Unvale
Pre Seed Round in 2025
Unvale is a rapidly expanding social platform designed for creatives. It facilitates the development of stories, helps users grow an audience, and enables self-publishing. The platform's core feature is an online character management system, allowing creators to build detailed profiles for their characters, fostering connections with others, and aiding in the transformation of ideas into published stories.
Pickleheads
Seed Round in 2025
Pickleheads is a digital platform for pickleball players that helps users find courts, plan sessions, join leagues, reserve lessons, and track their ratings. It enables users to form groups, schedule playing times, access game guidance, and manage playing kits, creating a community where players can connect, organize events, and discover courts and activities in a single, integrated service.
Unvale
Pre Seed Round in 2024
Unvale is a rapidly expanding social platform designed for creatives. It facilitates the development of stories, helps users grow an audience, and enables self-publishing. The platform's core feature is an online character management system, allowing creators to build detailed profiles for their characters, fostering connections with others, and aiding in the transformation of ideas into published stories.
When Insurance
Seed Round in 2024
When is an AI-driven off-boarding platform for employees. It's a personalized health insurance marketplace that simplifies the process of finding health insurance during a job transition. When is a B2B solution that partners with employers to provide a better off-boarding experience for employees while reducing the risk of high claims by making it easy for exiting employees to find alternatives to COBRA.
EarlyBird
Seed Round in 2023
EarlyBird is a fintech platform that facilitates investment gifting for children. It simplifies the process for parents while allowing friends and family to contribute financially towards a child's future.
When Insurance
Seed Round in 2023
When is an AI-driven off-boarding platform for employees. It's a personalized health insurance marketplace that simplifies the process of finding health insurance during a job transition. When is a B2B solution that partners with employers to provide a better off-boarding experience for employees while reducing the risk of high claims by making it easy for exiting employees to find alternatives to COBRA.
Ask Alex
Venture Round in 2022
Ask Alex is a software provider specializing in AI-powered data analysis and marketing automation. It offers personalized insights and automated reporting of key business metrics to enhance customer engagement and drive revenue growth.
EarlyBird
Seed Round in 2021
EarlyBird is a fintech platform that facilitates investment gifting for children. It simplifies the process for parents while allowing friends and family to contribute financially towards a child's future.
When Insurance
Seed Round in 2021
When is an AI-driven off-boarding platform for employees. It's a personalized health insurance marketplace that simplifies the process of finding health insurance during a job transition. When is a B2B solution that partners with employers to provide a better off-boarding experience for employees while reducing the risk of high claims by making it easy for exiting employees to find alternatives to COBRA.
DwellSocial
Seed Round in 2021
DwellSocial, Inc. is a Chicago-based company that operates an online platform designed to connect homeowners with contractors for various home projects and services. Founded in 2017, the platform facilitates professional referrals from users and group members, enhancing job opportunities within communities. Additionally, DwellSocial empowers neighborhoods by aggregating demand for meals from local restaurants, enabling pop-up dining experiences in suburban areas. This approach allows restaurants to expand their service areas, reach new customers, and optimize delivery logistics by consolidating orders from nearby patrons. By leveraging community engagement, DwellSocial aims to enrich local economies and improve access to both home services and dining options.
KPI Sense
Seed Round in 2021
KPI Sense offers B2B SaaS financial reporting solutions for startups. It aggregates, optimizes, and reports data to help SaaS companies create and share their financial story. Its tools simplify data collection and analysis by gathering information from various sources and organizing it into comprehensive, easy-to-understand summaries.
Shopflix
Venture Round in 2021
Shopflix is a product demonstration platform that enables brands to effectively promote their offerings. The company provides livestreaming services, allowing clients to stream their products and create live advertisements. Through its platform, brands can convey their stories to a wider audience, enhancing their reach and visibility. Additionally, Shopflix has a Creative Team that manages the scheduling and production of promotional shoots for the brands, ensuring a professional presentation of their products. This combination of live streaming and creative support positions Shopflix as a valuable tool for brands looking to engage with consumers in an interactive manner.
86 Repairs
Seed Round in 2021
86 Repairs is a computer software company that offers a subscription-based platform designed to streamline the repair and maintenance processes for restaurant groups. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, the company provides comprehensive management of equipment repairs, including for ice machines, dishwashers, and ovens. Its services feature 24/7 support from a team of experts and deliver actionable insights aimed at enhancing back-of-house operations. By handling the entire service process, 86 Repairs allows restaurant owners to alleviate the burdens of equipment maintenance, enabling them to concentrate on providing quality service to their guests.
