# Bill Pescatello

> Bill Pescatello is a seed investor at Lightbank (Chicago) backing Mobile and Travel. See 23 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Lightbank](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lightbank)
- Location: Chicago, United States
- Total investments: 23
- Last investment: Mar 2023
- Lead investor: 39%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/bill-pescatello-cfa/0/a83/41a
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Bill Pescatello is a seed investor at Lightbank in Chicago focused on Mobile and Travel. Bill Pescatello is based out of New York, New York, and is the Advisor or General Partner of Lighthank. Bill previously worked at SHOWRUNNER as a Board Member. Bill Pescatello attended the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Mobile | 7 | 30% |
| Travel | 5 | 22% |
| E-Commerce | 5 | 22% |
| Software | 4 | 17% |
| Messaging | 3 | 13% |

43 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 8 | 35% |
| Series A | 7 | 30% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 9% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 4% |
| Series B | 1 | 4% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 14 | 61% |
| Canada | 2 | 9% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| AllFly | AllFly is a travel technology platform designed especially for group flight bookings. Travel planners and group customers can compare group travel schedules from their favourite airlines and handle all of their trips in one place. | $2.4M | Seed | Mar 29, 2023 |  |
| Bacarai | Bacarai creates an online marketplace for group airfare. It provides travelers the ability to shop, purchase, and manage group trips online. The company's offerings include an online meeting place where airlines and hotels can interact with potential buyers, who are provided instant quotes using artificial intelligence bots, enablingpassengers to get lower wait times and airlines to save time and money.It was founded in 2018 and is based in Orlando, Florida. | $2.4M | Seed | Mar 28, 2023 |  |
| Hark | Hark is a New York-based startup that make the authentication process frictionless and bring video to life as the first step in the CX journey. | $1.5M | Pre-Seed | Aug 10, 2022 |  |
| Parsable | Parsable empowers industrial workers with modern digital tools to improve productivity, quality and safety. The Parsable Connected Worker Platform transforms static, paper-based procedures into mobile and interactive work instructions, enabling workers to leverage multimedia formats and collaborate in real time. With Parsable, companies gainunprecedented insight into human work by capturing essential data to improve their operations at scale. A partner of the World Economic Forum, Parsable is trusted by top global companies in the manufacturing and energy industries including consumer packaged goods, resources and chemicals, packaging and building materials, and automotive and aerospace. | $60M | Series D | Aug 11, 2020 |  |
| Fabric | Fabric enables retailers to offer same-day delivery at profitable unit economics, empowering retailers to drive revenue and customer loyalty with a network of micro-fulfillment centers that serve as local inventory hubs, close to end-customers. Leveraging advanced software, robotics, and automation, Fabric’s solution empowers retailers todrastically improve their consumer experience while improving operational efficiency and driving costs down. | $110M | Series B | Feb 25, 2020 |  |
| Carlease | Carlease is the premier, car leasing experience site, delivering expert, efficient and concierge-level service to help you find the right car, with the right offer, delivered to your door. With rapid technology advances and changing needs of buyers, leasing is quickly becoming the new path to vehicle ownership. Let our team of skilled, unbiasedexperts take the stress out of finding your next new car. | $3.5M | Seed | Feb 21, 2018 |  |
| Level | Level is a neobank and mobile banking app that provides next-level banking for modern consumers consisting of an app, a cashback debit card called Level Debit Card, and an interest-bearing deposit account called Level Bank Account, offered through Evolve Bank & Trust, Member FDIC. The level is a product of Zero Financial. | $8.5M | Seed | Oct 23, 2017 |  |
| Snapcommerce | Snapcommerce is a message-driven commerce platform that connects price-conscious consumers to the right product deals - so they can save money and spend more time on what is important to them. The Snapcommerce engine can generate and deliver personalized deal recommendations for each customer.The company's first product is Snaptravel, whichenables customers to book flight and hotel deals.Snapcommerce leverages technology to develop products that deliver high-quality customer value and experience. | $8M | Series A | Jul 24, 2017 |  |
| Super.com | Super.com is the savings super app for everyday Americans. The app helps customers save across travel, entertainment, financial services, and daily spending. The Super+ membership supercharges the app. Members get 10% cashback on hotels, unlock financial tools like cash advances and credit building, and much more. Since 2016, Super.com hasdelivered more than $1 billion in savings. Learn more at Super.com | $7.8M | Series A | Jul 24, 2017 |  |
| Ovia Health | Ovia Health offers a comprehensive maternity and family benefits solution that transforms the way women and families are supported throughout the parenthood journey.The company is formerly known as Ovuline is making healthcare a lifestyle. Its mobile apps, Ovia Fertility and Ovia Pregnancy, have helped millions of women start their families andlive healthier lives. | $10M |  | Oct 14, 2016 |  |

10 of 23 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Everywhere Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/everywhere-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Hedgewood](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hedgewood) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [LionBird](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lionbird) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Arthur Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/arthur-ventures-llc) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Bee Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bee-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Techstars Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bullet-time-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Lightbank

VC Fund · Chicago, United States

Lightbank VC is a $700M AUM venture fund that invests in early-stage vertically focused AI, consumer, enterprise, healthcare, crypto, fintech and climate companies. It focuses on pre-seed, seed and Series A opportunities where they write initial checks between $250k - $5m. They have invested in over 150 companies such as Tempus, Udemy, Fiverr(NYSE: FVRR), Sprout Social (NYSE: SPRT), Boom Supersonic, Tastytrade (acq. $1B+), Extend, Attain, Paytient and Expel.

5 contacts available at Lightbank.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Bill Pescatello | Advisor or General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bill-pescatello |
| Brad Baum | VC | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brad-baum |
| Bradley Keywell | Co-Founder & Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brad-keywell |
| Eric Lefkofsky | Co-founder & Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eric-lefkofsky |
| Eric Ong | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eric-ong-2 |

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## FAQ

### What does Bill Pescatello invest in?

Bill Pescatello invests primarily in Mobile, Travel and E-Commerce startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 23 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 Bill Pescatello last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Bill Pescatello closed in Mar 2023. Shizune tracks 23 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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