LongJump
VC Fund
Chicago, United States
LongJump is a first-check venture fund, based in Chicago, designed to invest in the next generation of founders. We provide capital, connections, and community to help founders take the leap towards building fast-growing, scalable businesses.
- Total investments:
- 51
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 24%
Last updated:
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Industries LongJump invests in
Stages LongJump invests in
Countries LongJump invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $150k–$363k
- Pre-Seed
- $100k–$1.3M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 8 (16%)
- Artificial Intelligence 4 (8%)
- Apps 3 (6%)
- Health Care 3 (6%)
- Food and Beverage 3 (6%)
Stage
- Pre-Seed 40 (78%)
- Seed 5 (10%)
- Angel 1 (2%)
Country
- United States 41 (80%)
- Switzerland 1 (2%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Adam Zadikoff
Limited Partner
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Limited Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Caroline McCarthy
Limited Partner
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Limited Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Jeremy von Halle
Limited Partner
|
Limited Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Jessica Watts
Limited Partner
|
Limited Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Kurt Akers
LP Investor
|
LP Investor | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
| See all 7 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
CareLumi
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CareLumi provides an AI-powered compliance platform that streamlines administrative work for healthcare providers and organizations. The platform focuses on automating credentialing, payer enrollment, and related compliance workflows, reducing manual data entry and follow-up. It centralizes provider information, monitors requirements, and helpskeep documentation aligned with insurer and regulatory standards. Automated tracking and reminders support faster onboarding of clinicians and practices. Integrations with existing practice and revenue systems aim to reduce delays that affect reimbursement and patient access. Analytics and dashboards give operations and revenue cycle teams better visibility into the status of applications and renewals. By simplifying compliance operations, CareLumi helps healthcare organizations allocate more staff time to care delivery and strategic initiatives. | Pre-Seed / Apr 24, 2026 | |
Unvale
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UnVale will change how people develop, explore, and express their identities online. | Pre-Seed / Mar 11, 2025 | |
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Unvale
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UnVale will change how people develop, explore, and express their identities online. | $1.8M / Angel / Mar 11, 2025 | |
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Unvale
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UnVale will change how people develop, explore, and express their identities online. | $1M / Pre-Seed / Oct 03, 2024 | |
Blip Energy
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Blip Energy is building a new category of energy storage that is smart, affordable, and flexible to add millions of homes to the smart grid network. A hybrid hardware/software solution for energy management that works in any home without barriers around permitting and installation. Power outages across the U.S. cost $150B annually. On Avg.500K Americans lose power daily without backup solutions and 84% of Americans are concerned. Existing grid vulnerability is exacerbated by energy transition volatility. The U.S. power grid had the most outages in history in the past two years. Households need power security, and utilities need levers on the smart grid to balance loads and prevent blackouts. Blip envisions a future where every household has access to smart IoT energy storage to provide critical backup power. Blip solves the growing need for reliable energy with the lowest cost energy storage on the global battery market. Simultaneously, this adds millions of otherwise inaccessible customers to the smart grid. Blip's business model reflects current resilience needs, cost savings, and a data-driven future, by wrapping our hardware endpoint with data and grid services. | $600K / Pre-Seed / Jul 29, 2024 | |
Tercero Technologies
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Tercero Technologies is a Chicago-based artificial intelligence company focused on edge AI software and hardware research, development, and integration for intelligent sensors and autonomous vehicles. | $100K / Pre-Seed / Jun 18, 2024 | |
FreshX
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Software powering logistics for the global food & beverage sector. | $1M / Pre-Seed / Jun 03, 2024 | |
Flora & Noor
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Flora & Noor is a skincare brand. Their products include cleansers, toners, serums, moisturizers, masks, body care, body butters, body scrubs, vitamin c collection, rose renewal collection, radiance mask collection, skincare tools, restoration and renewal kit, and so on. | Pre-Seed / Oct 15, 2023 | |
Cuentología
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Cuentología helps children overcome today's everyday challenges. It was founded in 2020. | $362.5K / Seed / Oct 01, 2023 | |
FOODe
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platform that connect users with personalized dining recommendations while also rewarding the consumer for their foodie behavior | Pre-Seed / Aug 09, 2023 | |
| See all 51 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does LongJump invest in?
LongJump invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Apps startups, most often at Pre-Seed and Seed stage. Most of the 51 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 LongJump's check size?
LongJump typically joins rounds of $150k–$363k at Seed and $100k–$1.3M at Pre-Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds LongJump participates in.
How do I contact LongJump?
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Who are the partners at LongJump?
The team at LongJump includes Adam Zadikoff (Limited Partner), Caroline McCarthy (Limited Partner) and Jeremy von Halle (Limited Partner), among 7 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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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