M25

M25 is a Chicago-based Midwest-focused venture capital firm run by Victor Gutwein and Mike Asem. Since the firm's inception in 2015, M25 has invested in 90+ early-stage tech startups in over 24 cities across 11 states in the Midwest. M25's objective, analytical model and collaborative, forward-thinking approach creates a large portfolio spanning several industries across the entire region, allowing them to establish M25 as a key node in Midwest startup ecosystem.

Mike Asem

Partner

Katie Birge

Associate and Head of Platform

Bobby Guthrie II

Associate

Victor Gutwein

Managing Partner

Abhinaya Konduru

Senior Associate

178 past transactions

Get Bizzy

Seed Round in 2017
Alex and Andrew started Bizzy with one goal in mind, to create the highest quality and most convenient products on the market.Their passion for cold brew coffee started years ago after graduating from college. At the time, both had corporate jobs, were training for a 24-hour obstacle race, and were running a group fitness company. Because of their busy schedules and drive to succeed, sleep became less important to them. In order to be their best, they needed something that could give them a quick jolt of energy. At first, they would drink anything that would keep them awake. As former college students, they started with what they knew - energy drinks. They quickly found that this was an extremely unhealthy option and one that would leave them with a hard crash once the sugar wore off. As they looked further into what was actually in these products they were disgusted at the amount of sugar and synthetic ingredients they were consuming. So, like any corporate employee would do, they turned to their trusty friend, coffee. Every morning they would wake up 15 minutes early just to brew a pot of drip coffee, but just like everything else they tried, it had several drawbacks. The coffee took way too long to brew, produced a terrible tasting product, and wasn't convenient to take with them. Three things that in their mind were unacceptable. In the summer of 2012 they stumbled upon cold brew coffee. It fulfilled all of their requirements for the perfect source of energy, it was natural, sugar-free, and simple, but there was one very significant drawback, it wasn't at all convenient. To make it on their own took them 24 hours and if they wanted to buy it they had to wait in-line at a coffee shop. Over the next several years their love for cold brew grew, and so did their frustration with its lack of convenience and availability. They spent the next 2-years researching a way to create the highest quality product, in the most convenient way, and in 2015 they launched Bizzy - the healthiest and most convenient coffee on the market.

Realync

Seed Round in 2016
Realync Corp. provides a cloud-based video platform that connects agents and consumers to tour live virtual real estate properties. Its technology enables live videos, interactive virtual tours, and open houses, as well as pre-recorded videos for buyers and renters. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Carmel, Indiana with an additional office in Chicago, Illinois.

Get Bizzy

Seed Round in 2018
Alex and Andrew started Bizzy with one goal in mind, to create the highest quality and most convenient products on the market.Their passion for cold brew coffee started years ago after graduating from college. At the time, both had corporate jobs, were training for a 24-hour obstacle race, and were running a group fitness company. Because of their busy schedules and drive to succeed, sleep became less important to them. In order to be their best, they needed something that could give them a quick jolt of energy. At first, they would drink anything that would keep them awake. As former college students, they started with what they knew - energy drinks. They quickly found that this was an extremely unhealthy option and one that would leave them with a hard crash once the sugar wore off. As they looked further into what was actually in these products they were disgusted at the amount of sugar and synthetic ingredients they were consuming. So, like any corporate employee would do, they turned to their trusty friend, coffee. Every morning they would wake up 15 minutes early just to brew a pot of drip coffee, but just like everything else they tried, it had several drawbacks. The coffee took way too long to brew, produced a terrible tasting product, and wasn't convenient to take with them. Three things that in their mind were unacceptable. In the summer of 2012 they stumbled upon cold brew coffee. It fulfilled all of their requirements for the perfect source of energy, it was natural, sugar-free, and simple, but there was one very significant drawback, it wasn't at all convenient. To make it on their own took them 24 hours and if they wanted to buy it they had to wait in-line at a coffee shop. Over the next several years their love for cold brew grew, and so did their frustration with its lack of convenience and availability. They spent the next 2-years researching a way to create the highest quality product, in the most convenient way, and in 2015 they launched Bizzy - the healthiest and most convenient coffee on the market.

Eighty-Six Inc.

Private Placement in 2019
Eighty-Six Inc. provides a subscription service for restaurants, cafes, and other commercial kitchens, to help them manage food and beverage equipment service. The company manages repairs for hot side equipment, cold side equipment, plumbing, electrical, HVAC, and fire suppression systems. It’s serving Chicago, Detroit, Atlanta, Minneapolis, and Jacksonville areas. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Chicago, Illinois.

Branch

Series A in 2017
Branch is the only challenger bank that partners with employers to help working Americans grow financially. Employers turn to Branch not only to help them attract and retain hourly workers but also reduce the costs of paper checks and paycards by offering Branch as a free financial wellness benefit and bank alternative. Employees that sign up with Branch can receive a zero-fee bank account, free instant access to earned wages, and auto-budgeting tools to help them manage their cash flow between paychecks.

