Jump Capital

Jump Capital is a venture capital firm founded in 2012 and based in Chicago and New York. It pursues seed and Series A investments through a thesis-led, sector-focused, operating-centric approach, backing data-driven technology companies across FinTech, B2B software-as-a-service, IT and data infrastructure, media, and related areas in the United States. The firm seeks partners with experienced management teams and provides an operating platform and resources to support growth. Initial investment checks typically range from 2 million to 10 million. Jump Capital emphasizes practical, hands-on involvement and aims to align with entrepreneurs seeking a trusted partner with real-world operating experience.

Peter Carroll

Operating Partner

Sach Chitnis

Partner

Robert Hutchins

Partner, Portfolio Growth

Robb Hutchins

Partner, Portfolio Growth

Peter Johnson

Partner

Michael McMahon

Managing Director

Will Nunez

Vice President

Saurabh Sharma

General Partner

Yelena Shkolnik

Partner

Past deals in Illinois

Path

Series A in 2021
Path is an SEC Registered Investment Advisor that allows anyone to access automated crypto portfolios. After completing a suitability assessment, Path builds your portfolio and manages it for you. You can also buy, hold, and swap cryptos directly from the app. Regulated, safe, trusted. The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

Bitnomial

Venture Round in 2020
Bitnomial, Inc. is a company based in Chicago, Illinois, founded in 2014 to develop and operate a bitcoin derivatives exchange. The platform facilitates the trading of margined bitcoin futures and options, including bitcoin US dollar futures and options, by connecting native digital asset hedgers with institutional traders. Bitnomial's infrastructure is designed to enhance derivatives exchange technology and digital asset settlement systems, ensuring compliance with regulations overseen by the CFTC. This enables traders and brokers to engage in bitcoin derivatives trading within a globally trusted jurisdiction, providing a reliable marketplace for both institutional and retail participants.

UPshow

Series A in 2020
UPshow, Inc. is a Chicago-based company that specializes in digital signage and social TV software. Founded in 2015, it provides a customizable engagement platform that transforms television screens in various businesses, including bars, restaurants, retail, automotive, entertainment, fitness, and healthcare, into interactive marketing and entertainment venues. The platform enables patrons to display their social media posts in real time on screens, allowing businesses to highlight new products, promotions, events, and interactive games. By seamlessly connecting televisions with mobile devices, UPshow enhances audience engagement, improves customer relationships, and ultimately drives business results and profitability through effective marketing strategies.

LogicGate

Series B in 2019
LogicGate provides enterprise process automation solutions. Its Risk Cloud Platform enables businesses to proactively manage risk across the organization through interconnected views, enhancing collaboration and adaptability.

Fast Radius

Venture Round in 2019
Fast Radius is a cloud manufacturing and digital supply chain company that unifies design, production, and fulfillment through a single digital platform to simplify and modernize manufacturing. Its Cloud Manufacturing Platform connects design, production, and fulfillment workflows to enable easier, more sustainable manufacturing. The company offers additive manufacturing services for thermoplastics, elastomeric materials, and metals, along with CNC machining, injection molding, urethane casting, and reverse engineering, supported by production-grade manufacturing and global fulfillment capabilities. Headquartered in Chicago, Fast Radius maintains additional offices and micro-factories to support rapid production and local fulfillment.

Pangea Money Transfer

Venture Round in 2019
Pangea Money Transfer is a mobile-centric money transfer platform founded in 2012 and headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. The company enables users to send money from the United States to 15 countries across Latin America and Asia in under 30 seconds for a low flat fee. The platform offers features such as automatic transfers, international bill payments, and remittance integration, ensuring fast, secure, and convenient transactions. Recipients can collect cash at thousands of retail locations or have funds directly deposited into a bank account or onto a debit card, making money movement accessible and efficient for users on the go.

NowSecure

Series B in 2019
NowSecure is a mobile app security software company that provides automated security testing for iOS and Android apps, enabling rapid, scalable assessment in Agile and DevSecOps workflows. Its core platform performs continuous security, privacy, and compliance testing on pre-prod and published apps, with features for repeatable testing and real-time risk reporting. The company also offers complementary tools such as a workstation for analysts and a continuous monitoring solution, along with services including manual penetration testing, developer training, and technical support to help implement and run mobile security programs. NowSecure serves sectors such as financial services, retail, hospitality, and government. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in Chicago, with additional offices in Vienna, Virginia, and Bellevue, Washington.

