Iron Prairie Ventures — Pre-Seed & Seed VC Firm
Iron Prairie Ventures is a Pre-Seed, Seed venture capital firm based in Chicago, Illinois investing in Other.
- Partners
- 3 listed
- Stage
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- Sectors
- Other
- HQ
- Chicago, Illinois
- Check size
- Not in our records
- AUM
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Last verified: 2026-10-17
Pre-Seed, Seed
3 partners
Investment Thesis
Micro-fund investing in software and tech-enabled businesses serving industrial, manufacturing, and supply-chain customers. A good discovery fit for digitizing legacy industrial channels.
How Iron Prairie Ventures invests
Iron Prairie Ventures is a vc firm based in Chicago, Illinois. The firm invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed stages, with a focus on Other.
Partners & Team
Maggie Kenefake
Partner
Liz Hayes
Platform Manager
Nick Smoot
Managing Partner
Industry Focus
Invests In
- •Raising at Pre-Seed, Seed? You're squarely in their sweet spot.
- •Lead with your fit in Other — the sectors they actively back.
- •cold outreach ok
- •Address your outreach to a specific partner, such as Maggie Kenefake, Partner.
- •A warm introduction beats a cold email. Get matched and request an intro.
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