Ripple Science

Private Placement in 2019
Ripple Science Corporation develops a web-based software for health sciences that facilitates the recruitment and management of participants in clinical, translational, and social science studies. The company’s software is used for study dashboard, recruitment campaign management, potential participant tracking, enrolled participant tracking, and task management. It offers solutions for academic investigators, clinical trial sites, and CROs. Ripple Science Corporation was founded in 2016 and is based in is based in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Civic Eagle

Private Placement in 2019
Civic Eagle develops software that helps companies discover and analyze legislation and regulations with no manual work. Civic Eagle's platform searches, tracks, and works with legislations across the country and does the discovery work so that policy advocates can focus on winning campaigns, thereby enabling clients to promote better democratic outcomes for people and their communities. It was founded in 2015 and headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

LeverageRx

Seed Round in 2018
LeverageRx, LLC owns and operates a digital lending and insurance marketplace for doctors, dentists, and other medical professionals. It offers a platform that compares rates on financial services including student loan refinancing, personal loans, long term disability insurance, life insurance, and exclusive mortgage programs for doctors. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Omaha, Nebraska.

Rewards21

Series A in 2016
Rewards21, Inc. operates a rewards program that gives clients with cash back and reward points for dining at their favorite restaurants. The company offers a card-linked technology platform that enables registered consumers to earn cash back by using their credit or debit cards at participating restaurants. It also allows users to earn cash back and reward points for hotel, airline, and rental car options. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is headquartered in Arlington Heights, Illinois.

Authenticx

Pre Seed Round in 2020
AuthentiCx, Inc. designs and develops software solutions to analyze and activate customer interaction data at scale for the healthcare industry. It offers Authenticx to combine existing customer interactions across call center data, texts, chats, emails, and more into a single source of truth. The company’s Authenticx aggregates customer voices; organizes and structures conversational data; and provides insights to make decisions. AuthentiCx, Inc. was founded in 2018 and is based in Carmel, Indiana.

OpsCompass

Seed Round in 2019
OpsCompass serves as a cloud operations guide to modern enterprises that seek to preserve the advantages of the cloud without sacrificing compliance, security, or their ability to manage costs. Its software provides the right information at the right time, and actionable insight into what to do next. It’s simple to deploy, intuitive to use, and as flexible as the cloud itself. Across compliance, security, and cost management, it provides the ability to fold cloud operations into existing processes with existing personnel. It was founded in 2016 and is based in Omaha, Nebraska.

The Minte

Seed Round in 2018
The Minte offers hotel-style housekeeping services. It uses a building-centric model for staffing housekeepers. The Minte's services can be booked via app or by pressing a dash-like button out the door. It began operation in 2017, with its headquarters in Chicago in Illinois.

The Minte

Convertible Note in 2019
The Minte offers hotel-style housekeeping services. It uses a building-centric model for staffing housekeepers. The Minte's services can be booked via app or by pressing a dash-like button out the door. It began operation in 2017, with its headquarters in Chicago in Illinois.

Authenticx

Private Placement in 2020
AuthentiCx, Inc. designs and develops software solutions to analyze and activate customer interaction data at scale for the healthcare industry. It offers Authenticx to combine existing customer interactions across call center data, texts, chats, emails, and more into a single source of truth. The company’s Authenticx aggregates customer voices; organizes and structures conversational data; and provides insights to make decisions. AuthentiCx, Inc. was founded in 2018 and is based in Carmel, Indiana.

Idelic

Series A in 2019
Idelic is a software enterprise solutions provider for transportation fleets. It is born from the trucking industry and infused with modern innovation and entrepreneurship. It was founded in 2016 and is based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

EnsoData

Series A in 2022
EnsoData is a startup that utilizes artificial intelligence to analyze the human body to diagnose health conditions. EnsoData, whose software uses machine learning algorithms to help clinicians score sleep data and diagnose patients with sleep apnea and other disorders, has now realized that dream—and then some. EnsoData's autoscoring algorithm combines AASM scoring best practices with cutting edge machine learning algorithms that learn and adapt to every single patient.

EnsoData, Inc.

Private Placement in 2017
EnsoData, Inc. designs and develops machine learning and artificial intelligence software that specializes in the discovery, identification, and actionable reporting of critical to understand disease patterns in temporal health. It offers Sleep Scoring Automation Software that automates the analysis of sleep data to get accurate reading on patients. The company’s software also processes results from clinic and lab tests, monitors chronic disease progression, automated screening for physiological abnormalities, and stratifies at-risk patients and optimizes treatments. It serves sleep medicine doctors and sleep lab technologists. EnsoData, Inc. was founded in 2015 and is based in Madison, Wisconsin.

Rentgrata

Seed Round in 2019
Rentgrata is a Chicago-based online rental platform designed to reward users for finding an apartment. It helps current apartment renters capitalize on resident referral programs offered by their property manager. The company's apartment listing application lets users browse through apartment listings by filtering price and rooms, chat with current residents and also respond to questions from potential new neighbors and earn referral rewards when they lease, enabling current apartment renters and users to earn shared referral reward paid out by the property management company.

Pearachute

Venture Round in 2019
Drop in to the best kid classes in Chicago! Pearachute is a new way to help your child discover and explore activities that best fit your family’s schedule. From ballet to baseball, Pearachute gives you flexibility and variety - all in one monthly membership.