The Small Exchange

Seed Round in 2019
The Small Exchange is a financial services company based in Chicago, Illinois, founded in 2017. It operates a futures exchange platform aimed at simplifying and enhancing access to financial markets through smaller and more straightforward futures products. The company focuses on facilitating the trading of standardized futures contracts and options for a diverse range of market participants, particularly retail customers. By offering proprietary cash-settled indices and an individual subscription model, The Small Exchange reduces exchange and market data fees, making it easier for investors of all sizes to engage in trading. Its platform is designed to bridge the gap in futures products, creating new trading opportunities and promoting broader participation in the financial markets.

Fast Radius

Series B in 2019
Fast Radius is a cloud manufacturing and digital supply chain company that unifies design, production, and fulfillment through a single digital platform to simplify and modernize manufacturing. Its Cloud Manufacturing Platform connects design, production, and fulfillment workflows to enable easier, more sustainable manufacturing. The company offers additive manufacturing services for thermoplastics, elastomeric materials, and metals, along with CNC machining, injection molding, urethane casting, and reverse engineering, supported by production-grade manufacturing and global fulfillment capabilities. Headquartered in Chicago, Fast Radius maintains additional offices and micro-factories to support rapid production and local fulfillment.

UPshow

Series A in 2019
UPshow, Inc. is a Chicago-based company that specializes in digital signage and social TV software. Founded in 2015, it provides a customizable engagement platform that transforms television screens in various businesses, including bars, restaurants, retail, automotive, entertainment, fitness, and healthcare, into interactive marketing and entertainment venues. The platform enables patrons to display their social media posts in real time on screens, allowing businesses to highlight new products, promotions, events, and interactive games. By seamlessly connecting televisions with mobile devices, UPshow enhances audience engagement, improves customer relationships, and ultimately drives business results and profitability through effective marketing strategies.

HubTran

Venture Round in 2018
HubTran, Inc. is a logistics technology company based in Countryside, Illinois, founded in 2015. It specializes in automating back-office and operational tasks for the transportation industry, focusing on areas such as document management, invoicing, and payables automation. HubTran's cloud-based platform leverages optical character recognition (OCR) and machine learning to streamline financial settlement processes, including invoice processing, billing, and remote document capture. By providing an efficient and cost-effective solution, HubTran enables transportation companies to optimize their operations and reduce administrative burdens associated with manual document handling.

Visibly

Series B in 2018
Visibly is a healthcare technology company based in Chicago that provides online eye examinations and digital vision care services. It offers remote refractive assessments to determine prescriptions for glasses or contact lenses and supports optical businesses with online vision testing, prescription renewals, and integrated digital tools. The company serves consumers, eye care providers, insurers, online health platforms, and optical retailers through e-commerce channels, enabling convenient access to vision care and streamlined operations for practitioners. Formerly Opternative, it rebranded as Visibly in 2018 and was founded in 2013.

LogicGate

Series A in 2018
LogicGate provides enterprise process automation solutions. Its Risk Cloud Platform enables businesses to proactively manage risk across the organization through interconnected views, enhancing collaboration and adaptability.

Fast Radius

Series A in 2017
Fast Radius is a cloud manufacturing and digital supply chain company that unifies design, production, and fulfillment through a single digital platform to simplify and modernize manufacturing. Its Cloud Manufacturing Platform connects design, production, and fulfillment workflows to enable easier, more sustainable manufacturing. The company offers additive manufacturing services for thermoplastics, elastomeric materials, and metals, along with CNC machining, injection molding, urethane casting, and reverse engineering, supported by production-grade manufacturing and global fulfillment capabilities. Headquartered in Chicago, Fast Radius maintains additional offices and micro-factories to support rapid production and local fulfillment.

Narrative Science

Series D in 2017
Narrative Science Inc. is a company that specializes in natural language generation (NLG) technology, transforming complex data into human-readable narratives. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, the company offers two primary products: Quill and Lexio. Quill is an automated platform that generates insightful narratives for internal and external reporting, while Lexio integrates with various data sources to provide actionable insights for users with limited data analytics capabilities. By utilizing artificial intelligence, Narrative Science's solutions enable businesses across multiple sectors—including financial services, healthcare, and marketing—to understand their data more effectively, turning statistics into compelling stories. The company aims to enhance the storytelling and advertising capabilities of its clients, making data-driven insights accessible and comprehensible to a broader audience.

