Aaron Verstraete
Founder & GP @ Chainstay Capital & Advisors
New Albany, United States
Aaron Verstraete is a seed investor at Chainstay Capital & Advisors in New Albany focused on Software and Analytics. Aaron Verstraete is the VP of Strategic Alliances at Forethought. He has 20 years of working across company boundaries as a product manager, consultant, and partnerships specialist. Aaron started his career at Microsoft before joining Bain & Company as a consultant in their Chicago, São Paulo, and San Francisco offices. Since then, he hasfocused on enterprise SaaS as a PM and partner leader at Box, DataFox, unitQ, and Zendesk. While at Zendesk, he spearheaded partnerships with tech giants like Amazon Web Services and others.
- Total investments:
- 8
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 0%
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Industries Aaron Verstraete invests in
Stages Aaron Verstraete invests in
Countries Aaron Verstraete invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 3 (38%)
- Analytics 2 (25%)
- Health Care 2 (25%)
- Data Integration 2 (25%)
- Machine Learning 2 (25%)
Stage
- Seed 4 (50%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 2 (25%)
- Pre-Seed 1 (13%)
- Series A 1 (13%)
Country
- United States 5 (63%)
- Ireland 1 (13%)
- United Kingdom 1 (13%)
Investments
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| SimpleStudy focused on the topics that matter, the study solution combines digital classroom features with audio-visual learning material and self-evaluation timed exam papers. They are an all-in-one study solution for every student's digital backpack as every teacher requires in the classroom. | $1.5M / Pre-Seed / Mar 31, 2025 | ||
| XetData is a startup in its early stages that specializes in collaborative data control for unstructured data management. XetData is headquartered in Seattle, Washington and was founded in 2021. | $7.5M / Venture - Series Unknown / Jan 10, 2023 | ||
| NurseWallet empowers nurses to make and manage money with a mobile app built specifically for their needs. Nurses input their shift schedule to get an accurate view of their take home. From there, NurseWallet creates a personalized financial plan and surfaces work opportunities that fit the nurses financial goals and credentials. NurseWalletpartners with providers to hire and retain nurses. | $3M / Seed / Oct 17, 2022 | ||
| Tag.bio enables organizations to securely derive insights using data-as-products in a data mesh architecture. Customers use Tag.bio’s data science platform to discover, share, and unite diverse siloed data sets and execute workloads using no-code/low-code data mesh framework. The data science platform (available in AWS and Azure Marketplaces)combines data sets, smart APIs, statistical and machine learning algorithms into data products (application layer) for users to discover insights via apps and/or GenAI solutions. Learn more at https://tag.bio. | Seed / Jun 04, 2021 | ||
| Hurree is a mobile marketing and engagement platform. Hurree provides solutions for mobile marketing through automated content creation, delivery, CRM integration, and reporting platform. | Seed / Jan 31, 2021 | ||
| BRAINBox provides objective evidence of injury and prediction of patient recovery. BRAINBox Solutions' multi-modality approach is led by the leaders in the industry. It includes blood biomarker panels available on a point of care instrument and standard laboratory systems. | $23M / Series A / Dec 08, 2020 | ||
| UnitQ is an AI-enabled product quality monitoring platform that empowers companies to take a data-driven approach to product quality so they can fix the right quality issues faster. The company's customer feedback platform empowers users to identify quality issues simultaneously with their customers, pinpoint the impact of product launches,releases, or ongoing features generating the most bugs or support tickets, and delve deep into issue origins across various sources, platforms, devices, customer segments, and beyond. | Seed / Dec 01, 2017 | ||
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Co-Investors
Seasoned Enterprise SaaS operators who invest and advise early stage companies. With a footprint in both the Bay Area and the Midwest, we are able to see opportunities that are sometimes overlooked combined with the appetite for startup and angel investing you see in the Bay Area.
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What does Aaron Verstraete invest in?
Aaron Verstraete invests primarily in Software, Analytics and Health Care startups, most often at Seed and Venture - Series Unknown stage. Most of the 8 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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The most recent investment recorded for Aaron Verstraete closed in Mar 2025. Shizune tracks 8 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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