WP Global Partners
VC Fund
Chicago, United States
WP Global Partners is a VC fund in Chicago focused on Health Care and Software. Through an active investment approach, WP Global will partner with entrepreneurs hungry to grow private companies as well as fund managers determined to achieve superior returns. WP Global’s strategy is juxtaposition to simply administering investments in companies and in funds. Our unique strategy unchains us from traditional conventions andperceived risk, ultimately allowing our partners to build long-standing, high growth, and influential organizations.You’re more likely to see us in person than talk to us over the phone because we believe knowledge is acquired on-sight through interpersonal engagement – we are continuously attending events and visiting companies. WP Global creates quality deal flow through vigorous outbound efforts and generates investment returns through active management. We leverage our partners for their operational and domain experience and they leverage us for our network. By proactively investing directly into hundreds of private companies, private equity funds, and venture capital funds, WP Global generates a synergy of deal flow that is unrivaled. Along with leveraging our network, WP Global employs portfolio modeling and other investment management tools to gain foresight into the market momentum of the thousands of small private companies, which ultimately provides investment conviction.
- Total investments:
- 60
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 22%
- Fund size:
- $25M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries WP Global Partners invests in
Stages WP Global Partners invests in
Countries WP Global Partners invests in
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
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Greg Oberholtzer
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Joseph Berry
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Ryan Phillips
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Health Care 11 (18%)
- Software 6 (10%)
- Manufacturing 6 (10%)
- Food and Beverage 5 (8%)
- Enterprise Software 4 (7%)
Stage
- Private Equity 22 (37%)
- Series C 7 (12%)
- Funding Round 4 (7%)
- Pre-Seed 3 (5%)
- Series B 3 (5%)
Country
- United States 43 (72%)
- Canada 2 (3%)
- United Kingdom 1 (2%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
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Greg Oberholtzer
Chief Investment Officer; Senior Managing Director, Founding Co-Partner
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Chief Investment Officer; Senior Managing Director, Founding Co-Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Joseph Berry
Managing Director
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Managing Director | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Ryan Phillips
Principal; Principal
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Principal; Principal | Total investments: 0 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Union Credit
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Union Credit is a fintech company that develops an embedded 1-click lending marketplace. | $3M / Seed / Feb 07, 2024 | |
Shield AI
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Shield AI is an enterprise-focused company specializing in AI-powered mission autonomy, developing and deploying advanced autonomous systems for defense and security. The company builds AI pilots that operate aircraft and drones, enabling autonomous flight in environments where communication and GPS may be unavailable. Its platform supports missionplanning, navigation, and real-time decision-making for aerial systems used in reconnaissance and operational tasks. Shield AI also integrates hardware and software components to deploy autonomous capabilities across different types of unmanned systems. The company works with government and defense organizations to support missions that require autonomous operation and data-driven coordination. | $300M / Series F / Oct 31, 2023 | |
Blackpoint Cyber
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Offering the only world-class, nation state-grade cybersecurity ecosystem, Blackpoint serves the MSP community using its own proprietary security operations and incident response platform, SNAP-Defense, available as a product or as a 24/7 True Managed Detection and Response (MDR) service. Founded in 2014, the company was originally establishedby former US Department of Defense and Intelligence security experts and leverages its real-world cyber experience and knowledge of malicious tradecraft to help businesses safeguard their infrastructure and operations. | $190M / Series C / Jun 08, 2023 | |
Carbon Health
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Carbon Health is a tech-enabled healthcare company that delivers virtual care experience. It offers primary care services through a mobile application that enables users to follow-up on a treatment plan, manage prescriptions, and see lab reports all through one app. Carbon Health has created a coronavirus assessment tool and also set up covid-19testing in California.The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. | Series D / Mar 31, 2023 | |