SIM Partners

Series B in 2017
SIM Partners is a technology company based in Chicago and San Francisco, with authorized resellers in Australia and Germany. It specializes in developing a location-based marketing platform that helps multi-location brands enhance their digital marketing effectiveness at the local level. The company's primary offerings include Velocity, a SaaS-based local marketing solution, and Velocity Social, a social CRM tool designed to manage social media communities across multiple locations while ensuring brand compliance. These technologies optimize location-specific content and business information to improve visibility in local, mobile, and social search results for numerous entities.

Pangea Money Transfer

Series B in 2016
Pangea Money Transfer is a mobile-centric money transfer platform founded in 2012 and headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. The company enables users to send money from the United States to 15 countries across Latin America and Asia in under 30 seconds for a low flat fee. The platform offers features such as automatic transfers, international bill payments, and remittance integration, ensuring fast, secure, and convenient transactions. Recipients can collect cash at thousands of retail locations or have funds directly deposited into a bank account or onto a debit card, making money movement accessible and efficient for users on the go.

4C Insights

Series C in 2016
4C Insights, Inc. is a data science and media technology company specializing in multi-screen advertising solutions. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, the company offers a suite of products that enable activation across multiple platforms, including social media and television. Its flagship platform, Scope by 4C, serves brands, agencies, and media owners by providing insights into consumer behavior and facilitating advertising across various channels and devices. The company leverages a global TV monitoring network and a social affinity database to deliver advertising and content analytics. With a focus on bridging the gap between linear television, streaming video, digital commerce, and social media, 4C Insights has established a significant presence in markets such as the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and Singapore, and operates as a subsidiary of Mediaocean LLC.

AVIA

Series C in 2016
AVIA Inc. is a digital transformation partner for healthcare organizations, founded in 2012 and based in Chicago, Illinois. The company specializes in developing a knowledge-sharing and collaboration platform that offers market intelligence, collaborative tools, and results-based consulting services. AVIA aims to address the strategic challenges faced by healthcare providers by facilitating access to a network of health systems and strategic partners. Their platform allows healthcare leaders to research, evaluate, and select digital health solutions, while also engaging with expert consultants to guide them through the digital transformation process. This comprehensive approach enables healthcare enterprises to innovate and achieve digital success effectively.

Visibly

Series A in 2016
Visibly is a healthcare technology company based in Chicago that provides online eye examinations and digital vision care services. It offers remote refractive assessments to determine prescriptions for glasses or contact lenses and supports optical businesses with online vision testing, prescription renewals, and integrated digital tools. The company serves consumers, eye care providers, insurers, online health platforms, and optical retailers through e-commerce channels, enabling convenient access to vision care and streamlined operations for practitioners. Formerly Opternative, it rebranded as Visibly in 2018 and was founded in 2013.

Bitnomial

Seed Round in 2016
Bitnomial, Inc. is a company based in Chicago, Illinois, founded in 2014 to develop and operate a bitcoin derivatives exchange. The platform facilitates the trading of margined bitcoin futures and options, including bitcoin US dollar futures and options, by connecting native digital asset hedgers with institutional traders. Bitnomial's infrastructure is designed to enhance derivatives exchange technology and digital asset settlement systems, ensuring compliance with regulations overseen by the CFTC. This enables traders and brokers to engage in bitcoin derivatives trading within a globally trusted jurisdiction, providing a reliable marketplace for both institutional and retail participants.

AVIA

Series B in 2015
AVIA Inc. is a digital transformation partner for healthcare organizations, founded in 2012 and based in Chicago, Illinois. The company specializes in developing a knowledge-sharing and collaboration platform that offers market intelligence, collaborative tools, and results-based consulting services. AVIA aims to address the strategic challenges faced by healthcare providers by facilitating access to a network of health systems and strategic partners. Their platform allows healthcare leaders to research, evaluate, and select digital health solutions, while also engaging with expert consultants to guide them through the digital transformation process. This comprehensive approach enables healthcare enterprises to innovate and achieve digital success effectively.