Skyepack

Seed Round in 2015
Skyepack operates mobile platforms for publishing interactive learning. It works with schools, departments, and faculty members to develop custom course content, geared toward the specific learning objectives, student population, and teaching methods of the course. The platform also delivers the content to students on an interactive web+mobile platform at an affordable price. The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in West Lafayette, Indiana.

CompleteSet

Seed Round in 2017
CompleteSet, Inc. owns and operates an online marketplace for tracking, buying, and selling collectibles. The company allows users to buy and sells products in the areas of fashion, home and office, toys, souvenirs, games, food and beverage, and books. It offers solutions for males, unisex, and females. CompleteSet, Inc. was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio.

ZipFit Denim

Seed Round in 2015
Zipfit Denim helps men find their best fitting jeans using their proprietary technology that is available at www.zipfitdenim.com. ZipFit helps men find perfect fitting jeans fast using their smart algorithms. Once you find your perfect fit, ZipFit compliments it with free tailoring and free shipping.

Upsie

Private Placement in 2018
Upsie is a mobile app that provides an easier & better way to protect your stuff. You get the same warranties and coverage offered by other companies, but at an affordable price. No annoying sales pitch. No big price markups. All warranty pricing and coverage options are right there in the app. Even your receipts are photographed and stored! You can purchase coverage, start a claim or even scan a barcode while shopping to see what warranties are available for that item.

86 Repairs

Seed Round in 2019
86 Repairs is a computer software company that features a subscription service that manages the entire repair process for restaurant groups. Its services include 24/7 support from our expert team, actionable insights to improve back-of-house operations, and complete management of the service process. It was founded in 2018 and headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

The Eastman Egg Company

Series A in 2016
The Eastman Egg Company, LLC owns and operates a restaurant that serves breakfast, lunch, and coffee in Chicago. The company’s menu comprises egg sandwiches or bowls, lunch sandwiches, parfaits, sides and snacks, coffee, and drinks. It also offers catering services for weekday meetings, corporate breakfasts, parties, brunches, and wedding events. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Chicago, Illinois.

Upsie

Private Placement in 2019
Upsie is a mobile app that provides an easier & better way to protect your stuff. You get the same warranties and coverage offered by other companies, but at an affordable price. No annoying sales pitch. No big price markups. All warranty pricing and coverage options are right there in the app. Even your receipts are photographed and stored! You can purchase coverage, start a claim or even scan a barcode while shopping to see what warranties are available for that item.

2ndKitchen

Seed Round in 2019
2ndKitchen enables businesses without a kitchen to serve food seamlessly using restaurants around them. They help businesses create a custom menu from neighboring restaurants and install integrated kiosks for easy ordering. Because of short distances and order bundling, food is delivered to customers' seats hot and fast. It’s a win-win-win where businesses add food to their menu, customers enjoy great food delivered to their seat, and restaurants serve additional dining rooms in their neighborhood.

Axuall

Seed Round in 2019
Axuall, Inc. provides digital network for verifying identity, credentials, and authenticity to healthcare, insurance, financial services, government, philanthropy, manufacturing, logistics, transportation, security, aviation, and construction sectors. The company was incorporated in 2018 and is headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio.

Civic Eagle

Seed Round in 2020
Civic Eagle develops software that helps companies discover and analyze legislation and regulations with no manual work. Civic Eagle's platform searches, tracks, and works with legislations across the country and does the discovery work so that policy advocates can focus on winning campaigns, thereby enabling clients to promote better democratic outcomes for people and their communities. It was founded in 2015 and headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

ScriptDrop

Seed Round in 2017
ScriptDrop’s technology platform enables connectivity across the healthcare ecosystem connecting patients, pharmacists, providers, and pharmaceutical manufacturers. The platform provides a seamless experience for patients, offering them prescription delivery in all 50 states and allowing for important additional services to be provided for better adherence. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Columbus, Ohio.

Abre

Seed Round in 2017
Abre.io Inc. provides an online education management platform that allows teachers, admins, students, and parents to access the information and tools they need. Its platform delivers connected applications that simplify day-to-day activities for schools who use the Web to manage information and deliver instructional content. The company was incorporated in 2017 and is based in Cincinnati, Ohio.

CASHDROP

Seed Round in 2020
CASHDROP is a mobile commerce platform for mobile natives. It allows businesses to create an online storefront from their phone in less than 15 minutes. Businesses that deploy CASHDROP never pay commissions or monthly fees on contactless sales of food, retail goods, services, or ticketed events The company's goal is to become the fastest and easiest way for mobile native entrepreneurs to start selling no matter what vertical they are in. It was incorporated by Ruben Flores-Martinez in January 2020 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

Mission Control

Seed Round in 2020
Mission Control GG, Inc. designs and develops mobile applications where gamers can join recreational esports leagues. It offers League Management, a solution to create leagues for the most popular video game titles across various platforms; update organization with notifications and monitor leagues as they happen; customize pre-built flyers and follow the included marketing roadmap to promote leagues; utilize the roster system to monitor performance and learn about community. The company’s solutions manage the league schedule, validate scores, and determine the champion while also serving as a forum for league members and friends. Mission Control GG, Inc. was incorporated in 2018 and is based in Saint Louis, Missouri.

Local Crate

Seed Round in 2018
Local Crate is a food and beverage delivery service company.

