James Hill
General Partner @ Grand Ventures
Chicago, United States
James Hill is a seed investor at Grand Ventures in Chicago focused on Software and Product Research. James joined Grand Ventures with over ten years of experience in venture capital investing in healthcare information technology, enterprise software and financial technology. In his previous role as Vice President of Venture Capital and Private Equity at First Trust Capital Partners, the private investment arm of a $200 billion AUM asset managerwith over 90 portfolio companies, James led a range of healthcare and fintech investments, including Phynd Technologies, SteadyMD, TouchCare, ClinOne, ProofPilot, Circuit Clinical, Korio and Flexwise Health.From 2013 to 2019, James worked as Vice President at Edison Partners, which targets high-growth financial technology, healthcare IT and vertical SaaS companies located outside of Silicon Valley. He managed the digital health and fintech investment pipelines, led the Edison Director Network, helped close more than ten growth-stage investments, and served as a Board Director for multiple healthcare portfolio companies. Some of his investments included Solovis (acquired by Nasdaq), Clinverse (acquired by BioClinica), Trialscope (acquired by Informa), BlueMedora (acquired by VMare), ItemMaster (now Syndigo and acquired by Gladson), Predata (acquired by FiscalNote), PurpleLab, Signet Accel, Inc., and Virtual Health.James earned an MBA in finance JD focused on corporate law from Michigan State University. He also holds a degree in History from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
- Total investments:
- 1
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 100%
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Industries James Hill invests in
Stages James Hill invests in
Countries James Hill invests in
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 1 (100%)
- Product Research 1 (100%)
- Information Technology 1 (100%)
Investments
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Navidence
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Navidence provides a transformative Real World Evidence (RWE) Design platform that enables organizations to efficiently adapt to the ever-increasing ecosystem of Real World Data (RWD) sources. The company unlocks the power of Computable Operational Definitions (CODefs) for RWE Design and RWD Assessment. Navidence's RWE Sherpa platform offerstools to streamline the process of defining an RWE study's data, making it easier for researchers to conduct their studies in the age of data. | Seed / Jan 27, 2026 |
Co-Investors
About Grand Ventures
Grand Ventures is an early stage venture fund investing in seed stage B2B SaaS companies in emerging regions of the US and Canada.
Grand Ventures Contacts
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Camila Noordeloos
General Partner
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Craig R. Jablonski
Investor / Limited Partner
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James Hill
General Partner
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Nathan Owen
General Partner
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Tim Streit
Co-Founder and General Partner
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James Hill invests primarily in Software, Product Research and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed stage. Most of the 1 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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