Lakewest Venture Partners
VC Fund
Chicago, United States
Lakewest Venture Partners is an affiliate of Lakewest, Inc., a real estate and private equity company. In its first several years, Lakewest's investments and participation in companies ranged from passive interest at $50,000-$100,000 to lead seed-stage investments in excess of $1,000,000 with board involvement. Since partnering with DundeeVenture Capital, Lakewest and Dundee now look to make lead seed-stage investments from $250,000-$750,000 in high-growth, early-stage technology companies. It is led by Buzz Ruttenberg, David Mann, and Jonathan McCulloch and was formed in 2013 to pursue seed and early-stage investment opportunities primarily in Chicago.
- Total investments:
- 22
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 0%
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Industries Lakewest Venture Partners invests in
Stages Lakewest Venture Partners invests in
Countries Lakewest Venture Partners invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $200k–$2.1M
- Series A
- $750k–$11M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Mobile 5 (23%)
- E-Commerce 4 (18%)
- Software 3 (14%)
- Finance 2 (9%)
- Analytics 2 (9%)
Stage
- Seed 9 (41%)
- Series A 7 (32%)
- Funding Round 2 (9%)
- Series B 1 (5%)
- Debt Financing 1 (5%)
Country
- United States 17 (77%)
- Canada 1 (5%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
David Mann
Principal
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Principal | Total investments: 8 | Find email | |
David Ruttenberg
President
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President | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Jonathan McCulloch
Co-Founder and Principal
|
Co-Founder and Principal | Total investments: 3 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
Realvision
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Realvision is an immersive media technology company that builds 3D media solutions for the real estate industry. Realvision is a technology platform built to support real estate agents, created for professional photographers. | $1.5M / Seed / Mar 15, 2017 | |
AddStructure
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AddStructure offer a white-labeled natural language understanding (NLU) platform that Retailers and Brands can use to enable conversational commerce channels. Each day, millions of consumers interact with AddStructure's products: Signal Search, Path, and Scaffold. Applications of their technology range from review summarization (distillingthousands of reviews of a product into digestible pros and cons) to a complete conversational commerce system (chatting with an intelligent digital assistant to find and purchase products). | $1.9M / Seed / Feb 27, 2017 | |
XOR Data Exchange
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XOR Data Exchange is a data revolution by providing data owners with the accountability, control, and transparency they want to share data and solve industry challenges with confidence. Developed by data, technology and analytics experts, the company helps organizations optimize and monetize the data they possess, with data from other companies intheir industry as well as other industries.XOR Data Exchange was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas, United States. | $2M / Venture - Series Unknown / Feb 03, 2017 | |
Align Income Share Funding
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Align Income Share Funding, formerly Cumulus Funding, is to invest in the American worker. Many people in this country need access to funds for many different reasons. They recognize that in many cases, traditional banks and lenders are unwilling or unable to meet those individuals’ needs. When loans are available, they are made at terms that areextremely favorable to the banks — high and inflexible interest payments, multiple hidden fees and service charges, and often, a requirement that if you can’t make your payments the bank can come and take your personal assets that were pledged as collateral. | Series A / Mar 01, 2016 | |
Blitsy
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Blitsy is where creative people shop online. It aims to provide the best selection, value, inspiration, and online shopping experience for creative people worldwide. It was founded in 2011 and is based in Chicago, Illinois. | $6.2M / Series B / Jan 25, 2016 | |
Popular Pays
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Popular Pays is a platform connecting content creators with brands who want the content to tell their stories. It is a tech company, with an in-house built iOS app and dashboard that delivers direct communication, workflow tools, and powerful statistics. | $2M / Series A / Jul 23, 2015 | |
Rentable
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Rentable is an internet company that specializes in providing a web-based platform that allows its users to conduct an online internet apartment search. The company was established in 2011 and is based in Madison, Wisconsin. | $923K / Seed / Apr 27, 2015 | |
Luxury Garage Sale
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Luxury Garage Sale is an operator of an online e-commerce fashion platform intended to sell stand-out items from the world's beloved luxury brands. The company's platform specializes in selling luxury designer clothing, shoes, handbags, and jewelry which are customized to consignment as they are sourced, sell and share, enabling consumersto have high-end fashion and exceptional experience at a low price.It was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. | $1.5M / Seed / Feb 17, 2015 | |
Shiftgig
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Shiftgig is a technology company that helps staffing agencies transform the way people work.Our flagship digital staffing software, Deploy, helps staffing firms empower their workforce to browse and claim work that fit their skills and schedules. We also give agencies deep insights into their clients and workers, allowing you to focus onstrategic growth and coaching by eliminating repetitive tasks of running day-to-day operations. To learn more, visit shiftgig.com. | $11M / Series A / Nov 13, 2014 | |
NuCurrent
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NuCurrent is a developer of high-efficiency antennas for wireless power applications. Compliant across Alliance for Wireless Power (A4WP), Wireless Power Consortium (Qi) and Power Matters Alliance (PMA) standards, NuCurrent works closely with electronic device OEMs and integrators to custom-design, rapid-prototype and integrate the optimal antennafor a broad range of applications. NuCurrent’s patented designs, structures, and manufacturing techniques mitigate typical high-frequency effects, offering higher efficiency, smaller sizes, higher durability, and lower cost with wireless power application development.It was founded in 2009 and is based in Chicago, Illinois. | $3.5M / Series A / Oct 21, 2014 | |
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FAQ
What does Lakewest Venture Partners invest in?
Lakewest Venture Partners invests primarily in Mobile, E-Commerce and Software startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 22 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Lakewest Venture Partners's check size?
Lakewest Venture Partners typically joins rounds of $200k–$2.1M at Seed and $750k–$11M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Lakewest Venture Partners participates in.
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Who are the partners at Lakewest Venture Partners?
The team at Lakewest Venture Partners includes David Mann (Principal), David Ruttenberg (President) and Jonathan McCulloch (Co-Founder and Principal). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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