@hotel

Series A in 2022
TripScout, Inc develops a travel entertainment application for travelers. The company offers an application, TripScout, which provides a portal for visual discovery of destinations through articles, posts, blogs, photos, and videos posted by influencers and publishers. It allows users to personalize travel itinerary through mapped content. It serves the tourism sector. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

Zohr

Seed Round in 2019
Zohr, Inc. is engaged in the retailing and services of tires. The services include tire replacement, tire rotation, tire pressure monitoring system, flat tire repair, and fleet services. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri. The company has other locations in Bonner Springs, Fairway, Mission hills, Piper, and Shawnee, Kansas and Belton, Gladstone, Riverside, Liberty and Raytown, Missouri.

Cladwell

Seed Round in 2017
Cladwell is a styling app that helps millennials buy LESS clothing. In 2015, millennials broke a 100 year consumer trend by buying 10% fewer (but better) clothes. This trend is just getting started and we are the FIRST to monetize it. For $5/mo our software pairs down your closet and gives you daily outfit recommendations from what you already own - not by selling you more clothes. - $750K ARR - Profitable Unit Economics - 36% MoM GROOOOOOOOWTH... for 9 months Founding team has previously built startups in fashion and retail.

Regroup Therapy

Series A in 2017
Regroup provides telemedicine solutions to eradicate mental healthcare shortages across the USA. The company's services protect the privacy of patients and the confidentiality of personal health information with the help of an end-to-end encryption thus improving access to mental health care, enabling patients to overcome geographic distances, restrictions on their mobility, transportation difficulties and the time and cost burdens associated with traveling to see a healthcare professional in person.

@hotel

Seed Round in 2021
TripScout, Inc develops a travel entertainment application for travelers. The company offers an application, TripScout, which provides a portal for visual discovery of destinations through articles, posts, blogs, photos, and videos posted by influencers and publishers. It allows users to personalize travel itinerary through mapped content. It serves the tourism sector. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

rMark Bio

Private Placement in 2019
rMark Bio, Inc., a software company, designs and develops artificial intelligence solutions for pharmaceutical companies, academic institutions, medical device companies, and investment firms. It offers Fabric, a platform that understands the real-time business strategies of research and development, medical affairs, marketing, and commercial teams to provide field representatives with clear and concise decisions that remove inefficiencies and increase ROI for thought leader engagements. rMark Bio, Inc. was formerly known as rMark Biogenics, LLC. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Chicago, Illinois.

Avail

Seed Round in 2017
Avail offers an online platform for rental and leasing of house properties. The company offers rental listings, rental applications, tenant screening, credit, criminal, eviction reports, digital leasing, online rent payments, maintenance tracking, and rent price analysis. Avail was founded in 2012 and is based in Chicago, Illinois. As of December 15, 2020, Avail operates as a subsidiary of Move, Inc..

Trava Security

Seed Round in 2021
Trava Security is a cybersecurity startup that protects small and midsize businesses from the potential damage of cyber threats using its integrated cyber risk management and insurance platform.

ANGLR

Seed Round in 2016
Anglr is an online network that connects the global sport fishing community. Founded in 2016, thousands of fishermen/women have joined Anglr for the competition and camaraderie found in tracking and sharing their fishing activities. The company’s free mobile apps, patented IoT technologies, and website have helped members discover and plan fishing trips, record and share activities, and analyze and compare performance. Anglr’s ability to connect fishermen/women makes fishing a more social experience, providing extra motivation even when fishing alone.

Joshin

Private Placement in 2020
Joshin offers a disability care app that connects individuals to a network of experienced and screened caregivers. The app is designed for all ages and needs, with a caregivers that are professionals in the field of education, social work, or students getting prepared to enter the professional field.

chowly

Series A in 2018
Chowly provides innovative tech solutions to connect restaurant POS platforms with third-party online ordering solutions (TOOS). It integrates third-party online ordering platforms such as Grubhub, UberEats, Doordash, and Caviar. The platform aims to provide technology-based restaurant industry solutions at an affordable price. It also lowers staffing costs, increases revenue, and reduces errors. Brian Duncan, Justin McNally, and Sterling Douglass co-founded the company in Chicago, Illinois in 2015.

CFX Markets

Series A in 2017
CFX Markets is the first centralized and digitized secondary market for alternative assets; a central trading platform where investors can buy and sell shares of illiquid assets in an efficient and seamless way. We provide an open and secure network to facilitate secondary market transactions of private securities in alternative assets, bringing liquidity to the investors who invest nationwide in these private securities as well as those investors that are taking part in the exploding crowdfunding industry. In short, we make it easier and more efficient to invest.

ANGLR

Seed Round in 2017
Anglr is an online network that connects the global sport fishing community. Founded in 2016, thousands of fishermen/women have joined Anglr for the competition and camaraderie found in tracking and sharing their fishing activities. The company’s free mobile apps, patented IoT technologies, and website have helped members discover and plan fishing trips, record and share activities, and analyze and compare performance. Anglr’s ability to connect fishermen/women makes fishing a more social experience, providing extra motivation even when fishing alone.

