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Distributed Ventures
Venture capitalChicago · Seed–Series A · 14 people tracked
Not to be confused with Distributed Ventures (Accelerator · Balzers, LI)
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Investment thesis
Distributed Ventures backs early-stage founders at the frontier of risk, investing in the health, insurance, and wealth verticals where it believes risk can be transformed into opportunity with the right capital. It leads Seed and Series A rounds across the United States, writing $1-5M checks with a 15-20% ownership target and taking board seats or observer rights. Beyond capital, the firm emphasizes helping founders with enterprise distribution channels and focused go-to-market strategies, leveraging its network and expertise to connect startups with customers, guidance, and access to accelerate growth and reach product-market fit.
Source: firm website, verified Sep 29, 2026.
Team · 14 people
from the firm's website & public directories
What they invest in
from 26 of 33 portfolio companiesSaaS ×12Healthtech ×9AI & Machine Learning ×8Digital Health ×8Fintech ×8InsurTech ×7HR Tech ×4Consumer ×3
HQs:United States×15
Who they back
founder profiles across 15 portfolio companiesFounding team size:solo founder×92 founders×33 founders×3
Where their founders studiedfrom 20 founders with education data
Emory University - Goizueta Business School ×2University of Michigan ×2
What their founders studiedfrom 16 founders with field-of-study data
Engineering ×5Economics ×4Finance & Accounting ×4Computer Science ×2
Where their founders worked beforefrom 21 founders with career history
Mercer ×2Microsoft ×2
3 hold an MBA (of 20 with degree data)
Investments · 33 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathBy year:2026 · 12025 · 12024 · 12023 · 32022 · 62021 · 12019 · 22018 · 116 dated
Armadillo offers a subscription-based home warranty product that covers repairs or replacements when household items and systems break.
ConsumerInsurTechPropTechClarksville, US
Matan Slagter(CEO)in
BoardLansdon Robbins(Director)
Board seatAdam Blumencranz· per SEC Form D
Co-investorsInsurTech
Ascend is a membership-based travel concierge service that manages flight, hotel, and ground transportation bookings via WhatsApp for frequent travelers, emphasizing rapid response times, proactive disruption handling, and significant cost savings.
Travel & Hospitality
Co-investorsFirstMark CapitalFJ LabsIndex VenturesFirst Round CapitalMischiefNFP+1 more
Ascend is a financial operations platform purpose-built for insurance agencies, wholesalers, MGAs, and carriers, combining AI-powered accounting automation, payments, and premium financing.
AI & Machine LearningInsurTechSaaS
Praveen Chekuri(Founder)inAndrew Wynn(Founder)
Co-investorsBoxGroupFinancial Venture StudioFirst Round CapitalMGV.VCNFPNyca+10 more
Ascend is a membership-based travel concierge for frequent business and leisure travelers, offering a human team that books and manages flights, hotels, and ground transport end-to-end via WhatsApp.
ConsumerMarketplacesTravel & Hospitality
Co-investorsRevUp CapitalExponent CapitalFirst Round CapitalFirstMark CapitalIndex VenturesMischief+2 more
Axio provides cyber risk quantification and analysis for enterprises, using an organization's own past, present, and target security posture to identify and prioritize control gaps.
CybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareSaaS
Co-investorsFin CapitalAccelElevation CapitalOmidyar Network IndiaPeak XV Partners
CVRD provides a SaaS platform and administration services for managing fringe benefits and ICHRA (Individual Coverage Health Reimbursement Arrangements) for government contractors.
GovTechHR TechSaaSMcLean, US
Co-investorsNFPUpfront Ventures
CoverTree provides insurance exclusively for manufactured homes, offering plans that can be purchased online with potential savings.
FintechInsurTechSaaSDetroit, US
RISHIE MODI(Executive Officer, Director)inDIVYANSH SHARMA(Executive Officer, Director)inAdarsh Rachmale(Founder)in
Co-investorsAV8 VenturesDetroit Venture PartnersEverywhere VenturesNFPPortage VenturesAnnox Capital+2 more
Cylinder Health is a data-driven digestive health organization that develops value-based care programs, products, and payment models in the gastrointestinal space.
Digital HealthHealthtech
Bill Snyder(Founder & CEO)in
Co-investors7wire VenturesBig Pi VenturesCorewell Health VenturesFCA Venture PartnersHealth Catalyst CapitalIntermountain Health+7 more
Vivante Health is a digital health company focused on gastrointestinal (GI) care, developing data-driven, value-based health programs and technology for managing digestive conditions.
Digital HealthHealthtechWellness & FitnessHouston, US
Kimon Angelides(Founder)inSally Welborn(Director)William Snyder(Executive Officer, Director)Marco Veremis(Director)inShawn Ellis(Director)inSanford Duncan(Director)
Co-investors7wire VenturesCorewell Health VenturesLifeforce CapitalMercato PartnersPeterson VenturesBig Pi Ventures+5 more
This is a team member profile page for Pascal Unger on the website of Focal, a venture capital firm.
