Jeffrey Maters

Managing Director

Past deals in Illinois

EarlyBird

Seed Round in 2021
EarlyBird is a Fintech gifting platform that simplifies investing for parents, while empowering friends and family to seamlessly gift financial contributions to the children in their life. EarlyBird is transforming financial gifting, making it personal, purposeful, and timeless.

KPI Sense

Seed Round in 2021
CFO solutions built for SaaS businesses. Tech-enabled automation paired with SaaS expertise at one low monthly cost.

86 Repairs

Seed Round in 2021
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.

EarlyBird

Seed Round in 2020
EarlyBird is a Fintech gifting platform that simplifies investing for parents, while empowering friends and family to seamlessly gift financial contributions to the children in their life. EarlyBird is transforming financial gifting, making it personal, purposeful, and timeless.

Nexus A.I.

Seed Round in 2019
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.

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.

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.

Draftbit

Seed Round in 2019
Draftbit is a new way to build cross-platform, native iOS and Android apps in minutes instead of months. Whether you're a designer or developer, with Draftbit you can design your app visually, and then export clean, well-documented code and libraries that give you full control.

Hunt Club

Venture Round in 2018
Hunt Club, Inc. is an innovative online platform for executive search, founded in 2014 and headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. The company connects organizations with suitable candidates through a network of professionals who refer potential hires. By leveraging proprietary technology, Hunt Club transforms a vast pool of subject matter experts into a powerful recruitment network, providing access to approximately 5 million candidates. The firm specializes in various recruiting services, including executive, full-service, alliance, and pipeline recruiting. By focusing on relationships and referrals, Hunt Club aims to enhance the hiring experience for both employers and job seekers.

The Graide Network

Seed Round in 2018
The Graide Network operates an online platform that connects middle and high school teachers with qualified teaching assistants to facilitate grading and provide detailed feedback on student assignments. Founded in 2015 and based in Chicago, Illinois, the platform enables teachers to post assignments, review and match with teaching assistants, and receive student grades and feedback. Additionally, it offers an administrator dashboard that supports schools and districts in implementing comprehensive writing plans, ensuring that teachers receive necessary support while students benefit from personalized feedback. The Graide Network's mission is to enhance the efficiency of teachers' time, allowing them to concentrate on the most impactful aspects of education while improving students' writing and critical thinking skills.

PrintWithMe

Seed Round in 2017
PrintWithMe is printing made simple. PrintWithMe is the first network of wireless printer kiosks in the United States, with printers in convenient locations like multifamily apartments, coffee shops, co-working spaces and more. Operating in 47 states, PrintWithMe makes it simple for anyone to print securely and reliably from any digital device, in just a few clicks. Predictive analytics also makes the printer amenity simple for businesses, as all paper and toner management is automated. Since 2014, over 5 million pages have been printed on eco-sustainable PrintWithMe paper. By encouraging shared community resources, every community with a PrintWithMe printer saves an average of 550 lbs of individual electronic waste per year.

Apartment Jet

Seed Round in 2017
Apartment Jet is a short term property management software that offers solutions to owners and operators in apartment industry. The company helps these owners grab the reins and right the saddle. It provide property management owners and operators the portfolio-level visibility, control, revenue opportunity, and power to maintain a sense of community that’s too easily sacrificed in today’s sharing economy. The company is focused on turning corporate/guest suites and vacant units into revenue.

Esquify

Seed Round in 2017
Esquify, Inc. operates an online document review platform for law firms. The platform allows individual reviewer performance analytics, team performance data & reviewer comparison, virtual supervision, real-time productivity analysis, overturn analytics, reviewer/document statistics, and built in communication services. Esquify, Inc. was founded in 2014 and is based in Chicago, Illinois. As of December 5, 2018, Esquify, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Xcellence, Inc.

PrintWithMe

Seed Round in 2016
PrintWithMe is printing made simple. PrintWithMe is the first network of wireless printer kiosks in the United States, with printers in convenient locations like multifamily apartments, coffee shops, co-working spaces and more. Operating in 47 states, PrintWithMe makes it simple for anyone to print securely and reliably from any digital device, in just a few clicks. Predictive analytics also makes the printer amenity simple for businesses, as all paper and toner management is automated. Since 2014, over 5 million pages have been printed on eco-sustainable PrintWithMe paper. By encouraging shared community resources, every community with a PrintWithMe printer saves an average of 550 lbs of individual electronic waste per year.

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.

ConceptDrop

Seed Round in 2016
ConceptDrop, Inc. operates an online marketplace that connects businesses with a community of professional graphic designers and offers design on-demand services. The platform caters to various design needs, including PowerPoint presentations, infographics, flyers, logos, and social media images, while also providing copywriting services. By utilizing artificial intelligence, ConceptDrop helps enterprises efficiently find freelancers and build internal creative teams. This approach allows designers to earn income, collaborate with corporations, and enhance their portfolios. Originally founded as Quick2LAUNCH LLC in 2012, the company rebranded to ConceptDrop, Inc. in January 2015 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

ShipBob

Series A in 2016
ShipBob, founded in 2014 and headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, offers an online shipping and fulfillment platform tailored for small e-commerce businesses. The company provides an end-to-end solution that includes warehousing, order fulfillment, and shipping services, enabling direct-to-consumer brands to deliver packages in 1-2 business days. ShipBob's technology integrates with various e-commerce platforms such as Shopify, Amazon, and eBay, facilitating streamlined order and inventory management, customer communication, and predictive analytics. Additionally, ShipBob aggregates shipment services from major carriers like FedEx, UPS, and USPS, and offers features such as a smartphone application for scheduling pickups and tracking shipments. With a network of fulfillment centers across the United States, including a warehouse in Dallas, Texas, ShipBob aims to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of supply chain operations for online merchants.

ShipBob

Series A in 2016
ShipBob, founded in 2014 and headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, offers an online shipping and fulfillment platform tailored for small e-commerce businesses. The company provides an end-to-end solution that includes warehousing, order fulfillment, and shipping services, enabling direct-to-consumer brands to deliver packages in 1-2 business days. ShipBob's technology integrates with various e-commerce platforms such as Shopify, Amazon, and eBay, facilitating streamlined order and inventory management, customer communication, and predictive analytics. Additionally, ShipBob aggregates shipment services from major carriers like FedEx, UPS, and USPS, and offers features such as a smartphone application for scheduling pickups and tracking shipments. With a network of fulfillment centers across the United States, including a warehouse in Dallas, Texas, ShipBob aims to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of supply chain operations for online merchants.