Ruttenberg Gordon Investments
VC Fund
Chicago, United States
Ruttenberg Gordon Investments is a VC fund in Chicago focused on Software and Music. Ruttenberg Gordon Investments (“RGI”) specializes in equity and debt investments in real estate, private equity, growth equity, and alternative hard assets. To date the firm has made 100+ investments amounting to $3Bn+ of total transaction volume.
- Total investments:
- 138
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 1%
Last updated:
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Industries Ruttenberg Gordon Investments invests in
Stages Ruttenberg Gordon Investments invests in
Countries Ruttenberg Gordon Investments invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $1.5M–$29M
- Series A
- $6.7M–$69M
- Venture - Series Unknown
- $359k–$50M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 14 (10%)
- Music 13 (9%)
- Information Technology 13 (9%)
- E-Commerce 12 (9%)
- Food and Beverage 12 (9%)
Stage
- Seed 40 (29%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 31 (22%)
- Series A 19 (14%)
- Funding Round 19 (14%)
- Series B 10 (7%)
Country
- United States 102 (74%)
- United Kingdom 7 (5%)
- Israel 4 (3%)
- Canada 2 (1%)
- India 1 (1%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Meet Danny
CEO
|
CEO | Total investments: 0 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apptronik develops humanoid robots designed to operate alongside human workers and assist with physical tasks. The company focuses on creating general-purpose robotic systems that combine hardware, software, and AI to perform activities such as material handling, case picking, palletizing, and machine tending in industrial and logisticsenvironments. Its flagship product, the Apollo humanoid, is engineered to navigate spaces built for people and interact with existing tools and infrastructure. Apptronik also integrates robotic solutions through service and ownership models to support operational workflows. The company partners with technology and industrial firms to advance robot capabilities and real-world deployment. | $520M / Series A / Feb 11, 2026 | ||
| Cambium develops biomaterials for fields such as defense, space transport, aerospace, and renewable energy. Leveraging the Deep Tech convergence between synthetic biology, materials science, computation & automation, it delivers radical step changes in advanced material performance and sustainability to improve today’s products and enabletomorrow’s. | $100M / Series B / Jan 05, 2026 | ||
| Deep Glow is a technology company that specializes in AI solutions for heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems. The company focuses on integrating AI to analyze and optimize HVAC operations, aiming to improve efficiency and reduce energy consumption. It enhances the functionality of HVAC systems. | Seed / Jan 01, 2026 | ||
| VideoShops is a multichannel shoppable content network that highlights celebrity lifestyles, influencers, products, and brands. | $42M / Seed / Oct 23, 2025 | ||
| LiveOne is the world’s first premium live music streaming network. | $8.9M / Post-IPO Equity / Jul 16, 2025 | ||
| Impulse Space develops spacecraft and propulsion systems that provide transportation and mobility services for payloads operating in space. The company focuses on moving, deploying, and hosting payloads across a range of orbital destinations, including low Earth orbit, geostationary orbit, and other deep-space trajectories. Its vehicle portfolioincludes Mira, a spacecraft designed for payload hosting, deployment, and orbital maneuvers, and Helios, a transfer vehicle intended to transport larger payloads between orbits. Impulse Space designs, manufactures, and tests much of its hardware in-house, covering spacecraft systems, propulsion components, and mission integration. The company supports commercial, civil, and government missions by providing in-space transportation and logistics capabilities after launch. | $300M / Series C / Jun 03, 2025 | ||
| Probius specializes in providing services from biomarker discovery to quantification. | Venture - Series Unknown / May 30, 2025 | ||
| Agemica is a biotechnology company dedicated to developing vaccines and therapies aimed at aging and age-related diseases. The company offers preventative treatments that address multiple chronic conditions simultaneously, such as cancer, rather than treating each disease in isolation. Using artificial intelligence and large-scale biological data,Agemica integrates information from numerous cancers, one million drug and biologic signatures, and extensive microbial and nutrition datasets. | Venture - Series Unknown / May 07, 2025 | ||
| Gatehouse Capital Partners is a private equity firm that provides commercial real estate credit and preferred equity investments. | Seed / Jan 01, 2025 | ||
| House Hound is a AI-driven platform that simplifies real estate transactions by automating lead qualification and property buying processes. | Seed / Jan 01, 2025 | ||
| See all 138 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Ruttenberg Gordon Investments invest in?
Ruttenberg Gordon Investments invests primarily in Software, Music and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Venture - Series Unknown stage. Most of the 138 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 Ruttenberg Gordon Investments invest in?
Ruttenberg Gordon Investments typically joins rounds of $1.5M–$29M at Seed, $6.7M–$69M at Series A and $359k–$50M at Venture - Series Unknown. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Ruttenberg Gordon Investments's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Ruttenberg Gordon Investments took part in.
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Who are the partners at Ruttenberg Gordon Investments?
The team at Ruttenberg Gordon Investments includes Meet Danny (CEO). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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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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