Oven Ventures
Oven Ventures is a Pre-Seed, Seed venture capital firm based in Chicago, IL investing in Other, SaaS, Enterprise. The firm typically writes $100K–$1.5M checks and has 2 portfolio companies in our records.
- Check size
- $100K–$1.5M
- Portfolio
- 2 companies on record
- Partners
- 3 listed
- Stage
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- Sectors
- Other, SaaS, Enterprise, AI / ML
- HQ
- Chicago, IL
- AUM
- Not in our records
Last verified: 2026-07-12
Pre-Seed, Seed
$100K – $1.5M
2+ companies
3 partners
Investment Thesis
Backing pre-seed companies building digital tools to streamline small restaurant and retail operations.
How Oven Ventures invests
Oven Ventures is a vc firm based in Chicago, IL. The firm invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed stages, with a focus on Other, SaaS, Enterprise, AI / ML. It does not invest in Biotech, Hardware.
Oven Ventures typically writes checks of $100K–$1.5M per investment.
Oven Ventures has backed 2 companies in our records, including DoughFlow, ShiftEase.
Partners & Team
Christine
Founder
Co-founded O Ventures after bootstrapping a company to $30M and 100 employees and later selling it to a private equity firm.
Industry Focus
Invests In
Does Not Invest In
Portfolio Companies (2)
Other
DoughFlow
ShiftEase
- •Raising at Pre-Seed, 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 $100K – $1.5M check.
- •cold outreach ok
- •Address your outreach to a specific partner, such as Danny, Founder.
- •A warm introduction beats a cold email. Get matched and request an intro.
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