Kenny Estes
Co-Founder @ West Loop Ventures
Chicago, United States
Kenny Estes is a seed investor at West Loop Ventures in Chicago focused on FinTech and Financial Services. 10 years as a High Frequency Trader (HFT), coding and creating mathematical models to trade listed companies worldwide Kenny understands edge and value. Helped grow Getco, an elite HFT firm, from a 15 employee startup to a 1,500 employee public company. He worked in both Chicago and London. He also founded and managed a boutique alternativeasset fund. In his free time, Kenny enjoys setting challenges for himself. He’s an Ironman, a private pilot, an advanced open water SCUBA diver, a passably good skier, and a lover of travel.
- Total investments:
- 4
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 75%
Last updated:
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Industries Kenny Estes invests in
Stages Kenny Estes invests in
Countries Kenny Estes invests in
Investment Focus
Industry
- FinTech 2 (50%)
- Financial Services 2 (50%)
- Information Technology 2 (50%)
- Legal 1 (25%)
- Finance 1 (25%)
Country
- Ireland 1 (25%)
- United States 1 (25%)
- United Kingdom 1 (25%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Vauban
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Vauban is a tech company reshaping the world of private investing. The platform makes it easier, faster, and more cost-effective for anyone to co-invest in private companies. With Vauban, you can easily create your Syndicate online, start sharing your deal flow and let your network co-invest with you in startups. Vauban has automated the SPV &funds setup process. | $1.1M / Seed / Jul 05, 2019 | |
PiPiT Global
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PiP iT is a Digital Cash Collection platform that enables loading cash onto eWallets, paying in cash for online orders and paying ebills with cash.For the customer they have the convenience of paying in cash with no need for bank account, credit card, no fraud or identity theft. For your business, you now have a secure and easy way for yourcustomers to pay in cash, but you don’t have the problems of cash collection, reconciliation, cash handling or security risks of having cash. If your business sends bills to customers, offers an eWallet, sells online, you should PiP iT. | $1.1M / Seed / Nov 15, 2018 | |
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Vauban
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Vauban is a tech company reshaping the world of private investing. The platform makes it easier, faster, and more cost-effective for anyone to co-invest in private companies. With Vauban, you can easily create your Syndicate online, start sharing your deal flow and let your network co-invest with you in startups. Vauban has automated the SPV &funds setup process. | $2M / Seed / May 27, 2018 | |
Megalytics
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The most extensive, verified, relevant data ever possessed by one analytics entity.If you rely on one of the many data providers on the market today, you need to know that most of them use volunteered, surveyed or estimated financial and economic information rather than hard, objective facts. Megalytics is different.Enterprises todayhold untapped intellectual capital in their huge transactional data stores and legacy systems. The world of social and multi-media provide an additional track of exploding data. To compete in the future, organizations will need to analyze big data sets just to remain competitive, productive and innovative. | $1M / Seed / May 18, 2017 |
Co-Investors
About West Loop Ventures
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.
West Loop Ventures Contacts
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Jeffrey Carter
General Partner
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Kenny Estes
Co-Founder
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What does Kenny Estes invest in?
Kenny Estes invests primarily in FinTech, Financial Services and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed stage. Most of the 4 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Ireland. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
When did Kenny Estes last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Kenny Estes closed in Nov 2020. Shizune tracks 4 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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