Rookie Ventures — Pre-Seed & Seed VC Firm ($250K–$2.0M Checks)
Rookie Ventures is a Pre-Seed, Seed venture capital firm based in Chicago, IL investing in Other, Healthcare, Consumer. The firm typically writes $250K–$2.0M checks and has 20 portfolio companies in our records.
- Check size
- $250K–$2.0M
- Portfolio
- 20 companies on record
- Partners
- 1 listed
- Stage
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- Sectors
- Other, Healthcare, Consumer, Food / AgTech, SaaS
- HQ
- Chicago, IL
- AUM
- Not in our records
Last verified: 2026-09-28
Pre-Seed, Seed
$250K – $2.0M
20+ companies
1 partner
Investment Thesis
Focused on helping early-stage sports tech and consumer-facing startups to develop and scale their ideas into industry disruptors.
How Rookie Ventures invests
Rookie Ventures is a vc firm based in Chicago, IL. The firm invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed stages, with a focus on Other, Healthcare, Consumer, Food / AgTech, SaaS. It does not invest in Enterprise Software.
Rookie Ventures typically writes checks of $250K–$2.0M per investment.
Rookie Ventures has backed 20 companies in our records, including Compression Works, MyUTI, Green Steel Environmental.
Partners & Team
Mark Jensen
Solo GP
Industry Focus
Invests In
Does Not Invest In
Portfolio Companies (20)
Other
Compression Works
Medical device company.
MyUTI
Telehealth company.
Green Steel Environmental
Environmental services company.
Vitro3D
Advanced manufacturing company.
Noninvasix
Medical device company.
GeoVisual Analytics
AgTech company.
Pure Blue Tech
Water technology company.
Wander + Ivy
Food and beverage company.
CirrusMD
Medical tech company.
Aspero Medical
Medical tech company.
- •Raising at Pre-Seed, Seed? You're squarely in their sweet spot.
- •Lead with your fit in Other, Healthcare, Consumer — the sectors they actively back.
- •Size your ask to their typical $250K – $2.0M check.
- •warm intro preferred
- •Address your outreach to a specific partner, such as Mark Jensen, Solo GP.
- •A warm introduction beats a cold email. Get matched and request an intro.
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