SNAK Venture Partners — Pre-Seed & Seed VC Firm ($1.0M–$2.0M Checks)
SNAK Venture Partners is a Pre-Seed, Seed venture capital firm based in Chicago, Illinois investing in Marketplace, Real Estate, AI / ML. The firm typically writes $1.0M–$2.0M checks and has 18 portfolio companies in our records.
- Check size
- $1.0M–$2.0M
- Portfolio
- 18 companies on record
- Partners
- 3 listed
- AUM
- $250M
- Stage
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- Sectors
- Marketplace, Real Estate, AI / ML, Consumer, SaaS, Enterprise
- HQ
- Chicago, Illinois
Last verified: 2026-10-30
Pre-Seed, Seed
$1.0M – $2.0M
$250M
18+ companies
3 partners
Investment Thesis
Vertical and B2B digital marketplaces digitizing offline industries, including construction, manufacturing, supply chain, equipment rental, logistics, and industrial supply. The fund targets category-defining marketplaces in sectors that have historically been under-digitized.
How SNAK Venture Partners invests
SNAK Venture Partners is a vc firm based in Chicago, Illinois. The firm invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed stages, with a focus on Marketplace, Real Estate, AI / ML, Consumer, SaaS.
SNAK Venture Partners typically writes checks of $1.0M–$2.0M per investment, backed by approximately $250M in assets under management. Our records include 2 funds raised by the firm.
SNAK Venture Partners has backed 18 companies in our records, including APFusion, BigRentals, Hello Gravel.
Partners & Team
Sonia Nagar
Co-Founder
Worked at Amazon 15+ years ago on the team that launched the clothing category. Co-founded a venture-backed mobile shopping startup acquired by RetailMeNot, then led RetailMeNot's mobile team for 2 years. Previously a General Partner at Pritzker Group Venture Capital, where her marketplace investments included Backlot Cars, Cameo, Coinbase, ShopThing, Machinery Partner, Maisonette, Yay Lunch, Batch and FuelMe. Started her career as an engineer at General Motors in its advanced engineering group.
Adam Koopersmith
Co-Founder
Worked at Pritzker Group Venture Capital for 20+ years, most recently as Managing Partner of the fund. Marketplace deals there included G2, Backlot Cars, SpotHero, Sittercity, Zinch and TicketsNow. Previously led Business Development at Sportvision, and earlier worked in private equity at Berkshire Partners and investment banking at Alex Brown.
Sonia Sahney Nagar
GP
Industry Focus
Invests In
Funds
Fund II
Fund I
Recent Activity
Raised Fund II ($150M)
2022 · fund records
Raised Fund I ($100M)
2020 · fund records
Portfolio Companies (18)
Other
APFusion
Digital marketplace focused on industrial supply
BigRentals
Equipment-rental marketplace modernizing the U.S. equipment rental industry
Hello Gravel
Repackify
Packaging and logistics marketplace focused on reusable packaging
Ruck
Marketplace focused on digitizing a legacy industry
Backlot Cars
Cameo
Coinbase
FuelMe
G2
- •Raising at Pre-Seed, Seed? You're squarely in their sweet spot.
- •Lead with your fit in Marketplace, Real Estate, AI / ML — the sectors they actively back.
- •Size your ask to their typical $1.0M – $2.0M check.
- •warm intro preferred
- •Address your outreach to a specific partner, such as Sonia Nagar, Co-Founder.
- •A warm introduction beats a cold email. Get matched and request an intro.
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