# Jack Wyant

> Jack Wyant is a seed investor at Blue Chip Venture Company backing Advertising. See 9 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Blue Chip Venture Company](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/blue-chip-venture-company)
- Location: Cincinnati, United States
- Total investments: 9
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 44%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jackwyant

Jack Wyant is a seed investor at Blue Chip Venture Company in Cincinnati focused on Advertising and Soccer. Jack Wyant founded Blue Chip in 1990 and was responsible for a number of Blue Chip's most successful investments, including Richwood Pharmaceutical and USinternetworking.He focuses primarily on Media & Marketing companies, and currently works with companies including ShareThis and XOS Digital. Jack has been recognized for leadership inventure capital and entrepreneurial settings by a number of organizations, and he is a frequent lecturer on venture capital investing and entrepreneurship.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Advertising | 2 | 22% |
| Soccer | 1 | 11% |
| Sports | 1 | 11% |
| FinTech | 1 | 11% |
| Software | 1 | 11% |

16 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 2 | 22% |
| Series A | 1 | 11% |
| Series B | 1 | 11% |
| Series C | 1 | 11% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 11% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| BRANDRANK.AI | BRANDRANK.AI help Brands continuously monitor and strengthen positioning using generative AI. | $3M | Seed | Jul 28, 2026 |  |
| BRANDRANK.AI | BRANDRANK.AI help Brands continuously monitor and strengthen positioning using generative AI. | $1.2M | Seed | Jul 30, 2024 |  |
| AKRU | AKRU’s commercial real estate investment platform uses blockchain technology to create a secure and easy-to-use marketplace. AKRU offers investors the opportunity for fractionalized ownership for as low as $1,000 in the form of security tokens. The platform’s technology enables instantaneous transactions to be recorded on an immutable ledger,building investor trust. Tokenization shortens the transaction cycle and is able to compress the closing and settlement period of assets to mere seconds – making the world’s largest investment class more accessible and liquid for investors. Since launching the paid beta in October 2020, AKRU has secured 14 assets and over 50 investors for the marketplace. AKRU relaunched its platform in March of 2021 as the Title Sponsor for the Security Token Summit. Akru has been mentioned in major publications like Coin Telegraph, Investor.com, securities.io & Business Journals. | $2M | Seed | Nov 22, 2022 |  |
| AKRU | AKRU’s commercial real estate investment platform uses blockchain technology to create a secure and easy-to-use marketplace. AKRU offers investors the opportunity for fractionalized ownership for as low as $1,000 in the form of security tokens. The platform’s technology enables instantaneous transactions to be recorded on an immutable ledger,building investor trust. Tokenization shortens the transaction cycle and is able to compress the closing and settlement period of assets to mere seconds – making the world’s largest investment class more accessible and liquid for investors. Since launching the paid beta in October 2020, AKRU has secured 14 assets and over 50 investors for the marketplace. AKRU relaunched its platform in March of 2021 as the Title Sponsor for the Security Token Summit. Akru has been mentioned in major publications like Coin Telegraph, Investor.com, securities.io & Business Journals. | $2M | Seed | Sep 07, 2021 |  |
| AKRU | AKRU’s commercial real estate investment platform uses blockchain technology to create a secure and easy-to-use marketplace. AKRU offers investors the opportunity for fractionalized ownership for as low as $1,000 in the form of security tokens. The platform’s technology enables instantaneous transactions to be recorded on an immutable ledger,building investor trust. Tokenization shortens the transaction cycle and is able to compress the closing and settlement period of assets to mere seconds – making the world’s largest investment class more accessible and liquid for investors. Since launching the paid beta in October 2020, AKRU has secured 14 assets and over 50 investors for the marketplace. AKRU relaunched its platform in March of 2021 as the Title Sponsor for the Security Token Summit. Akru has been mentioned in major publications like Coin Telegraph, Investor.com, securities.io & Business Journals. | $2M | Seed | Sep 07, 2021 |  |
| FC Cincinnati | FC Cincinnati is a professional soccer club that plays in the United Soccer League.The club plays in the Eastern Conference of Major League Soccer (MLS). It reached a multiyear deal with First Financial Bank to serve as the club's exclusive banking and financial services partner.Carl Henry Lindner III and Jeff Berding formed the club inCincinnati, Ohio in 2015. |  |  | Aug 12, 2015 |  |
| Kinetic Social | Kinetic is a technology enabled full service provider of social advertising solutions across all leading platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and Pinterest. Our comprehensive suite of services was developed for marketers seeking to maximize their return across social channels and includes campaign design, delivery, measurement, andoptimization. | $18M | Series B | Apr 15, 2014 |  |
| Kinetic Social | Kinetic is a technology enabled full service provider of social advertising solutions across all leading platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and Pinterest. Our comprehensive suite of services was developed for marketers seeking to maximize their return across social channels and includes campaign design, delivery, measurement, andoptimization. | $8M | Series A | May 07, 2013 |  |
| ShareThis | ShareThis transforms authentic human sharing behavior into actionable data outputs at scale for marketers and publishers. It has been collecting and synthesizing social share data since 2007. | $23M | Series C | Mar 20, 2013 |  |

9 of 9 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Milwaukee Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/milwaukee-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [Draper Goren Holm](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/goren-holm-ventures-ghv) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Mercury Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mercury-fund) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Sandberg Bernthal Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sandberg-bernthal-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Wisconsin Investment Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/wisconsin-investment-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Deutsche Telekom](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/deutsche-telekom) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Blue Chip Venture Company

VC Fund · Cincinnati, United States

Blue Chip Venture Company is a venture fund focusing on technology companies serving the digital media and big data industries.

3 contacts available at Blue Chip Venture Company.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Christopher McCleary | CFO | — |
| Jack Wyant | Managing Director | — |
| Angie Fischer | CFO | — |

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## FAQ

### What does Jack Wyant invest in?

Jack Wyant invests primarily in Advertising, Soccer and Sports startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 9 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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### When did Jack Wyant last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Jack Wyant closed in Jul 2026. Shizune tracks 9 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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