Luna Lights

Seed Round in 2016
Luna Lights consists of an ultra-thin pressure sensor that detects when a user gets out of bed and immediately turns on small, wireless lights around the home. When the user returns to his or her bed, the sensor turns the lights off automatically. Additionally, a software component collects data regarding the frequency and duration that an adult is out of bed at night. Our system sends a text notification to a caregiver if an older adult is out of bed for an unreasonable amount of time. It also allows caregivers to identify trends in nighttime trips and see which individuals are most at risk for falling.

Cladwell

Venture Round in 2016
Cladwell is a styling app that helps millennials buy LESS clothing. In 2015, millennials broke a 100 year consumer trend by buying 10% fewer (but better) clothes. This trend is just getting started and we are the FIRST to monetize it. For $5/mo our software pairs down your closet and gives you daily outfit recommendations from what you already own - not by selling you more clothes. - $750K ARR - Profitable Unit Economics - 36% MoM GROOOOOOOOWTH... for 9 months Founding team has previously built startups in fashion and retail.

Idelic

Seed Round in 2017
Idelic is a software enterprise solutions provider for transportation fleets. It is born from the trucking industry and infused with modern innovation and entrepreneurship. It was founded in 2016 and is based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

PactSafe

Seed Round in 2016
PactSafe is a contract acceptance platform that prepares and finds contracts and gets acceptance for high-velocity businesses. Customers like DoorDash, Wayfair, Formstack, BMC, and Angie's List trust PactSafe to automate and optimize their signing workflows.

SaberLogic

Private Placement in 2018
SaberLogic is a professional services firm that provides custom development services and support for Infor ERP Visual (Visual Enterprise/Visual Manufacturing) and Epicor Vantage ERP. SaberLogic also specializes in Crystal Reports development, custom programming, and custom website development. Started in 2002 and headquartered in Wadsworth, OH USA, has over 800 customers in over 12 countries.

Ripple Science

Venture Round in 2020
Ripple Science Corporation develops a web-based software for health sciences that facilitates the recruitment and management of participants in clinical, translational, and social science studies. The company’s software is used for study dashboard, recruitment campaign management, potential participant tracking, enrolled participant tracking, and task management. It offers solutions for academic investigators, clinical trial sites, and CROs. Ripple Science Corporation was founded in 2016 and is based in is based in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

ScriptDrop

Private Placement in 2020
ScriptDrop’s technology platform enables connectivity across the healthcare ecosystem connecting patients, pharmacists, providers, and pharmaceutical manufacturers. The platform provides a seamless experience for patients, offering them prescription delivery in all 50 states and allowing for important additional services to be provided for better adherence. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Columbus, Ohio.

Rapchat

Private Placement in 2018
RapChat LLC develops and operates a mobile based application for creating and sharing freestyle raps. The company's platform allows users to interact, choose a beat, record over it, and then share it with others users. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Kenton, Ohio.

Rheaply

Series A in 2021
Asset Exchange Manager; Rheaply is a Techstars-Chicago company that provides a modern asset management platform which enables better resource visibility and utilization. Furthermore, Rheaply enables it’s customers to create a marketplace to buy, sell, trade, donate, and rent resources within an organization or externally.

Elate

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Elate is driving alignment and making reporting easier by creating a single source of truth for goals and KPIs. Be sure to follow our Twitter and company LinkedIn page to stay up to date with our latest news and content!

DATTUS

Seed Round in 2016
Here at DATTUS, they may be experts in industrial innovations, but really they consider theirselves to be guides. They help their clientele navigate Industry 4.0. Nothing brings us greater joy than to implement a system that saves companies millions—literally—by achieving near zero-downtime while simultaneously increasing safety and decreasing overhead. They help industrial facilities compete with hardware and software solutions that enable data-driven decision making. Their platform provides a seamless path for industries to make their operations “smart.” This allows companies to ensure value delivery in maintenance and reliability, operational efficiency, process and quality management, yield and throughput, environmental health and safety — and post-sale support and warranties for machinery OEMs. Located in Indianapolis, DATTUS was born out of an Entrepreneurship Program at Purdue University. In 2016, they won the Techpoint Mira Award for Best New Tech Product. While their roots are local, their vision is global. They believe in the promise of smart machines, the industrial internet - and the next industrial revolution. They’re committed to delivering on that promise to their customers, around the world.

Rheaply

Seed Round in 2020
Asset Exchange Manager; Rheaply is a Techstars-Chicago company that provides a modern asset management platform which enables better resource visibility and utilization. Furthermore, Rheaply enables it’s customers to create a marketplace to buy, sell, trade, donate, and rent resources within an organization or externally.

Angler Labs Inc.

Private Placement in 2018
Angler Labs Inc. designs and develops a trip tracking application. The company’s application helps anglers to track, store, and analyze their fishing trips, as well as share and receive information in a community of anglers. It serves customers via online. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Nexus A.I.

Seed Round in 2016
Nexus A.I. provides an application software that uses Artificial Intelligence for both external and in-house staffing and team building, including freelancers according to the skills requirement, competencies, and other customizable attributes. The software curates employee skills and experience for building teams, identifying skill gaps and needs, creates staffing efficiency, aligns work with skills, tracks skill progression, enables organize teams around project-based work, and hit the target utilization rates. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

OpenFinance

Venture Round in 2018
Openfinance Technologies, LLC operates an on-line trading and settlement platform for transactions in the secondary market for non-listed alternative investments. It offers services in the areas of private and public real estate programs, and other classes of alternative investments programs. The company is based in Chicago, Illinois.

