M25 is an early-stage venture firm based in Chicago, investing solely in companies headquartered in the Midwest.
Employees: 1-10
Investment Stage: Pre-Seed; Seed; Series A
Portfolio 4
| Date | Name | Website | Total Raised | Location |
| 17.03.2023 | Pitchly | pitchly.com | $9.5M | United Sta... |
| 04.08.2022 | Carefeed | carefeed.com | $3M | United Sta... |
| 25.07.2022 | Workshop | useworkshop.com | $20.7M | United Sta... |
| 28.06.2022 | Improovy | improovy.com | $2.8M | United Sta... |
Persons 8
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| - | Katie | Birge | VP Platfor... | linkedin.c... | twitter.co... | - | - |
| - | Mike | Asem | Founding P... | linkedin.c... | - | m*******m@... | - |
| - | Victor | Gutwein | Managing P... | linkedin.c... | twitter.co... | - | - |
| - | Sam | Cavender | Senior Ana... | linkedin.c... | twitter.co... | - | - |
| - | Arianna | Thornton | Operations... | linkedin.c... | twitter.co... | - | - |
| - | Ruth | Brungard | Platform A... | linkedin.c... | twitter.co... | - | - |
| - | Leandro | Bedolla | Associate | linkedin.c... | twitter.co... | - | - |
| - | Abhinaya | Konduru | Principal | linkedin.c... | - | a*********... | - |
Mentions in press and media 23
| Date | Title | Description |
| 02.07.2024 | Pear Commerce: Revolutionizing Retail Ecommerce with $10M Series A Funding | Pear Commerce, a Minneapolis-based retail ecommerce enablement platform, recently secured a $10 million Series A funding round led by Stage 2 Capital. This investment will fuel the company's mission to transform shoppable media and enhance ... |
| 01.07.2024 | Pear Commerce: Retail Enablement Company Raises $10 Million In Series A | Pear Commerce, a retail e-commerce enablement platform for omnichannel brands, announced that it had closed a $10 million Series A funding round. The funding round was led by Stage 2 Capital. Additional participation in the round includes H... |
| 09.02.2024 | gener8tor and the Forge North Coalition announce historic first investments of fund to invest in high-growth Black, brown, and women entrepreneurs in Minnesota | MSP Equity Fund invests in five top venture capital funds committed to investing in Minnesota MINNEAPOLIS–SAINT PAUL, Minn., Feb. 09, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- gener8tor and Forge North are excited to announce the first investments of the MS... |
| 16.03.2023 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Andes lands $30m to tackle carbon, THIS cooks up $18m, Leaf & AWS team up | This week, climate tech startup Andes bagged funding for its carbon removal technology, plant-based meat maker THIS announced Series B funding and Immi raised funds for plant-based ramen. In the world of ag data, two infrastructure provider... |
| 17.01.2023 | Authenticx Secures $20M to Enhance Customer Experience | What You Should Know: Unsolicited customer feedback is a valuable resource for healthcare and life science organizations. After analyzing 100 million conversations with healthcare customers for its 2022 Customer Voices in Healthcare report,... |
| 24.05.2022 | Questions arise on Y Combinator’s role in startup correction | A chill has descended onto the global startup market, albeit not evenly. Venture capital totals are sagging in most geographies, and falling share prices for tech companies large and small have soured sentiment on the future value of high-g... |
| 17.03.2022 | How Chicago is changing who raises early-stage venture capital | For those of us who cover the venture capital industry, two narratives are ubiquitous: There’s the story of how much capital has been invested of late; you’ve seen the data — 2020 and 2021 set nearly every record around the world for privat... |
| 17.01.2022 | Rebundle raises $1.4M for plant-based hair extensions | This morning Rebundle, a hair-focused startup based in St. Louis, announced that it has raised $1.4 million in a pre-seed round. M25, a venture firm with a geographic focus on the Midwest, led the funding event. Prior to its pre-seed round,... |
| 13.01.2022 | Has Y Combinator’s new deal changed the early-stage investing game? | Y Combinator’s newly announced plan to invest more capital into startups that take part in its accelerator program is more controversial than many first assumed. By raising its so-called “standard deal” to include an additional $375,000, th... |
| 18.11.2021 | Doorvest raises $14M for its digital service that helps consumers buy rental properties | Doorvest this morning announced a $39 million funding event, including $14 million worth of equity financing and a $25 million credit facility. The latter makes sense given the startup’s business model, namely helping consumers buy and mana... |
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