AI & Machine LearningSector Agnostic
Pascal Unger(Founder)inDaniel Darling(Founder)inSydney Wasikowskiin
Co-investorsLUXEM VenturesWischoff Ventures
Focal provides AI-powered meeting automation and workflow tools for financial advisors, automating pre-meeting preparation, note-taking, CRM data entry, and client onboarding tasks.
AI & Machine LearningFintechSaaS
Jerry Jihao Bai(Founder)in
Co-investorsNFPWischoff Ventures
Honeycomb Insurance is a team of insurance and AI experts building technology to simplify the real estate insurance process for better coverage discovery and pricing.
AI & Machine LearningInsurTechPropTech
Itai Ben-Zaken(Founder)in
Indio is a cloud-based software platform that automates the insurance application and renewal process for agencies, brokerages, and insurers.
Cloud ComputingInsurTechSaaSSan Francisco, US
Matthew Watson(Founder)Adam Bratt(Executive Officer)Michael Furlong(Founder)in
BoardAlex Kolicich(Director)in
Co-investors500 Global8VC9Mile LabsBetter Tomorrow VenturesMenlo VenturesMerus Capital+3 more
Kai Health builds technology to systematically prevent preventable medical errors, offering an Autonomous Performance Improvement platform aimed at helping health systems reduce liability, recover revenue, and drive continuous improvement.
AI & Machine LearningDigital HealthHealthtechSaaS
Hallie Woods Kosena(Chief Executive Officer, Accessum Health)
Co-investorsNFPIMM InvestmentSBVASmilegate InvestmentTranslink Investment
Marble is a platform that helps customers manage and optimize their insurance policies by comparing quotes from multiple insurance providers and reducing costs.
ConsumerFintechInsurTechSaaSNew York City, US
Co-investorsAlumni VenturesBlue CollectiveFinTech VenturesMS&AD VenturesIA Capital Group
Origin provides in-home pediatric speech, occupational, and physical therapy, connecting families with local licensed therapists and offering insurance-covered sessions.
Digital HealthHealthtechMarketplaces
Co-investorsNFPThe MBA FundAcadian Ventures Management, LlcFELIX CAPITALNotion Capital
AI Interview Companion (formerly Pillar, now part of Employ) is an AI tool that assists interviewers with transcription, summarization, interview guides, structured question generation, and interviewer coaching.
AI & Machine LearningHR TechSaaSIndianapolis, US
Mark Simpson(Executive Officer, Director)in
BoardEric Tobias(Director)inScott Dorsey(Director)in
Co-investorsElevate VenturesReal Tech CapitalService Provider CapitalHigh Alpha
PlanFees offers fee benchmarking tools for retirement plan advisors, including Prism for investment, recordkeeping, administrative, and advisor fee benchmarking, Prism365 for advisor fee and service benchmarking, and RFP Express for generating custom quotes from recordkeepers.
Enterprise SoftwareFintechSaaS
Posterity Health is a US men's reproductive health provider offering male fertility evaluation, semen analysis, vasectomy, vasectomy reversal, hormone and sexual health care through fellowship-trained reproductive urologists and advanced practice providers.
HealthtechCentennial, US
Pamela Joy Pure(Chief Executive Officer)Barrett Edward Cowan(Director)Donald A Holzworth(Director)Dylan Lawrence Pure(Director)
BoardKyle Maierhofer(Director)Gerald M. McCarthy, Jr.(Director)
Co-investorsFCA Venture PartnersNFPSteelSky Ventures
Presta is a platform that provides end-to-end loan process management, enabling users to originate, underwrite, close loans, send disbursements, and receive monthly payments.
FintechCleveland, US
Peter Truog(Founder)in
Co-investorsJumpstart VenturesMatchstick VenturesTechstarsZeal Capital PartnersThe Fund
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RxSaveCard offers a service that lets large self-insured employers and their employees access lower cash and discount card prices for prescription drugs without switching Pharmacy Benefit Managers, while maintaining ERISA fiduciary compliance.
Digital HealthFintechHealthtechHR TechChicago, US
Chris Crawford(CEO & Founder)inJace Mouse(CTO & President)inWilliams Evans(Director)
BoardShawn Ellis(Director)in
Co-investorsRock HealthRock Health Capital
Sage Health provides a connected platform powered by AI that adapts to evolving care and technology requirements.
AI & Machine LearningDigital HealthHealthtechLongevityNew York City, US
Matt Lynch(Founder)inEllen Johnston(Founder)inRaj Mehra(Founder)in
Co-investorsAlumni VenturesIVP (Institutional Venture Partners)MaveronMerus CapitalP101 VenturesPLUS Capital+8 more
TrustLayer offers a platform that automates the collection, storage, and verification of vendor compliance documents such as certificates of insurance (COIs), providing centralized tracking and audit trails.