CIY Foods, LLC.

Private Placement in 2018
CIY Foods, LLC., doing business as Local Crate, operates an online and direct to consumer subscription based platform for delivery of meal kit. It delivers local ingredients and chef-designed recipes. The company also offers gluten free, vegan, vegetarian, and paleo meals. CIY Foods, LLC. was founded in 2015 and is based in St. Paul, Minnesota.

humanpredictions

Venture Round in 2019
humanpredictions is a recruiting software company that gathers public data and puts together a profile for each person. The company is a sourcing solution focused on hiring technical talent and differentiated by its rich data that allows in real-time to predict people most likely seeking new opportunities. The tech recruiting product helps spend less time finding and researching potential candidates, so they can spend more time connecting with and recruiting people. Founded by recruiters, the team is experienced with tech communities and hyper-focused on data sources no one else uses. By tracking behavior patterns in tech specific communities, humanpredictions suggests when and how most effectively to contact potential candidates. humanpredictions is making the process of finding human capital more effective and efficient by reshaping it as a craft and prudently applying technology. Welcome to the future of recruiting. At humanpredictions, they supercharge intelligent, relationship-focused recruiters by giving them tools that perform their research automatically. The decisions of who to email, when to call, which events to attend, and ultimately where and with whom to spend their time are automated. By rebuilding the craft of recruiting, they empower recruiters to do the real, human work: crafting messages and building relationships.

Convr

Series A in 2017
Headquartered in Schaumburg, Illinois, and founded in 2016, Convr (formerly DataCubes) is the leading underwriting decisioning platform for commercial P&C insurers. The company has revolutionized the commercial underwriting process with cutting-edge AI and decision science. Commercial carriers of all sizes utilize Convr’s technology to make real-time underwriting decisions based on rich data and highly accurate intelligence gathered by external sources to improve productivity, profitability, efficiency and accuracy. To learn more, visit https://www.convr.com/

Jetpack Workflow

Seed Round in 2016
Jetpack Workflow LLC provides a cloud based workflow software solution that helps CPAs, bookkeepers, and accountants to automate and track recurring client work. The company offers Jetpack Workflow, a Web application that allows users to import their client’s CSV; add projects/tasks, set recurrence, and duplicate; search for projects, tasks, and clients; filter down to the exact project or task; and track progress of staff. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

MVMNT

Venture Round in 2022
The MVMNT Group is a North American freight brokerage and visibility provider.

chowly

Private Placement in 2018
Chowly provides innovative tech solutions to connect restaurant POS platforms with third-party online ordering solutions (TOOS). It integrates third-party online ordering platforms such as Grubhub, UberEats, Doordash, and Caviar. The platform aims to provide technology-based restaurant industry solutions at an affordable price. It also lowers staffing costs, increases revenue, and reduces errors. Brian Duncan, Justin McNally, and Sterling Douglass co-founded the company in Chicago, Illinois in 2015.

Regroup Therapy

Seed Round in 2016
Regroup provides telemedicine solutions to eradicate mental healthcare shortages across the USA. The company's services protect the privacy of patients and the confidentiality of personal health information with the help of an end-to-end encryption thus improving access to mental health care, enabling patients to overcome geographic distances, restrictions on their mobility, transportation difficulties and the time and cost burdens associated with traveling to see a healthcare professional in person.

Improovy

Seed Round in 2022
Using technology and data, Improovy's full-service platform allows homeowners to get an accurate price, get matched to a fully certified contractor, and schedule their project online in 2 minutes or less. Founded by the owners of some of the largest and fastest-growing contracting companies in the nation, Improovy knows what it takes to provide a world-class home improvement service experience. As a result, Improovy's revolutionary system empowers contractors to perform the best work of their lives.

Cheddar

Seed Round in 2017
Cheddar (formerly CheddarGetter) is a usage-based billing platform for SaaS companies. The platform is capable of managing all the complexity of billing and collections including pricing, processing, underwriting, SaaS metrics, customer communications, and revenue optimization. The company was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in Bloomington, Indiana.

Axuall

Private Placement in 2019
Axuall, Inc. provides digital network for verifying identity, credentials, and authenticity to healthcare, insurance, financial services, government, philanthropy, manufacturing, logistics, transportation, security, aviation, and construction sectors. The company was incorporated in 2018 and is headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio.

Block Six Analytics

Seed Round in 2016
Block Six Analytics (B6A) has created a suite of web-based applications that enables sports organizations to manage their sponsorship, media, ticketing, event, and billing activities in one platform. The Partnership Scoreboard is their web-based application enables sports organization to quantify the value of sponsorships and demonstrate new engagement opportunities for corporate partners. The application uses a proprietary valuation model and technology to demonstrate how targeted impressions help corporate partners generate new revenue and meet sponsorship goals through a relationship with a sports property.

Breeze

Series A in 2021
Breeze is an InsurTech company that provides an online platform for unemployment and disability insurances. The company offers coverage for sickness and accidents. It features quotes for partial disability, home modification, vocational rehab, presumptive disability, and more. It was established in 2019 and is headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska.

