# GP Ventures

> GP Ventures is a VC fund in Illinois City backing PaaS, SaaS and Web3. See 5 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Illinois City, United States
- Total investments: 5
- Last investment: Jun 2023
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/369177
- Website: http://gp-ventures.com/

GP Ventures is a financing advisory firm providing mergers and acquisitions advisory services.It specializes in mergers and acquisitions advisory services for middle-market technology companies. The firm's services include acquisition programs, sales of companies, grooming programs, and strategic partner searches. In addition, GP Venturesoffers valuation services to companies in the technology and electronics sectors.The financing advisory firm was founded in Schaumburg, Illinois in 2008.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| PaaS | 1 | 20% |
| SaaS | 1 | 20% |
| Web3 | 1 | 20% |
| FinTech | 1 | 20% |
| Medical | 1 | 20% |

20 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 3 | 60% |
| Seed | 1 | 20% |
| Series C | 1 | 20% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 3 | 60% |
| Canada | 1 | 20% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 20% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| HUNGRY | WASHINGTON, D.C. March 05, 2020 – HUNGRY Marketplace Inc., the Washington D.C. based platform connecting top chefs with businesses looking for the best in catered meals, today announced the close of its nearly $20 million Series B funding round. The round was led by former Whole Foods co-CEO Walter Robb and Evolution VC Partners. Additionalparticipants in the round included actor Kevin Hart, Jay-Z’s Marcy Venture Partners, Los Angeles Ram Todd Gurley, Seattle Seahawk Bobby Wagner, Tampa Bay Buccaneer Ndamukong Suh, former White House chef Sam Kass, President Obama’s special assistant Reggie Love and Leonard Green Partners’ Jonathan Sokoloff. The investment brings the company’s total funding to $32.5 million. ABOUT HUNGRY: HUNGRY was founded by serial entrepreneurs Eman Pahlavani, Shy Pahlevani and Jeff Grass, as a revolutionary way for independent chefs to connect with the $60 billion business and events catering market. HUNGRY is committed to improving the communities it serves. Through its ‘Fight Against Hunger’ program, HUNGRY donates one meal to those in need for every two purchased. Additionally, its ‘WeRecycle’ program promotes environmental waste reduction by offering biodegradable plates and cutlery with its delivered meals. HUNGRY is headquartered in Washington, D.C. and has rapidly growing operations in Philadelphia, Atlanta, Boston and New York City. By the end of 2021, HUNGRY is projected to expand its footprint to a total of 23 U.S. cities. For more information, visit tryhungry.com. | $10M | Series C | Jun 12, 2023 | https://tryhungry.com/ |
| Surf | Surf provides brands a better way to engage and understand consumers while compensating consumers for their data.Surf’s revolutionary browser extension passively rewards people for their everyday browsing and helps them save when shopping with their favourite brands. The extension is growing quickly and on track to be at 800,000 users by the endof 2022. Download the extension on joinsurf.com.Surf’s enterprise division provides high fidelity data and commerce enablement opportunities to some of the world’s biggest brands like Netflix, NBA, Sony Music, L’Oreal, Electronic Arts, etc. To learn more about our data or how to get in front of Surf consumers, schedule a call on joinsurf.com/brands.Surf’s vision is to build an equitable data economy for consumers that want to receive value in both a Web2 and Web3 environment. Surf is backed by several investors including Moneta Ventures, Round13 Capital, MAGIC Fund, Kyle Kuzma (Washington Wizards), Cody Ko (popular creator) and unicorn founders like Devon Townsend (Co-Founder, Cameo), Roham Gharegozlou (Co-Founder, Dapper Labs), Ryan Holmes (Founder, Hootsuite), Brad Shaw (CEO, Shaw Communications), Michele Romanow (President, Clearco), and Jason Robins (CEO, DraftKings). | $2.4M | Seed | Mar 09, 2021 | http://trufan.io |
| Arcus Financial Intelligence | Arcus is a PaaS platform that provides payment solutions to help businesses make payments accessible for every consumer. Arcus offers a multi-rail payment platfrom that includes real-time account-to-account payments, cash, and others. | $7.9M | Series A | Dec 01, 2018 | https://www.arcusfi.com |
| Beamery | Beamery is a talent acquisition, engagement, and retention platform that manages sourcing, hiring, and retaining of people. It helps companies attract, identify, and engage with candidates on one unified platform, to deliver better talent acquisition - at scale. Beamery provides the modern enterprise and its talent acquisition teams with all thetools they need to hire better, faster, and smarter than ever before by delivering exceptional candidate experiences and engaging with talent proactively across every part of the candidate journey. | $5M | Series A | Apr 11, 2017 | http://beamery.com |
| LifeDojo | LifeDojo is turning the traditional corporate wellbeing model upside down, by giving employees a platform to design their own health behavior change programs. The result? Large, self-insured employers achieve unprecedented engagement, leading to 45% of employees creating new health habits that stick for 6+ months. With a demonstrable 4.4x ROI ina $31B industry where long-term behavior change is rare, LifeDojo is being trusted by the world’s largest companies to reduce healthcare costs, improve productivity, and inspire a genuine culture of health. | $5.1M | Series A | Feb 07, 2017 | http://www.lifedojo.com/ |

5 of 5 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Alumni Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alumni-ventures-group) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Avalancha Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/avalancha-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Edenred Capital Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/edenred-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Enlaces](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/enlaces) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Evolution VC Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/evolution-corporate-advisors-2) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [IGNIA](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ignia) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does GP Ventures invest in?

GP Ventures invests primarily in PaaS, SaaS and Web3 startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 5 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 GP Ventures last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for GP Ventures closed in Jun 2023. Shizune tracks 5 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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