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Portal Innovations

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Chicago, ILWebsite

Portal Innovations is a Pre-Seed, Seed venture capital firm based in Chicago, IL investing in Healthcare, EdTech, Other. The firm typically writes $500K–$3.0M checks and has 26 portfolio companies in our records.

Check size
$500K–$3.0M
Portfolio
26 companies on record
Partners
12 listed
AUM
$100M
Stage
Pre-Seed, Seed
Sectors
Healthcare, EdTech, Other, SaaS
HQ
Chicago, IL

Last verified: 2026-05-21

How to approach: warm intro preferred
Stage

Pre-Seed, Seed

Check Size

$500K – $3.0M

AUM

$100M

Portfolio

26+ companies

Team

12 partners

Investor activity
Investments in last 12 months: 0

Investment Thesis

Backs breakthrough early-stage biotech and healthtech companies with unique platforms in cell and gene therapy and oncology.

How Portal Innovations invests

Portal Innovations is a vc firm based in Chicago, IL. The firm invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed stages, with a focus on Healthcare, EdTech, Other, SaaS.

Portal Innovations typically writes checks of $500K–$3.0M per investment, backed by approximately $100M in assets under management.

Portal Innovations has backed 26 companies in our records, including ClostraBio, ARase Therapeutics, Cardiosense.

Partners & Team

YR

Yolaine Robitaille

Business Development Director

TS

Todd Sluzas

Chief Financial Officer

KF

Kevin Flavin

Director of Design

PR

Parth Rao

Director of Operations

SL

Steven Lehmann

Managing Director

CC

Carson Chang

Technology Manager

PF

Pat Flavin

President

life sciences innovation
health tech
startup ecosystems
RS

Ritu Shah

Managing Director

biopharma operations
portfolio company development
seed to next funding rounds
SC

Shahila Christie, PhD

Managing Director of Strategic Growth

ecosystem expansion
scientific strategy
city-based platform scaling
SL

Steve Lehmann, MBA

Vice President of Venture Operations & Managing Director, Stargaze

venture operations
university spinouts
innovation commercialization
JF

John Flavin

CEO/Managing Partner

Biotech
Gene Therapy
YZ

Yuan Zhang, PhD, MS

Vice President, Scientific Strategy & Operations

preclinical development
scientific operations
company-building
Series A prep

Industry Focus

Invests In

Healthcare
EdTech
Other
SaaS

Portfolio Companies (26)

Other

CL

ClostraBio

Biotherapeutics
AR

ARase Therapeutics

Biotech·Pre-clinical
CA

Cardiosense

Medtech·Clinical
CR

CrossBridge Bio

Biotech·Pre-clinical
DI

Dimension Bio

Biotech·Clinical; 510(k) clearance
GR

Grove Biopharma

Biotech·Pre-clinical
IT

Iterion Therapeutics

Biotech·Clinical
MA

March Biosciences

Biotech·Clinical
MO

Moonlight Therapeutics

Biotech·Pre-clinical
PE

Pelagos Pharmaceuticals

Biotech·Pre-clinical
How to pitch Portal Innovations
  • Raising at Pre-Seed, Seed? You're squarely in their sweet spot.
  • Lead with your fit in Healthcare, EdTech, Other — the sectors they actively back.
  • Size your ask to their typical $500K – $3.0M check.
  • warm intro preferred
  • Address your outreach to a specific partner, such as Yolaine Robitaille, Business Development Director.
  • A warm introduction beats a cold email. Get matched and request an intro.

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