J.p. Keating
Managing Partner & Founder of proChain Ventures
St Louis, Missouri
Overview
Work Experience
Managing Partner & Founder
2022 - Current
proChain Ventures is specialist venture capital firm focused exclusively on investing in supply chain technologies needed for complex, contested, and critical operations. We focus on SUPPLY CHAIN RELATED hard tech, deep tech, AI enabled enterprise SaaS, unmanned cargo mobility, digital transformation, traceability, resilience, intelligence, circularity, and decarbonization. We invest at the pre-seed and seed stage and are on a mission to transform supply chains for good!
proChain Ventures invests in early-stage supply chain and mobility tech startups, focusing on AI and innovation.
Corporate Ventures & Strategic Relationships
2024
Investing in and implementing innovative ideas every day.
Zillion develops high-speed transmission techniques for those applications.
Venture Partner
2024
Investing at critical inflection points. We leverage proprietary technology, resources, and strategic partnerships to support advancements in AI, robotics, drones, and geospatial infrastructure with global commercial partners.
Investor / Venture Partner
2019
Investing in Aerospace Tech, Supply Chain, Logistics, & IoT. VU Venture Partners’ investment fund is multistage and sector agnostic and invests initially $20K-$1M+ per company and up to $10M in follow-on rounds. Every three months, VU makes 3-5 new investments.
VU Venture Partners is a multi-sector and multi-stage venture capital fund and is a scalable venture capital fund platform.
Investor
2024
Manufacturing Innovative Solid-State Hydrogen Products and Power Systems
FuelX Innovation is a chemical company manufacturing solid-state hydrogen storage products for power systems.
Raised $2,000,000.00 from Starburst Accelerator and Starburst Accelerator.
Investor
2022
Intramotev manufactures self-propelled battery-electric railcars to advance the future of freight movement.
Intramotev creates self-propelled battery-electric railcars that operates autonomously and reduce the reliance on traditional locomotives.
Raised $21,137,000.00 from Collide Capital, Decisive Point, Alpaca VC, IdealabX, Alumni Ventures, Advantage Capital, Aera VC, Cantos, Arizona State University and Futureland Ventures.
Investor
2023
Transforming the world’s supply chains with next generation cargo aircraft.
Natilus is developing a family of hyper-efficient blended wing body aircraft to make commercial aviation more sustainable.
Raised $750,000.00 from VU Venture Partners, Liquid 2 Ventures, Vectors Angel, Trajectory Ventures, Seraph Group, Soma Capital, DVC, H.E.N.R.Y Collective Ventures, Flucas Ventures and Flexport.
Investor
2023
High speed, 100% electric, maritime transport.
Regent develops and manufactures all-electric seagliders for high-speed regional coastal transportation.
Raised $87,000,000.00 from MOL Switch.
Investor
2023
Sustainable Logistics. Faster, Greener, Safer. Zero Emissions.
Investor
2023
Autonomous inventory management.
Laundris is a B2B platform that provides management, analytics, and forecasting solutions.
Raised $6,208,747.00 from Alchemist Accelerator, Google for Startups and Capital Factory.