Pritzker Group Venture Capital
VC Fund
Chicago, United States
Pritzker Group Venture Capital is a VC fund in Chicago focused on Software and E-Commerce. Pritzker Group Venture Capital helps entrepreneurs build market-leading technology companies at every stage of their growth. Since its founding in 1996, the firm has worked side-by-side with entrepreneurs at more than 100 companies, building partnerships based on trust and integrity. Its proprietary capital structure allows for tremendousflexibility, and our experienced team of investment professionals and entrepreneurs offers companies a vast network of strategic relationships and guidance.Successful exits in recent years include Fleetmatics (NYSE: FLTX), SinglePlatform (acquired by Constant Contact), Zinch (acquired by Chegg), Playdom (acquired by Disney), LeftHand Networks (acquired by Hewlett-Packard), and TicketsNow (acquired by Ticketmaster).
- Total investments:
- 217
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 17%
- Last fund:
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Industries Pritzker Group Venture Capital invests in
Stages Pritzker Group Venture Capital invests in
Countries Pritzker Group Venture Capital invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
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Round size
- Seed
- $75k–$5M
- Series A
- $3M–$15M
- Series B
- $8.5M–$40M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 44 (20%)
- E-Commerce 24 (11%)
- SaaS 21 (10%)
- Health Care 18 (8%)
- Internet 16 (7%)
Stage
- Series A 59 (27%)
- Seed 46 (21%)
- Series B 37 (17%)
- Series C 22 (10%)
- Funding Round 15 (7%)
Country
- United States 137 (63%)
- Canada 1 (0%)
- Israel 1 (0%)
- Norway 1 (0%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Chris Girgenti
Managing Partner
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Managing Partner | Total investments: 4 | Find email | |
Craig Wortmann
Operating Partner
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Operating Partner | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
David Schonthal
Venture Partner
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Venture Partner | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
Adam Koopersmith
Partner
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Partner | Total investments: 16 | Find email | |
Carter Cast
Venture Partner
|
Venture Partner | Total investments: 3 | Find email | |
| See all 10 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| VI is the leading Enterprise-AI platform in the health sector. Vi helps health enterprises leverage Data & AI to maximize member health outcomes and financial returns | $145.7M / Venture - Series Unknown / May 19, 2026 | ||
| Fuel Me is a comprehensive platform designed to streamline the procurement process for fuel, lubricants, and other related products and services within the transportation and construction industries, among others. Its primary objective is to simplify the ordering and delivery process for businesses requiring bulk fuel, making it more efficient,cost-effective, and transparent. | $18M / Series A / Mar 20, 2024 | ||
| PackageX is revolutionizing the logistics industry with the world's first Headless Logistics Cloud. PackageX empowers retail and commercial enterprises to achieve unprecedented success by delivering unparalleled developer experiences, workflow improvements, customer loyalty, and profitability. | Seed / May 18, 2023 | ||
| The Augmentir™ founding team has been at the forefront of three of the most important of these software technology revolutions. In 1988, Wonderware transformed how machines run, with the introduction and mass commercialization of Human-Machine Interface software. Wonderware enabled the first software-based industrial revolution and is still inevidence today by Wonderware’s continued leadership position. In 1998, Lighthammer transformed manufacturing yet again with the introduction of the first Enterprise Manufacturing Intelligence platform. Lighthammer revolutionized the factory floor by bringing both real time intelligence and live synchronization with the ERP software layer. This enabled the second software-based industrial revolution and is still evidenced today by the ubiquity of this software (currently under the SAP MII brand). In 2008, ThingWorx catalyzed the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) with the introduction of the first application platform for IIoT. ThingWorx transformed both manufacturing and service, becoming synonymous with Industrie 4.0/Brilliant factory, and Connected Service. This enabled the 3rd software-based industrial revolution and is still evidenced today by the ubiquity of IIoT software and, the market leadership of PTC’s ThingWorx brand.In 2018, the founders of Augmentir recognized that the technology and market forces were aligned yet again, for a fourth industrial software revolution. A revolution focused on increasing the productivity & quality of processes involving front-line workers. With a global footprint of 350 million workers in manufacturing and service, they are being asked to perform increasingly complex jobs using technology that has remained relatively unchanged for 20 years. Whether this was due to neglect or the misplaced belief that robots and automation would replace all of these jobs, these users and processes have been underserved. | Apr 18, 2023 | ||
| Bach solves the myriad pain points behind coordinating group travel, allowing groups to discover, decide, and plan in one place, complete with a marketplace for bookable experiences and critical features including group chat, expense splitting, polling, and itinerary creation. | $9M / Series A / Mar 08, 2023 | ||
| Plus One Robotics develops a parcel-handling robotics platform for logistics applications. Plus One's intelligent solutions combine computer vision, AI, and supervised autonomy to pick parcels for the Global 100's leading logistics and e-commerce companies. Plus One's AI-powered software determines the precise movement of millions ofSKUs in routine tasks like sortation and depalletizing. Plus One focuses on logistics application development and logistics robot deployment for material handling tasks in warehouses and distribution centers. | $53.4M / Series C / Mar 06, 2023 | ||
| Elate provides a strategic planning platform for companies to communicate vision, create alignment, and track performance all in one place. It also offers organizational alignment and increased operations visibility to define and measure key initiatives on a single dashboard for real-time decision-making, performance tracking, and collaboration. | $4.9M / Series A / Feb 14, 2023 | ||
| REACH reinvents digital customer experience! Its next-generation customer engagement platform allows companies to conduct transactional meetings online in real-time with their clients, eliminating the need for a physical encounter. In a fully digital age, companies are still burdened with face-to-face meetings. REACH changes that by providing anin-browser video-based HTML collaboration session that provides an option to conduct a real-time session between a company agent and a customer as well as a customer self-service mode session, covering all transactional needs. The platform empowers companies to wrap up transactions - paperwork or ID verification processes - instantly and remotely, using any device. Its proprietary solution allows companies to increase closing ratios, reduce process time, Increase customer satisfaction & eliminate the need for a physical encounter.REACH is an award-winning startup that won multiple prizes in the Fin-tech domain and was recently selected by Deloitte as "1 of the 6 most notable Israeli Fin-tech companies". The company is growing rapidly with more than 100 paying customers and numerous pilots with global giants such as RBC, Mercedes Benz & Citi, on its path to make the digital age simpler for companies and their clients. | $7M / Series A / Mar 24, 2022 | ||
| shopthing is an online selling and retail company, they use the way people shopping in online and sell through live video commerce. they sell products like dresses, shoes, books, and handbags. live online selling provides the customer to book orders on call and message. Customers can buy and return their products through their apps.also, customerscan open a new stores on their own, if they enroll on the company websites. | $10M / Series A / Mar 23, 2022 | ||
| Yay Lunch is a digital school food marketplace, providing customizable dining solutions for K-12. We partner with the best local restaurants and chefs to deliver nutritious versions of food kids already love directly to schools everyday. | $12M / Series A / Nov 19, 2021 | ||
| See all 217 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Pritzker Group Venture Capital invest in?
Pritzker Group Venture Capital invests primarily in Software, E-Commerce and SaaS startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 217 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 Pritzker Group Venture Capital's check size?
Pritzker Group Venture Capital typically joins rounds of $75k–$5M at Seed, $3M–$15M at Series A and $8.5M–$40M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Pritzker Group Venture Capital participates in.
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Who are the partners at Pritzker Group Venture Capital?
The team at Pritzker Group Venture Capital includes Chris Girgenti (Managing Partner), Craig Wortmann (Operating Partner) and David Schonthal (Venture Partner), among 10 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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