Second Century Ventures
VC Fund
Chicago, United States
Second Century Ventures is a venture capital fund focused on promoting innovation in the real estate industry and helping to enable the entrepreneurial spirit of real estate to thrive. SCV has been fully capitalized by the NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS® (NAR). With over 1.4 million members, NAR is a trade association in the country. NAR can provide immediate strategic value to SCV portfolio companies by allowing them access to the vast resources of a 300-person organization with expertise, influence, and power that comes only by being ingrained in an industry for over 100 years.
- Total investments:
- 374
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 26%
- Fund size:
- $75M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Second Century Ventures invests in
Stages Second Century Ventures invests in
Countries Second Century Ventures invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| See all 10 contacts → | |||
Round size
- Seed
- $575k–$5M
- Venture - Series Unknown
- $1.5M–$70M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Real Estate 99 (26%)
- Software 70 (19%)
- FinTech 30 (8%)
- SaaS 27 (7%)
- Property Management 25 (7%)
Stage
- Seed 87 (23%)
- Funding Round 75 (20%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 54 (14%)
- Series A 26 (7%)
- Pre-Seed 15 (4%)
Country
- United States 135 (36%)
- Canada 13 (3%)
- Australia 13 (3%)
- United Kingdom 10 (3%)
- Mexico 4 (1%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Ashley Stinton
Senior Director, Marketing & Communication
|
Senior Director, Marketing & Communication | Total investments: 5 | Find email | |
Bob Gillespie
Executive Director
|
Executive Director | Total investments: 29 | Find email | |
Bob Goldberg
Chairman & Pres.
|
Chairman & Pres. | Total investments: 11 | Find email | |
Dave Garland
Managing Partner
|
Managing Partner | Total investments: 62 | Find email | |
|
Desiree Patno
Member Board Of Directors
|
Member Board Of Directors | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
| See all 10 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| TaskHer is the only online booking platform that vets and connects skilled tradeswomen to homeowners who want to get excellent, trustworthy work AND champion equal opportunities. | $867.8K / Seed / Jul 26, 2026 | ||
| Notable is a direct lender dedicated to providing a fast, transparent digital lending experience backed by superior customer support. | $2M / Series A / Jul 07, 2026 | ||
| Stake offers a platform for investing in US stocks and ETFs. The company provides account management, a Visa debit card, and cash back features. Banking services are provided by TransPecos Banks, SSB, and accounts may have pass-through deposit insurance if requirements are met. Users can track investments and manage funds through the Stakeplatform. | $8M / Venture - Series Unknown / Mar 11, 2026 | ||
| Rental superapp designed to reshape the rent experience across the UAE. It allows tenants to pay rent through credit/ debit cards or bank transfer and earn rewards simply by paying rent. For property managers and landlords, Rewa improves on-time payments, reduces churn, and strengthens tenant relationships through automated payment andloyalty features.The platform combines rent collection, behavioral analytics, and engagement tools in one streamlined system. Rewa is built to meet the needs of today’s renters while giving real estate operators new ways to retain tenants and unlock value without operational complexity. | Seed / Feb 26, 2026 | ||
| Takeem is a proptech platform that helps landlords, property managers, and real estate companies reduce rental risk and streamline property operations. The platform offers rental income protection, digital rent collection, emergency maintenance support, and automated payment solutions designed to make renting more secure and efficient for bothlandlords and tenants. | Seed / Feb 18, 2026 | ||
| Propi is a platform that accelerates the rental of residential real estate for landlords and tenants. Propi is revolutionizing the real estate sector in Latam with top-notch proprietary software transforming a painful process with high information asymmetry into a seamless end-to-end experience, for tenants, landlords, and buyers. | $4M / Seed / Jan 01, 2026 | ||
| At GXE, our mission is to build the all-in-one platform for unlisted assets and funds management. We provide investors, fund managers, and family offices with the tools they need to succeed and enable them to focus on their portfolios and investors whilst GXE takes care of everything else. A licensed financial services company, GXE holdsAustralian Financial Services Licence 460870 issued by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission. GXE welcomes clients across sectors including corporate, family offices, pension and superannuation fund managers, private equity, property, and venture capital. | $3.3M / Series A / Oct 14, 2025 | ||
| Final Offer is a platform for top real estate agents to provide a more transparent offer and negotiating process. The company was founded in 2021 and is based in Hingham, Massachusetts. | $5.4M / Venture - Series Unknown / Oct 03, 2025 | ||
| Notable is a direct lender dedicated to providing a fast, transparent digital lending experience backed by superior customer support. | $6M / Series A / Sep 30, 2025 | ||
| PredictAP leverages the power of machine learning to automate the accounts payable and payment processing needs of large real estate investment funds and property managers at a fraction of the cost of traditional systems. The company was founded in June 2020 by David Stifter and Russell Franks and is based in Boston, Massachusetts. | Non-equity Assistance / Jul 24, 2025 | ||
| See all 374 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Second Century Ventures invest in?
Second Century Ventures invests primarily in Real Estate, Software and FinTech startups, most often at Seed and Funding Round stage. Most of the 374 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 Second Century Ventures invest in?
Second Century Ventures typically joins rounds of $575k–$5M at Seed and $1.5M–$70M at Venture - Series Unknown. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Second Century Ventures's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Second Century Ventures took part in.
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Who are the partners at Second Century Ventures?
The team at Second Century Ventures includes Ashley Stinton (Senior Director, Marketing & Communication), Bob Gillespie (Executive Director) and Bob Goldberg (Chairman & Pres.), among 10 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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