Stuart Larkins
Founder of Chicago Ventures
United States
Overview
Work Experience
Co-Founder and General Partner
2011 - Current
Board Member
2022
Aeropay is a payments company that allows people to move money from bank to bank using ACH technology.
Raised $25,000,000.00 from Chicago Ventures, Continental Investment Partners and Group 11.
Board Member
2018
Veryable is an industrial technology company with marketplaces designed to improve speed, flexibility, and agility in manufacturing.
Raised $45,600,000.00 from Gigafund.
Board Member
2017
Sunbit offers pay-over-time technology that allows users to finance everyday expenses by dividing payments into manageable installments.
Raised $1,124,970,000.00 from JP Morgan, Waterfall Asset Management, Mizuho Bank, Citi, Ares Management and Waterfall Asset Management.
Board Observer
2017
Meritize is a leading provider of funding solutions for skills-based education and workforce development.
Raised $20,000,000.00 from Impact Venture Credit, Cube Financial Holdings, Colchis Capital Management, College Loan Corporation and Chicago Ventures.
Board Observer
2016
As the supply chain connective tissue, project44 operates the world’s most trusted end-to-end visibility platform Movement
Raised $942,900,000.00 from Chicago Ventures, 8VC, Generation Investment Management, TPG, A.P. Moller Holding, Sapphire Ventures, Sozo Ventures, CMA CGM, Omidyar Technology Ventures and Goldman Sachs Asset Management.
Founder and Managing Partner
2008
Stuart is the Managing Partner of Twin Capital, where he is an operating investor in early-stage interactive marketing service and technology companies.
Mamber
2019
Board Observer
2014
G2 operates a software marketplace for business organizations to research, buy, and manage their software and services.
Raised $257,572,384.00 from Permira, HubSpot Ventures, Accel, LinkedIn, Auren Hoffman, Salesforce Ventures, IVP, Emergence and Thomas Lehrman.
Board Member
2019 - 2022
Forager is a company building technology to automate cross-border logistics.
Raised $14,500,000.00 from Soma Capital, Alumni Ventures, Chicago Ventures and U.S. Venture Partners.
Education
BS
1988 - 1992
High School Diploma
1986 - 1988