# Eric Ong

> Eric Ong is a seed investor at Lightbank (Chicago) backing Artificial Intelligence and Legal Tech. See 21 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Lightbank](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lightbank)
- Location: Chicago, United States
- Total investments: 21
- Last investment: Aug 2025
- Lead investor: 38%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/eric0ng/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/eric0ng

Eric Ong is a seed investor at Lightbank in Chicago focused on Artificial Intelligence and Legal Tech. Eric is a Partner at Lightbank VC, where he leads the firms efforts around marketplaces, fintech, crypto and consumer. Eric previously worked at Deutsche Bank as a Investment Banking, Technology Group. He attended Northwestern University.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Artificial Intelligence | 4 | 19% |
| Legal Tech | 3 | 14% |
| Legal | 2 | 10% |
| FinTech | 2 | 10% |
| Finance | 2 | 10% |

28 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 8 | 38% |
| Pre-Seed | 6 | 29% |
| Series A | 4 | 19% |
| Series B | 1 | 5% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 5% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Pearl Edison | Pearl Edison is an internet marketplace company that specializes in home electrical and energy-efficiency projects. | $3.3M | Seed | Aug 01, 2025 |  |
| Axle Health | Axle Health provides scheduling and workforce management software for home health care providers. The Axle platform includes a mobile app for clinicians, an operations dashboard for office teams, proprietary logistics algorithms to optimize scheduling, and a patient engagement and booking solution. Axle is integrated with a wide range of EMRs, andthe entire Axle product can be customized and accessed modularly via API. Some of the biggest home health care providers in the country use Axle’s software to improve the utilization of their clinical teams, and automate the operational burden of scheduling and dispatching. | $10M | Series A | May 22, 2025 |  |
| Justpoint | Justpoint is the artificial intelligence-powered platform connecting people with the right litigation attorney and tools. Using predictive analytics rather than billboards, Justpoint brings transparency, simplicity, and credibility to the process of finding litigators in the personal injury space. For attorneys, Justpoint takes on back-office taskswhile creating efficiencies in the discovery process so they can quickly understand a claim's merit and obtain the best results. With over 1000 law firms, more than 300,000 historical claims, and operations in 33 states, Justpoint’s team of attorneys, engineers, and doctors are dedicated to increasing access to justice. For more information visit https://justpoint.com. | $45M | Series A | Feb 12, 2025 |  |
| Keeper | Find the right person. Build something meaningful together. | $4M | Pre-Seed | Oct 01, 2024 |  |
| Aropha | Aropha provides product testing laboratory pioneering the application of automation and AI to advance biodegradability testing. | $1M | Seed | Apr 05, 2024 |  |
| Paytient | Paytient helps people make better healthcare decisions by improving their ability to pay for care. We do this by bundling or embedding payment solutions like Paytient's Health Payment Account (HPA) or the Medicare Prescription Payment Plan alongside commercial, individual ACA, and Medicare plans. Armed with the power to decide how and whenthey pay for care, our users change their behavior in ways that improve their health and lower costs for everyone, which benefits the plan sponsor. By 2025, Paytient will serve 25M lives and 6,000 enterprise clients including leading employers and payers such as Anthem, Centene, Cigna, R.R. Donnelley, and Hyatt Hotels. The company has earned a 90 NPS and 4.9 stars on Trustpilot. | $33M | Series B | Jan 10, 2023 |  |
| Hello Divorce | Hello Divorce is an online platform that offers services and self-service tools to complete divorce processes in 1/3 the time and at 1/10 the typical cost. It fixes the broken and expensive divorce process with a combination of software and accessible, affordable legal and financial services. Hello Divorce helps clients get through theirdivorce quickly and affordably, with less confusion and stress. | $3.3M | Seed | Oct 19, 2022 |  |
| Retrievables | Retrievables is a B2B marketplace where collections agencies and law firms can bid on accounts receivable. | $800K | Pre-Seed | Oct 01, 2022 |  |
| Felux | Felux is supply chain platform that serves the mining industry. | $19M | Series A | Jun 02, 2022 |  |
| GamerGains Lab | GamerGains Labs is the first-ever token and cryptocurrency-based play and earn platform serving traditional gamers – a community of hundreds of millions of people around the world that enjoy playing on PCs and consoles such as Xbox and PlayStation. Offering an easy-to-use interface, the innovative platform will allow members to earn crypto withconfidence through an automated contest lifecycle, which is impartial, transparent, and features instant payout settlement. | $5.8M | Seed | Apr 26, 2022 |  |

10 of 21 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Cultivation Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cultivation-capital) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Expa](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/expa) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [CEAS Investments](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ceas-investments) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Crossbeam Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/crossbeam-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Gaingels](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gaing) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Interplay](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/interplay-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 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 Eric Ong invest in?

Eric Ong invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Legal Tech and Legal startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 21 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 Eric Ong last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Eric Ong closed in Aug 2025. Shizune tracks 21 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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