Ironwood Ventures
VC Fund
Chicago, United States
Ironwood Ventures is a VC fund in Chicago focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. Ironwood is an operational growth investment firm that focuses on growth companies across various stages of development.
- Total investments:
- 129
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 16%
Last updated:
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Industries Ironwood Ventures invests in
Stages Ironwood Ventures invests in
Countries Ironwood Ventures invests in
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 33 (26%)
- Artificial Intelligence 19 (15%)
- SaaS 16 (12%)
- Health Care 16 (12%)
- Information Technology 14 (11%)
Stage
- Series A 55 (43%)
- Seed 38 (29%)
- Series B 24 (19%)
- Series C 7 (5%)
- Series D 4 (3%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| DirectH2 is a technological firm that develops modular hydrogen generating solutions. | Seed / Mar 04, 2025 | ||
| GRAID Technology is headquartered in Silicon Valley, California with an R&D center in Taipei, Taiwan, and has been formed by a team that has more than 15 years’ experience in the SDS, ASIC and storage industries. Our extraordinary software & hardware solution has redefined every aspect of an SSD RAID card, and makes GRAID SupremeRAID™ themost powerful and flexible NVMe SSD RAID card in the world. | $30M / Series B / Mar 04, 2025 | ||
| Taxo Lab is building Apex™, an AI inference engine that automates complex administrative workflows in healthcare. Hospitals and insurers use it to handle tasks like prior authorization, medical coding, claim submission, and denial management. The platform reduces administrative burden by up to 90%, achieves 98% accuracy, and ensures auditabilityand compliance with HIPAA and SOC2 standards. | $6M / Seed / Mar 04, 2025 | ||
| Tofu offers a single platform for generating hyper-personalized, multichannel campaigns at scale that deliver opportunities for B2B marketing teams. | $12M / Series A / Feb 13, 2025 | ||
| Enable SaaS business to sell & cosell on multi cloud marketplaces (AWS, Azure, GCP, Red Hat, Snowflake & Databricks) | $15M / Series A / Feb 12, 2025 | ||
| ACT-ion Battery Technologies is a manufacturing company that offers cathode active materials for lithium batteries. | $7.5M / Seed / Feb 10, 2025 | ||
| qbiq developed cutting-edge Artificial Intelligence, Generative Design, and Optimization Technologies to real-estate planning.qbiq's cutting-edge technology is set to revolutionize the $30 trillion global commercial real estate market. By accelerating layout planning and design from weeks to mere minutes, qbiq is bringing much-neededinnovation and efficiency to the industry. | $16M / Series A / Jan 15, 2025 | ||
| Thoras.ai is an AI cloud management platform..It helps to detection, monitor performance, and manage costs. | $5M / Seed / Jan 14, 2025 | ||
| Agency assists enterprises in developing, assessing, and overseeing AI agents. Committed to fostering a secure and dependable environment for AI agent creation, Agency's flagship product, AgentOps.ai, is designed to revolutionize the way businesses build, deploy, and manage AI agents, emphasizing compliance, observability, and scalability. | Seed / Jan 08, 2025 | ||
| OneSkin is a longevity company on a mission to extend the health of your skin and body. Founded by a team of four PhDs and longevity scientists, they have identified a novel proprietary peptide, OS-01, which is the first compound validated to reduce your skin's biological age by decreasing the accumulation of aged cells, improving cellularrepair capacity and strengthening the epidermal skin barrier. Their flagship product, OS-01 Topical Supplement is currently available through their website. | $7M / Series A / Nov 13, 2024 | ||
| See all 129 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Ironwood Ventures invest in?
Ironwood Ventures invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and SaaS startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 129 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 Ironwood Ventures last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Ironwood Ventures closed in Mar 2025. Shizune tracks 129 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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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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