NowSecure

Series A in 2014
NowSecure is a mobile app security software company that provides automated security testing for iOS and Android apps, enabling rapid, scalable assessment in Agile and DevSecOps workflows. Its core platform performs continuous security, privacy, and compliance testing on pre-prod and published apps, with features for repeatable testing and real-time risk reporting. The company also offers complementary tools such as a workstation for analysts and a continuous monitoring solution, along with services including manual penetration testing, developer training, and technical support to help implement and run mobile security programs. NowSecure serves sectors such as financial services, retail, hospitality, and government. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in Chicago, with additional offices in Vienna, Virginia, and Bellevue, Washington.

Narrative Science

Venture Round in 2014
Narrative Science Inc. is a company that specializes in natural language generation (NLG) technology, transforming complex data into human-readable narratives. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, the company offers two primary products: Quill and Lexio. Quill is an automated platform that generates insightful narratives for internal and external reporting, while Lexio integrates with various data sources to provide actionable insights for users with limited data analytics capabilities. By utilizing artificial intelligence, Narrative Science's solutions enable businesses across multiple sectors—including financial services, healthcare, and marketing—to understand their data more effectively, turning statistics into compelling stories. The company aims to enhance the storytelling and advertising capabilities of its clients, making data-driven insights accessible and comprehensible to a broader audience.

Visibly

Venture Round in 2014
Visibly is a healthcare technology company based in Chicago that provides online eye examinations and digital vision care services. It offers remote refractive assessments to determine prescriptions for glasses or contact lenses and supports optical businesses with online vision testing, prescription renewals, and integrated digital tools. The company serves consumers, eye care providers, insurers, online health platforms, and optical retailers through e-commerce channels, enabling convenient access to vision care and streamlined operations for practitioners. Formerly Opternative, it rebranded as Visibly in 2018 and was founded in 2013.

ShareThis

Series C in 2014
ShareThis, Inc. is a technology company that specializes in developing a social data platform aimed at enhancing consumer engagement and content sharing for publishers, advertisers, and data-driven businesses. Founded in 2004 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California, ShareThis offers a suite of tools that enable real-time processing of first-party data, allowing users to drive engagement, optimize content, and personalize experiences across various digital channels. The company's offerings include share buttons for multiple social media platforms, reaction buttons, and tools for Social A/B testing to improve content effectiveness. Additionally, ShareThis provides a Real-Time Marketing Engine that helps brands activate their audiences across different screens and digital formats. By analyzing user behavior across millions of global domains, ShareThis synthesizes social share, interest, and intent data to deliver actionable insights for customer targeting and acquisition. The company also maintains offices in several key U.S. cities, including Chicago, New York City, Boston, and Manhattan Beach.

NowSecure

Venture Round in 2014
NowSecure is a mobile app security software company that provides automated security testing for iOS and Android apps, enabling rapid, scalable assessment in Agile and DevSecOps workflows. Its core platform performs continuous security, privacy, and compliance testing on pre-prod and published apps, with features for repeatable testing and real-time risk reporting. The company also offers complementary tools such as a workstation for analysts and a continuous monitoring solution, along with services including manual penetration testing, developer training, and technical support to help implement and run mobile security programs. NowSecure serves sectors such as financial services, retail, hospitality, and government. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in Chicago, with additional offices in Vienna, Virginia, and Bellevue, Washington.

SIM Partners

Series A in 2014
SIM Partners is a technology company based in Chicago and San Francisco, with authorized resellers in Australia and Germany. It specializes in developing a location-based marketing platform that helps multi-location brands enhance their digital marketing effectiveness at the local level. The company's primary offerings include Velocity, a SaaS-based local marketing solution, and Velocity Social, a social CRM tool designed to manage social media communities across multiple locations while ensuring brand compliance. These technologies optimize location-specific content and business information to improve visibility in local, mobile, and social search results for numerous entities.

Pangea Money Transfer

Venture Round in 2014
Pangea Money Transfer is a mobile-centric money transfer platform founded in 2012 and headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. The company enables users to send money from the United States to 15 countries across Latin America and Asia in under 30 seconds for a low flat fee. The platform offers features such as automatic transfers, international bill payments, and remittance integration, ensuring fast, secure, and convenient transactions. Recipients can collect cash at thousands of retail locations or have funds directly deposited into a bank account or onto a debit card, making money movement accessible and efficient for users on the go.

