# Moderne Ventures

> Moderne Ventures is a VC fund in Chicago backing Real Estate and Software. See 124 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Chicago, United States
- Total investments: 124
- Last investment: Apr 2026
- Lead investor: 14%
- Last fund: Dec 2024
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/6628465
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/moderneventures
- Website: http://www.moderneventures.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ModerneVentures

Moderne Ventures is a strategic venture capital and growth equity firm with a 17-year track record, generating top tier returns across four funds. Moderne is a generalist investor with vertical expertise with a particular focus on technologies like Enterprise SaaS, AI, Robotics, Deep Tech, Sustainability, Data and Digital Transaction Managementand targets technologies that can apply to both Moderne’s core industries and expand beyond them to deliver outsized venture returns.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Real Estate | 29 | 23% |
| Software | 28 | 23% |
| FinTech | 15 | 12% |
| Financial Services | 15 | 12% |
| SaaS | 12 | 10% |

165 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Funding Round | 53 | 43% |
| Series B | 16 | 13% |
| Seed | 15 | 12% |
| Series A | 15 | 12% |
| Series C | 9 | 7% |

10 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 91 | 73% |
| France | 1 | 1% |
| Finland | 1 | 1% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 1% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Constance Freedman | Founder and Managing Partner | 135 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/constance-freedman |
| Forrest Hardy | Passport Program Mentor | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/forrest-hardy |
| Liza Benson | Partner; Partner | 8 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/liza-boyd |
| Marie Kloor | Mentor | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/marie-kloor |
| Stephanie Koenig | Chief of Staff & Head of Investor Relations | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/stephanie-koenig |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Chateauz | Chateauz is building outcome-conditioned simulation infrastructure for decision-critical environments across energy, grid, and large-scale infrastructure systems.The platform helps operators quantify uncertainty across risk, revenue, and capital allocation decisions before irreversible infrastructure commitments are made. Unlike traditionalsimulation or digital twin platforms that model forward from predefined assumptions, Chateauz runs outcome-conditioned simulation backward from desired outcomes to evaluate how infrastructure decisions perform under real-world variability.The company is initially focused on energy infrastructure, grid modernization, and large-scale built environments, with enterprise engagements.Chateauz is backed by Capital Factory and Moderne Ventures, and is collaborating with the San Diego Supercomputer Center (UC San Diego) on high-performance computing and large-scale simulation workflows. |  | Non-equity Assistance | Apr 28, 2026 |  |
| Sigma360 | Sigma360 is is the definitive risk decisioning software platform. Developed at MIT, Sigma360 helps leading firms identify, screen, monitor and review clients and their relationships against the largest cloud-native risk intelligence database. The leadership team includes professionals with 50+ years of combined experience, including deep domainexpertise in computer science, law and government.Core platform solution areas: https://www.sigma360.com/solutions/adverse-media-screening https://www.sigma360.com/solutions/sanctions-and-watchlist-screening https://www.sigma360.com/solutions/enhanced-due-diligenceSigma was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Manhattan, New York. | $17.3M | Series B | Mar 10, 2026 |  |
| Mesh | Mesh Pay is a payment infrastructure platform that enables businesses to accept and send digital assets and cryptocurrency transactions through a single integration. It supports connectivity with hundreds of wallets and exchanges, and processes payments, deposits, verification,s and global payouts, settling funds in stablecoins or local currency toreduce volatility risk and increase completion rates. The platform includes SmartFunding™, which orchestrates funding from multiple sources to streamline checkout and payout processes, and offers real-time address validation and settlement features. Mesh Pay also provides programmable wallet capabilities for autonomous commerce and routes funds securely across wallets, banks and exchanges. | $75M | Series C | Jan 27, 2026 |  |
| Orbital Witness | Orbital Witness is a LegalTech-meets-PropTech company developing a legal risk rating for real estate - a cheaper, faster and reliable alternative to the legacy, costly and time consuming legal due diligence process in property transactions. | $60M | Series B | Jan 26, 2026 |  |
