# Jeffrey Carter

> Jeffrey Carter is a seed investor at West Loop Ventures backing Financial Services and B2B. See 7 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [West Loop Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/west-loop-ventures)
- Location: Chicago, United States
- Total investments: 7
- Last investment: Jan 2022
- Lead investor: 43%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffreyrcarter
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/pointsnfigures
- Website: http://about.me/pointsandfigures.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/westloopventures?fref=ts

Jeffrey Carter is a seed investor at West Loop Ventures in Chicago focused on Financial Services and B2B. Jeffrey Carter - General Partner @ West Loop Ventures

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Financial Services | 3 | 43% |
| B2B | 1 | 14% |
| FinTech | 1 | 14% |
| Consumer | 1 | 14% |
| Insurance | 1 | 14% |

11 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 4 | 57% |
| Series A | 2 | 29% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 14% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Seel | Seel is the leading post purchase platform. Trusted by 2,000+ merchants, from starting DTC brands to multibillion dollar marketplaces. | $17.5M | Series A | Jan 12, 2022 |  |
| ML Tech | ML Tech is a FinTech startup building the next-generation trading platform within the crypto asset space. | $1.8M | Seed | Aug 31, 2021 |  |
| Seel | Seel is the leading post purchase platform. Trusted by 2,000+ merchants, from starting DTC brands to multibillion dollar marketplaces. | $5M | Seed | Oct 28, 2020 |  |
| Seel | Seel is the leading post purchase platform. Trusted by 2,000+ merchants, from starting DTC brands to multibillion dollar marketplaces. | $1.5M | Pre-Seed | Nov 04, 2019 |  |
| Spring | Spring provides employees with financial education, goal-setting, budgeting, and 1-on-1 financial coaching. Employees can set, track, and reach their financial goals and dreams while becoming more financially educated. Spring reduces employee financial stress by 64%, on average, which results in saving companies $3,200 per employee per year in lostproductivity. | $1M | Seed | Aug 01, 2018 |  |
| CFX Markets | CFX Markets is the first centralized and digitized secondary market for alternative assets; a central trading platform where investors can buy and sell shares of illiquid assets in an efficient and seamless way. We provide an open and secure network to facilitate secondary market transactions of private securities in alternative assets, bringingliquidity to the investors who invest nationwide in these private securities as well as those investors that are taking part in the exploding crowdfunding industry. In short, we make it easier and more efficient to invest. | $2.2M | Series A | Nov 03, 2017 |  |
| Desktime | Desktime is a online platform and directory that helps people rent desk space by the day, week, or month. |  | Seed | Jul 01, 2013 |  |

7 of 7 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Foundation Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/foundation-capital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Afore Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/afore-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Lightspeed Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lightspeed-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Techstars Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bullet-time-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Harvard Business School Angels Chicago](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/harvard-business-school-angels-chicago) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [M25](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/M25-VC) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About West Loop Ventures

VC Fund · Las Vegas, United States

West Loop Ventures invests in B2B Fin Tech companies where institutions are customers. The backbone of finance is going to be revolutionized in the next five to ten years. The capital markets revolution happened in Chicago from 1997-2002. It's happening again. In the last revolution, big firms were created and sold to big institutions(OptionsExpress, ThinkorSwim, Archipelago) In the last five years (2010-2015), the Chicago ecosystem has had 23.5B in VC backed exits.

2 contacts available at West Loop Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Jeffrey Carter | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jeffrey-carter |
| Kenny Estes | Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kenny-estes |

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## FAQ

### What does Jeffrey Carter invest in?

Jeffrey Carter invests primarily in Financial Services, B2B and FinTech startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 7 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 Jeffrey Carter last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Jeffrey Carter closed in Jan 2022. Shizune tracks 7 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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