Steve Olechowski
Angel Investor
Chicago, United States
Steve Olechowski is a seed investor in Chicago focused on Mobile and Software. Steve Olechowski is Founder and CEO of Blinkfire Analytics.
- Total investments:
- 9
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 0%
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Industries Steve Olechowski invests in
Stages Steve Olechowski invests in
Countries Steve Olechowski invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
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Round size
- Seed
- $345k–$1.7M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Mobile 3 (33%)
- Software 3 (33%)
- E-Commerce 2 (22%)
- Social Media 2 (22%)
- Social Network 2 (22%)
Stage
- Seed 5 (56%)
- Angel 1 (11%)
- Pre-Seed 1 (11%)
- Series A 1 (11%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 1 (11%)
Country
- United States 6 (67%)
- Spain 1 (11%)
- Canada 1 (11%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Avail is a provider of tools and guidance that makes it easy to be a landlord. It offers a platform that helps independent landlords and property managers to navigate the rental cycle, as well as provides rental listings, tenant screening, customized leases, online payments, and maintenance requests services. Until now, landlords with less than10 units haven’t had access to online tools designed specifically for them. Avail is an intuitive app that helps advertise vacant units, request rental applications and credit reports, sign leases, and collect rent — all online. Today, 70,000 landlords use Avail because it’s the only end-to-end platform that helps in scaling from beginner to professional with tools, support, and education. | $2.5M / Venture - Series Unknown / Apr 09, 2019 | ||
| AMPY is a wearable motion charger that captures its users’ energy from daily activities to charge their smartphones. The wearable device has won numerous awards, and the team was named to Forbes 30 under 30 in Energy. Its team is already scaling down the technology inside of AMPY to power wearable devicesAMPY was founded in 2013 by Tejas Shastry,Mike Geier, and Alex Smith. It is based in Chicago, I.L. | $875K / Seed / Oct 22, 2015 | ||
| Avail is a provider of tools and guidance that makes it easy to be a landlord. It offers a platform that helps independent landlords and property managers to navigate the rental cycle, as well as provides rental listings, tenant screening, customized leases, online payments, and maintenance requests services. Until now, landlords with less than10 units haven’t had access to online tools designed specifically for them. Avail is an intuitive app that helps advertise vacant units, request rental applications and credit reports, sign leases, and collect rent — all online. Today, 70,000 landlords use Avail because it’s the only end-to-end platform that helps in scaling from beginner to professional with tools, support, and education. | $750K / Seed / Sep 22, 2015 | ||
| Selltag offers a simple online platform for people to sell and buy items. It brings together buyers and sellers using the power of social networks. That means people can sell goods that is no longer needed or not used anymore, maybe something people have made or even digital contents to friends and followers on Facebook, Twitter or LinkedIn. Pluspeople can get help from those same contacts, if the link is shared to an ad users will get more potential buyers to see it.Selltag was founded on 2013 and is headquartered in Valencia, Spain. | $345K / Seed / Dec 16, 2014 | ||
| Hatch is a curated marketplace for the best professional makers and independent designers. Thanks to its technology, Hatch is solving the problem of unused creative capacity by enabling makers to easily broaden their range of products while making it easy for buyers to be involved in the creative process. Buyers can customize or personalizeproducts on Hatch and have unique versions made just for them. | $1.7M / Seed / Jun 04, 2013 | ||
| Avocado is an app for couples (available on iPhone, Android and the web) and is the best way to stay connected with your most important person. It’s a private space just for the two of you to collect and share a life. | $1.3M / Seed / Apr 01, 2012 | ||
| Summify offers a service that provides daily summaries of users’ social news feed via email, web or mobile. This service is accessible to individuals via Twitter, Facebook, and Google Reader accounts. Summify is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada. | Angel / Mar 30, 2011 | ||
| Thing Labs builds web-based software that makes it easy to create, share, explore and enjoy content. Founded by Jason Shellen, a former Googler who worked on Blogger and co-created Google Reader, Thing Labs is the company behind Brizzly and Plinky. | $2.1M / Series A / Oct 29, 2009 | ||
| Blinkfire Analytics uses artificial intelligence and computer vision to analyze multimedia resources and generate reports for teams, players, creator, and brands so they can better engage their fans and sponsors. Its key technology allows publishers and brands to analyze social media consumption and brand engagement, not only in text but alsoimages and video. The platform sits in the middle of the teams, players, brands, and fans to provide intelligence on social media publishing and sponsorship sales.It was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. | Pre-Seed |
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FAQ
What does Steve Olechowski invest in?
Steve Olechowski invests primarily in Mobile, Software and E-Commerce startups, most often at Seed and Angel stage. Most of the 9 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 Steve Olechowski's check size?
Steve Olechowski typically joins rounds of $345k–$1.7M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Steve Olechowski participates in.
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When did Steve Olechowski last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Steve Olechowski closed in Apr 2019. Shizune tracks 9 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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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 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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