# Rex Burgdorfer

> Rex Burgdorfer is a seed investor at Juniper Advisory (Chicago) backing Fashion and Real Estate. See 14 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Juniper Advisory](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/juniper-advisory)
- Location: Chicago, United States
- Total investments: 14
- Last investment: Jan 2021
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rex-burgdorfer/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/rexjburgdorfer
- Website: http://www.juniperadvisory.com/team/rex-burgdorfer/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rjburgdorfer

Rex Burgdorfer is a seed investor at Juniper Advisory in Chicago focused on Fashion and Real Estate. Healthcare M&A investment banker at Juniper Advisory. Previously Morgan Stanley & Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.5M–$2.5M |
| Series A | $6M–$6M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Fashion | 3 | 21% |
| Real Estate | 3 | 21% |
| Software | 2 | 14% |
| E-Commerce | 2 | 14% |
| Manufacturing | 2 | 14% |

34 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 9 | 64% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 14% |
| Series A | 1 | 7% |
| Series B | 1 | 7% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 12 | 86% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 7% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Own Up | Own Up provides a software solution that enables residential lending from various lenders. The company allows consumers to finance their homes by eliminating the salesperson and providing a solution to compare, choose, and close with lenders. It supports primary residences, second homes, and investment properties, including single-family andmulti-family homes, condos, and townhomes. Own Up was founded by Mike Tassone, and Patrick Boyaggi in 2015 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. | $12M | Series B | Jan 14, 2021 |  |
| Kinnos | Kinnos is a biotechnology company pioneering color technology to revolutionize how they use disinfectants. The company's first product, Highlight, is a point-of-use additive that greatly improves visibility and end-user compliance of disinfectants. Their goal is to empower people to disinfect surfaces with confidence and to provide societywith peace of mind through disinfection they can see. | $6M | Series A | Mar 05, 2020 |  |
| Kinnos | Kinnos is a biotechnology company pioneering color technology to revolutionize how they use disinfectants. The company's first product, Highlight, is a point-of-use additive that greatly improves visibility and end-user compliance of disinfectants. Their goal is to empower people to disinfect surfaces with confidence and to provide societywith peace of mind through disinfection they can see. | $6M | Series A | Mar 05, 2020 |  |
| Verve Romance | Book+Main is an online platform that uses machine learning to connect authors and readers in romance—the #1 grossing genre. A sales and marketing tool for authors, a discovery tool for readers, and a robust community that connects the two, Book+Main allows readers to search over 350 keywords {subgenres and tropes} to discover ‘Bites’, excerptsspecifically chosen by the author to connect readers to their words in a beautiful, content-focused space. Since launching in November ’17, Book+Main has welcomed members from over 150 countries worldwide. |  | Seed | Jul 01, 2019 |  |
| WRIGHT | WRIGHT is a manufacturer of bedding products. |  | Seed | Sep 27, 2018 |  |
| Ten Thousand | Ten Thousand is a provider of an online shopping platform designed to offer men's apparel and designed training essentials optimized for workout. The company's platform offers men's sports apparel that are lightweight, durable and flexible for the wear and tear of daily workouts, enabling consumers to get choice of fit and featuresoptions to match their needs |  | Seed | Aug 01, 2018 |  |
| Lucro | Lucro is a cloud-based real estate underwriting platform that enables real estate professionals to make better, faster and more informed investment decisions, freeing them to source more deals rather than laboring over spreadsheets. Lucro utilizes machine learning and modern collaboration tools to consolidate all deal functions into a singular,industry-standard platform that enables the frictionless transfer of sophisticated deals. |  | Seed | Jul 01, 2018 |  |
| Veryable | Our mission is to revitalize the American manufacturing sector by allowing businesses to “variablize” labor costs in small increments. This lets them increase costs only as their output increases, which will empower businesses to scale while maintaining a lower and more constant cost structure. We aim to achieve this through our technology, whichenables us to transform an antiquated and inefficient labor market into a real-time marketplace for labor. This will put more people to work and relieve the burden on producers, improving overall productivity and enabling organic growth. | $2.5M | Seed | May 31, 2018 |  |
| VestedWorld | VestedWorld is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in emerging markets companies that have the potential to generate competitive financial returns while contributing towards the growth and development of the markets in which they are located. The firm supports these businesses through the infusion of capital, active involvement incorporate governance, and by providing direct strategic and operational assistance. |  |  | May 18, 2018 |  |
| Wicker Park Capital Management | Wicker Park Capital Management is an entrepreneurial organization that leverages the collective investment experience, relationships, and integrity of its team to source and manage real estate investments that offer compelling risk-adjusted returns for its partners. It was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Birmingham, United Kingdom. |  |  | Nov 13, 2017 |  |

10 of 14 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Fernbrook Capital Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fernbrook-capital-management-llc) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Allston Venture Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/allston) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Blue Collective](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/blue-collective) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Brand Foundry Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brand-foundry-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Techstars Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bullet-time-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Chicago Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chicago-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Juniper Advisory

VC Fund · Chicago, United States

A specialized investment banking firm that focuses exclusively on providing strategic M&A advice to community hospitals and nonprofit health systems.

1 contacts available at Juniper Advisory.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Rex Burgdorfer | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rex-burgdorfer |

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## FAQ

### What does Rex Burgdorfer invest in?

Rex Burgdorfer invests primarily in Fashion, Real Estate and Software startups, most often at Seed and Funding Round stage. Most of the 14 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 Rex Burgdorfer's check size?

Rex Burgdorfer typically joins rounds of $1.5M–$2.5M at Seed and $6M–$6M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Rex Burgdorfer participates in.

### When did Rex Burgdorfer last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Rex Burgdorfer closed in Jan 2021. Shizune tracks 14 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### 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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