Loop Returns

Seed Round in 2018
Retain customers and revenue with the most advanced returns and exchanges app on Shopify. Customers can seamlessly swap their product for any new variant.Loop will place the new order within Shopify, triggered by return package movements. Smooth for the customer and totally hands free for you. Loop Triggers, the app is able process a return at any point on its way back to you, getting an exchange or refund in customer's hands within just a few days. If automated processing isn't your thing, issue refunds and place new exchange orders with just one click in the Loop Admin Panel.

AMOpportunities

Series A in 2019
AMOpportunities connects international medical students and graduates with U.S. physicians and institutions for clinical experiences. The company's platform offers individuals the opportunity to explore and apply for clinical experiences at 200+ clinical sites across 70+ medical specialties and subspecialties. AMO provides exceptional support services such as visa and housing assistance. It was founded in 2013 and based in Chicago, Illinois.

Blumira

Series A in 2021
Blumira, Inc. develops a solution to automate threat detection and response. It offers Blumira, a cloud SIEM that automates security operations for threat defense without a security team and streamlines security operations. The company’s Blumira also provides threat intelligence feeds, automated detection, threat hunting, and evidence stacking. The company serves financial services, healthcare, and retail industries. Blumira, Inc. was incorporated in 2018 and is based in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Fourstarzz Media LLC

Seed Round in 2018
With the fall of traditional outbound marketing, influencer marketing is becoming one of the most effective ways to attract customers and clients. The fourstarzz team is passionate about developing tools and services that empower brands and agencies to increase the efficiency of creating influencer-driven marketing campaigns. Fourstarzz helps companies find social media personalities – known as influencers – faster by leveraging extensive analysis to not only find campaign-relevant influencers but also provide the necessary information to connect marketers with the appropriate influencer platforms.

Dynamo Metrics

Seed Round in 2019
Dynamo Metrics delivers property-level intel to quantify the impact of policy and investment decisions.

BallotReady

Seed Round in 2018
BallotReady, Inc. develops an online and mobile voter guide for local elections. The company aggregates content from sources, such as candidates' Websites, League of Women Voters questionnaires, news articles, campaign finance records, and legislative roll calls; and provides nonpartisan background information on every candidate and referendum on a voter’s ballot. It allows users to compare all candidates on the Illinois ballot; find the information they need on all the candidates they will see in the voting booth; see where candidates stand on the issues that matter to them; and save selected candidates to their mobile device or research candidates in the voting booth. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Chicago, Illinois.

Workshop

Seed Round in 2021
Workshop makes meetings better through shared agendas, collaborative notes, and action item tracking all in one centralized location.

Costello

Seed Round in 2018
Costello is sales co-pilot software that helps your team keep deals and conversations on track so you close more deals. Costello helps you stay on top of everything you need to do to win a deal. You can see all the critical information about every deal in your pipeline on one screen. Reps start their day knowing which deals to focus on. Costello highlights gaps in each deal so you can quickly identify at-risk and bad fit deals. It identifies the questions that matter most in your sales process and then help your reps beat the competition by guiding them through the critical moments in sales calls that determine whether you win or lose. Learn more at: https://andcostello.com/

SteadyMD

Seed Round in 2018
SteadyMD, Inc. provides online primary care services in the United States. It connects patients to doctors through its online platform where doctors focus on providing telehealth services on various medical conditions, such as high blood pressure, diabetes, hypothyroidism, etc.; dietary preferences, such as Paleo, Whole30, vegetarian, and gluten-free; and lifestyles, including weightlifting, running, and cycling. The company's platform enables patients to text, call, or video chat with doctors. SteadyMD, Inc. was incorporated in 2016 and is based in St. Louis, Missouri with an additional office in Westlake Village, California.

Stagetime

Seed Round in 2021
Stagetime Inc. operates an online professional network for the performing arts. Its online network allows artists, agents, and artistic administrators to grow as professionals and maintain relationships by engaging with industry connections, showcasing their media, and interacting with colleagues and collaborators. The company was incorporated in 2020 and is based in Bloomington, Indiana.

chowly

Venture Round in 2021
Chowly provides innovative tech solutions to connect restaurant POS platforms with third-party online ordering solutions (TOOS). It integrates third-party online ordering platforms such as Grubhub, UberEats, Doordash, and Caviar. The platform aims to provide technology-based restaurant industry solutions at an affordable price. It also lowers staffing costs, increases revenue, and reduces errors. Brian Duncan, Justin McNally, and Sterling Douglass co-founded the company in Chicago, Illinois in 2015.

Hippo Manager Software

Series A in 2018
Hippo Manager is a cloud-based veterinary electronic practice management software for small and large animal veterinary practices. It is their mission to assist veterinary practices in leveraging technology to improve operations through increasing the quality of patient care, creating better patient access to records, and developing new revenue streams for veterinarians.

SteadyMD

Series A in 2020
SteadyMD, Inc. provides online primary care services in the United States. It connects patients to doctors through its online platform where doctors focus on providing telehealth services on various medical conditions, such as high blood pressure, diabetes, hypothyroidism, etc.; dietary preferences, such as Paleo, Whole30, vegetarian, and gluten-free; and lifestyles, including weightlifting, running, and cycling. The company's platform enables patients to text, call, or video chat with doctors. SteadyMD, Inc. was incorporated in 2016 and is based in St. Louis, Missouri with an additional office in Westlake Village, California.

