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Lucas Ward

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Venture Partner at Fluent Ventures · Founder at Oathverified

Greater Chicago Area

FoundedOathverified

About

Lucas Ward is cofounder and CEO of Oath Verified and cofounder of Kin. His career includes work in consulting for corporations, governments, and startups; co-leadership of Spring Batch, an open source batch processing framework; founding of Fundspire, a web-based investment platform that was acquired; and cofounding of Rippleshot, a credit card fraud detection platform. He is currently focused on home insurance technology.

Founder at Oathverified

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Oathverified's investors · 1

M25Chicago · $500K – $3M checks

Experience

  1. Oath VerifiedCoFounder & CEOcurrent2025 — presentChicago, IL
  2. Fluent VenturesVenture Partnercurrent2023 — present
  3. MOONNOXBoard Advisorcurrent2025 — present
  4. Kin InsuranceMember of Board of Directorscurrent2016 — presentChicago, Illinois, United States
  5. Kin InsuranceCoFounder and CTO2016 — 2023Greater Chicago Area
  6. Sole ProprietorFractional CTO2023 — 2024
  7. RippleshotCTO & Co-Founder2013 — 2015
  8. FundspireCTO2010 — 2013Greater Chicago Area
  9. ThoughtWorksConsultant2009 — 2010Greater Chicago Area
  10. AccentureManager, Technical Architect2004 — 2009Greater Chicago Area

Education

  1. Southeast Missouri State UniversityBS, Computer Science2000 — 2004

Skills & more

Spring35Java34Selenium6Ant1Hibernate21JUnit2JavaScript12Tomcat13JSP6REST14XML7Ruby6
+11 moreGitSpring FrameworkAgile MethodologiesProgrammingSOADesign PatternsGrailsGroovyExt JSContinuous IntegrationJava Enterprise Edition

Languages French

From Lucas's professional profile.

Colleagues at Fluent Ventures

Alexandre Lazarow
Managing Partner at Fluent Ventures
Clay Kellogg
Venture Partner at Fluent Ventures
JC Glancy
Venture Partner at Fluent Ventures
Rakesh Apte
Venture Partner at Fluent Ventures
Sofia A. Illsley Rangel
Investor at Fluent Ventures

Frequently asked questions

Where does Lucas Ward work?
Lucas Ward is Venture Partner at Fluent Ventures and Founder at Oathverified.
What companies did Lucas Ward found?
Lucas Ward founded Oathverified.

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Rippleshot mafia2

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Southeast Missouri State University mafia2

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Also attended Southeast Missouri State University8

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Shared employers

Also worked at Oath Verified2

Victor GutweinManaging Partner at M25Alexandre LazarowManaging Partner at Fluent Ventures

Also worked at Kin Insurance10

Britt DannemanPrincipal at Alpha EdisonRobin GodenrathFounding Partner & Managing Director at PICUS CAPITALEmmalyn ShawCo-Founder & Managing Partner at Flourish VenturesTom SmithManaging Partner at Savano Capital PartnersCaribou HonigGeneral Partner at SemperVirens Venture CapitalAlexandre LazarowManaging Partner at Fluent Ventures

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Also worked at Rippleshot3

Doug WilberOperating Partner at SixThirty VenturesSam DasManaging Director at TruStage VenturesLon ChowAdvisor — Partner at Method Capital at Distributed Ventures

Also worked at ThoughtWorks11

Rajat AgarwalFintech & Consumer at DeVCZac ZavosManaging Partner at Shearwater CapitalJulie FedeleAngel at Alma AngelsMichael BottjerPartner at ArceauTimothy WeePartner at FirsthandVCBahador BiglariAngel at Swan Venture Fund

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