Venture-Backed Startups

ChiChi Foods makes a chickpea-based protein hot cereal marketed as a higher-protein, high-fiber alternative to oatmeal. The direct-to-consumer breakfast food is sold online and in retail stores in multiple flavors and formats.

1 investor

Chicisimo builds fashion taste-intelligence infrastructure for fashion retailers, including a Fashion Taste Graph, shopper taste profiles, and an unsupervised learning model that power personalization and outfit recommendations across online and physical stores. Its products include virtual closet technology and in-store and online outfit recommenders, supported by more than 25 US granted patents.

1 investor

Chickapea makes pasta and one-pot pasta meals made from chickpeas, marketed as high-protein, high-fibre, gluten-free, and plant-based with just two ingredients. It sells direct-to-consumer and through retailers such as Costco.

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Chickenplus is a brand operated by Holdinghands & Co., a company based in Seongnam, South Korea. The page provides only corporate registration and contact details, with no description of the product or service offered.

1 investor

Chicken Soup for the Soul publishes books, produces a podcast, and offers educational programs, releasing a new book title each month across topics like gratitude, positive thinking, and family. The company also makes dog and cat food aimed at pet nutrition.

1 investor

Chickin is an Indonesian agricultural technology company serving poultry farmers. Its application records daily operational, production, and sales figures and connects to IoT sensors that track climate conditions such as temperature and humidity inside poultry houses, along with flock age, so farmers can monitor performance and act on problems earlier.

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Chicoa operates an aquaculture business on Lake Cahora Bassa in Mozambique, farming tilapia as a low-cost, nutritious protein source. As an anchor farm, it supplies small-scale local farmers with fingerlings, feed, and training to build the country's aquaculture industry.

2 investors

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Chief operates a membership-based platform and physical spaces for business leaders to network, collaborate, and access tools for professional development and business growth.

7 investors

Chief is a membership network for women leaders, offering vetted community access, executive coaching, guides, business training from the Wharton School, summits, and networking events. It serves senior women executives and C-suite professionals in the United States.

2 investors

Chief of Staff Association (CSA) is a professional membership body for chiefs of staff, offering community, education, advocacy, and the Certified Chief of Staff credential. It operates internationally across more than 75 countries, providing professional development including executive education at business schools.

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Chief Capital is an investment firm that provides long-term capital, resources, and expertise to founders and management owners, customizing each investment to the objectives of its entrepreneur and family partners. Its portfolio spans niche market leaders across a variety of industries.

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Chiesi USA is the U.S. arm of pharmaceutical company Chiesi, developing and marketing therapies with a focus on respiratory conditions such as asthma and COPD. It works with care teams and providers to bring treatments to patients.

1 investor

Chift provides a unified API and integration platform that lets software vendors and AI agents connect to European financial tools — including accounting, invoicing, CRM, ecommerce, POS, payment, and PMS software — through a single connection. It offers 1-click connector activation and an agent layer for accounting automation, covering over 90 financial applications.

3 investors

Chiikishinbunsha publishes and distributes free papers and handles insert-flyer advertising across roughly 1.7 million households in Chiba and Ibaraki prefectures, Japan, using a network of about 2,500 distribution staff. The company positions its weekly push-based household reach as an asset for advertising, recruitment matching, and alliances with web platform operators.

1 investor

Chiima Therapeutics is a biotech company developing first-in-class, non-hormonal therapies for women's health conditions with unmet needs, including endometriosis, pre-term labor, and PCOS. Its pipeline covers investigational compounds addressing diseases that affect women worldwide.

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Child Development Schools operates early childhood education and child care centers under three brands (Childcare Network, Sunrise Preschools, and My Small Wonders), serving children aged six weeks to 12 years with full-time, before-school, and after-school programs. Founded in 1988, it runs more than 260 centers across 11 U.S. states and also acquires independently owned schools.

1 investor

Child Health Imprints develops IoT devices and AI-driven predictive analytics software for neonatal intensive care units, including a bedside surveillance device (NEO), a NICU workflow platform (iNICU), and a post-discharge child growth tracking product (iCHR). Its tools capture real-time vitals data and use machine learning to predict disease onset and severity in neonates for hospitals and clinicians.

3 investors

Child Nation is a digital platform of interactive, artist-created adventures for children aged 7 to 11, accessed via internet-enabled devices through QR codes on signage in parks and libraries or via school collections. It guides kids through personalised, imaginative activities that prompt physical exploration and creative engagement with real-world spaces.

1 investor