EarlyBird
Seed Round in 2020
EarlyBird is a fintech platform that facilitates investment gifting for children. It simplifies the process for parents while allowing friends and family to contribute financially towards a child's future.
Retail Aware
Seed Round in 2020
Retail Aware Inc. develops a real-time sensor-informed analytics platform that provides shelf-level data on impressions, dwell time, product engagement, and audience demographics, as well as operational factors such as temperature and stock outages, without the use of cameras. Its wireless sensors count people, track actions, and trigger alerts, and insights are delivered via a web portal, dashboards, and API integration with existing tools. The platform helps brands and retailers optimize merchandising and in-store execution to improve the ROI of trade and field marketing initiatives. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska, Retail Aware serves brands, retailers and advertisers.
Draftbit
Seed Round in 2019
Draftbit develops a drag-and-drop software platform that enables companies to create mobile apps efficiently. Founded in 2017, the company is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.
Nexus A.I.
Seed Round in 2019
Nexus A.I. is a Chicago-based company founded in 2014 that specializes in application software leveraging Artificial Intelligence for staffing and team building. The software is designed to streamline the process of identifying and curating talent, including freelancers, based on specific skills, competencies, and customizable attributes. By analyzing employee skills and experience, Nexus A.I. helps organizations build effective teams, identify skill gaps, and create staffing efficiencies. The platform enables users to align work with skills, track skill progression, and organize teams around project-based tasks, thereby improving overall utilization rates. With a global presence, Nexus A.I. supports users in over fifty countries across six continents, fostering inclusivity and enhancing talent management for various campaigns.
Leafwire
Seed Round in 2019
Leafwire is a networking platform for the cannabis industry that connects businesses with funding, partners, employees, and investors, and enables sharing of news, events, and opportunities. It broadens access to verified accredited investors, job listings, and curated industry information, helping cannabis startups and ecosystem participants to connect and conduct business. Based in Denver, Colorado.
86 Repairs
Seed Round in 2019
86 Repairs is a computer software company that offers a subscription-based platform designed to streamline the repair and maintenance processes for restaurant groups. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, the company provides comprehensive management of equipment repairs, including for ice machines, dishwashers, and ovens. Its services feature 24/7 support from a team of experts and deliver actionable insights aimed at enhancing back-of-house operations. By handling the entire service process, 86 Repairs allows restaurant owners to alleviate the burdens of equipment maintenance, enabling them to concentrate on providing quality service to their guests.
HumanPredictions
Venture Round in 2019
HumanPredictions is a data-driven software company that specializes in optimizing the recruitment of technical talent. By leveraging public data and advanced machine learning models, the company creates detailed technical profiles for individuals, assessing their likelihood of being open to new job opportunities. This approach allows enterprise teams, startup founders, and agency recruiters to streamline their hiring processes, spending less time on candidate research and more time on meaningful engagement. Founded by experienced tech recruiters, HumanPredictions is deeply embedded in tech communities and focuses on data sources often overlooked by conventional aggregators. The software not only automates the decision-making process regarding when and how to contact potential candidates but also assists customers in various research activities, including assessing investment opportunities and analyzing geographic talent concentrations. Ultimately, HumanPredictions aims to enhance the effectiveness of recruiters, enabling them to concentrate on building relationships and evaluating talent.
The Minte
Seed Round in 2018
The Minte is a Chicago-based company that provides hotel-style housekeeping services primarily for residents of high-rise apartment buildings. Established in 2017, the company employs a building-centric model for staffing housekeepers, ensuring consistent and trusted cleaning services. The Minte's offerings include a range of cleaning tasks, such as floor sweeping, countertop wiping, dishwashing assistance, decluttering, and comprehensive bathroom refreshing. Its services can be conveniently booked through a mobile app or by utilizing a dash-like button located at the apartment entrance, allowing residents to maintain a professionally clean living space akin to that of a hotel room.
Hunt Club
Venture Round in 2018
Founded in 2014, Hunt Club operates an online platform that connects professionals with open positions at partner companies. It leverages technology and relationships to source, qualify, and hire talent, providing access to a network of over 5 million candidates referred by subject matter experts.
The Graide Network
Seed Round in 2018
The Graide Network, Inc. is an educational technology company based in Chicago, Illinois, that provides an online platform connecting middle and high school teachers with qualified teaching assistants. Founded in 2015, the platform facilitates the grading of student assignments and offers comprehensive feedback, allowing teachers to post class assignments and receive tailored matches with teaching assistants. This system not only streamlines the grading process but also enhances the quality of feedback students receive, thereby supporting their writing and critical thinking development. Additionally, the company offers an administrator dashboard to help schools implement effective writing plans, ensuring that teachers are well-supported and that students receive personalized guidance. The Graide Network aims to transform how educators allocate their time, enabling them to concentrate on the most impactful aspects of teaching.