ConceptDrop

Seed Round in 2016
ConceptDrop, Inc. operates an online marketplace that matches design projects with a community of professional graphic designers. Its design on-demand service helps businesses to get designs for PowerPoint presentations, keynotes, infographics, flyers, one-pagers, display ads, HTML emails, brochures, white papers, logos, social images, and others; and helps designers to make money, work with corporations, and build their portfolio by joining its community. The company’s platform also provides copywriting services. ConceptDrop, Inc. was formerly known as Quick2LAUNCH LLC and changed its name to ConceptDrop, Inc. in January 2015. The company was incorporated in 2012 and is based in Chicago, Illinois.

Authenticx

Series A in 2021
AuthentiCx, Inc. designs and develops software solutions to analyze and activate customer interaction data at scale for the healthcare industry. It offers Authenticx to combine existing customer interactions across call center data, texts, chats, emails, and more into a single source of truth. The company’s Authenticx aggregates customer voices; organizes and structures conversational data; and provides insights to make decisions. AuthentiCx, Inc. was founded in 2018 and is based in Carmel, Indiana.

Pitchly

Seed Round in 2018
Pitchly, Inc. develops a cloud-based content services platform for merger and acquisitions (M&A) professionals to organize and activate their intellectual property. It provides database service to record the proprietary experience. Its platform allows customers to create and manage a custom database to record data points and documents. The company serves investment banks, accounting and advisory firms, and law firms. Pitchly, Inc. was founded in 2014 and is based in Des Moines, Iowa.

@hotel

Private Placement in 2019
TripScout, Inc develops a travel entertainment application for travelers. The company offers an application, TripScout, which provides a portal for visual discovery of destinations through articles, posts, blogs, photos, and videos posted by influencers and publishers. It allows users to personalize travel itinerary through mapped content. It serves the tourism sector. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

Metafy

Venture Round in 2020
Metafy, Inc. develops and operates an esports platform that enables competitive players to monetize their talent through coaching and courses. The company was incorporated in 2020 and is based in Blairsville, Pennsylvania.

Elate, Inc.

Private Placement in 2019
Elate, Inc. operates in the technology industry. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Indianapolis, Indiana.

Summersalt

Series A in 2018
Summersalt is a generation-defining apparel brand, providing wardrobe essentials for women who are going places. Summersalt launched in 2017 with swimwear made from recycled materials at a $95 price point — designer quality swimwear without the designer price tag. Since then, we’ve launched additional categories including loungewear, knitwear, sleepwear and activewear. Summersalt pieces are modern, sophisticated and fun, with an impeccable data-backed fit based on millions of measurements from over 10,000 women. In the few short years since our founding, Summersalt has built a loyal following of customers, influencers and celebrities, while garnering praise from leading fashion media including ELLE, Vogue and People.

Scanalytics

Seed Round in 2016
Scanalytics Inc. offers software solutions to monitor and analyze customer behavior at retail stores and events. It offers a system that automates and analyzes information for actionable insights; and Analysis Lab, an actionable comparison tool that allows users to fine-tune their operations to create the profit machine. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Sportsman Tracker

Series A in 2016
Sportsman Tracker is a cross-platform digital toolset designed to increase success opportunities for hunters and fishermen and allow them to quickly share their experiences. Powered by W.I.T. (Wild Life Intelligence Technology), the tracker calculates the variables that directly affect wildlife behavior. The platform lets track species and gets adaptive features that are specific only the species. Founded in 2012 by Jon Schwander and Jeffrey James Courter, Sportsman Tracker is headquartered in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Spatial.ai

Seed Round in 2016
Spatial Labs, Inc., a software company, develops and builds interactive social layers into maps through a human-driven and machine-assisted analysis. It offers solutions that enable users to book travel by building the information they are looking for directly into the existing maps; and analyzes various sources of data to bring local insights directly into the map search, and can be overlaid onto any existing map of homes. The company also provides Xéro, a solution that deploys Spatial data into in-ear and in-vehicle AI assistants, which allow humans for the first time to answer questions; and urban planning solutions to reveal the human dimension of cities. It serves travel booking, real estate search, urban planning, and mobility industries. Spatial Labs, Inc. was incorporated in 2016 and is based in Cincinnati, Ohio.

2ndKitchen

Seed Round in 2019
2ndKitchen enables businesses without a kitchen to serve food seamlessly using restaurants around them. They help businesses create a custom menu from neighboring restaurants and install integrated kiosks for easy ordering. Because of short distances and order bundling, food is delivered to customers' seats hot and fast. It’s a win-win-win where businesses add food to their menu, customers enjoy great food delivered to their seat, and restaurants serve additional dining rooms in their neighborhood.

The Minte

Seed Round in 2018
The Minte offers hotel-style housekeeping services. It uses a building-centric model for staffing housekeepers. The Minte's services can be booked via app or by pressing a dash-like button out the door. It began operation in 2017, with its headquarters in Chicago in Illinois.

Workshop

Seed Round in 2021
Workshop makes meetings better through shared agendas, collaborative notes, and action item tracking all in one centralized location.