DNS Capital
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DNS Capital is the investment office and internal merchant bank for the business enterprise of Gigi Pritzker, Michael Pucker, and their immediate family. It makes control and minority investments in companies across various stages and industries.
DNS Capital is a family office headquartered in Chicago, United States, founded in 2014. It invests directly in companies, from pre-seed to buyout, in manufacturing, industrials, business services and consumer products. Its stated cheque size is $25M–$100M. 40 portfolio companies, as it reports.
“We are open to investing in companies at almost any stage of growth and in almost any industry.”
— DNS Capital, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Family office
- Headquarters
- Chicago, United States
- Sectors
- manufacturing, industrials, business services, consumer products, real estate, retail, agriculture
- Cheque size
- $25M–$100M
- Founded
- 2014
- Portfolio
- 40 companies
Team, as DNS Capital publishes it
- Michael A. Pucker Chairman & CEO
- Jason Schroeder Managing Director
- Scott Hairston Chief Operating Officer
- Emily Casey Brown Principal
- Alan Bakhos General Counsel
- Brian Stal Director of GSD
- Chas Muth Vice President
- Jeff Ehlers Operating Partner
- Lizzie Osmundson Senior Counsel
- George Lyman Senior Associate
- Savannah Dosland Associate
- Rachel Bartunek Director of Executive Support
Names and roles exactly as listed on dnscap.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. 84 investors with a shared portfolio company. A shared company is not proof they invested together in the same round.
- Union Grove Venture Partners 2 shared companies: paynearme.com, beyondmeat.com
- Collaborative Fund 2 shared companies: beyondmeat.com, mori.com
- Obvious Ventures 2 shared companies: beyondmeat.com, devoted.com
- Konvoy 2 shared companies: seasats.com, battleroad.digital
- Comcast Ventures 1 shared company: quantifind.com
- IRIS Capital 1 shared company: quantifind.com
- Summit Partners 1 shared company: quantifind.com
- U.S. Venture Partners 1 shared company: quantifind.com
- Bosch Ventures 1 shared company: tensordyne.ai
- SAIC Capital 1 shared company: tensordyne.ai
and 74 more — the graph.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page DNS Capital publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://www.dnscap.com/name, is_investor, type, hq_country, hq_city, description, status, confidence
- https://www.dnscap.com/approach/layer, sectors, thesis_quote, stage_min, stage_max
- https://www.dnscap.com/investments/cheque_size
- https://www.dnscap.com/about/founded, portfolio_count
- https://www.dnscap.com/team/people
Record 8659 · added 2026-09-29 · link last verified 2026-10-21 · confidence high
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