce. Its most recent recorded investment was in 2024.
Partners & Team
Industry Focus
Invests In
Portfolio Companies (15)
2024
Compliant
Entegrata
2023
BuildForce
GoodShip
Layup
2022
BlueTape
GreenLite
2021
AeroPay
Aeropay gives customers the freedom to spend, taking your business to the next level with contactless, digital bank-to-bank payments.
2020
CognitOps
2017
Sunbit
Sunbit is a financial technology company that leverages data-driven, machine learning algorithms to help create fair, transparent and flexible financing options at the retail point of sale.
- •Raising at Seed? You're squarely in their sweet spot.
- •Lead with your fit in SaaS, Marketplace, Other — the sectors they actively back.
- •Size your ask to their typical $250K – $2.0M check.
- •Address your outreach to a specific partner, such as Eric Duboe, Partner.
- •A warm introduction beats a cold email. Get matched and request an intro.
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