# 53 Stations

> 53 Stations is a VC fund in Chicago backing Software, FinTech and Artificial Intelligence. See 12 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Chicago, United States
- Total investments: 12
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 25%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/53stations/
- Website: https://www.53stations.com/

53 Stations is a financial services company that provides venture capital, business development, and investment solutions for companies.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 7 | 58% |
| FinTech | 4 | 33% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 4 | 33% |
| Financial Services | 3 | 25% |
| SaaS | 2 | 17% |

31 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 5 | 42% |
| Series B | 4 | 33% |
| Series C | 2 | 17% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 8% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Flex | Flex is a financial technology company that offers an end-to-end finance platform that integrates business and personal finance management. Their services include business banking with zero monthly fees, 1% cashback on eligible purchases, and high-yield accounts with up to 2.99% APY on idle cash. They provide a business credit card featuring 0%interest for 60 days on eligible purchases, unlimited cashback, and flexible rewards. Flex also offers accounts payable automation with features like fraud prevention, AI-powered bill scanning, and real-time payment tracking. Additionally, their platform supports global payments across over 180 countries in 32 currencies, catering to businesses with international operations. | $70M | Series B | Jul 14, 2026 |  |
| Antares | Designing and building fission microreactors | $71M | Series B | Dec 02, 2025 |  |
| Range | Range is a personal finance platform providing online access to financial planners and tools to tracks, plan, and share your finances. | $62.3M | Series C | Nov 25, 2025 |  |
| ConCntric | ConCntric is a software platform that unifies workflows and data for managing all aspects of the preconstruction environment. The platform acts as a single source of truth, giving general contractors and owners a dynamic view of the project. ConCntric offers modules to integrate preconstruction planning with subcontractor bidding and reduce datafragmentation. | $10M | Series A | Oct 07, 2025 |  |
| Ketryx | Ketryx provides an AI-powered compliance platform for regulated product development in the life sciences industry. It automates documentation generation, ensures traceability, and enforces quality management procedures. The platform integrates with tools like Jira and GitHub to generate submission-ready documents directly from active developmentworkflows. Ketryx's AI agents detect compliance gaps, suggest actions, and automate routine processes while retaining human oversight. Ketryx helps teams in regulated industries and use their preferred tools. | $39M | Series B | Sep 04, 2025 |  |
| Meter | Meter provides internet infrastructure for businesses, handling everything needed to get great internet, networking, Wi-Fi, and cell coverage in a space. Their unified stack—enterprise hardware, software, and operations—is purpose-built, scalable, and delivered as a service for one predictable monthly fee. Today, some of the largest companies andenduring institutions rely on Meter to keep their thousands of employees and locations online and productive. Meter is headquartered in San Francisco and backed by leading venture capital firms, investors, and founders. | $170M | Series C | Jun 12, 2025 |  |
| Kaya Pay | Kaya Pay is a developer of a materials procurement and financing platform intended for construction projects. | $5.3M | Pre-Seed | Jan 22, 2025 |  |
| Labviva | Labviva is a digital marketplace for life science products that connects researchers with reagents, chemicals, and instrumentation suppliers. It leverages the scientific context as the organizing principle, connecting researchers with suppliers in an intuitive user-friendly platform while making it easy for suppliers to provide and manage thecontent for their products. Labviva's Inventory Management System (IMS) offers real-time inventory tracking, AI-driven purchase automation, and forecasting, enhancing operational efficiency and compliance. | $25M | Series B | Jan 13, 2025 |  |
| GreenLite Technologies | Delays in construction permitting cost developers over $40 billion a year and are the number one reason for delayed openings. GreenLite is a vertical SaaS platform that deconstructs the black box that is permitting in America by bringing innovation the AEC industry needs. GreenLite’s multi-disciplinary review team combined with our modern softwareplatform shaves weeks and months off the construction permitting process and allows our customers to focus on their core business. Founded by a team with decades of retail development experience, AEC, regulatory, and technology experience, GreenLite provides local expertise with a national reach. We serve as the connective tissue between those that build and city agencies -- increasing transparency, predictability, and visibility. We support our customers nationwide, including global retailers, franchises, EV charging networks, and small businesses, including 5 of the top 10 largest quick-service restaurant brands. GreenLite makes getting a construction permit fast, predictable, and transparent. | $28.5M | Series A | Sep 17, 2024 |  |
| Wealth.com | Wealth.com provides an artificial intelligence-powered estate and tax planning platform designed for financial advisors, enabling them to deliver structured, ongoing wealth planning services to clients. The company’s software integrates estate planning, tax analysis, and financial data into a single system that supports the creation, management,and continuous optimization of wealth strategies. Its core platform allows advisors to generate legal estate planning documents such as wills, trusts, and powers of attorney, while also offering tools to visualize wealth transfer scenarios and model long-term outcomes. The system includes a client portal where individuals can upload documents, track assets, and collaborate with advisors and other professionals involved in their financial planning. | $30M | Series A | Sep 16, 2024 |  |

10 of 12 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Craft Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/craft-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [The Halo Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/the-halo-fund) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [4DX Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/4dx-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Alt Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alt-capital-6a95) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Argonautic Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/argonautic-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Baillie Gifford](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/baillie-gifford) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does 53 Stations invest in?

53 Stations invests primarily in Software, FinTech and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 12 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did 53 Stations last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for 53 Stations closed in Jul 2026. Shizune tracks 12 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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