# Network Ventures

> Network Ventures is a VC fund in Chicago backing Software and SaaS. See 31 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Chicago, United States
- Total investments: 31
- Last investment: Mar 2025
- Lead investor: 42%
- Last fund: Feb 2019
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/network-ventures
- X (Twitter): https://www.twitter.com/jeffmaters
- Website: http://www.networkventures.vc/

Network Ventures is a Chicago-based company that provides venture capital to seed stage companies.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1M–$4.5M |
| Pre-Seed | $800k–$1.8M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 7 | 23% |
| SaaS | 4 | 13% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 4 | 13% |
| Mobile | 2 | 6% |
| FinTech | 2 | 6% |

59 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 16 | 52% |
| Pre-Seed | 5 | 16% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 6% |
| Angel | 1 | 3% |
| Series A | 1 | 3% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Nancy Corrie | Consulting CFO | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nancy-corrie |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Unvale | UnVale will change how people develop, explore, and express their identities online. |  | Pre-Seed | Mar 11, 2025 |  |
| Unvale | UnVale will change how people develop, explore, and express their identities online. | $1.8M | Angel | Mar 11, 2025 |  |
| Pickleheads | Pickleheads is a digital home for pickleball players to find the playing court online. It is a software for pickleball players to create groups, schedule playing time, game guidance, and pickleball playing kits. | $2.5M | Seed | Feb 05, 2025 |  |
| Unvale | UnVale will change how people develop, explore, and express their identities online. | $1M | Pre-Seed | Oct 03, 2024 |  |
| When Insurance | When Insurance is a technology platform that helps individuals and employers navigate health insurance options during transitions such as job loss or retirement. It connects users with a marketplace of health plans from third-party providers and offers tools to compare and apply for coverage alternatives to COBRA, including personalized guidanceand reimbursement options for premiums. The platform integrates with HR systems to support workforce offboarding, provides concierge support from licensed advisors, and assists with Medicare navigation and healthcare reimbursement benefits. When Insurance operates as an intermediary facilitating access to health insurance choices rather than selling insurance directly. | $4.6M | Seed | Aug 01, 2024 |  |
| Ask Alex | Ask Alex is an AI-powered data and marketing software providing customer insights and automated reporting of essential business metrics. | $2M | Seed | Feb 18, 2024 |  |
| EarlyBird | EarlyBird is a Fintech gifting platform that simplifies investing for parents, while empowering friends and family to seamlessly gift financial contributions to the children in their life. EarlyBird is transforming financial gifting, making it personal, purposeful, and timeless. | $4.5M | Seed | Nov 01, 2023 |  |
| EarlyBird | EarlyBird is a Fintech gifting platform that simplifies investing for parents, while empowering friends and family to seamlessly gift financial contributions to the children in their life. EarlyBird is transforming financial gifting, making it personal, purposeful, and timeless. | $4M | Seed | Nov 22, 2021 |  |
| When Insurance | When Insurance is a technology platform that helps individuals and employers navigate health insurance options during transitions such as job loss or retirement. It connects users with a marketplace of health plans from third-party providers and offers tools to compare and apply for coverage alternatives to COBRA, including personalized guidanceand reimbursement options for premiums. The platform integrates with HR systems to support workforce offboarding, provides concierge support from licensed advisors, and assists with Medicare navigation and healthcare reimbursement benefits. When Insurance operates as an intermediary facilitating access to health insurance choices rather than selling insurance directly. | $1.1M | Seed | Oct 25, 2021 |  |
| DwellSocial | DwellSocial empowers neighborhoods by aggregating demand for meals from the restaurants people love and then leverages the power of each area to bring restaurant pop-ups to suburban areas. DwellSocial also empowers restaurants to expand their service area and reach new customers with orders that are all close to one another. These efficienciesallow restaurants to redefine their customer base and service area. |  | Seed | Apr 16, 2021 |  |

10 of 31 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [M25](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/M25-VC) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [Bridge Investments](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bridge-investments) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Ganas Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ganas-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Alumni Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alumni-ventures-group) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
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- [Chingona Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chingona-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Network Ventures invest in?

Network Ventures invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 31 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 Network Ventures's check size?

Network Ventures typically joins rounds of $1M–$4.5M at Seed and $800k–$1.8M 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 Network Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact Network Ventures?

Public channels for Network Ventures include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at Network Ventures?

The team at Network Ventures includes Nancy Corrie (Consulting CFO). 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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