Jeff Hinck
Managing Director @ Rally Ventures
United States
Jeff Hinck is a Series A investor at Rally Ventures in United States focused on Software and SaaS. Jeff Hinck is based out of Greater Minneapolis-Saint Paul Area and is the Managing Director of Rally Ventures. Jeff previously worked at Enstratius as a Investor. Jeff Hinck attended the Northwestern University.
- Total investments:
- 51
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 35%
Last updated:
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Industries Jeff Hinck invests in
Stages Jeff Hinck invests in
Countries Jeff Hinck invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
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Round size
- Seed
- $1.4M–$4.6M
- Series A
- $3M–$15M
- Series B
- $6M–$30M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 16 (31%)
- SaaS 5 (10%)
- Information Technology 5 (10%)
- Cloud Computing 4 (8%)
- Enterprise Software 4 (8%)
Stage
- Series A 15 (29%)
- Series B 11 (22%)
- Seed 6 (12%)
- Series C 6 (12%)
- Funding Round 2 (4%)
Country
- United States 24 (47%)
- Spain 1 (2%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Yardstik is a background screening platform designed to help you run fewer background checks. Our mix of screening, fraud, and compliance products helps organizations properly vet candidates to accelerate their business. We're changing the game to help thousands of companies save time, money, and their sanity. Yardstik: Measurably better. | $30M / Series B / Aug 27, 2026 | ||
| Krista is a nothing-like-code platform to automate business outcomes, build ML from scratch, and leverage the world’s collective AI more simply than you might think possible. | $6.6M / Series A / Dec 31, 2024 | ||
| Yardstik is a background screening platform designed to help you run fewer background checks. Our mix of screening, fraud, and compliance products helps organizations properly vet candidates to accelerate their business. We're changing the game to help thousands of companies save time, money, and their sanity. Yardstik: Measurably better. | $12M / Series A / Oct 17, 2023 | ||
| Crowd Street is a leading platform for direct-access private market investing. The company offers a carefully selected marketplace of alternative investment opportunities that have historically only been available to a small group of people. In addition to providing advanced tools, research, and insights to help investors confidently explore theseexclusive opportunities, Crowd Street is also building a member experience rooted in trust and experience working to further bridge the gap between investment opportunities and true financial wealth. | $43M / Series C / Oct 10, 2022 | ||
| Kaleidoscope designs, administers, and hosts branded scholarship and grant programs on a cloud-based marketplace. Its scholarship cloud marketplace connects scholarship funders to students. Kaleidoscope creates a friction-free marketplace connecting the most qualified candidates to personalized, curated scholarship opportunities.Founded byGregory Dehn in 2016, Kaleidoscope Group is headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota. | $10M / Series A / Apr 04, 2022 | ||
| Qualifi empowers recruiters to find the best candidates faster by enabling on-demand phone interviews. Qualifi’s frictionless screening platform saves both recruiters and candidates time while maintaining a human touch. The best candidates are off the market in 10 days, and typical phone interviews have been shown to add 6–8 days to an already longhiring process. With Qualifi, the majority of candidate responses happen on Day 1. Our recruiters scale effectively and win talent with speed. | $2.5M / Seed / Feb 17, 2022 | ||
| Yardstik is a background screening platform designed to help you run fewer background checks. Our mix of screening, fraud, and compliance products helps organizations properly vet candidates to accelerate their business. We're changing the game to help thousands of companies save time, money, and their sanity. Yardstik: Measurably better. | $8M / Series A / Feb 03, 2022 | ||
| Krista is a nothing-like-code platform to automate business outcomes, build ML from scratch, and leverage the world’s collective AI more simply than you might think possible. | $15M / Series A / Feb 01, 2022 | ||
| Yardstik is a background screening platform designed to help you run fewer background checks. Our mix of screening, fraud, and compliance products helps organizations properly vet candidates to accelerate their business. We're changing the game to help thousands of companies save time, money, and their sanity. Yardstik: Measurably better. | $4M / Seed / Apr 24, 2020 | ||
| Kaleidoscope designs, administers, and hosts branded scholarship and grant programs on a cloud-based marketplace. Its scholarship cloud marketplace connects scholarship funders to students. Kaleidoscope creates a friction-free marketplace connecting the most qualified candidates to personalized, curated scholarship opportunities.Founded byGregory Dehn in 2016, Kaleidoscope Group is headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota. | $3M / Series A / Mar 11, 2020 | ||
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Co-Investors
About Rally Ventures
Rally Ventures invests exclusively in early-stage business technology companies, focusing on entrepreneurs creating major new markets or bringing transformative approaches to existing ones. Areas of investment include cloud infrastructure, fintech, SaaS+ and security. Since 1997, Rally Ventures' partners and venture capital industry veterans have invested in or run early stage enterprise business-to-business technology companies with a proven ability to deliver superior returns regardless of the overall market environment. From investing to operating, they have demonstrated a repeatable model that has delivered significant investment returns over the past 30 years.
Rally Ventures Contacts
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Anna Klombies
Tech Partner
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Charles Beeler
Managing Director
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Chris DiBona
Technical (Limited) Partner
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Christopher Key
Tech Partner
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James Gibson
Associate
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FAQ
What does Jeff Hinck invest in?
Jeff Hinck invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Information Technology startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 51 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Jeff Hinck invest in?
Jeff Hinck typically joins rounds of $1.4M–$4.6M at Seed, $3M–$15M at Series A and $6M–$30M at Series B. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Jeff Hinck's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Jeff Hinck took part in.
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When did Jeff Hinck last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Jeff Hinck closed in Aug 2026. Shizune tracks 51 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 Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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