Nameless Ventures
VC Fund
Chicago, United States
Nameless Ventures is a VC fund in Chicago focused on Software and Biotechnology. When many entrepreneurs begin their journey, no one knows who they are or what they are about to accomplish. Often, the people who back a startup and help drive growth stay behind the scenes. We believe great ideas deserve a start — even if they don't have a name yet.We're an early stage (Seed to Series A) technology investor based inChicago. We're entrepreneurs and investors who have helped start and operate dozens of startups, and we back our founders in every sense of the word.
- Total investments:
- 13
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 0%
Last updated:
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Industries Nameless Ventures invests in
Stages Nameless Ventures invests in
Countries Nameless Ventures invests in
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 3 (23%)
- Biotechnology 3 (23%)
- SaaS 2 (15%)
- Consumer 2 (15%)
- Food Processing 2 (15%)
Stage
- Seed 7 (54%)
- Pre-Seed 1 (8%)
- Series A 1 (8%)
- Funding Round 1 (8%)
- Convertible Note 1 (8%)
Country
- United States 11 (85%)
- Canada 1 (8%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
DJ Fuller
Investor
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Investor | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Pavel Sokolovsky
Managing Member
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Managing Member | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Tom Firestine
Co-founder & Managing Partner
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Co-founder & Managing Partner | Total investments: 2 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| GigaStar is a developer of an online content creators marketplace. This marketplace allows fans and followers to invest in their favorite creators to support them. In addition, creators can monetize their future capital by offering fans rights to a percentage of their channel's potential future revenue, allowing creators to have streamlinedaccess to fan funding, fan engagement, and long-term royalties.The company was founded in 2022 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. | $3M / Seed / Dec 28, 2023 | ||
| GigaStar is a developer of an online content creators marketplace. This marketplace allows fans and followers to invest in their favorite creators to support them. In addition, creators can monetize their future capital by offering fans rights to a percentage of their channel's potential future revenue, allowing creators to have streamlinedaccess to fan funding, fan engagement, and long-term royalties.The company was founded in 2022 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. | $4.8M / Seed / Mar 16, 2023 | ||
| BiomeSense is developing the first technology platform for continuous, at-home monitoring of the human gut microbiome, transforming the ability to understand & utilize the microbiome for precision medicine. The enabling technology is the GutLab, the first “smart bathroom” system for at-home microbiome monitoring, which is combined with theMetaBiome time-series analytics platform into a single end-to-end solution. The platform allows scientists, patients, and consumers the unprecedented ability to tie microbiome changes directly to clinical outcomes in real time, revolutionizing the ability to leverage the microbiome for better health. | $3M / Seed / Feb 05, 2023 | ||
| Genecis is an early-stage organic waste processing startup that uses biotechnology to convert waste into biodegradable plastics and other high-value materials. It converts organic waste into PHA (Polyhydroxyalkanoate), a biodegradable, compostable, and non-toxic polymer that can be tuned to replace a wide variety of traditional plastics. PHA can beused for single-use plastics, clothing and textiles, automotive interiors, medical tools and products, and food contact applications. | $7M / Series A / Aug 04, 2022 | ||
| Take 400 seconds and listen to the PechaKucha story: pechakucha.com/presentations/pechakucha-company-overview.PechaKucha (Japanese for ‘chit chat’) has over 65,000 sign-ups for our new beta product, PK Create, that helps people become better storytellers (think Twitter meets Pinterest) and produce better virtual events (think Zoom withTED Talks, but democratized and more fun). Our growth is all organic and we’ve been able to build a brand known by content creators and event hosts all over the world (140+ countries). Sean Smyth, CEO, has 20+ years in tech, most recently an early employee at Groupon who served as a global GM/VP; John Brooks, CTO, former start-up CEO with 20+ years dev experience. We're based in Chicago with a small community management team in Tokyo. We’re raising a $3M Seed and looking to connect with investors interested in consumer/media/social. | $2.7M / Seed / Jul 02, 2021 | ||
| Black Buffalo is a smokeless tobacco alternative that has the same look, feel, smell, and experience as traditional dipping products like Copenhagen or Skoal, without using tobacco leaves or stems. The product comes in both long-cut and pouch varieties and contains pharmaceutical-grade nicotine. | $9.8M / May 11, 2020 | ||
| humanpredictions is a data-driven software company that gathers public data and assembles a technical profile for each person. The company has a sourcing solution focused on helping customers with hiring technical talent and differentiated by the depth of the technical skills data and by machine learning models that predict people most likely to beopen to new opportunities. The tech recruiting product helps enterprise teams, start up founders and agency recruiters spend less time finding and researching potential candidates, so they can spend more time connecting with and recruiting people.Founded by tech recruiters, the team is embedded in tech communities and hyper-focused on data sources overlooked by general data aggregators. By training machine learning models using richer software community data, humanpredictions more accurately suggests when to most effectively contact potential candidates.At humanpredictions, they supercharge intelligent, relationship-focused technical leaders and tech recruiters by giving them tools that perform their research automatically. The decisions of who to email, when to reach out, which events to attend, and ultimately where and with whom to spend their time are automated. By rebuilding the craft of recruiting, they empower recruiters to do the real, human work: building relationships and evaluating talent.Customers also purchase data for research purposes including VC's assessing potential investments, geographic talent concentration market research, competitive business intelligence, and capital markets trading. | $1.2M / Venture - Series Unknown / May 09, 2019 | ||
| Draftbit is a new way to build cross-platform, native iOS and Android apps in minutes instead of months. Whether you're a designer or developer, with Draftbit you can design your app visually, and then export clean, well-documented code and libraries that give you full control. | $500K / Pre-Seed / Jan 01, 2018 | ||
| Factor_ is a subscription-based prepared meal delivery service that delivers dietitian-designed, chef-crafted meals. The company is a fully-prepared meal delivery service that specializes in providing fresh, ready-to-eat meals with a focus on health and wellness. Its rotating menu of breakfast, lunch, and dinner options features keto, Paleo,low-carb, vegetarian, plant-based, and high-protein meals that can be heated in the microwave or oven and are ready in minutes. | Convertible Note / Nov 10, 2017 | ||
| Mori is a developer of an edible and natural biomaterial coating that extends the shelf life of perishable foods.It uses salt and water to extract the protein from natural silk and creates a protective layer that keeps food fresher for longer enabling it to economically and sustainably transform the food supply by developing and commercializingtechnologies for the food, agriculture, and packaging industries.It was founded in 2016 by Adam Behrens and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. | Seed / Sep 22, 2017 | ||
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FAQ
What does Nameless Ventures invest in?
Nameless Ventures invests primarily in Software, Biotechnology and SaaS startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 13 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 Nameless Ventures?
The team at Nameless Ventures includes DJ Fuller (Investor), Pavel Sokolovsky (Managing Member) and Tom Firestine (Co-founder & Managing Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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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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