# HERE Technologies Chicago

> HERE Technologies Chicago is a VC fund in Chicago backing SaaS and Software. See 3 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Chicago, United States
- Total investments: 3
- Last investment: Jan 2022
- Lead investor: 67%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/3237134
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/HERE
- Website: https://www.here.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/here

HERE Technologies Chicago is a VC fund in Chicago focused on SaaS and Software. HERE, the Open Location Platform company, enables people, enterprises and cities to harness the power of location. By making sense of the world through the lens of location we empower our customers to achieve better outcomes – from helping a city manage its infrastructure or an enterprise optimize its assets to guiding drivers to their destinationsafely. To learn more about HERE, including our new generation of cloud-based location platform services.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for HERE Technologies Chicago. Shizune tracks 11 team members at HERE Technologies Chicago. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/here-technologies?utm_source=investor_profile

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $2M–$4.5M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| SaaS | 1 | 33% |
| Software | 1 | 33% |
| Analytics | 1 | 33% |
| Logistics | 1 | 33% |
| Marketing | 1 | 33% |

15 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 1 | 33% |
| Series C | 1 | 33% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Germany | 1 | 33% |
| Singapore | 1 | 33% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Angel L. Mendez | Executive Vice President & Chief Operating Officer | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/angel-l-mendez |
| Edzard Overbeek | Chief Executive Officer & Co-founder | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/edzard-overbeek |
| Herve Utheza | Chief Data Strategy, Americas - & Head of Media, Advertising & Network Operators | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/herve-utheza |
| J. Michael Palermo IV | Senior Developer Evangelist | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/j-michael-palermo-iv |
| Jonathan Harahush | Senior Product Manager - Automotive Products | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jonathan-harahush |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| UNL | UNL is a smart micro-location and mapping platform building the Internet of Places. UNL has pixelized the world to digitize physical locations and give them a unique verifiable digital address – UNL geoID - with a precision of as small as 1x1cm2, including outdoor, indoor and in elevation.UNL gives companies the mapping, location and data toolsto create their own Virtual Private Maps at the push on a button. Businesses can bring and manage their own data, tap into their workforce experience regarding local navigation and train their own UNL private routers for optimal efficiency.Adding a programmable layer to real-life locations, UNL is building the Internet of Places - a digital 1:1 geodata twin to transform places into the next digital platform, powering location-based services from ecommerce and last-mile delivery to smart city and autonomous solutions. | $4.5M | Seed | Jan 19, 2022 |  |
| Zeotap | Zeotap is the AI-powered Customer Data Platform that helps enterprises unlock the true value of their customer data - faster, smarter, and with enterprise-grade precision. With plug-and-play connectors and a flexible, modular design, Zeotap integrates effortlessly into existing ecosystems, delivering 3x faster time-to-value than traditional CDPs.Trusted by leading global brands, Zeotap combines the industry’s most advanced ID Extension and identity resolution with AI-powered orchestration - enabling unmatched match rates, smarter segmentation, and real-time activation. Designed for business teams and loved by IT, Zeotap makes it easy to unify, activate, and scale customer data - while staying fully compliant with global privacy regulations.Smarter data. Stronger outcomes. Built for business. | $42M | Series C | Jul 15, 2020 |  |
| UNL | UNL is a smart micro-location and mapping platform building the Internet of Places. UNL has pixelized the world to digitize physical locations and give them a unique verifiable digital address – UNL geoID - with a precision of as small as 1x1cm2, including outdoor, indoor and in elevation.UNL gives companies the mapping, location and data toolsto create their own Virtual Private Maps at the push on a button. Businesses can bring and manage their own data, tap into their workforce experience regarding local navigation and train their own UNL private routers for optimal efficiency.Adding a programmable layer to real-life locations, UNL is building the Internet of Places - a digital 1:1 geodata twin to transform places into the next digital platform, powering location-based services from ecommerce and last-mile delivery to smart city and autonomous solutions. | $2M | Seed | Mar 17, 2020 |  |

3 of 3 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Elev8.VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/elevate-vc) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [SGInnovate](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sginnovate) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [SOSV](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sosv) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Venturerock](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/venturerock) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Capnamic](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/capnamic-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Caroline Rupert’s family office](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/caroline-rupert-s-family-office) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does HERE Technologies Chicago invest in?

HERE Technologies Chicago invests primarily in SaaS, Software and Analytics startups, most often at Seed and Series C stage. Most of the 3 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Germany. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is HERE Technologies Chicago's check size?

HERE Technologies Chicago typically joins rounds of $2M–$4.5M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds HERE Technologies Chicago participates in.

### How do I contact HERE Technologies Chicago?

Public channels for HERE Technologies Chicago include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at HERE Technologies Chicago?

The team at HERE Technologies Chicago includes Angel L. Mendez (Executive Vice President & Chief Operating Officer), Edzard Overbeek (Chief Executive Officer & Co-founder) and Herve Utheza (Chief Data Strategy, Americas - & Head of Media, Advertising & Network Operators), among 11 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### 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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