Pre-Seed
$500K – $1.0M
4+ companies
7 partners
Investment Thesis
Inkwell Ventures targets innovative companies enhancing digital content creation and distribution within the Creator Economy.
How Inkwell Ventures invests
Inkwell Ventures is a vc firm based in Chicago, IL. The firm invests at the Pre-Seed stage, with a focus on Other, SaaS, Enterprise, Developer Tools.
Inkwell Ventures typically writes checks of $500K–$1.0M per investment.
Inkwell Ventures has backed 4 companies in our records, including VisualInk, SendGrid, Mailgun.
Meet the Team
Tom Hayden
Solo GP
Kofi Yeboah
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Case Study
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Industry Focus
Invests In
Portfolio Companies (4)
Other
VisualInk
SendGrid
A cloud-based customer communication platform that provides transactional and marketing email delivery management.
Mailgun
An email delivery, tracking, and analytics service designed for software developers.
Keen IO
An analytics platform that allows developers to custom-build and embed real-time dashboards and data visualizations into their applications.
- •Raising at Pre-Seed? You're squarely in their sweet spot.
- •Lead with your fit in Other, SaaS, Enterprise — the sectors they actively back.
- •Size your ask to their typical $500K – $1.0M check.
- •warm intro preferred
- •Address your outreach to a specific partner, such as Tom Hayden, Solo GP.
- •A warm introduction beats a cold email. Get matched and request an intro.
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