# Lofty Ventures

> Lofty Ventures is a VC fund backing Software and Information Technology. See 27 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Chicago, United States
- Total investments: 27
- Last investment: Jul 2024
- Lead investor: 7%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/loftyventures/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/loftyventures?lang=en
- Website: http://loftyventures.com/

Lofty Ventures is a VC fund in Chicago focused on Software and Information Technology. Investing in Chicago’s future. We help passionate founders, disruptive startups & innovative orgs change the world

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 7 | 26% |
| Information Technology | 4 | 15% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 4 | 15% |
| Events | 3 | 11% |
| B2B | 2 | 7% |

64 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 13 | 48% |
| Pre-Seed | 9 | 33% |
| Angel | 2 | 7% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 16 | 59% |
| Germany | 1 | 4% |
| Côte d'Ivoire | 1 | 4% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Christopher Deutsch | Founder | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/christopher-deutsch-2 |
| Spencer Gordon-Sand | Director of Operations | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/spencer-gordon-sand |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| PairUp | PairUp develops a mentorship platform intended to maximize learning, growth, and social support. | $2.8M | Seed | Jul 02, 2024 |  |
| Laxis | Laxis is more than just a transcriber for your online conference, phone or in person meetings. It’s an intelligent personal meeting assistant. Using proprietary NLP technology, Laxis can analyze conversations, generate meeting memos and insights letting you make better, smarter decisions from better, smarter meetings. | $1.5M | Seed | Oct 02, 2023 |  |
| Arvist | Manufacturing industry transformed rapidly over past decades with automation and digitalization leading this transformation, while safety process around manufacturing is still manual and outdated. One consequence of this is that over 85% of near-misses and incidents are not even captured. These near-misses and incidents are in-fact the pre-cursorsto safety incidents, unsafe behavior, and fatal accidents.The financial impact of not working safely can be calculated by tracking both the direct and indirect costs associated with not only injuries (including first aid cases and near misses, which is close to 200 Billion USD annually), but also the ancillary costs within the infrastructure that is required to react to the problems that so often accompany an unsafe workplace. True costs of poor workplace safety go far beyond simple direct costs such as OSHA fines, medical treatments, workers’ compensation, legal or insurance fees, etc. but include also many hidden indirect costs such as public relations costs, loss of reputation, loss of efficiency and productivity, workers’ morale, or their mental health, just to name a few.This is the challenge Be Global Safety addresses. Be Global Safety (BGS) captures and reports these near-misses and incidents in real-time, using Artificial Intelligence. Using existing infrastructure like cameras and sensors, the BGS AI systems assists in immediate and real-time identification of unsafe acts. Date reporting and dashboard integrates seamlessly with other incident management systems or allows the users to use the in-build one. And finally, the data analytics platform also allows the users to take pro-active safety measures to prevent future accidents and incidents. Our mission is to create an intelligent safety solution which can be implemented anywhere human interaction is involved and make the world a safer place. | $1.1M | Pre-Seed | Sep 10, 2023 |  |
| Laxis | Laxis is more than just a transcriber for your online conference, phone or in person meetings. It’s an intelligent personal meeting assistant. Using proprietary NLP technology, Laxis can analyze conversations, generate meeting memos and insights letting you make better, smarter decisions from better, smarter meetings. |  | Seed | Jun 06, 2023 |  |
| Boxed | Boxed operates as a Web3 loot box platform. | $1.5M | Pre-Seed | May 25, 2023 |  |
| Boxed | Boxed operates as a Web3 loot box platform. | $1.5M | Pre-Seed | May 25, 2023 |  |
| Loot Labs | Loot Labs builds ways to acquire digital collectibles. | $1.5M | Pre-Seed | May 25, 2023 |  |
| ReloShare | ReloShare is the first and only alias-based hotel booking platform for government and social services organizations. The company's software includes capabilities such as real-time inventory display, client booking, short-term financing via consolidated invoicing, and more. ReloShare's real-time instant booking transforms a time-consumingprocedure now measured in days into a simple process measured in minutes. The Grove maximizes efficiency for existing shelter networks as a SaaS shelter availability sharing tool. | $3.6M | Seed | Apr 07, 2023 |  |
| Mercurial AI | Mercurial AI creates advanced AI and computer vision solutions that can help healthcare providers create treatment plans for a wide range of diseases. Our data-driven, equitable approach incorporates omic and image-based data to create tools that assist providers in delivering the best possible care for their patients. We are particularly focusedon developing solutions for the treatment of cancer, but our technology has applications in many other areas of medicine. We believe that our cutting-edge technology has the potential to revolutionize the way that treatment plans are created, helping providers deliver better care to their patients. | $70K | Angel | Oct 01, 2022 |  |
| Mycocycle | Mycocycle is an environmental remediation company that offers a process to decarbonize waste streams using fungi via mycoremediation. Treatment through our engineered ecosystems renders a non-toxic biomass available for use in the manufacture of new products. Our clients are waste management companies, landfill operators, material recyclingfacilities, manufacturers of petrochemical materials who want to become closed-loop in their process, and advanced materials manufacturers. |  | Seed | Feb 14, 2022 |  |

10 of 27 investments shown.

## Co-investors
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- [Anthemis](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anthemis-group) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Lofty Ventures invest in?

Lofty Ventures invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 27 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Lofty Ventures?

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### Who are the partners at Lofty Ventures?

The team at Lofty Ventures includes Christopher Deutsch (Founder) and Spencer Gordon-Sand (Director of Operations). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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