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Stuart Larkins

Founder of Chicago Ventures

United States

Overview 

Stuart Larkins is the Co-Founder and Partner at Chicago Ventures, where he has successfully invested in a wide range of companies across various sectors and stages, including HealthJoy, SpotHero, and G2 Crowd. With a background in entrepreneurship and digital marketing, Stuart has made significant contributions to the growth and success of early-stage startups through his strategic partnerships and investments. Highlights of Stuart's career include his role as a Co-Founder and General Partner at Chicago Ventures, where he has demonstrated a strong track record of identifying and supporting successful startups, and his involvement in key companies like project44, Meritize, and Sunbit as a Board Member or Observer, contributing to their growth and development.

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.

  • 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.

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