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Carbon Health
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Carbon Health is a tech-enabled healthcare company that delivers virtual care experience. It offers primary care services through a mobile application that enables users to follow-up on a treatment plan, manage prescriptions, and see lab reports all through one app. Carbon Health has created a coronavirus assessment tool and also set up covid-19testing in California.The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. | $100M / Series D / Jan 09, 2023 | |
AliveCor
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AliveCor has a device and application that will turn any smartphone into a clinical-quality electrocardiogram (ECG) recorder. AliveCor is pioneering the creation of FDA-cleared 'machine learning' techniques to enable proactive heart care and is recognized around the world for transforming cardiac care. It specializes in the fields ofhealthcare, mobile device, and medicine.It was founded in 2010 and headquartered in Mountain View, California. | Series F / Aug 16, 2022 | |
InterApp
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InterApp uses augmented reality to enable graphic designers to enhance their designs by embedding rich media content into packaging, apparel, art, and print graphics with our easy-to-use web-based platform. | $1.2M / Pre-Seed / Jul 21, 2022 | |
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Blackpoint Cyber
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Offering the only world-class, nation state-grade cybersecurity ecosystem, Blackpoint serves the MSP community using its own proprietary security operations and incident response platform, SNAP-Defense, available as a product or as a 24/7 True Managed Detection and Response (MDR) service. Founded in 2014, the company was originally establishedby former US Department of Defense and Intelligence security experts and leverages its real-world cyber experience and knowledge of malicious tradecraft to help businesses safeguard their infrastructure and operations. | Series B / May 20, 2022 | |
project44
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project44 is on a mission to make supply chains work. As the supply chain connective tissue, project44 operates the world’s most trusted end-to-end visibility platform that manages more than 1 billion unique shipments annually for over 1,300 of the world’s leading brands, including top companies in manufacturing, automotive, retail, life sciences,food & beverage, CPG, and oil, chemical & gas. Using project44, shippers and carriers across the globe drive greater predictability, resiliency and sustainability. The undisputed leader in the market and innovator of Movement GPT, project44 was named the Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant, #1 in FreightWaves FreightTech 2023, a ten-time leader in customer satisfaction on G2’s Supply Chain Visibility Grid, one of SupplyChainBrain’s 100 Great Supply Chain Partners of 2022, and the Customer’s Choice in Gartner Peer Insights Voice of the Customer report. project44 is headquartered in Chicago with a diverse team spanning 15 global offices including Amsterdam, Kraków, Paris, São Paulo, Shanghai and Tokyo. Learn more at project44.com. | $420M / Series F / Jan 11, 2022 | |
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project44
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project44 is on a mission to make supply chains work. As the supply chain connective tissue, project44 operates the world’s most trusted end-to-end visibility platform that manages more than 1 billion unique shipments annually for over 1,300 of the world’s leading brands, including top companies in manufacturing, automotive, retail, life sciences,food & beverage, CPG, and oil, chemical & gas. Using project44, shippers and carriers across the globe drive greater predictability, resiliency and sustainability. The undisputed leader in the market and innovator of Movement GPT, project44 was named the Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant, #1 in FreightWaves FreightTech 2023, a ten-time leader in customer satisfaction on G2’s Supply Chain Visibility Grid, one of SupplyChainBrain’s 100 Great Supply Chain Partners of 2022, and the Customer’s Choice in Gartner Peer Insights Voice of the Customer report. project44 is headquartered in Chicago with a diverse team spanning 15 global offices including Amsterdam, Kraków, Paris, São Paulo, Shanghai and Tokyo. Learn more at project44.com. | Secondary Market / Dec 31, 2021 | |
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What does WP Global Partners invest in?
WP Global Partners invests primarily in Health Care, Software and Manufacturing startups, most often at Private Equity and Series C stage. Most of the 60 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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The team at WP Global Partners includes Greg Oberholtzer (Chief Investment Officer; Senior Managing Director, Founding Co-Partner), Joseph Berry (Managing Director) and Ryan Phillips (Principal; Principal). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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