PSP Growth
VC Fund
Chicago, United States
PSP Growth is a VC fund in Chicago focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. PSP Growth is the investment arm of PSP Partners focused on venture and growth equity investments in early-stage and high-growth businesses.
- Total investments:
- 29
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 28%
Last updated:
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Industries PSP Growth invests in
SoftwareArtificial IntelligenceReal EstateCyber SecurityCloud Data Services
Stages PSP Growth invests in
Series BSeries CSeries DSeries ASeries E
Countries PSP Growth invests in
United StatesUnited Kingdom
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
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Michael Oleshansky
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Momei Qu
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Penny S. Pritzker
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 9 (31%)
- Artificial Intelligence 8 (28%)
- Real Estate 3 (10%)
- Cyber Security 3 (10%)
- Cloud Data Services 3 (10%)
Stage
- Series B 7 (24%)
- Series C 5 (17%)
- Series D 3 (10%)
- Series A 2 (7%)
- Series E 2 (7%)
Country
- United States 15 (52%)
- United Kingdom 1 (3%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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Michael Oleshansky
Managing Director
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Managing Director | Total investments: 5 | Find email | |
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Momei Qu
Senior Vice President
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Senior Vice President | Total investments: 3 | Find email | |
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Penny S. Pritzker
Founder and Chairman
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Founder and Chairman | Total investments: 14 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Freehand
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Freehand provides an AI-powered supply chain spend management platform that uses AI teams to analyze contracts, invoices, vendor data, and operational records. The platform automates tasks such as invoice auditing, spend analysis, contract enforcement, exception handling, and dispute resolution, with outputs integrated into enterprise systems. | $75M / Series B / Jul 29, 2026 | |
Zafran Security
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Zafran Security is a cybersecurity startup specializing in vulnerability prioritization and threat exposure management, aiming to identify, remediate, and mitigate risks within organizations. The AI-native exposure management platform developed by the company aims to proactively avert the exploitation of vulnerabilities by incorporating autonomousagents throughout all stages of the vulnerability management lifecycle. With threat actors rapidly exploiting newly revealed security vulnerabilities through AI automation, Zafran's platform enables organizations to take action before these vulnerabilities result in incidents. The company’s solutions work alongside current security tools, utilizing AI agents to pinpoint weaknesses, provide contextual information, and address these issues by linking them to controls and evaluating the potential for exploitation. | Venture - Series Unknown / Jul 22, 2026 | |
Cinder Technologies
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From content moderation to responsible AI, Cinder empowers businesses to orchestrate and automate digital safety at scale. Cinder was founded to help organizations foster safe online spaces for everyone. The Cinder platform empowers companies from start-ups to enterprises with end-to-end capabilities to mitigate harm, investigate abuse, and producetrustworthy and reliable AI outcomes. Building your world-class company means keeping your users and community safe—Cinder unlocks faster growth by making safety easy. We work with customers in every industry from frontier AI labs to e-commerce and social media. | $41M / Series B / May 12, 2026 | |
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Zafran Security
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Zafran Security is a cybersecurity startup specializing in vulnerability prioritization and threat exposure management, aiming to identify, remediate, and mitigate risks within organizations. The AI-native exposure management platform developed by the company aims to proactively avert the exploitation of vulnerabilities by incorporating autonomousagents throughout all stages of the vulnerability management lifecycle. With threat actors rapidly exploiting newly revealed security vulnerabilities through AI automation, Zafran's platform enables organizations to take action before these vulnerabilities result in incidents. The company’s solutions work alongside current security tools, utilizing AI agents to pinpoint weaknesses, provide contextual information, and address these issues by linking them to controls and evaluating the potential for exploitation. | $60M / Series C / Dec 02, 2025 | |
Synthesia
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Synthesia provides an AI video-generation platform that transforms text into professional videos using customizable avatars and voiceovers in over 140 languages. The service allows users to create, edit, and share videos quickly, making it suitable for various applications like training and marketing. Users can utilize fully cloneable AI videotemplates and create studio-quality videos directly in their browser. | $200M / Series E / Oct 29, 2025 | |
PassiveLogic
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PassiveLogic’s mission is to empower people through generative autonomy to solve the world’s largest climate challenges. Buildings are the most complex controlled infrastructure in the world, however, they are often fitted with technologically stagnant and expensive control systems that waste energy and provide sub-optimal occupant comfort. Theconsequence of this inefficiency is that buildings account for more than 40% of the entire world's energy usage. Autonomous buildings are the key to addressing this energy challenge and unlocking the future of cities. PassiveLogic’s autonomous building platform, powered by Quantum - the physics-based digital twin standard for autonomous systems, has proven 30% energy savings compared to conventional control systems. Applying this scalable technology across the entire U.S. building sector alone creates a net savings opportunity of 9.6 Quads per year—the equivalent of taking 1/3 of all U.S. vehicles off the road.PassiveLogic’s team is committed to developing extraordinary products that tackle the most challenging sustainability issues. | $74M / Series C / Sep 16, 2025 | |
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Synthesia
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Synthesia provides an AI video-generation platform that transforms text into professional videos using customizable avatars and voiceovers in over 140 languages. The service allows users to create, edit, and share videos quickly, making it suitable for various applications like training and marketing. Users can utilize fully cloneable AI videotemplates and create studio-quality videos directly in their browser. | $180M / Series D / Jan 15, 2025 | |
Higharc
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Higharc is the all-in-one web platform that simplifies, connects, and improves each step of design, construction, and sales for home building. It enables builders to design, sell in 3D, and get permit-ready construction documents — all in a single platform. Higharc is on a mission to help builders create better homes and communities, moreaffordably. | $53M / Series B / Feb 15, 2024 | |
ID.me
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ID.me is a digital identity network that aims to simplify the user's indication verification experience. The company's platform streamlines authentication, identity proofing, and federation of external identity and attributes providers through a single API, enabling military, students, first responders, teachers, and government employeesto easily prove their identity online via a single login and avail discounts on various networks. | $132M / Series D / Apr 11, 2023 | |
Adept AI
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Adept AI is a research and product AI lab that automates software processes for developers. It's similar to robotic process automation (RPA), or software robots that use a combination of automation, computer vision, and machine learning to automate repetitive tasks like filing forms and responding to emails. Adept is creating generalintelligence by allowing humans and computers to collaborate creatively. | $350M / Series B / Mar 14, 2023 | |
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FAQ
What does PSP Growth invest in?
PSP Growth invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Real Estate startups, most often at Series B and Series C stage. Most of the 29 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 PSP Growth?
The team at PSP Growth includes Michael Oleshansky (Managing Director), Momei Qu (Senior Vice President) and Penny S. Pritzker (Founder and Chairman). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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