Investors / United States / LongJump
LongJump
Venture capital · Chicago, IL, United States · North America
LongJump is a pre-seed venture capital fund that invests $110K as a first check in early-stage companies. It provides capital, connections, and community to founders, drawing on a network of founder and operator limited partners.
Invests inHealthcare & BiotechEnterprise Software
In its own wordspre-seedmidwestchicagofounder-ledindustry-agnostic
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Or find every investor that fitsLongJump lists 30 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 3 funding rounds. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 67% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are Healthcare & Biotech (17%), Enterprise Software (17%) and AI & Machine Learning (13%). 87% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside Techstars, Velocity Catalyst and Service Provider Capital.
Counts come from funding rounds that name LongJump, complete from mid-2025: earlier rounds appear only when they were reported later. Round amounts and full round histories are on Fundup AI.
Round figures show recent activity, not LongJump's whole history. Rounds on record name 3 companies; its own site lists 30. Funding rounds are complete from mid-2025, so counts and the yearly trend undercount a firm that invested before then. The portfolio, themes and places come from its own site and are not affected.
Entry stage
share of companies by the stage of its first roundShow as a table
| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 33% |
| Seed | 67% |
| Series A | 0% |
| Series B | 0% |
| Growth | 0% |
Activity by year
rounds it joined, last 10 yearsShow as a table
| Total | Rounds it led | |
|---|---|---|
| '17 | 0 | 0 |
| '18 | 0 | 0 |
| '19 | 0 | 0 |
| '20 | 0 | 0 |
| '21 | 0 | 0 |
| '22 | 0 | 0 |
| '23 | 0 | 0 |
| '24 | 0 | 0 |
| '25 | 1 | 0 |
| '26 | 2 | 0 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 68th | 30 companies |
| Recent activity | 69th | 2 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 100th | 100% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 69th | 7% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 6th | 17% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 58th | 3 countries |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| Healthcare & Biotech | 17% | 15% |
| Enterprise Software | 17% | 8% |
| AI & Machine Learning | 13% | 18% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 10% | 7% |
| Education | 8% | 7% |
| E-commerce & Marketplaces | 8% | 6% |
| Cybersecurity | 4% | 4% |
| Fintech | 4% | 12% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Techstars | 3 |
| Velocity Catalyst | 3 |
| Service Provider Capital | 2 |
| Antler | 1 |
| Bread and Butter Ventures | 1 |
| Capital Midwest Fund | 1 |
| Cleveland Avenue | 1 |
| Connetic Ventures | 1 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers30100%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company00%
- Parked or sold domain00%
A site that stops answering three checks in a row is counted as no longer answering; that is not proof of closure. A site that points to another company is often an acquisition.
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherCompare LongJump head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Recent portfolio activity
when companies last raised with LongJump| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 28 Oct 2026 | Pre-Seed | |
| 19 Aug 2025 | Seed |
Round details for LongJump
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in LongJump's rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
30 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AEGIS provides a mobile app for rapid emergency assistance and silent alerts to emergency services | Healthcare & BiotechCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| Aloe Health provides group health insurance plans that allow employers to set a budget and employees to choose their own coverage | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Bilin Academy provides online classes for kids and teens in various subjects, including languages, math, coding, science, and more. | Education | Portfolio page | ||
| CareLumi automates medical licensing, credentialing, enrollment and privileging end to end in one system | Healthcare & Biotech | Oct 2026Pre-Seed | Page + round | |
| Clouty turns real-time music data into tradeable indexes | Enterprise SoftwareFintech | Portfolio page | ||
| DeepWalk Research provides automated sidewalk inspection software solutions using LiDAR technology | EducationIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| The company produces and sells waffles and pancakes. | Food & Agriculture | Portfolio page | ||
| Eventnoire helps event creators and organizations host and manage events | Enterprise SoftwareEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| Fillow produces and sells a reusable period disc with an applicator for menstrual hygiene | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Portfolio page | ||||
| Flora provides plant care services and products, including a plant identification app and community features. | AI & Machine LearningE-commerce & Marketplaces | Portfolio page | ||
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| FreshX connects customers to top carriers for booking temperature-controlled freight | Legal & ComplianceIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Gatherset provides an AI event coordinator that automates the process of answering inquiries and managing events | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| Grapefruit Health provides a tech-enabled platform that mobilizes local clinical students to close gaps in healthcare by offloading lower-acuity tasks, allowing clinicians to focus on complex needs. | Healthcare & Biotech | Aug 2025Seed | Page + round | |
| GridLink is reliability software for EV charging that watches chargers and fixes faults remotely before a site visit is required | EducationIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Hanahana Beauty sells beauty products, such as Glow Butter Minis. | Consumer | Portfolio page | ||
| Houndsy designs and sells pet food dispensers and related accessories for dogs and cats. | ConsumerE-commerce & Marketplaces | Portfolio page | ||
| Kazadi Enterprises develops a system to harvest energy from atmospheric heat | EducationIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Kosmos provides AI agents for prediction markets | AI & Machine LearningFintech | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- longjump.vc
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 5 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 19 Aug 2025
- Companies checked
- 30
Rates come from what VCinfo has observed since observation_start. Firms tend to remove companies that closed, so early rates understate reality. A company leaving a portfolio page does not mean it closed or exited. An unreachable site means our checks failed, nothing more.
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