PrintWithMe
Seed Round in 2017
PrintWithMe is a pioneering business that offers a convenient and accessible printing solution through its extensive network of wireless printer kiosks across the United States. Established in 2014, the company operates in all 50 states, placing printers in locations such as multifamily apartments, coffee shops, hotels, and co-working spaces. Users can print securely and easily from any digital device with just a few clicks, benefiting from automated paper and toner management facilitated by predictive analytics. PrintWithMe has enabled over 20 million pages to be printed on sustainably-sourced paper, promoting community resource sharing and reducing electronic waste by an average of 550 pounds per location each year. Through its services, PrintWithMe caters to the increasing demand for remote and hybrid workspaces, allowing customers to print and pay quickly and efficiently.
Apartment Jet
Seed Round in 2017
Apartment Jet is a property management software designed for owners and operators in the apartment industry, focusing on short-term rentals. The platform provides essential tools that enhance portfolio-level visibility and control, enabling multifamily apartment developers to effectively manage corporate and guest suites as well as vacant units. By optimizing revenue opportunities, Apartment Jet helps property owners maintain a sense of community that can often be overlooked in the sharing economy. Overall, the company's solutions facilitate a smoother transition for apartments into the short-term rental market, catering to travelers and tourists.
Esquify
Seed Round in 2017
Esquify, Inc. is a legal technology company that operates an online document review platform tailored for law firms. Founded in 2014 and based in Chicago, Illinois, Esquify utilizes patented machine learning technology to facilitate virtual document review, thereby replacing traditional in-person processes. The platform provides a suite of features including performance analytics for individual reviewers and teams, real-time productivity analysis, and communication tools, all aimed at enhancing the efficiency and effectiveness of legal document reviews. By allowing reviewers to work securely from any location while being supervised in real-time, Esquify significantly reduces total review costs for its clients by 20-45%, while also achieving over 90% productivity among reviewers. As of December 2018, Esquify operates as a subsidiary of Xcellence, Inc.
PrintWithMe
Seed Round in 2016
PrintWithMe is a pioneering business that offers a convenient and accessible printing solution through its extensive network of wireless printer kiosks across the United States. Established in 2014, the company operates in all 50 states, placing printers in locations such as multifamily apartments, coffee shops, hotels, and co-working spaces. Users can print securely and easily from any digital device with just a few clicks, benefiting from automated paper and toner management facilitated by predictive analytics. PrintWithMe has enabled over 20 million pages to be printed on sustainably-sourced paper, promoting community resource sharing and reducing electronic waste by an average of 550 pounds per location each year. Through its services, PrintWithMe caters to the increasing demand for remote and hybrid workspaces, allowing customers to print and pay quickly and efficiently.
ConceptDrop
Seed Round in 2016
ConceptDrop, Inc. is an online marketplace that connects businesses with a community of professional graphic designers, offering a design on-demand service. The platform enables companies to obtain various design materials, including PowerPoint presentations, infographics, flyers, brochures, logos, and more, while also providing copywriting services. By joining ConceptDrop's community, designers can earn income, collaborate with corporations, and enhance their portfolios. The company, which was incorporated in 2012 and is based in Chicago, Illinois, was previously known as Quick2LAUNCH LLC before rebranding in January 2015. Additionally, ConceptDrop leverages artificial intelligence to assist enterprises in sourcing freelancers and constructing internal teams.
Nexus A.I.
Seed Round in 2016
Nexus A.I. is a Chicago-based company founded in 2014 that specializes in application software leveraging Artificial Intelligence for staffing and team building. The software is designed to streamline the process of identifying and curating talent, including freelancers, based on specific skills, competencies, and customizable attributes. By analyzing employee skills and experience, Nexus A.I. helps organizations build effective teams, identify skill gaps, and create staffing efficiencies. The platform enables users to align work with skills, track skill progression, and organize teams around project-based tasks, thereby improving overall utilization rates. With a global presence, Nexus A.I. supports users in over fifty countries across six continents, fostering inclusivity and enhancing talent management for various campaigns.
Founded in 2014, Shipbob Inc. specializes in online shipping and fulfillment software for small e-commerce businesses. It aggregates services from major carriers like FedEx, UPS, and USPS, offering pickup, packaging, warehousing, batch fulfillment, and tracking solutions through its mobile app.