| Mesh | Founded in 2020, Mesh's mission is to build an open, connected and secure financial ecosystem. Mesh is a modern financial operating system that provides enterprise clients with the ability to enable digital asset transfers, crypto payments, account aggregation and registered securities trading, all within their platform. With integrations toover 300+ platforms like Robinhood, Coinbase and MetaMask, Mesh is creating an embedded financial ecosystem that is more open, connected and secure for businesses and users alike. To learn more, visit https://www.meshconnect.com/. |  |  | Aug 14, 2025 |  |
| Mesh | Mesh Pay is a payment infrastructure platform that enables businesses to accept and send digital assets and cryptocurrency transactions through a single integration. It supports connectivity with hundreds of wallets and exchanges, and processes payments, deposits, verification,s and global payouts, settling funds in stablecoins or local currency toreduce volatility risk and increase completion rates. The platform includes SmartFunding™, which orchestrates funding from multiple sources to streamline checkout and payout processes, and offers real-time address validation and settlement features. Mesh Pay also provides programmable wallet capabilities for autonomous commerce and routes funds securely across wallets, banks and exchanges. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Aug 14, 2025 |  |
| Trust & Will | Trust & Will is an online service providing legal forms and information that makes creating estate planning easy, fast, and secure. It is not a law firm and is not a substitute for a lawyer’s advice about complex estate planning. The company is backed by some venture capital firms including Revolution’s Rise of the Rest, Western TechnologyInvestments, Luma Launch, Halogen Ventures, and Techstars, as well as angel investors.Trust & Will was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA. | $29.5M | Series C | Mar 11, 2025 |  |
| Aerwave | Aerwave is an intelligent Wi-Fi platform, that provides users in shared wireless environments with enhanced security through private Wi-Fi networks. By introducing automation and virtualization, Aerwave can eliminate the manual nature of Wi-Fi while also reducing the inefficiencies of shared wireless deployments. Aerwave aims to one day eliminatepublic or shared Wi-Fi networks in favor of private, cloud-based networks. | $20M | Series B | Sep 17, 2024 |  |
| The Rounds | The Rounds offers delivery service with zero waste by refilling empty containers. | $24M | Series B | Aug 21, 2024 |  |
| Qloo | Qloo develops an AI-powered personalization engine for cultural preferences, providing completely anonymized consumer taste data and recommendations for leading companies in the tech, entertainment, publishing, retail, travel, hospitality, and CPG sectors. The company's proprietary Taste AI predicts consumers' preferences and tastesacross over a dozen major categories, including music, film, television, podcasts, dining, nightlife, fashion, consumer products, books, and travel.Launched in 2012, Qloo combines the latest in machine learning, theoretical research in Neuroaesthetics, and one of the largest pipelines of detailed taste data —and makes all of this intelligence available through an API. By allowing companies to understand and connect with their target customers more effectively, it helps its clients solve real-world problems such as driving sales, saving money on media buys, choosing real estate locations, and building brands.Qloo is the parent company of TasteDive, a cultural recommendation engine, and social community that allows users to discover what to watch, read, listen to, and play based on their existing unique preferences. | $25M | Series C | Feb 21, 2024 |  |

10 of 124 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Citi Impact Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/citi-impact-fund) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Oakhouse Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/oakhousepartners) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Blumberg Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/blumberg-capital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Gaingels](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gaing) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Liberty Mutual Strategic Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/liberty-mutual-strategic-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Motley Fool Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/motley-fool-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Moderne Ventures invest in?

Moderne Ventures invests primarily in Real Estate, Software and FinTech startups, most often at Funding Round and Series B stage. Most of the 124 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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### Who are the partners at Moderne Ventures?

The team at Moderne Ventures includes Constance Freedman (Founder and Managing Partner), Forrest Hardy (Passport Program Mentor) and Liza Benson (Partner; Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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