AI & Machine LearningFintechGovTechInsurTechSaaSBrandon, US
John Fohr(Founder)inVincenzo Acinapura(Founder)in
Co-investorsAbstract VenturesBitAngelsBoxGroupCraft VenturesPropel Venture PartnersPruVen Capital Partners+6 more
Tuned is a digital hearing health company offering employer-sponsored hearing care and AI-based self-fitting hearing aids.
Co-investorsBogarooFirst Check VenturesNext Coast Ventures
Tuned offers online hearing health services for employers, providing screenings, virtual audiology consultations, and discounted or fully-covered hearing aids and related solutions across multiple plan tiers.
Digital HealthHealthtechWellness & FitnessNew York, US
Ofer Raz(Executive Officer)inDanny Aronson(Executive Officer, Director)in
BoardShawn Ellis(Director)in
Wellth helps individuals with chronic diseases develop positive behavioral habits that improve health outcomes and quality of life.
Digital HealthHealthtech
Matthew Loper(CEO)in
Co-investorsComcast VenturesDreamit VenturesEsplanade VenturesFCA Venture PartnersMercato PartnersNew York Life Ventures+4 more
Wingspan provides a platform for businesses to automate the full lifecycle of managing flexible workforces, including onboarding, invoicing, payments, compliance, and benefits.
FintechFuture of WorkHR TechSaaSNew York, US
Anthony Mironov(Founder)inGreg Franczyk(Founder)in
BoardShawn Ellis(Director)inDavid Ulevitch(Director)inPriya Saiprasad(Director)in
Co-investorsAndreessen HorowitzSwift Ventures186 VenturesAsymmetric Capital PartnersBramalea PartnersGood Friends+5 more
Other
Tracked investments with no reachable website or further public details — typically companies that wound down, renamed, or were absorbed.
Marble Pay, Inc.401KplansCVRDHoneycombOrigin TherapyPillar
Rows marked “SEC filing” are inferred from directors named on the company's SEC Form D — public regulatory data, not a portfolio list published by the firm.
Portfolio news
latest coverage across their companiesSage · prnewswire.com · Jul 8, 2026
Kai Health · thesaasnews.com · Jul 6, 2026
Focal · finsmes.com · Oct 9, 2025
Wellth · finsmes.com · Aug 21, 2025
Wingspan · prnewswire.com · Jul 29, 2025
Frequently asked questions
- How many investments has Distributed Ventures made?
- Distributed Ventures has 33 tracked investments, including 2 dated in the last 24 months.
- What stage does Distributed Ventures invest at?
- Distributed Ventures invests at the Seed, Series A stages.
- What is Distributed Ventures's typical check size?
- Distributed Ventures typically writes checks of $1M – $5M.
- What sectors does Distributed Ventures focus on?
- Distributed Ventures focuses on Digital Health, Enterprise Software, Fintech, Healthtech, InsurTech, Mental Health, SaaS.
- Where is Distributed Ventures located?
- Distributed Ventures is headquartered in Chicago, US.
- Does Distributed Ventures lead rounds?
- Yes, Distributed Ventures leads investment rounds.
- Who does Distributed Ventures co-invest with?
- Distributed Ventures most often shares deals with NFP, FCA Venture Partners, Alumni Ventures, among 70 tracked co-investors.
Media · Podcasts & interviews
featuring the teamShawn Ellis from Distributed Ventures!
Digital Health Heavyweights · Shawn Ellis
Episode 11 : Shawn Ellis, Managing Partner at Distributed Ventures
Digital Health Heavyweights · Shawn Ellis
Co-investors · 14
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Menlo Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm backing transformative technology companies, with a strong current emphasis on artificial intelligence across enterprise, healthcare, and consumer markets.
Everywhere Ventures is an early-stage venture firm that writes pre-seed checks and is backed by a community of founder and operator LPs.
Propel Venture Partners is an early-stage venture capital firm that backs founders building companies for the new economy.
Fin Capital is an investment firm that backs B2B technology companies serving the financial services industry across the full company lifecycle.
Zeal Capital Partners is an early-stage venture firm backing founders building companies across fintech, healthcare, and the future of learning and work, with a focus on closing gaps in wealth, health, and skills.
Esplanade Ventures is a Canadian digital health venture capital firm that invests early in technology companies transforming healthcare delivery across the U.S. and Canada.
GV (Google Ventures) is a venture capital firm that has invested in AI and machine learning since its early days, backing more than 100 AI companies across infrastructure, life sciences, and applications.
ACME Capital is a venture firm that backs deep-tech founders combining technical ambition with decisive execution, supporting companies through every phase of growth.
Lightbank is a Chicago-based venture capital firm that invests in early-stage technology companies and provides operational support to portfolio companies. The firm was founded by Eric Lefkofsky and Brad Keywell, entrepreneurs behind Groupon, Mediaocean, InnerWorkings, Echo Global Logistics, and Uptake.
SuperAngel.Fund is an early-stage venture capital fund investing in Consumer, PropTech, and Future of Work companies, primarily in the United States.
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Firms observed investing alongside Distributed Ventures, from public investor directories. Shared companies are the overlap with Distributed Ventures's recorded portfolio.
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