Distributed Ventures
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Distributed Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage companies in the health, insurance, and wealth sectors, focusing on risk ecosystem innovation. It leads Seed and Series A rounds, typically writing checks of $1-5 million.
Distributed Ventures is a venture capital firm headquartered in Chicago, United States. It invests directly in companies, from seed to Series A, in health, insurance and wealth. Its stated cheque size is $1-5M.
“We lead Seed and Series A investments focused on risk ecosystem innovation across health, insurance and wealth.”
— Distributed Ventures, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Venture capital
- Headquarters
- Chicago, United States
- Invests in
- United States
- Cheque size
- $1-5M
Team, as Distributed Ventures publishes it
- Shawn Ellis Managing Partner
- Janet Xu Senior Principal
- Hylton Irons Senior Associate
- Antonio Calderon Principal
Names and roles exactly as listed on distributedvc.com. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Co-invests most often with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 59 co-investors found.
- Merus Capital Management Company, LLC 3 shared companies: fundpanel.io, hellosage.com, useindio.com
- FCA Venture Partners 3 shared companies: cylinderhealth.com, wellthapp.com, posterityhealth.com
- Index Ventures 1 shared company: useascend.com
- Nyca Partners 1 shared company: useascend.com
- Matchstick Ventures 1 shared company: letspresta.com
- 1984 Ventures 1 shared company: fundpanel.io
- AirTree Ventures 1 shared company: fundpanel.io
- Alternative Capital Fund Management LLC 1 shared company: fundpanel.io
- Amboy Street Ventures, LLC 1 shared company: fundpanel.io
- Azolla Ventures 1 shared company: fundpanel.io
and 49 more — the graph.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Distributed Ventures publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://www.distributedvc.com/name, is_investor, layer, type, hq_country, hq_city, invests_in_geographies, stage_min, stage_max, sectors, cheque_size, thesis_quote, thesis_quote_page, description, status
- https://www.distributedvc.com/teampeople
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Record 3260 · added 2026-09-03 · link last verified 2026-09-06 · confidence high
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