Origin Ventures
VC Fund
Chicago, United States
Origin Ventures is a VC fund in Chicago focused on Software and Information Technology. Origin Ventures targets investments during initial funding cycles, specifically managing financing rounds for software developer operations, marketplaces, and service providers. Its primary investment focus includes entities engineering artificial intelligence infrastructure, native automation software, and frontier computing models designed to optimize business operations. The firm supports its financial investments by maintaining a collaborative advisory network of startup operators and investment professionals to guide portfolio companies as they expand.
- Total investments:
- 139
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 41%
- Fund size:
- $97M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Origin Ventures invests in
Stages Origin Ventures invests in
Countries Origin Ventures invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| See all 8 contacts → | |||
Round size
- Seed
- $1M–$6.2M
- Series A
- $2.6M–$17M
- Series B
- $2.3M–$31M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 30 (22%)
- Information Technology 16 (12%)
- Artificial Intelligence 13 (9%)
- SaaS 12 (9%)
- Enterprise Software 12 (9%)
Stage
- Series A 49 (35%)
- Series B 22 (16%)
- Seed 21 (15%)
- Funding Round 8 (6%)
- Series C 7 (5%)
Country
- United States 76 (55%)
- Canada 3 (2%)
- France 1 (1%)
- Israel 1 (1%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Angela Smith
Senior Associate and Investor
|
Senior Associate and Investor | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Bruce Barron
Co-Founder and Founding Partner
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Co-Founder and Founding Partner | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
Jacquie Marshall Siegmund
Partner
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Partner | Total investments: 2 | Find email | |
Jason Heltzer
Managing Partner
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Managing Partner | Total investments: 16 | Find email | |
Prashant Shukla
Partner
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Partner | Total investments: 11 | Find email | |
| See all 8 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| ClearJet connects shippers with unused cargo space on commercial airlines to move packages nationwide at the speed of a plane and the price of a truck. The company’s "SuperCarrier" carrier-agnostic delivery network combines the staffing, sorting, and ground infrastructure needed to move packages on commercial flights already scheduledbetween American cities. ClearJet's AI models choose each parcel's path for cost, speed, and geography across a network of 95 U.S. airports, letting retailers, marketplaces, e-commerce platforms, 3PLs, and alternative regional carriers to build their own delivery networks without owning planes, trucks, or sort centers. ClearJet is headquartered in Austin, Texas. For more information, visit www.clearjet.com and follow on LinkedIn. | $25M / Series B / Aug 04, 2026 | ||
| Century Health accelerates drug development and commercialization by applying AI to real-world data. It is far too slow today to answer critical questions because the richest clinical data is locked away in silos. Our platform does the heavy lifting to rapidly get you the insight you need, all while supporting the research community and protectingpatient privacy. | $5M / Seed / May 19, 2026 | ||
| R2 Wireless offers low-cost RF Situation Awareness and Terrain Dominance capabilities to safeguard key facilities against intrusions and RF harmful attacks. | $5M / Venture - Series Unknown / Mar 10, 2026 | ||
| R2 Wireless offers low-cost RF Situation Awareness and Terrain Dominance capabilities to safeguard key facilities against intrusions and RF harmful attacks. | $5.3M / Venture - Series Unknown / Jan 08, 2026 | ||
| Lemurian Labs has created a universal platform that works across any hardware and spans compiler technology and runtime orchestration. This streamlined, hardware-agnostic approach simplifies AI development, enabling organizations to write code once and deploy it seamlessly across edge, cloud and on-premise environments. By cutting through thecomplexity of fragmented software ecosystems, Lemurian Labs empowers businesses to build and scale AI efficiently, affordably and responsibly—unlocking the full potential of AI innovation without proprietary constraints. | $28M / Series A / Dec 03, 2025 | ||
| Modern operating system for direct materials procurement. | $4M / Seed / Oct 22, 2025 | ||
| Medmo is a healthcare company that develops a platform to connect patients with local medical centers offering medical test and scanning services. Its platform connects patients with radiology centers offering a range of imaging tests such as MRI, CT scans, PET, and ultrasound. | $15M / Series A / Oct 14, 2025 | ||
| Audioshake makes sound more usable for both humans and machines by separating sound into its component parts. Used by some the world's largest media, entertainment, and tech companies, AudioShake is used in audio editing workflows, Voice AI, and multimodal training. | $14M / Series A / Oct 01, 2025 | ||
| OptiCore is as photonic computing company developing optical processing units (OPUs) | $7.5M / Seed / Sep 10, 2025 | ||
| Glimpse partners with brands to place their products in luxury short-term rentals as a sales and acquisition channel. Glimpse was founded in 2020 by Kushal Negi, Akash Raju, and Anuj Mehta and was headquartered in New York. | $10M / Series A / Apr 08, 2025 | ||
| See all 139 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Origin Ventures invest in?
Origin Ventures invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 139 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Origin Ventures invest in?
Origin Ventures typically joins rounds of $1M–$6.2M at Seed, $2.6M–$17M at Series A and $2.3M–$31M at Series B. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Origin Ventures's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Origin Ventures took part in.
How do I contact Origin Ventures?
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Who are the partners at Origin Ventures?
The team at Origin Ventures includes Angela Smith (Senior Associate and Investor), Bruce Barron (Co-Founder and Founding Partner) and Jacquie Marshall Siegmund (Partner), among 8 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 Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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