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.
Most shared portfolio companies with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 59 investors with a shared portfolio company. A shared company is not proof they invested together in the same round.
- 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 2026-10-21 · confidence high
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