# West Loop Ventures

> West Loop Ventures is a VC fund backing Financial Services and FinTech. See 12 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Las Vegas, United States
- Total investments: 12
- Last investment: May 2025
- Lead investor: 50%
- Fund size: $11M
- Last fund: Nov 2016
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/west-loop-ventures-a25574123/
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/westloopv
- Website: http://westloopventures.com
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/westloopventures

West Loop Ventures is a VC fund in Las Vegas focused on Financial Services and FinTech. West Loop Ventures invests in B2B Fin Tech companies where institutions are customers. The backbone of finance is going to be revolutionized in the next five to ten years. The capital markets revolution happened in Chicago from 1997-2002. It's happening again. In the last revolution, big firms were created and sold to big institutions(OptionsExpress, ThinkorSwim, Archipelago) In the last five years (2010-2015), the Chicago ecosystem has had 23.5B in VC backed exits.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1M–$5M |
| Series A | $2.2M–$18M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Financial Services | 6 | 50% |
| FinTech | 4 | 33% |
| Finance | 2 | 17% |
| Information Technology | 2 | 17% |
| B2B | 1 | 8% |

20 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 6 | 50% |
| Series A | 3 | 25% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 8% |
| Series B | 1 | 8% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 6 | 50% |
| Ireland | 1 | 8% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 8% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Jeffrey Carter | General Partner | 7 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jeffrey-carter |
| Kenny Estes | Co-Founder | 4 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kenny-estes |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Seel | Seel is the leading post purchase platform. Trusted by 2,000+ merchants, from starting DTC brands to multibillion dollar marketplaces. |  | Series B | May 09, 2025 |  |
| Seel | Seel is the leading post purchase platform. Trusted by 2,000+ merchants, from starting DTC brands to multibillion dollar marketplaces. | $17.5M | Series A | Jan 12, 2022 |  |
| ML Tech | ML Tech is a FinTech startup building the next-generation trading platform within the crypto asset space. | $1.8M | Seed | Aug 31, 2021 |  |
| Seel | Seel is the leading post purchase platform. Trusted by 2,000+ merchants, from starting DTC brands to multibillion dollar marketplaces. | $5M | Seed | Oct 28, 2020 |  |
| Seel | Seel is the leading post purchase platform. Trusted by 2,000+ merchants, from starting DTC brands to multibillion dollar marketplaces. | $1.5M | Pre-Seed | Nov 04, 2019 |  |
| Vauban | Vauban is a tech company reshaping the world of private investing. The platform makes it easier, faster, and more cost-effective for anyone to co-invest in private companies. With Vauban, you can easily create your Syndicate online, start sharing your deal flow and let your network co-invest with you in startups. Vauban has automated the SPV &funds setup process. | $1.1M | Seed | Jul 05, 2019 |  |
| PiPiT Global | PiP iT is a Digital Cash Collection platform that enables loading cash onto eWallets, paying in cash for online orders and paying ebills with cash.For the customer they have the convenience of paying in cash with no need for bank account, credit card, no fraud or identity theft. For your business, you now have a secure and easy way for yourcustomers to pay in cash, but you don’t have the problems of cash collection, reconciliation, cash handling or security risks of having cash. If your business sends bills to customers, offers an eWallet, sells online, you should PiP iT. | $1.1M | Seed | Nov 15, 2018 |  |
| Spring | Spring provides employees with financial education, goal-setting, budgeting, and 1-on-1 financial coaching. Employees can set, track, and reach their financial goals and dreams while becoming more financially educated. Spring reduces employee financial stress by 64%, on average, which results in saving companies $3,200 per employee per year in lostproductivity. | $1M | Seed | Aug 01, 2018 |  |
| Vauban | Vauban is a tech company reshaping the world of private investing. The platform makes it easier, faster, and more cost-effective for anyone to co-invest in private companies. With Vauban, you can easily create your Syndicate online, start sharing your deal flow and let your network co-invest with you in startups. Vauban has automated the SPV &funds setup process. | $2M | Seed | May 27, 2018 |  |
| FinMkt | FinMkt provides best-in-class, customizable point of sale financing and online financial marketplace technologies for the global financial services industry. They provide a comprehensive point of sale financing solution to financial institutions and merchant and distribution partners which includes sourcing quality borrowers, consumer and merchantunderwriting and UX, loan document presentation and e-signing and payment delivery systems for disbursement of loan funds. Focused initially on the home improvement and medical industry verticals, FinMkt's leading solution makes it easy and cost efficient for financial institutions and other lenders to access point of sale lending. For merchants and providers, FinMkt offers unparalleled access to multiple lenders with plans and programs tailored to their specific needs and customer constituencies all across the credit spectrum. FinMkt's system allows its users to automate all aspects of loan generation, underwriting and delivery on a seamless and flexible technology platform.FinMkt solutions allow many types of organizations to rapidly deploy point of sale financing and marketplace solutions in a timely, cost-efficient manner while ensuring the highest quality technology and client support. From customer acquisition to product matching to tracking and reporting, FinMkt's secure, patent-pending technology solutions are the gold standard of the financial marketplace ecosystem. |  | Series A | Nov 07, 2017 |  |

10 of 12 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Foundation Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/foundation-capital) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Lightspeed Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lightspeed-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Afore Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/afore-capital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Argonautic Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/argonautic-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Techstars Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bullet-time-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Harvard Business School Angels Chicago](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/harvard-business-school-angels-chicago) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does West Loop Ventures invest in?

West Loop Ventures invests primarily in Financial Services, FinTech and Finance startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 12 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 West Loop Ventures's check size?

West Loop Ventures typically joins rounds of $1M–$5M at Seed and $2.2M–$18M 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 West Loop Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact West Loop Ventures?

Public channels for West Loop Ventures include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at West Loop Ventures?

The team at West Loop Ventures includes Jeffrey Carter (General Partner) and Kenny Estes (Co-Founder). 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 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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