Lumere

Series A in 2014
Lumere, Inc. is a Chicago-based company that offers a cloud-based platform designed to assist hospitals and physicians in reducing clinical variation and unnecessary costs associated with medical devices and pharmaceuticals. The platform features tools such as Product Introduction Management, which redefines the device vetting process through analysis of clinical evidence and best practices; Category Optimization, which integrates clinical insights with data from health systems to identify potential cost savings; and Variation Management, which analyzes procedural utilization data to evaluate how medical devices are used. Additionally, Utilization Management combines clinical information with prescriber patterns to optimize drug spending and address inappropriate usage. Lumere also provides physician advisory services to ensure alignment between healthcare providers and hospital management. Founded in 2012, Lumere was previously known as Procured, Inc., and operates as a subsidiary of Global Healthcare Exchange, LLC.

4C Insights

Series B in 2014
4C Insights, Inc. is a data science and media technology company specializing in multi-screen advertising solutions. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, the company offers a suite of products that enable activation across multiple platforms, including social media and television. Its flagship platform, Scope by 4C, serves brands, agencies, and media owners by providing insights into consumer behavior and facilitating advertising across various channels and devices. The company leverages a global TV monitoring network and a social affinity database to deliver advertising and content analytics. With a focus on bridging the gap between linear television, streaming video, digital commerce, and social media, 4C Insights has established a significant presence in markets such as the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and Singapore, and operates as a subsidiary of Mediaocean LLC.

Narrative Science

Series C in 2013
Narrative Science Inc. is a company that specializes in natural language generation (NLG) technology, transforming complex data into human-readable narratives. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, the company offers two primary products: Quill and Lexio. Quill is an automated platform that generates insightful narratives for internal and external reporting, while Lexio integrates with various data sources to provide actionable insights for users with limited data analytics capabilities. By utilizing artificial intelligence, Narrative Science's solutions enable businesses across multiple sectors—including financial services, healthcare, and marketing—to understand their data more effectively, turning statistics into compelling stories. The company aims to enhance the storytelling and advertising capabilities of its clients, making data-driven insights accessible and comprehensible to a broader audience.

ShareThis

Series C in 2013
ShareThis, Inc. is a technology company that specializes in developing a social data platform aimed at enhancing consumer engagement and content sharing for publishers, advertisers, and data-driven businesses. Founded in 2004 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California, ShareThis offers a suite of tools that enable real-time processing of first-party data, allowing users to drive engagement, optimize content, and personalize experiences across various digital channels. The company's offerings include share buttons for multiple social media platforms, reaction buttons, and tools for Social A/B testing to improve content effectiveness. Additionally, ShareThis provides a Real-Time Marketing Engine that helps brands activate their audiences across different screens and digital formats. By analyzing user behavior across millions of global domains, ShareThis synthesizes social share, interest, and intent data to deliver actionable insights for customer targeting and acquisition. The company also maintains offices in several key U.S. cities, including Chicago, New York City, Boston, and Manhattan Beach.

AVIA

Series A in 2013
AVIA Inc. is a digital transformation partner for healthcare organizations, founded in 2012 and based in Chicago, Illinois. The company specializes in developing a knowledge-sharing and collaboration platform that offers market intelligence, collaborative tools, and results-based consulting services. AVIA aims to address the strategic challenges faced by healthcare providers by facilitating access to a network of health systems and strategic partners. Their platform allows healthcare leaders to research, evaluate, and select digital health solutions, while also engaging with expert consultants to guide them through the digital transformation process. This comprehensive approach enables healthcare enterprises to innovate and achieve digital success effectively.

Pangea Money Transfer

Seed Round in 2013
Pangea Money Transfer is a mobile-centric money transfer platform founded in 2012 and headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. The company enables users to send money from the United States to 15 countries across Latin America and Asia in under 30 seconds for a low flat fee. The platform offers features such as automatic transfers, international bill payments, and remittance integration, ensuring fast, secure, and convenient transactions. Recipients can collect cash at thousands of retail locations or have funds directly deposited into a bank account or onto a debit card, making money movement accessible and efficient for users on the go.

Wholesome Goodness

Venture Round in 2013
Wholesome Goodness, LLC is a food production company based in Long Grove, Illinois, specializing in natural and nutritious food products. Established in 2009, the company offers a diverse range of items, including hot and cold cereals, snacks, omega granola bars, dried fruits and nuts, beverages, dressings, marinades, pasta, BBQ sauces, salsas, and broths. Wholesome Goodness is committed to creating all-natural, non-GMO verified, and gluten-free certified products, notably under the Riceworks brand, which features healthier rice chips and omega energy bars. Its offerings are available through various retail stores across the United States.
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