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M25
Venture capital · Chicago, IL, United States · North America
M25 is an early-stage venture firm based in Chicago that invests exclusively in tech startups headquartered in the Midwest. It invests at the pre-seed and seed stage and reviews pitches through a scorecard-based due diligence process.
Invests inHealthcare & Biotech
In its own wordsmidwestsoftwaretech-enabledearly-stagego-to-market
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Or find every investor that fitsM25 lists 114 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 5 funding rounds, 3 of them as lead. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 80% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are Healthcare & Biotech (15%), Fintech (12%) and AI & Machine Learning (12%). 95% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside Connetic Ventures, Invest Nebraska and Service Provider Capital.
Counts come from funding rounds that name M25, 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 M25's whole history. Rounds on record name 5 companies; its own site lists 114. 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 | 20% |
| Seed | 80% |
| 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 | 2 | 1 |
| '26 | 3 | 2 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 97th | 114 companies |
| Recent activity | 76th | 3 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 100th | 100% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 56th | 3% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 2th | 15% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 70th | 4 countries |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
Show as a table
| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| Healthcare & Biotech | 15% | 15% |
| Fintech | 12% | 12% |
| AI & Machine Learning | 12% | 18% |
| Enterprise Software | 9% | 8% |
| E-commerce & Marketplaces | 7% | 6% |
| Education | 6% | 7% |
| Real Estate & Construction | 5% | 3% |
| Legal & Compliance | 5% | 2% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Connetic Ventures | 9 |
| Invest Nebraska | 7 |
| Service Provider Capital | 6 |
| Techstars | 6 |
| Allos Ventures | 5 |
| Bread and Butter Ventures | 5 |
| Elevate Ventures | 5 |
| North Coast Ventures | 5 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers10996%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company54%
- 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 togetherAll co-investors or Compare portfolios with Connetic Ventures
Compare M25 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 M25| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 16 Sept 2026 | Seed Led | |
| 1 Jul 2026 | Pre-Seed Led | |
| 19 May 2026 | Seed | |
| 18 Aug 2025 | Seed Led |
Round details for M25
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in M25's rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
114 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The company provides restaurant equipment repair and maintenance solutions | Food & AgricultureIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Aerovy improves support responsiveness in aftermarket service for equipment OEMs | AI & Machine LearningIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| AlloDirect is a platform for healthcare facilities to order human tissue directly from accredited tissue banks | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| AMOpportunities provides clinical placements to students and institutions in the US | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| ANGLR develops and provides a fishing app and related services | Legal & ComplianceEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| APFusion is a B2B automotive marketplace that helps salvage yards increase their fill rate and close more sales. | Industrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Arrellio integrates with EHR to automate the contact lens ordering process for optical professionals | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Aspinity develops and sells machine learning products that run in analog | AI & Machine LearningIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Astronomer provides a platform to run Apache Airflow for data and AI orchestration | AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| The company provides a platform for booking hotels, apartments, villas, and resorts worldwide. | Legal & ComplianceReal Estate & Construction | Portfolio page | ||
| Authenticx provides healthcare conversation intelligence software | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| The company provides software for landlords and property management, including tools for listing rentals, screening tenants, and collecting rent. | Real Estate & ConstructionFintech | Portfolio page | ||
| Axuall provides a healthcare data network that delivers AI-assisted insights to help healthcare organizations make informed decisions and reduce workload for providers and administrators. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| The company provides a platform for total rewards communications and employee engagement, offering tools and services for creating and delivering tailored pay communications and total compensation statements. | Human ResourcesEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| BallotReady provides personalized election information and voting resources to voters and organizations | EducationClimate & Energy | Portfolio page | ||
| Bezlio develops customized mobile solutions for manufacturing and distribution businesses | Industrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Bizzy Coffee produces and sells organic cold brew coffee products. | Food & Agriculture | Portfolio page | ||
Media & EntertainmentEducation | Portfolio page | |||
| Blumira provides a security operations platform for IT teams. | Cybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| Breathscape generates music from your breath in real-time, creating an immersive experience that effortlessly guides you into deep states of relaxation and meditation. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- m25vc.com
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 5 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 18 Aug 2025
- Companies checked
- 114
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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